Hey all, i'll try to make this as brief as possible

Finishing up my first year at community college right now and it's time for me to seriously start thinking about what to do next. Since sophomore year of hs I've been obsessed with umich and have planned out my community college classes in such a way that every class I take will transfer to mich with no issues at all. I live in northern illinois and have a cousin going to mich right now who did the cc-to-mich thing herself and she's loving it there. It's just started hitting me how gigantic the price tag is and how fucked I could be ten years down the line if I end up going to mich for my undergrad instead of going to somewhere like UIUC and then mich for grad school. The plan is to get into political science/econ/IR and I know mich has excellent programs for students like me but good god this school is just so expensive

Could I still get into what I wanna get into by taking the UIUC-to-mich path? I just feel like any sort of political science program at UIUC is vastly inferior to one at mich and I won't be able to pursue what I wanna pursue. Are there any UIUC transfers that can make me feel good about this situation lol