SAT: 1270 (Cr+M) old
10th Grade: 88%
12th Grade: 70%
ECs: various Quiz competitions ( Like the Quiz Bowl) National and Regional.
A couple of pending patents
Winner of international innovation contest.
Family can afford roughly 6k USD per annum. (coa, including room and board, or university apartments, or any living arrangement)
Last year was accepted to around 14 schools with scholarships, including ISU, UMass-Amherst, Col State, U Miami
Couldn’t attend due to finances.
Currently in the midst of a gap year.
Want to major in Mech/EE.
I implore you guys to suggest me suitable schools whose deadlines haven’t passed.
Scholarship/Co-op/any funding option will be greatly appreciated!
I don’t see why the situation would have changed this year. Much higher test scores would be needed for any options I can think of. You need to revisit options in your home country.
finances have improved slightly. Though I certainly am looking at options in my country itself, I’d love to give it one last shot though. I maybe able to pull it off upto 8k.
Remember that you will be required to pay for health insurance through the college (at least $2000 per year), travel expenses, and university housing often closes over winter and summer breaks.
Here is a thread to look at. But it is a couple years old, so you need to look at each college website to confirm the current situation.
All that would cover is int’l travel, health insurance and personal expenses. That $8k wouldn’t cover any actual school costs. Colleges have no need to provide free tuition, free room and free board for those stats.
Please understand that if it were possible for int’l students with good, but not top, stats to get free tuition, free room, and free board in the US, then suddenly a gazillion int’ls with similar stats would be applying S.
Domestic students with those stats can rarely find enough aid to only pay $8k per year.
Unless your family can come up with $25k plus per year, plan on attending college in your own country.
The best thing I can recommend is trying to get a lot of outside scholarships, or one big one, and you might be able to afford it. You can also try to research smaller colleges that might want a more diverse student body that might give you more money. But the schools you mentioned are too big with an abundance of diverse students that they simply cannot give every international student a ton of scholarship money unless their stats are exceptional.