Financial Aid for International

Paying for College
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<p>shanghaison,</p>

<p>My daughters attends a small LAC in midwest (top 20 LAC in USNWR). She finds academics very challenging and she’s happy with her overall college experience.
My son got his GC when he was in the middle of his senior year in college. So it was too late for financial aid purposes. You file FAFSA in February, and it’s used to calculate your fin. aid for the next school year. He still got some small scholarships with H4 status -one from community college and another one from UC (both from school funds). Besides, UC offered transfer fellowship - one summer session for free with a stipend (he took 3 classes). Also he had summer research fellowship in his UC the summer before his senior year ($3,000 stipend). All of these were on H4 and pending status. Gaining employment was probably easier with permanent status vs temporary.
Check your state schools, there should be some good opportunities. Some scholarships and fellowships are available for citizens and permanent residents only, but not all of them. Also if you want to do engineering major, you will have more opportunities in state school vs LAC.</p>

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<p>Hi, I’d like to ask a question! I’m a foreign student and would like to transfer my studies to a college in the US. I graduated 8 semesters out of 9. But I’d really want to graduate from an american college. My equivalent GPA is about 3,5 (we don’t have GPA system, that’s why I’m saying equivalent). Does anyone know full tuition scholarships for international students who is outside the US? And does the taxpaying help students to get scholarship?
Thanx for the answers in advance!</p>