<p>well can I stay there for a year and then start college? would that help? or both me and my parents have to be physically present ? </p>
<p>And can I take full loans? </p>
<p>For dependent students, In state residency is usually based on the parent’s state of residency. </p>
<p>Once you have your green card, you are eligible for Federal loans. The maximum direct loan for a freshman is $5500 (it goes up to $6500 for 2nd year $7500 for 3rd and 4th).</p>
<p>any other sources of loan?! Private loans ? Work-study?!! Anything?</p>
<p>There are PLUS loans your parents would have to take out. Their eligibility would depend on their credit history. Private loans would have to be cosigned by someone with good credit (you parents living overseas might make this trickier - perhaps they can borrow in their current home country?). Work Study depends on your need as determined by FAFSA, and the school’s policy for awarding WS funds (the funds are very limited)</p>
<p>Thnx ALOT for all the info @swimcatsmom </p>
<p>Just one last thing. Say I get my green card after I get admitted or enrolled, can I change my status to domestic student? </p>
<p>From which semester/year will be getting all the financial aid? </p>
<p>If you don’t graduate from a Florida high school, they are going to notice and while you can prove you are a Florida resident, the burden of proof is going to be on you. If you graduate from a Florida high school, it is more likely they will accept that you are a resident, that you didn’t move to florida just to go to college. Things that prove you are a resident are a driver’s license, voter registration (citizens only), car registration, lease or home ownership, job. They look at the dates. If you start living in Fl in Jan, you won’t be a resident in Aug when school starts. You can apply for reconsideration, but they might not rule on that by Jan., so you’d have two semesters of OOS tuition at a minimum.</p>
<p>Based on what you said here, I think the best thing for you to do would be to defer college entrance: do not enroll in any school and work for 12 months to qualify for in-state tuition.
Better yet; enroll at a public high school in Florida, take the SAT, get excellent grades, and graduate - since one of your parents is a resident of FL at least for his green card, you’d be allowed to enroll in high school there, from which you would qualify for Bright Futures (ie, a scholarship to attend a college in Florida). In the meanwhile you’d have your green card and wouldn’t have to apply as an international student. And 12th grade in an American high school would be totally different from 12th grade in a Bangladeshi high school. So, you’d be a Florida graduate, you’d have your green card and as a Florida high school student permanent resident, you’d be entitled to $5,500 in loans and scholarships to pay partially for a public college depending on your grades and test scores. Seems like a no-brainer to me. :)</p>
<p>Bright Futures is not a gimmie anymore. You have to have higher SAT/ACT (26/29), you need 75-100 hours of community service, 2 years of a foreign language, all the correct core classes, etc. I think it might be difficult for someone to just ‘sign up for high school’ for 6 months and qualify for it. Also, if his parents don’t live here, it would be difficult for him to be in high school without an on-site guardian. If one of his parents is a Florida resident, he could register for Florida Virtual high school from anywhere in the world and get a diploma and qualify for Bright Futures.</p>
<p>Another thing about Bright Futures - you must apply before you graduate from high school and then have 2 years to start using it. If you don’t apply before you graduate, it is lost forever.</p>
<p>Actually I thought OP would sign up for high school and graduate in June 2015 so by that time OP would have had enough time to get the proper ACT scores, the proper grades, the proper number of hours in community service, etc (OP already has foreign language, by definition). Since he’s over 18 I don’t think he needs a guardian and to the best of my knowledge one can be enrolled in high school until age 20 in FL.
I agree that 6 months wouldn’t be enough.
However Florida Virtual high school would be a great option, too.
Considering that 1° it’d accustom OP to the US and 2° it’d save thousands and thousands of dollars, I think it’s well-worth the time and investment on his/her part.
