<p>What is your current visa category? Can you study here in that status, or will you have to change to an F-1 visa?</p>
<p>Can you study in your home country, or another country?</p>
<p>It is extremely difficult for international applicants to get scholarships or need-based aid. You can read many, many threads on that subject in the international student forum and in the financial aid forum. Sit your parents down and find out about the money. It will be a deciding factor in where you can study.</p>
<p>Since you are interested in the diplomatic service, but you aren’t a US citizen, you should find out more about your own country’s system for entering that career path. One good way to start would be to get in touch with the consulate responsible for the city where you live.</p>
<p>Wishing you all the best.</p>