<p>Cardinal, she should look at Grinnell, Smith, Mt. Holyoke, Colgate and Bates for starters.</p>
<p>Ana1, you really have no idea what you are talking about with regards to green card process. Processing time has nothing to do with waiting time that you must wait in line based on your application category and what country of origin the person comes from. Processing time is the time it takes to process your petition, once your petition is approved, you get in line based on your category and country of origin. Employment related petition and spouse sponsorship can be very fast because it is considered high priority categories, other type of petition can be a lot longer. It is a complicated quota system, please know something a little bit before saying something completely off the wall and out from the left field.</p>
<p>[Immigration</a> Waiting Lists](<a href=“http://www.lawcom.com/immigration/pdwtlst.shtml]Immigration”>http://www.lawcom.com/immigration/pdwtlst.shtml)</p>
<p>There’s something I don’t understand here. From another thread, we learn that the OP applied to Wharton/Penn, MIT, Princeton, Chicago, Colgate, Drexel, American and Manhattanville. Her stats are:</p>
<ul>
<li>GPA: 3.7 UW / 4.6 W</li>
<li>Rank: Top 5%</li>
<li>SAT: 660 M / 700 R/ 740 W</li>
<li>SAT 2: Math 1 670 / World Hist. 710 / Spanish 800</li>
<li>ACT: 31</li>
</ul>
<p>Penn, MIT, Princeton and Chicago are huge reaches even for American students, and her stats, though excellent, are below their typical admitted student’s stats, so no surprise that she was not accepted at any of those schools.</p>
<p>But what about the other four? They look more on target. Do those schools have a policy of denying students if they can’t offer aid? Might they be denying the OP because of her immigration status?</p>
<p>OP, for next year I suggest researching which schools are known to accept undocumented students and give big merit/need awards to top students. Check out the midwest LACs. Look for schools where you’d be above their 75th percentile student.</p>
<p>With your grades and test scores, you would have gotten some full rides, had you applied t schools that seek and Pay for students of your calibre. Take a look at Momfromtexas’s full ride scholarship thread. I know a number of kids who got full tuition scholarships here who are not citizens. They did not get them at Columbia or Harvard or MIT. THough if you could get into such school, they will give you the aid on a need blind basis, the competition is fierce. Looking at schools like Providence College or Susquehanna or schools that do not make the tiers in USNWR would have gotten you some awards.</p>
<p>If you live anywhere near Miami, maybe you should attend Miami Dade College. If you get into the Honors College, you can pay in-state tuition (my friend got a scholarship for the honors college, so it pays her full tuition)</p>
<p>And after two years, you can apply to a private university in the U.S. (I don’t know if it can be any private one, or if it’s a specific one…my friend applied to Amherst) and apparently they pay a lot of your tuition</p>
<p>[MDC</a> Honors College](<a href=“http://www.mdc.edu/honorsCollege/]MDC”>The Honors College | Miami Dade College) , maybe you’ll find something</p>