<p>How do I find someone to be my cosigner for $60K on internationalstudentloans.com?
I was admitted to Boston University but can't attend because I was given no aid.
Must be US citizen or permanent resident with good credit and have lived in the States for two years. My orientation is tomorrow. There will be students who can't make it on time because of Irene but they will make it eventually. I have paid my nonrefundable downpayment of $650 already. I have consulted around 30 different people to sponsor me including the president of the united states and the president of the university and all of them just wished me luck and told me to apply for FAFSA which I'm not eligible to apply for or something along those lines. </p>
<p>Then today on yahoo news I saw how the British Heiress had a wedding that costed $5 million dollars. I wish someone like that helped me. $60K would be nothing!</p>
<p>It is unfortunate that you did not have better advice when you were choosing colleges to apply to, and it is even more unfortunate that someone let you make a deposit when you knew that you couldn’t afford to attend this university. You can’t afford BU. You need to find a better plan for your future.</p>
<p>You were poorly advised about paying for college. Even domestic students have the same problems. FAFSA doens’t help them with large loans either.</p>
<p>Are you saying that you need a loan for $60k for ONE YEAR? If so, does that mean that you were planning on borrowing $240k for all 4 years?</p>
<p>You need to withdraw from BU.</p>
<p>It sounds like your family isn’t contributing anything towards your college costs. If that’s the case, then it’s highly unlikely that you’ll be able to go to college in the US…unless your stats are high enough to get into a school where you’d get full financial aid.</p>
<p>and as an international you may need to go down the list quite a bit to get some private college who wants you bad enough to give you full frieght scholarship. try it next year with a wide net. It can be done, providing that you have admitted at BU. But you have to be prepared to accept a third rated college.</p>
<p>How did you get a student visa to get into the country without showing that you have the financing already arranged? Or are you already living here on some other sort of visa?</p>
<p>Cosigning is a huge risk for the cosigner. A cosigner is completely responsible for the debt if you do not pay it, and their assets can be taken to pay the debt. Not only that, but they all the liability but have little control. If you pay a payment late, their credit rating can be adversely affected before they even know there is a problem. So no one is going to cosign for a complete stranger. Generally a cosigner would be someone like a family member, and even then many family members are understandably not willing to cosign because of the risks. (I personally would never cosign a loan for anyone, not even my own kids. If I could afford it I would lend my kids the money, or borrow in my own name - but cosign - I would never do it.)</p>
<p>Wow, the college would let this person have a dorm & classes for $650? Hmmmmmm
Could have sworn other posters have said Internationals have to show ability to pay.</p>
<p>I was being extremely serious. I am applying to other universities now, thanks. I was able to be admitted to BU because i had my grandparents to help me originally but things happened and they werent able to help me anymore. so yes guys, it is unbelievable, but is true. and yep, you’re right skmom, I was actually in the States, but not as a resident or a citizen. so i do have a hs diploma from a school in Cali the best place on earthhhhh. i wasnt an illegal immigrant or anything, otherwise i wouldnt have been able to apply to schools at all.</p>
<p>so Boston…what are you doing NOW…clearly you didn’t find the financing for Boston University…are you taking a gap year of some sort. What kind of visa do you have to be in the U.S?</p>
<p>I’m in my home country applying to schools in the States that offer winter/spring 2012 admission that way I have till january to save up/work/and search for aid. I was on a J2 visa as my dad was invited to do a research in a university in Cali. But once he withdrew and the research was over, all my family had to move out. If i were to go back to the states, and hopefully I do, I will be going with a F1 visa. </p>
<p>I kind of wish i did stay in Cali as there was a Bill that was passed around August saying that illegal immigrants would be able to receive aid of some sort for college. I dont pertain to that group, but did think that if i explained my situation to someone, it wouldve worked out - as i had admission to two of the UCs.</p>
<p>go to the website for the two UCs, download the residency form and read it. See if you still qualify as a resident there based on your HS graduation and apply for spring admissions. Or save more money, go back and do your GE at the nearest CC to the UC from which you wish to graduate. Do two years with that lower tuition, and pick up summer classes too. Transfer to a UC.</p>
the best place on earthhhhh. i wasnt an illegal immigrant or anything, otherwise i wouldnt have been able to apply to schools at all.</p>