<p>I need some real info on my chances of studying in US...
Here are my details:
I have been living in the US for the past couple years with a legal diplomatic passport. I will be able to secure a student visa for 8 years, provided I can get into a university that will accept me. My parents are only willing to pay up to $15,000 USD per year for college. I know many colleges in the US are cheaper than this, even for Int. Students but I need to make sure I am making the best use of my abilities... and I need to know exactly how much aid is available for int students. I know that it is very very little but I also know it depends on my abilities as a student...</p>
<p>I do not have many Extracirriculars. I have a 2300 superscored on the SAT and a 800 on the SAT IIs for Math 2,Physics and US History. Have a 5 in Calc AB, Physics B, Physics C, English Lang and US History and a 4 on World History.</p>
<p>My country's diplomatic relations with the US are friendly at best. It is possible by the age of 18 that I can marry a person of US citizenship but the application for citizenship may be too late for college application... but I do not want to think about for now...</p>
<p>Just to clarify I am talking about undergraduate NOT post-graduate...</p>
<p>Totally doable, where are you from? How come you are on dipl. Visa and only willing to pay 15 k? Your stats are ok!! Just need some luck and a good essay </p>
Your stats are high enough that you could qualify for a full tuition, room and board award if you were willing to look low enough. The more you are willing to pay, the more options you will have.</p>
<p>15K is enough to cover living expenses in most parts of the country but not much beyond that, so you are probably interested in full tuition scholarships. I will assume that need-based aid is not an option, which leaves merit-based aid. You are probably aware that most of the “prestigious” colleges and universities award need-based aid only, so you might have to look lower than you would like. We could brainstorm scholarship opportunities here, but that will give you a very incomplete list. (It might also be not in your best interest; this board is frequented by so many college applicants that advertising a scholarship here might increase the competition exponentially.)</p>
<p>Instead, I suggest that you start with a preliminary list of all the universities you are willing to attend. If you pre-select by major, you might end up with a few hundred potential universities, which is a good starting point. Check each and every one of them for scholarship opportunities. You’ll quickly figure out how to do that fast ;). Keep track of all the ones with full tuition scholarships; you’ll probably find a few dozen of them. Then - and only then - investigate each of the universities on your shortlist further to decide where you might actually want to go. Once you got it down to about a dozen, you know where to apply to!</p>
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