Can anyone with OSU experience help me with this?

You'll always make more money if you got college. Always! It depends on how much your scholarship is. If you live at home, you have cut off a big expense. This means you only have to cover tuition. Tuition at OSU is currently 8679 this year. This isn't too bad and it shouldn't be that hard to find scholarship to cover this. Even if you don't cover it all you can always take out a loan and pay it back when you get a job after college. I would definitly go to college! It'll postpone your having to grow up and enter the real world for another 4 years!!