i’m having trouble finding scholarships and grants that I can apply to, currently I live in Brazil but i’m moving to the US next year to study at college… I am have difficulties trying to find scholarships that accept dual citizens, or their for non residents of the us and not citizens or for residents
Your two citizenships are of which countries?
Most scholarships and grants don’t care if you have dual citizenship. Many scholarships do care if you are a US citizen. There are some that are available to US citizens AND permanent residents. Still others (fewer) are open to everyone.
If you will not be a permanent resident until you move here, you are not eligible to apply to those that require citizenship/permanent residence. What is your US status as of today?
My daughters have dual citizenship. The schools in the US cared that they are a US citizen but did not care at all about their Canadian citizenship. The schools in Canada cared that they are a Canadian citizen but did not care at all about their US citizenship.
One issue is that if you complete high school in Brazil you will be out of state for probably every public university in the US even if you are a US citizen.
Most of the scholarships at US schools will come from the schools themselves. Some are need based. Some are merit based. Frequently you won’t know how much a school will cost until you get the offer of admission, but you can get a good guess from the Net Price Calculator. If you google " net price calculator" you should be able to find this.
We never found any scholarship that cared about the fact that they are dual citizens.
brazil and united states
most of them require a zip code
You are not a resident of any state so that might be enough to exclude you from some scholarships. You will just have to read the fine print. You should be looking at uni in your home country based on your other thread. You don’t have stats for competitive needs met schools and you can’t pay OOS rates anywhere.
As a US citizen, you can move here, get a job, and work to establish residency on your own in one of the states that will allow that. For example, you would be considered a resident for tuition and fees at my local community college once you have lived in this county for three months, and if you can prove that you provide more than half of your own support.
How much can your family afford to pay for your education?
Are you moving here on your own, or are you moving back with parents who are citizens or legal permanent residents?
For College application not matter if you have other citizenships, just if you are citizen of the country were you are applying, In USA, if you don’t graduated from US high school are you OOS student.
@happymomof1 they can afford at tops 5,000, i’m moving on my own, my parents aren’t citizens.
This is going to be hard as none of the financial aid documentation will exclude your parents or their financial information unless you are 24. You might do best by taking the above advice of moving to a state with a good community college system that will allow you to gain residency and then transfer to the 4 year college system after becoming a resident. Make sure this will work for you becoming a resident and not require your parents to be residents.
(If this info is more basic than you need, apologies)
As others have said, unless Brazil has a scholarship that you are eligible for, the only nationality that is relevant for you is your US citizenship. As a US citizen you are eligible for financial aid, and the FAFSA (which is a loan program, and is limited to approx $5K/year.
There are two basic categories of college: publicly funded and privately funded. A “public” university gets money from the state to help pay it’s costs, and students who are resident of that state pay lower tuition than students who are from another state (“out of state” - OOS). A “private” university does not get money directly from the state, so the tuition is the same no matter what state the student is from.
Colleges help with the cost of attending in 3 ways: recruitment (typically sports, when you are so good at a sport that they want you to come play for them); “merit” (when you are a good enough student that they want you to come study with them) and “need” (where they cover some % of the difference between what they think that you can afford and what they usually charge). At some schools “merit” can be “stacked” (added) to “need”, in others it can’t.
Figuring out financial aid is hard work, but one thing is pretty sure: the odds are on you finding a college that will give you tuition and accommodation for $5000 are pretty near zero.
@happymomof1’s suggestion of moving to the US, establishing residency and starting college at a community college is a good one. Most state universities have ‘articulation’ agreements with the local community colleges: if you complete 2 years at the community college (with certain grades and classes) you can transfer to the state university and finish your degree there. BUT: establishing residency for education purposes is hard in many states, especially the states that have highly ranked public universities (such as California and North Carolina), so search for info on the state that you are moving to, to see what the rules are.
There are other sources of funding: private organizations provide scholarships (the Rotary organization, for example), and some governments provide scholarships for students to attend college in other countries. You mention ROTC on another thread, and it is possible to get most of college paid for, but I think the application deadlines are coming up, and it may be hard to organize from Brazil.
Your parents income and assets will still be needed for financial aid. It does not matter if they are not citizens. One of your challenges may be that because they are not physically residing in a state you may not get state aid. Some schools will not grant you even in-state tuition if your parents are not living in the state.
What are your stats? Unless you can get some big merit or need based aid $5000 is not going to be enough for you to study in the U.S.
What state will you be moving to ?
Your parents can pay about $5,000. You can get a student loan for $5,500 if your parents complete the FAFSA for you (they can do that even though they aren’t in the US and aren’t citizens). This means you have about $10,500 available which will come close to covering housing and meals. You will still need to pay for your books, travel, personal expenses, and health insurance. Altogether, this means that you probably will need to find a full-tuition scholarship. How good are your grades and test scores?
If your grades and test scores are excellent, you might qualify for some of the automatic scholarships listed in this thread: http://talk.qa.collegeconfidential.com/financial-aid-scholarships/2006094-2017-automatic-full-tuition-full-ride-scholarships-p1.html
There are a few colleges that are essentially free because the students do a lot of the work needed to run them: http://www.workcolleges.org/
From the OP’s other thread: