Seeing that you have the average scores for Miami or Fordham does not mean you should have sent. Remember you have off-the-charts grades and rank as well as a tough curriculum. You still may get in but it depends on how much of the class they filled with ED and the number of people they expect to accept the EA. If they are only taking the absolute best in RD, you will not be included IMO because the scores are just pretty good. Get it?
got it. I tried to go TO today, but it turns out im too late. Will pray for the best now! in your opinion are these unis any good?
I think your list is great. And if you go 2/4 on Fordham, Miami, Rochester and BU - you can’t lose IMO.
Those schools are mostly reaches and very competitive.
Since you need financial aid, your choices should have been schools in the South and Midwest who are looking to attract diverse student bodies and who would provide aid to international students. There are some schools in Europe who would be close to your budget. You may want to investigate those schools.
Generally, a student visa will limit your hours to 20 per week and usually, this will be an on-campus job but it may cut into your OPT.
These jobs will cover your day-to-day expenses but will not cover, or bridge a $40k annual gap.
Once you have some university coursework (1 yr full time) and start working an internship, you may work up to 40 hours per week, (summers) but as you work, you will use your OPT hours.
Please refer to the previous links posted, especially if you plan to be a STEM major.
Here’s the issue: as a student, you won’t get full salaries because these are internships. Also, after you complete your OPT, an employer can choose to say, “Thank you and Good Luck!”.
They often choose not to sponsor you. The fees and wait time may not be worth it to them if there is a line of citizens needing employment. Especially with the current Covid-affected industry.
My daughter attended her STEM university program with a number of students who had experienced this. Some of these acquaintances mentioned that their internships were strong and were asking her for leads because they had been “released” from their jobs. She was immediately employed. She could and did refer, but in the end, as non-citizens, the companies just didn’t want to deal with the sponsorship hassle.
You can’t compare yourself to other students as easily. Because you are international, it will be even harder to get in. Fordham and Miami probably but the rest are going to be really big reach schools.
I understand. This is unfortunate. So either I’ll have to land a job after finishing my degree or make sure my business gets off its feet. Both of which are extremely hard to do. Honestly, I don’t want to return to my home country. I wanted to part ways with it forever 
. Everyone wants to live the American dream.
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understandable. I’m just praying for the best honestly. I would love to get admitted in one of my reaches, but every institution has outstanding students that can help me in by business idea. I’ll try my best anywhere i go and make the most of it. Hopefully do a really good job and don’t return back home. I cant really expect much from those reaches their admin rates are single digits and my profile is nowhere near the typical student they admit. I’m an extremely extremely weak applicant.
do you have safety or target schools on your list?
This is my whole list I should’ve consulted you guys before. I hope I’m not screwed.
Yes, pretty much what I said. Essentially, work-study, on campus, or related to their course of study. Someone cannot count on being able to work at other than on-campus work-study jobs. In addition, they have to demonstrate that they have the funds to support themselves, whether than from family or from scholarship.
International students can not do federal work-study jobs, which at some schools is the majority of them.
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Would not submit your scores. They aren’t horrible for some of the schools but are far below average for many of them. College admissions have often said submit but I don’t think that’s always the best advice. I think your application is stronger w/o imo.
Your not screwed your just gonna have to have a little luck on your side
There is something called common data set that every school is supposed to publish on an yearly basis that gives the stats for the student body enrolling in that school for that year. I suggest you to go through different sections for each of the schools you applied to get a feel. Each section gives an idea on different aspect of their stats, like acceptance percentage, percentage of international students, standardized test stats and gpa, financial aid etc.
For the school I am familiar with, BU, the median SAT is 1425, so wouldn’t recommend submitting unless you have time to give it another shot and achieve a score higher than that. Also depends on which country you are from. If you are from one of the countries not sending many students here, you have an edge in the admissions process. Then even your current score may do the job.
Their financial aid policy is to meet 100% of the need based on expected family contribution (EFC). But that is applicable for US students and not sure how it works for international students. However you can look up the financial aid section to see what percentage of international students received any aid, and divide that figure by the number of awardees to get a feel of average aid package.
This is a sample CDS for BU, it’s for 2019-20, they haven’t published yet for last year.
You can find similar ones for most of the schools you applied for