(OP: tuition is five times more expensive for a non resident than for a resident, AND only florida graduates can have Bright Futures, the scholarship program. You need to have the proper ACT and GPA, of course. So when I say “thousands of dollars” I do mean a $15,000 difference each year…)</p>
<p>But im already a high school graduate. wat am I actually supposed to do now?! I didn’t get you guys quite well in those last comments about the virtual highschool </p>
<p>For different institutes and different states, the in state residency for tuition purpose may have different requirement. Your situation is a bit complicated that you may want to verify with your in state school to see if you are eligible for in state tuition.</p>
<p>If you have a high school diploma, then you can’t go to high school again. Florida students have a school they can do online, Florida Virtual. Students can take a class or two, like my daughter does while she attends a regular high school, or do the entire high school program of classes through Florida Virtual. There are also online courses available through different county school districts that you can mix and match.</p>
<p>I do agree that if you just move to the US, it would be best to work for a year or two before starting college as it is much cheaper to go as a resident. If you get accepted to Penn State or GA Tech, you can defer your start date.</p>
<p>Can I just enroll a year after or wud I have to apply to the colleges all over again?</p>
<p>and wat will be the actual benefit of doing these online classes? </p>
<p>If you are accepted to college, many will let you defer starting, so you wouldn’t have to apply again.</p>
<p>No benefit to someone already with a hs diploma to take classes on line. They are high school classes.</p>
<p>I’m not sure the STUDENT coming here himself will establish instate residency. He is 18, maybe 19 years old. For college residency purposes, the address where his FAMILY resides is the one that matters. At this time his family resides in Bangkadesh, not Florida, Pennsylvania, or Virginia. His FAMILY would need to relocate here.</p>
<p>NOW…there are some community colleges that will grant him instate status after a year of residency. But I seriously doubt that the 4 year public universities are going to grant independent student status, and instate tuition to this student whose parent’s reside in Bangladesh.</p>
<p>Read swimcatsmom’s posts again. She is basically saying the same thing.</p>
<p>You may be a high school graduate in Bangladesh but you’re not a HS graduate in the US. You can get an equivalency, but it’d be more economical and well worth your time to spend a year (or a year and a half) at an American high school so that you could get the ACT score and GPA required for graduation and Bright Futures (Bright Futures requires: attending high school in Florida, being legal, having a certain GPA and a certain ACT score; you get a bonus for being enrolled in the IB program). That may be your ONLY chance to get enough money to attend school in Florida. You will NOT be granted “resident” status after attending college in state for a year. </p>
<p>However, if one of your parents pays taxes to the state of Florida or if you pay taxes to the state of florida and are 24+, you could be declared a resident.</p>
<p>As a permanent resident, you’ll have access to $5,500 in loans, Pell grants if your family qualifies, and you’ll be allowed to work outside of class. The total of loans + work+ potentially Pell would be $10,000-15,000. You will not have access to this until you have your green card - how long can it be until you have it? You should wait until then to register at a university if that’s what you want to do right away.
However, tuition alone is higher than the amount of loans + Pell + work if you are charged OOS tuition.</p>
<p>If you have A-Levels you wouldn’t be allowed to attend high school but if you have IGCSE’s or Secondary Education Certificate or HSE, you would be allowed to attend for a year.
- ETA: just checked and while graduating a FL high school may qualify you for Bright Futures, it is not sufficient to qualify you for instate tuition/ There are various requirements.
<a href=“http://www.admissions.ufl.edu/residency/exception.html”>http://www.admissions.ufl.edu/residency/exception.html</a>
In addition, if I understood right, you can modify your status (from international to OOS permanent resident) before you enroll, but you can only modify your status from OOS to in state at the end of your first term.</p>
<p>And after a year, then will i get my instate fees and fin aid?! @MYOS1634 and @thumper1</p>
<p>I doubt that a Florida high school is going to let an adult student that has already graduated school in his own country enroll in high school. </p>
<p>So basically i’m screwed?! I dont have any other options? I heard I could take all my tuition fees as loans. Is it possible? Even if its possible from private lenders? Please let me know. It’d be the solution to my problems</p>