<p>How are you guys paying for your education in the US? I can't imagine everyone here gets full rides from each college or that everybody's parents pay everything. So how are you doing this?</p>
<p>I'm asking because I applied to colleges and didn't ask for finaid thinking that I wasn't going to need it. Now my family has encountered some financial hardship and won't be able to help me out at all. So I'm looking at private loans for everything but I'm seeing that a lot of people don't do this because it puts you in huge debt.</p>
<p>Well I am just hoping for a big scholarship, I havent received enough for now, unfortunately, I am still expecting a few other replies. My parents cannot pay more than $3000, so fingers crossed</p>
<p>Most international students don’t receive financial aid. Most pay huge sums of money to study in the US. That is the reality. I do not believe that going into huge debt makes any sense for you ratboy: you’re in the EU and can study at very fine european universities at a reasonable – or very low – cost. Do your undergraduate studies in Germany (or wherever) and if the US still beckons, come here for grad school, where there is more money and grants for interantionals. Don’t mortgage your future with debt for an American degree. It’s simply not worth it.</p>
<p>I would advise against taking a loan as well.</p>
<p>Email the colleges where you have been accepted and ask them if they can give you aid. Receiving aid is very unlikely, but its worth a try.</p>
<p>What you can do is reapply to colleges that do give aid to international students, next year. Take a gap year! Or go to an amazing university in the EU and try to transfer. Or like the poster above me has said, there’s always grad school!</p>