<p>Do you have $50,000 in the bank right now? And will your parents have $50,000 for every year? That’s how much money you need to attend the UCs. The only UC that offers financial aid to internationals is UC Merced, and even there it’s meager.
Furthermore, the only way you can apply to UCs is if you can take the November SAT or ACT as a standby (call your country’s office).
Public universities* never offer financial aid to international students and only sometimes offer merit aid (scholarships) to internationals. These merit scholarships are based on your SAT or ACT score and since you haven’t taken either yet, we can’t suggest anywhere to you.
You can go to the financial aid forum and look at the “sticky threads” (at the top of the discussion) with “automatic full tuition” title.
You can apply to universities as “undecided”, take your requirements during your first year, and declare an art major during your second year.
You can also apply to a community college in California but the tuition costs will remain the same, you’ll still have to pay full tuition at the UCs if you manage to get in.
As an international transfer, no you can’t get any financial aid when you transfer from community college to university, or from college to college.
“liberal arts” or “associate of arts” means the traditional disciplines of learning including Arts, Humanities, Social Sciences, etc. What you are looking for is “visual arts” and “film studies” or film/video production, etc.
The SUNYs and Ithaca college have excellent majors in these fields, for example, as does Occidental College.</p>
<p>If you’re awarded a scholarship as a 1st year student, typically the scholarship is renewed for 4 years provided you maintain a decent GPA.</p>
<p>You don’t hand in things - everything goes through the common application OR the application system used by the school (the UCs have their own system, for example).
You will need to provide your grades for 9th grade until 12th; results of external examinations (Mittlere Reife, Abitur) ; a recommendation and a school profile by your counselor or head teacher; recommendations by two teachers of your choice; SAT or ACT or/and SAT Subject plus TOEFL results; general essays; school specific essays.</p>
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<li>in the US, college= university. Where it gets confusing is that within a university you typically have several colleges representing the different divisions, such as College of Business, College of Arts and Science, College of Agriculture, College of Education… A “college”, such as Amherst College, Beloit College, Harvey Mudd College, Wabash College… are also universities. Liberal Arts Colleges are smaller and offer more interactive classes than universities, more opportunity to do research as an undergrad, and a close knit community. Large universities have great sports programs, especially football and basketball, more choices of courses and of majors, famous professors (although they may not teach undergrads), and they’re often in larger towns. Both are nationally ranked (national universities, national liberal arts colleges) or regionally ranked (regional universities, regional colleges). The top 60 liberal arts colleges and the top 40 national universities all offer very good undergraduate education and are difficult to near-impossible to get into.
Community college is an open-enrollment school. You don’t need to have studied particular subjects and you don’t need to have had particular grades. You can attend as an adult who wants to change careers (many do) or right out of high school. In California, the Community College system is very good but it’s not the same everywhere.</li>
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