This is what you’re facing…
Schools that might give you a large merit scholarship would still have remaining costs for an int’l. Even if you got a full tuition award, each year you’d still have to come up with:
About …
$15k for R&B
$3k for personal expenses
$2k for health insurance
$2k for books and fees
$2k for travel from abroad
Even if you got an award that covers tuition room and board…you’d still need to come up with about $10k per year to satisfy the req’ts to get your visa.
If you started at a CC, then you’d really be screwed when you’d go to transfer since few schools give much aid to int’l transfer students…very few!