<p>Thank you very much for your replies everyone. Yes I have Fiske’s guide, but I didn’t know that it included international students in it. I’ll get to work.
Yes my GPA in unweighted. When I came here as an exchange student, I didn’t want to waste one year and go back and repeat it, so I insisted VERY hard to graduate, and got a lot of classes that are required for graduation, such as Oklahoma History, Government, Art, etc. The thing is that my schedule is SO full with the required classes (I’m basically taking 4 high school years in 1 year) that I didn’t have any space for ANY AP class :(. So I don’t know how much disadvantage will that bring to me…
In my country I completed 3 years of High School, and instead of AP classes, we have “Advanced” classes. So I have taken Advanced Math apart from regular Math at school back home, but the Advanced math class includes all the math branches (calc, trig, geometry, algebra) in one. I’m NOT saying this because I’m a foreigner, but I swear I looked at some AP Math classes of my friends here at school and they were so easy compared to what I did back home, so what I am trying to say, is that I have already taken very hard math classes, but I don’t know how I can translate this, so that the college would acknowledge my work… I was in the Top 10% of my class there, idk about here… By wanting to graduate here in the US as a foreign exchange kid and thus not being able to take AP classes, did I destroy my chances of having some good classes that could look well in my college app?</p>
<p>Okay, so I did some research of the universities that you guys mentioned and I have some questions. I’m sorry for asking here but the NET Price calculators are so inaccurate and apply only to US Citizens, so I’m kinda lost… BTW, I am able to pay up to ~$25K tuition, but I really need the aid…</p>
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Okay, so when I was looking at their website, I found USC’s tuition and fees: [Schedule</a> of Classes: Spring 2013: Tuition and Fees](<a href=“http://www.usc.edu/academics/classes/term_20131/tuition_and_fees.html]Schedule”>http://www.usc.edu/academics/classes/term_20131/tuition_and_fees.html)
It says $21,861.00, but is that for both US citizens and internationals? Cause I can’t see separate information about international students (or even OOS students, for that matter).
A 50% reduction of $21K would be amazing…
The school I was talking about, where my cousin got in, is called Franklin University and it is located in Ohio. He has similar stats to mine minus the EC and he is studying for Pre-Med.</p>
<p>@NamelesStatistic - Sorry for the ignorance, but what’s the full name of USNWR? Cause I did a Google search and I’m not getting results… Okay, so, I’m sorry again if this sounds dumb, but I got this page from UIUC’s website: [U</a> of I Records: Fall 2013/Spring 2014 Undergrad Engineering Tuition Rate](<a href=“http://registrar.illinois.edu/financial/tuition_1314/Fall/ugrad_engineering.html]U”>http://registrar.illinois.edu/financial/tuition_1314/Fall/ugrad_engineering.html)
So it says “Semester Rate by Credit Range” and just below it, it says “Rates for students entered Summer 2013 through Spring 2014”. So is the amount for a YEAR for an international student $16,968 or double that amount, ~$33k? I’ve really been looking into that college but I didn’t know it offered aids to internationals, because of it being a state college.</p>
<p>McGill in Canada is even more expensive for my course I believe… [Student</a> Accounts - McGill University](<a href=“http://www.mcgill.ca/student-accounts/tuition-charges/fallwinter-term-tuition-and-fees/undergraduate-fees]Student”>| Student Accounts - McGill University)
Tuition for Engineering - $30k/yr…</p>
<p>The University of Minnesota seems great, wow! [Undergraduate</a> tuition](<a href=“http://onestop.umn.edu/finances/costs_and_tuition/tuition_and_fees/undergraduate_tuition.html]Undergraduate”>http://onestop.umn.edu/finances/costs_and_tuition/tuition_and_fees/undergraduate_tuition.html)
One question, might sound dumb as well… I have no idea since I’m not from the US, but is this a military based college? Because I am seeing a lot of military pictures on their website, I’m not being biased but still just wondering… How come it’s so cheap by the way?</p>
<p>Some background info - I, actually, AM one of those students who intend to stay in the US after graduation… That’s why I am doing everything so carefully and (sorry) spamming you with these posts… It will be a huge investment for me and I can swear to you that I have been waiting to come here ever since I was a kid… I don’t mind the size of class or whatever as long as I can learn from it… If a private college will be able to help me, then great, but I just don’t want to get a cheap education if that equals just a degree that will make me go home… I do understand that no degree guarantees you a job straight after school, but that’s why I want to get the best education that I can get under my possibilities and being an international student and competing against many other American kids who wont have to go through the paperwork process to get hired, makes me kind of sad, but motivates me at the same time…</p>
<p>Thank you very much for your help!</p>