As I mentioned in the title, I want to hear your story:)
If you are international student studying in U.S. can you please tell me the benefits/attractions/pros and what you love about your school? I would like to hear from an international student’s perspective.
I am just curious about it. I just want to know simple questions like why did you choose to go to your college, what was appealing, what was it like when you actually enrolled, wha you liked and disliked about the school, etc.
Feel free to share your experience!
im not int student, but i can tell you experience of my close friend (broo) 
but depends which region are you from? if you are slav or from eastern europe, you might find it bit weird for examplee
No, any stories are welcomed. I am interested in anyone’s story
American higher ed is so diverse, I’m not sure how useful anecdotes are.
Um… then let me specify. I am looking fo undergraduate experience in 4 years college?
American undergraduate education is so diverse, I’m not sure how useful anecdotes are.
Where do you live? If you contactthe closest EducationUSA or AMIDEAST office, the counselors there should be able to help you get in touch with students from your own country who are currently in the US as well as people who are recent graduates of programs here. They are more likely to be able to give you useful information that relates to your own circumstances.
I am an undergraduate, just finished two years in community college and now transferring to a small LAC with a full ride for my final two years.
If I could do it all over, I would have stayed in my home country and just graduated in three years. Pouring tonnes of money into a bloated and potentially corrupted industry to sit in crowded classes taking multiple choice tests (that everybody cheats on), just to get a degree that is no better than what I could have got at home, well…
If you are that one in a million, larger than life personality who can move to a foreign country and take advantage of every opportunity (and there are many), and be willing to go through ALL the administrative hoops, and on top of that it makes financial sense…then sure.
But if you’re like me, a good student but not top 0.5%, I would advise staying home. US is great for the extreme high achievers and go-getters. At least in the Northeast, no one is going to hold your hand to give you that ‘perfect’ college experience that you fantasize about, and at the end of it you’re going to tally up all of the money that you spent and realise studying in the US as an international student ranks at the very bottom of the ‘bang for your buck’ metric
@PurpleTitan is absolutely correct.
Each of the over 3000 US universities is different, so that the experience will be vastly different for each student.
Commonalities:
The work is hard. You need good time management skills.
Sleeping can be an issue.
It’s expensive.
The food/meals may not be to your liking.
Well, @Barksdale, you’re not through with your collegiate experience, yet. In fact, arguably, it hasn’t begun.
Yes, CC is most likely not a better experience than what you would have gotten at home. A good LAC is different, however.
@PurpleTitan True as that may be, I can only speak from my own experience and reality. And for many international students, be it in the UCs, CUNY, or wherever, public schools (specifically CCs) will make up at least half, and sometimes the entirety, of one’s ‘collegiate experience’. I think I, like many others both international and American alike, had an extremely warped sense of what exactly that ‘collegiate experience’ would entail, born out of ignorance and effective media/marketing.
I am just trying to provide a truthful counterpoint to that, so as to try and educate from experience. Take my comments with a grain of salt, so be it.
Yep, I’ll repeat again: American undergraduate education is so diverse, I’m not sure how useful anecdotes are.
Yet the OP asked for them.