<p>I have relatives from China who want to apply here, does anybody know what they need? any shortcuts?
and how do they get scholarships?</p>
<p>So in my field (and at the graduate level), it’s near-impossible for international students to get outside funding. That’s because most of the grants are from the government, which is indirectly from taxpayers’ pockets, and the logic probably goes that taxpayers aren’t too enthused with the idea of paying for non-citizens to attend their state universities, possibly at the expense of an equally-qualified US citizen.</p>
<p>From personal experience, I find it rare that international students will come to do college in the US – more often, I think they do college in their home country and come to the US to pursue graduate degrees.</p>