<p>Berea does not have engineering programs.
BYU does, but the full cost of attendance for a non-LDS student is over $22K/year.
<a href=“Admissions”>https://admissions.byu.edu/international-freshman-acceptance-criteria</a></p>
<p>Financial aid is available for international students. However, according to USNWR, on average BYU only covers ~34% of demonstrated need; it meets full need for less than 2% of students. </p>
<p>OP: your goal should be to find colleges/universities which, through merit or need-based aid, will have a cost of attendance of $13,000 or so. It means you’ll need significant financial aid.
If you can practice for the SAT very seriously and get 1400 CR+M (not easy - you need to answer lots of questions accurately and very quickly so even if the questions themselves are easy, it’s quite difficult to get a high score) U Alabama’s presidential scholarship would bring your cost of attendance within your parameters (since it’d cover full tuition and since you’d be studying CS or engineering, you’d get a $2,500 stipend, you’d have to pay for room and board but most of your other expenses would be covered and you’d have to live frugally but you’d be fine.) The difficulty/your challenge is 1° getting to a place where you can take the SAT 2° preparing for the SAT 3° staying alive and healthy.</p>
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<p>You need to start by reading through everything at <a href=“https://www.educationusa.info/”>https://www.educationusa.info/</a></p>
<p>Then, if you are not in Syria right now, contact the advising center closest to you. <a href=“https://www.educationusa.info/centers.php”>https://www.educationusa.info/centers.php</a></p>
<p>There is no advising center right now in Syria, but you can communicate with the counselors at the EducationUSA Syria Virtual Advising Office <a href=“https://www.educationusa.info/Damascus”>https://www.educationusa.info/Damascus</a> They will be able to give you some help.</p>
<p>When you use a college-matching search engine such as Big Future, you need to subtract about $10,000 (what your meals, housing, books and transportation might cost) from the total that you have available, and search for places where tuition and fees cost no more than the amount that you have left. The search engines do not include all of those other costs in the number that you search with.</p>
<p>Yes, even at a very, very inexpensive college or university in the US, your living expenses and books can easily cost $10,000 or more each year.</p>