<p>Hello guys. I am from Turkmenistan, Central Asia, international student, and want to study in USA. I have taken SATand my scores aren't very bad. Math-770; cr-630. And my GPA is 4.0 in 4 scale. Can I get full ride? Thanks before.</p>
<p>A full ride merit scholarship? Probably not. You could get a full tuition scholarship or maybe a bit more, but as an int’l there would still likely be costs that your family would have to pay…personal expenses, food, housing, health insurance, international travel.</p>
<p>How much will your family pay each year? </p>
<p>agree with Mom2^^^^. More than likely, a full ride will not happen.</p>
<p>You need to understand…full rides are not plentiful things. They are even less plentiful for international students.</p>
<p>Plus a 630 on Reading is not that awesome, sorry: ( . Also, you havent said anything about EC’s. There are tons of kids that have almost perfect scores in everything, and they are all looking for the elusive free ride. </p>
<p>Your chances of getting any merit aid, let alone a full ride, are minimal except at a 3rd or 4th tier college. </p>
<p>Come on guys: OP has 1400 CR+M, a 4.0, and comes from Turkmenistan. I’m pretty sure there’d be quite a few of the competitive merit scholarships that would be interested, and s/he’d certainly qualify for most automatic merit scholarships.
<a href=“Competitive Full Tuition / Full Ride Scholarships - Financial Aid and Scholarships - College Confidential Forums”>Competitive Full Tuition / Full Ride Scholarships - Financial Aid and Scholarships - College Confidential Forums;
<a href=“http://automaticfulltuition.yolasite.com/”>http://automaticfulltuition.yolasite.com/</a>
Are you a boy or a girl?
How much can your parents pay? Can they pay for housing, books, and miscellaneous?</p>
<p>Can they pay for housing,food, books, personal expenses, and travel?</p>
<p>And if they are paying for those things…the student is not getting a “full ride”.</p>
<p>I agree that the student can get a full tuition award, at more than one place. He needs to check those schools listed carefully as some of the awards are not for international students.</p>
<p>Alabama would give this student FREE tuition if he gets his app, transcripts and scores into Bama before Dec 15. So he’d have to apply VERY soon…and the app is VERY easy.</p>
<p>Thanks a lot. I really appreciated your help! I am a boy. We have only 5 million people in our country, and there hardly any students studying in USA.One more question, does admission commitee consider cultural minority?</p>
<p>Turkmenistan is not very highly populated country, and also even in Turkmenistan, 100% of population is not turkmens. So perhaps it can be one advantage for my application. What do you think?</p>
<p><a href=“http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/howard-us-kathmandu-connection-nepal-emerges-as-top-source-of-foreign-students/2014/08/27/4cd70376-2a20-11e4-958c-268a320a60ce_story.html”>http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/howard-us-kathmandu-connection-nepal-emerges-as-top-source-of-foreign-students/2014/08/27/4cd70376-2a20-11e4-958c-268a320a60ce_story.html</a> indicates that some international students from Nepal have found big scholarships at Howard, Louisiana Tech, University of Texas - Arlington, University of North Texas, and St. Cloud State.</p>
<p>4.0 GPA and 1400 SAT CR+M will get a pretty big scholarship at Howard, if international students are eligible and you apply soon enough before the scholarship money runs out.
<a href=“http://www.howard.edu/financialaid/grants_scholarships.htm#Freshman”>http://www.howard.edu/financialaid/grants_scholarships.htm#Freshman</a></p>
<p>Louisiana Tech’s scholarship for those stats is also very large. Check if international students are eligible.
<a href=“Admissions | Louisiana Tech University”>http://admissions.latech.edu/tuition_fees/pdfs/freshman_scholarships.pdf</a> (Presidential)</p>
<p>Schools have their own ways of treating international applicants. There may well be a school interested in having a number of countries represented, so that a rare app from Turkmenistan could spark some interest and give you a boost. However, some schools “bundle” countries so that an entire area like the former USSR would be one area. There are schools that do have quotas per country/region and/or for international students overall. Very few colleges are need blind in admissions for international students AND guarantee to meet full need for internationals students. Few for US students too, but truly very few for international ones, and they tend to be highly selective. </p>
<p>Your stats are high enough that you should give it a go at the colleges that interest you and perhaps there will be some interest. You best chances will be at those schools where your test scores put you in the upper end of the student pool, however, just as it is for most students. So if you want to come to the US, make sure you include some of those. Also make sure all schools you pick have financial aid eligible for internationals as well as merit money, and that they do give out sufficient amounts to have a decent chance of meeting your need. No sense in fishing in an empty pond. Good luck.</p>
<p>thanks friends! I heard that giving merit scholarship, can be depended on major you chose. For example, I have got high math score, but average cr score, and i want to major electrical engineering. What do you think it can also add my chances?</p>
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<p>No. </p>
<p>Minority status has to do with domestic students. The purpose is to help “lift” minorities who have historically been “kept down” in this country. That wouldn’t apply to int’l students. </p>
<p>Being from your country could help with admissions (since few apply from your country), but it’s not going to get you more money.</p>
<p>Well, they do consider cultural minority, to a certain extent. Living as an ethnic/cultural minority in a country that discriminates against said minority (and mention of said discriminations and how the applicant overcame them or is being contrained by them) IS a factor at many “holistic” universities.
My understanding is that Turkmenistan is not very democratic in the first place but rather autocratic, and that minority rights aren’t high on the list of priorities (understatement).</p>
<p>Actually, many schools do have quotas for international students, as they want diversity in that regard too. How Turkmenistan would fall in that, whether it is considered part of a region or a country of its own right in terms of how a school does this is an individual thing. </p>
<p>Thanks. That’s a bit discouraging for me. I have thought my chances aren’t bad for even top colleges.</p>