I have been trying to figure out how to afford a good college for a while. My country allows me to loan about 80k usd for studies in the US with a interest rate of 0.6%, besides that we also recieve about 10k usd in free money for 4 years. Unfortunately this is not enough for 4 years of college. My GPA is 3.5 which is not very good, but do you think that if i scored around 2000 on the SAT that I would be eligible for merit scholarships at some universities? Or will my GPA be too low? I have no EC:s either.
My only other option would be attending a cc and transfer. Or of course study in my home home country but i would still need to take out some big loans for that because of the high cost of living.
@katliamom Thank you, very good websites. What i find difficult is to find out if the scholarships are available to International Students. Private colleges are usually better at pointing what scholarships are for what students. But the public schools are much worse at that. For an example University of Georgia, it says on their website that " some of the scholarships are available to International Students " but they never tell which ones. I assume it is the out of state merit ones but will i have to mail every school im looking at and ask them? In the UGA example i guess it is the classic scholars that i can qualify for but im not sure.
2000 is very good but not all that impressive. The big merit scholarship money (including the University of Alabama Presidential Scholarship) typically start at ~1400 CR+M. With the rollout of the new SAT, I don’t know if that 1400 threshold will still be the norm.
U need to carefully read each school’s website to see whether intl students are eligible for the scholarship.