Chance Me please (Computer Science Major/Alternative Electrical Engineering [international student, IB 38/45]

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I think you need to do a lot more research and expand your school list, including affordable options in your home country. You don’t seem to understand how difficult admission to these universities will be for you and how difficult it will be to be able to afford them. Financial aid and scholarships will be very hard to come by. You may not be admitted to any schools on this list, except University of Phoenix, which isn’t a traditional university but rather a 100% online school.

I wish you luck in your journey.

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Please be careful how you use ChatGPT.

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sorry

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What does this mean?

And did you read that you can apply to the CA publics for financial aid, but you won’t receive any. You are not a resident of CA.

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I do not look competitive enough?

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You haven’t provided an unweighted GPA and have no test scores so the information given is incomplete, but your profile doesn’t measure up for most of your list. Sorry. Are you one of the top students in your country? That’s the level you need to be.

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Zero UCs provide need based aid for international students. Merit aid is highly competitive and not a lot.

What can your family afford to contribute annually for your college education?

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It’s not the easiest thing to just attend college here as an international and then expect to poof get a job. @MYOS1634 can explain the process. You might be able to do this…and you might be required to return to your own country.

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Like my goverment does give scholarship to top 10 universities , sorry for misunderstanding

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There is simply no unweighted GPA in our school , we only have weighted , i have reached the semifinals of national governmental olympiad like its top 10% so ig i am

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For the full cost of attendance including tuition, fees, room, board, books, personal expenses, travel, and health insurance (which you will be required to purchase at many colleges)?

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yeah they pay for everything

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Some offer tho, and it depends on major

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i know unfortunately

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UC Berkeley accepted overall 1129 International students from 21,909 that applied last year as Freshman along with incredibly low 2.3% CS admit rate, your chances are low.

I agree that you need to do more research on some affordable options along with programs with higher CS admit rates.

UC Berkeley decisions will be out at the end of March so you have plenty of time to add to your list of colleges.

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@SOBACHKA12S, you will very likely not receive an F1 student visa to attend a program that is entirely online.

An F1 visa grants you the ability to visit and stay in the United States on a temporary basis for the purpose of completing an approved course of study. If your program does not require you to be physically present in this country, the State Department has no reason to grant you a visa.

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When you apply to a US university as an international student who is not a citizen, it is expected that you will return to your home country after graduation. If you are admitted, you will be a guest of the university and the US government. There are NO guarantees that you will be allowed to stay. The universities will educate you. They wont sponsor you for a job.

If your government sponsors your education, then that means that they expect you to bring back those educational skills to be productive in your country.
My daughter had classes with students whose education was being paid by their governments. They were expected to return home and a job was being provided for them in their home countries.

I don’t know of any government, outside of the US, who would completely pay for a VERY expensive US education and then say, “ok, have a nice life in the US”.

An American education is very expensive and I suspect that they will want you to return to your country. Plus you probably wont have a choice. If you are admitted anywhere, you will be on a Visa for 4 years.

If you do an OPT year or two, then after those two years are up, you will be returning to your country. Unless you are sponsored by an American company, right now, that is very difficult to do since there have been layoffs in the industry. Plus, without citizenship in the US, you are not eligible for a security clearance which a number of employers actively seek.

The US government requires employers to seek out US citizens and permanent residents FIRST, when seeking employees. A number of employer career websites indicate that they cannot sponsor non citizens.

Also, did you notice that several of us caught your original description of “COST CONSTRAINTS/BUDGET”?
The language was not natural. If we easily caught it, you can bet that any graduate assistant or professor will also catch it.

Learn this, if anything. When you apply to a US university, your online signature indicates that all information is true to the best of your ability (throughout your university years). If admitted, you will stick to the code that all of your work is your original work. American universities take a very dim view of cheating or dishonesty and lack of integrity. Especially in light of the admissions scandals.

If you ever use Chat GPT, in your university coursework, and it is caught, you will be expelled. Plus, they “red flag” your file such that other universities will know that you were caught cheating, so you will not be admitted to another university.

The California State universities do have scholarships, but they are VERY competitive and wont pay for your tuition and fees. Most are from $2K to $10K. If you are admitted to any, they will expect you to pay ~$72K+ per year.

From the UC website:
“International students are generally ineligible for student loans and are eligible for very few scholarships.”
Financial requirements for visas

Before a U.S. consul will grant a visa, you must prove that you will have sufficient money to meet all your expenses while studying in the United States. Learn more about financial requirements for visas »

https://admission.universityofcalifornia.edu/tuition-financial-aid/types-of-aid/who-can-get-financial-aid/

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What colleges does your government provide scholarships for? Indeed, there are many ways to compute that - do Williams&top LACs count? Do public universities count? etc.

Would you be willing to try ED2 somewhere?

If your gov doesn’t provide funds, how much can you family afford?

Have you already applied to UPhoenix? Because it’s a bogus/online school that you can’t get an F1 visa for. Not worth it.

For CS, SJSU is excellent but is very expensive, both tuition&cost of living (could be $20,000 for housing!)
What about UNebraska raikes, would you be interested in that?
LOTS of good EE at Land grant universities.

What IB subjects are you taking?
Is that 38 with the EE/CAS/TOK pts?

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One thing to be very careful about.

A student visa to the US is only valid for as long as you are a student studying in the US. When you graduate (or otherwise terminate your study) you are required to leave. If the immigration officials think that you are intending to stay in the US after graduation, that is a reason to deny your student visa. If they do not think that you intend to return to your home country, then it is likely that you will not get a student visa and will not get to travel here in the first place.

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In fact, you cannot get a student visa if you say you plan on staying or working there after college. Your visa is for you to study. Whatever happens afterwards is speculation and not part of the visa. Embassy visa officers try to root out pretend students, people who pretend to want a student visa but in fact want to do something else, are very strict and do not need to explain any decision (sometimes unjustly so, as happened to a brilliant young man admitted to MIT.)

You CAN pursue paid co-ops (such as at Northeastern - excellent for EE- or UCincinnati, which pioneered the concept in the US); you can have summer internships (3-month/full time limit); you can have OPT after graduation, ie., a job where you apply what you got your degree in; and of course after OPT you can apply and attend a graduate program.

I would imagine your govt would expect you to return if they pay 250k for you to be educated in the US.

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