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<p>1) You need to find out if you are considered an in-state student where you live. Some states allow anyone who graduates from high school there to enroll at the public universities and community colleges at in-state rates.</p>
<p>2) You also need to find out exactly how much your family can afford to pay. You need that number so you can determine how deep you will have to dig in order to find a financial safety school.</p>
<p>3) You need to find out what your options are with your specific visa status. Can you study in that status, or will you need to change it to an F-1? Even if you don’t need to change your visa status, will an F-1 be more favorable for you (e.g. will you be able to work more) than your current status. Find out what the story is about your mom’s green card paperwork. If you aren’t included and/or it isn’t finalized by the time you finish college, you are going to be just like any other international college graduate, and if you don’t find an H-1B sponsor, you will have to leave.</p>
<p>Lots of colleges and universities offer some kind of aid to international students. However, you are going to have to do a lot of research to find them. There isn’t just one easy list to go to because how much money each of them has available can change at any time. Read through this list, and check the colleges/universities mentioned to find out if any of them offer aid to international students: <a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/financial-aid-scholarships/848226-important-links-automatic-guaranteed-merit-scholarships.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/financial-aid-scholarships/848226-important-links-automatic-guaranteed-merit-scholarships.html</a></p>