<p>So, My question is that is there an alternate way to pay for college if you are not eligible for FA?
Like Loans, Scholarships, Grants, Government aid, Corporate help and stuff.</p>
<p>Even if there are some banks that give a loan for studying abroad, I wanna know which are they, what are their terms and conditions, what is the max amount they give, etc.</p>
<p>P.S - By Corporate help I mean companies that can sponsor my tuition fee if I agree to work for them after graduation.</p>
<p>Look, unless you’re a phenomenal student (as in top 0.01%) there’s literally no chance for you to study abroad economically with the use of Financial Aid. No one’s going to invest in high school students when there are already primed graduates waiting to be hired. The best you could find is if your parents worked for extremely wealthy corporations (Halliburton, Schlummberger etc.) that gives out these as benefits.</p>
<p>Well if you have got excellent academic credentials, some state universities may give you partial or in some cases full tuition waiver.
Also you may want to check need blind schools(for internationals). Currently there are six of them. But you would need to be extraordinary to even have a chance at most of them.</p>
<p>@Picklebumb - excellent suggestion. “Need blind” is a good way to find a school to let you in; once you’re in, you can “negotiate” your cost of attendance i.e. you may end up having to work for the school (research assistant, grader, etc. on one extreme, to dishwasher on the other extreme) - many schools have policies where they won’t let their students get themselves into more than $X in debt (whatever that figure is, some say $20k, some say more, some say less) - but if you have a good, genuine, convincing need for aid, you’ll end up finding a way.</p>
<p>To put things into perspective: many many years ago, I had friends who came from India who were full-time Engineering students during the day, and worked in the evenings. It’s not easy, but it’s definitely not impossible. The hard work pays off at the end.</p>
Not remotely true. This kind of silly advice leaves many brokenhearted students who are accepted into schools they can’t afford. And no one gets to “negotiate” the COA. Financial aid is based on need as determined by the school based on the family’s income and asset data.</p>
<p>On the contrary, I would recommend speaking with a Fin Aid advisor at the university - many universities require a Fin Aid written statement beyond the FAFSA form which assesses family income, etc. - at some point, the student will need to determine whether the Fin Aid package offered by a school, if any, is adequate in addition to student loans etc. since that is a burden they will have to carry beyond graduating. If a school’s policy is to limit the graduate’s debt, for example not letting them accumulate beyond say $30k, then they will usually find a way to finance the remainder either through grants, work-study, loans, etc.</p>
<p>I would recommend looking at school’s that have debt-limit policies - namely ones that have very large endowments and research institutions.</p>