<p>Yes, you can be a Questbridge finalist even if you are a citizen of another country. The catch of course, is that only 2 of the Questbrige partners agree to take in foreign citizens for their “National College Match Program”: Yale & Princeton, neither of which I applied to. </p>
<p>Also, I sound incredibly boring in the initial post. Here’s a bit more info:</p>
<p>I am a 19 year old girl, lowest income, Hispanic. Over the summer I worked a job at a small fast food to help pay for my tuition. </p>
<p>Little bit of story: I came to US with family in 2000. Due to immigration issues and low income thing, I entered HS expecting to drop out. After turning myself around after the first semester w/ the help of a motivation JROTC sergeant, I began to take all APs and IB courses, including dual-enrollment at a local community college over the summer. I attained top grades but my rank and GPA were always held back because of that first HS semester. </p>
<p>By the end of high school (actually by my sophomore year), I was getting straight As, had been named representative of my school to a county-wide leadership program, and even got a full-paid scholarship to attend the National Young Leaders Conference (no big deal, but the scholarship is), and I became my school’s FIRST (in over 6 years) AP scholar w/ distinction. I got elected as President of my class for 2 consecutive years, position which meant THE WORLD to me. Eventually, I helped raise a little over $20,000 for the class’s activities. </p>
<p>Over the summer, it looked like I wouldn’t be able to go to college at all as I was rejected everywhere and my “International” status mixed with my family’s under 20,000 a year income did not help. </p>
<p>So then I took MIT’s free classes online in youtube (Chem & Bio), while I read books on physics for free (I couldn’t pay for them) at a local bookstore (I did this before my work shifts, as the book store was in front of where I worked). I saved up my earnings and paid for enough of the tuition at a local private university in order to register, dropped my job as soon as my 17-credit semester started, and here I am. </p>
<p>I also paint and enjoy poetry.</p>
<p>P.S- No, I cannot pay for much. Thus, I need a school that would offer either scholarships or very generous fin. aid. to Internationals.</p>