Yes, $47,000 (per year) is enough for an international student to study in the US, but with your GPA you will not be able to be too picky about which college you attend.
University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign accepts a lot of international students, but they do not give financial aid. Your cost would be $49,746-$59,094 (depending on what you want to study), plus travel, visa, health insurance, school supplies, etc. Texas A&M is probably not going to give you money either. Indiana will cost you about $52,000 per year.
Ok. That’s good.
For Economics, Colgate, Macalester, Grinnell, Northeastern, Hamilton, UMichigan are possible reaches.
Matches would include Fordham, Lafayette, VTech, UMD, Penn State, UVermont, Miami Ohio, UMN Carlson, UWisconsin, St Lawrence, Denison, Sewanee
Safeties would include College of Charleston, UMN CLA, UAlabama Honors, ASU Barrett, Muhlenberg, DePauw, DePaul, Hendrix. (College of Charleston= soccer, UMN= Hockey, UAlabama = football)
Are you sure you have 188k in a bank account or available for your studies? Because it’s a huge amount of money for France.
Yes its very expensive for France but yeah i decided to study in the USA, create my life in this country. So they will not look at my school reports ( teachers were awful with me in school reports ) and they wont look at my gpa? Just looking at my graduation?
Do you have a TOEFL score? Given that you are coming from a location where English is not the normal language of instruction, schools will need to see evidence regarding how strong your English is.
Depends on the schools. Some will only use your DNB and BAC results. Some will use DNB, BAC, moyennes. They don’t use teachers’ comments because they’re idiosyncratic. But many will need recommendation letters. If you can’t use recommendations from teachers you will be restricted to universities that don’t require those.
Are you familiar with the common app?
You need a mix of colleges including 3-4 safeties (more than for a us resident because things are more unpredictable for internationals), 4-5 matches, then as many reaches as you wish or czn added to apply to.
It’s common for internationals to apply to 10-12 colleges. (Recently someone at an international School indicated they were limited to 8 and everyone thought it was unfairly too few.)
Common app limits you to 20:) but that’s over doing it unless there are no extra essays and while some universities are free to apply most have an application fee similar to ‘frais de dossiers’.
Bit of realism needed here.
Firstly, F1 student visa is a non-immigrant visa, and you will be expected to show reasons to return to France afterward in the visa interview (also by the way it is very limiting in terms of what work you can do while you are a student, so you will need to be able to prove you can fund the college course you apply for to get the visa).
Second, there is absolutely no guarantee that you’ll be able to get a work visa and stay in the US afterwards, especially as the rules are changing and a bigger percentage of the annual quota is to be given to those with postgraduate degrees. So it may happen that the stars align and you get a job and work visa on graduating, but you totally cannot expect it.
