You need to be HONEST. Is your relative going to give you money…or not? While this might not matter for your first year, when you renew your financial aid for the following year(S), you WILL be required to include any money others paid on your behalf (not your parents…but other relatives)
You seem to be interested in CalTech, Colgate, Grinnell, Carleton.
These schools are not cheap…but they do meet full need…but are need aware for admissions.
Have you considered applying to some less costly schools, or places where you might get merit aid to help with the costs?
With the stats you posted, you would get excellent merit aid guaranteed at University of Alabama…but you only have until midnight tonight to apply.
The SUNY colleges are a LOT less costly than the schools you have on your list. Perhaps research those and add one or two to your application list.
Does your family have financial need? If so, at one of those college that meets full need, you might get great need based aid…and then perhaps your relative would only need to fund your travel costs.
I don’t know if he’ll pay for it or not. He said that he will, but being completely honest, you can’t really depend on others for such a large sum of money. I do not want to cause my parents some sort of a humiliation or burden because of the fact that someone else has to pay for my studies. It is the LAST resort. So, I’ll try to avoid that situation as much as I can. I think you are right, he can pay for travel costs. I think my parents will be able to pay that money back in no time. I hope you understand. In developing countries, the status thing is pretty bad. We don’t have all American smiles and everything. Well whatever. I guess I can now arrange it in a way that it works out for me. Anyhow, thanks to everyone who replied.
A lot of physics students study in their own country for undergrad, then apply for funded PhD programs in the US. My kid is a physics PhD students, and many of the other students in her program are from other countries.
There is almost nothing you can do in the physics field with a bachelors in physics.
What exactly is your career goal?
Here’s an idea…see if YOUR country will pay your travel and living costs to study in the U.S. I’m betting they won’t…and I’m also betting no one there would offer free money to foreign students to study in your country…right!
Ohmygosh I didn’t say I am not getting a PhD in physics in future. I just said that I cannot get a PhD before completing undergrads. It was a joke response to the previous poster.
Btw I have applied for some full ride scholarships from my country to study abroad. So if all goes well, maybe my country will do pay for my education in the US.