The school my father is a professor at has 13k instate tuition and has a very good honors program. Many students that have come up through the honors program went on to grad school at ivies. That school also gives out a lot of merit and need based aid. In addition, I’ve taken classes through their programs and students that have done so have a 90% admittance rate. So therefore I am not too considered about admissions / tuition at this school.