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you need to be fluent enough to take college courses in French. Are you?
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<p>Yea I’m fluent in French and would be able to study, live and work in France or any French-speaking area (like Switzerland, etc). I easily scored a 5 on AP French and an 800 in the SAT Subject Test for French, with no studying.</p>
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Consider this: if you get into a US school that is need blind, they will most likely allow you to use your FA for study abroad. So all is not lost. 
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<p>That’s also a good point. Are any of these schools notorious for bad study abroad?</p>
<p>Stanford
Yale
Wharton
Columbia
Dartmouth
Duke
Northwestern
Emory
USC
Bates</p>
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Tuition is very reasonable for EU applicants…
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That’s great, I didn’t even realize I had European options until today. How much would tuition be for me?</p>
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^^Perhaps, but OP states family income is no higher than $20K. Couldn’t afford to live in Britain, much less fly back and forth.
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<p>My Grandparents are much more well off and will be helping me financially. Even if I go to a school like USC, I would have to take loans and make all kinds of expenses. As a French citizen I think the finances might be very similar for EU or US options.</p>