Majority of the universities DO NOT give any financial aid to international students…I was wondering if there were any decent universities, which would provide a merit/need based aid to meet the complete fee requirement. Please mention the required Sat/ACT scores and high school grades for each of them.
my high school grades are as follows:
Freshman year: A+ in all subjects
Sophomore: A+ in all subjects
Junior year: A+ in 3 subjects and one B
Currently i am in my senior year and I am doing well. i need some guidance. Please help me out!
Fee waiver? What fee - application fee? Or are you referring to tuition as a fee?
Since you are a senior, aren’t you too late now to apply to colleges/universities for fall 2015?
If you are a senior NOW, you have missed the application deadlines for most colleges with generous need based financial aid here.
And according to your other thread, you also have not yet taken the SAT? Why the delay? What do you plan to do for the 2015-2016 academic year?
I hate to point out the obvious…but what is wrong with college in your country…where it is likely affordable?
@Madison85 I am asking about the scholarships. I am a south Asian and here classes begin in the mid of feb so I’LL graduate next year in march. I want to apply for the class of 2020 and I was wondering if any scholarships are available for the international students. (:
@thumper1 there’s nothing wrong about them it’s just if u earn a bachelor’s degree here, you can never earn prestige or even a high paid job. 1 out of 3 students is an engineer and he/she has to struggle in order to find a job. The country has a crowd of engineers/doctors that these degrees are not valued or treated as professional degrees until you earn them from abroad. I am not trying to impress anyone. I just want to get into a university from where I can get a good placement. I want to be different from everyone, trying hard to get into a college and ending up at a place which has no placement rate is useless. I accept my family is short of resources that’s why I need a scholarship to get into one. I know my parents cannot afford the fees but I am ready to make my way with my academic merit and extra curriculars.
To find colleges and universities that award at least some financial aid to international students, run any of the college-matching search engines, and check the box for that question. The amount of money varies (sometimes just one big scholarship is available each year, sometimes lots of little ones are), so you need to check each one carefully.
There are a limited number of colleges and universities in the US that guarantee admissions and full tuition or full-ride scholarships to US applicants based on grades and ACT or SAT scores. A few offer those to international applicants as well. There are a few more places that offer significant scholarships on a competitive basis. Your grades put you in the range for those. Read through the links in this thread, and check the scholarships carefully to find out if they are offered to international students. The application dates often are much earlier than for regular applicants, so pay attention to that as well.
http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/financial-aid-scholarships/1678964-links-to-popular-threads-on-scholarships-and-lower-cost-colleges.html#latest
There are a number of U.S. Colleges that provide need based aid to international students. There are very generous schools that do so, but are highly competitive.
And many of those schools that meet full need for all accepted students…including international students…are need aware for admissions. This means your ability to pay will be considered when your application for admission is considered.
There are only six U.S. colleges that are both need blind for all AND meet full need for all.
Just curious…you want a high paying, prestigious job when you graduate but you do not want to be a doctor or an engineer. What do you want to study?
Plus, there are many folks with engineering degrees who work in finance or business. There are doctors who do research, or get MPH or MBA and go into hospital management.
And, my bet is the colleges in your country offer majors other than engineering and premed (which can actually be any major).
@emotionsswayed
There are millions of kids here in the US that can’t get enough aid, so it is MUCH more difficult for int’ls to get aid. Get your education there, and then apply here for grad school.
I want to do engineering but if I got the degree from my country, it wouldn’t be much appreciated. Coz everyone’s an engineer here and everyone’s struggling to get a job…There aren’t much employment opportunities. companies are looking for more qualified candidates and those who earn their degrees from abroad have a higher chance to qualify for them…moreover, i am interested in aerospace n there’s no scope for such major here.My goals aren’t limited to a bachelor’s degree…I would love if I get a chance to study further. IF I get accepted to a us university, I would try getting a job there. well, it’s too early to think of anything. hence, my first target is to qualify for a university, I have always dreamt of getting into. rest can be decided later on.
So…you want to get a degree in engineering.
Where do you plan to work? Simply getting your degree in the U.S. does not guarantee you will be able to work here after graduation.
Howeve, there are plenty of foreign educated engineers working for American companies.
I’m don’t understand your point. You want that enhindering degree but you think it will be better to get it here? Why?
Because earning a degree here is "common". being an engineer cannot make u superior. companies want more qualifications as a b.tech is nothing but a "common degree". you won't believe but the apartment I live in, houses 8 families, 5 out of 8 families' children are b.tech. but its not special. u spend ur senior year of high to get into a uni but u fail to get into your dream uni still, u are ready to enroll to a place which has no placement rate..u spend 4 years working hard for the semester exams and in the end, u see that there is no company which can pay u a good amount of money.
yes I want to be an engineer not because everyone else is but, I want to pursue my career in aerospace. I decided the major when I was in the senior year of my junior high. I was well aware that our country has no scope for it. and I resolved to try for the us universities.
I think it will be better if I earn it from the us?
- Yes. because according to my research, most of the us uni offer quality education. I have talked to many alumina of some of the best uni in our country. They all agree that even though the college has a name, there’s nothing special about them…teachers aren’t good enough, poor infrastructure, etc.
- if I return to my country after completing my degree I would have many job opportunities as here companies are offering more jobs to the candidates who have earned their degree from abroad as here it is considered a matter of prestige .
If I decide to work in the states.
- like I mentioned before, there’s a long way to decide this and also, my goals aren’t limited to a bachelor’s degree. I would study further.
- I know it’s important to be qualified much, when you need a high paying job.
why can't I earn a master's and even doctoral degree here and apply for a glowing job?
- because our country has no scope for aerospace.
- 1 out of 10 colleges offers this major.
- even if I manage to get a job…I know it wouldn’t be a desired one as if I aim for becoming a researcher+professor at a later stage, I understand that the no. of students who opt for aerospace are minimal. This would surely impact my income.
I guess I have now cleared all our confusions!!
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Actually, I think you still have plenty of confusions.
I understand your reasons for wanting to come to college here.
So…look at the thread pinned above for schools that offer need based aid to international students. Keep in mind that the most generous ones accept less than 5% of international applicants. In the 95% of international applicants who are rejected for admission, the majority are well qualified for admission. Yes. You could be in the 5% who are accepted, but if not, YOU need to have a Plan B.
And even if you get accepted with fabulous need based aid, most of these schools will expect a student contribution which is several thousand dollars…and grows each year. Some of the schools will include a small stipend in their need based aid for international travel, but some do not. And you will have personal expenses as well…clothing, books, toletries, haircuts, and discretionary spending.
Your ability to work her while on a visa to study will be limited as well.
Agree with @thumper1. You need a backup plan. Why are you planning to study aerospace engineering if your country has no “scope” for it?
The aerospace major is typically studied by students who plan on using it in their home countries, as it is limited in jobs for international students because you won’t be able to get a security clearance in a US-based company.
US “aerospace” contracts, besides being a narrow limiting major, are typically funded with federal contractual monies. As a non-citizen, you wouldn’t qualify for a security clearance.
The companies have to employ US citizens because the funds are coming from our government. If you get admitted into a university in the US, the university isn’t obligated to find a job for you so, you shouldn’t plan on gaining permanent residency and working here. That is very difficult to do.
Since you’re choosing to study aerospace, you would have to rely on your country’s jobs in that area. That’s why I asked why you would study something that isn’t available to you neither in the US nor in your country.
When you say “complete fee waiver”…do you mean a total free ride? tuition, room, board, expenses, etc?
There aren’t any that will give that much to int’ls for merit awards.
You’re an eng’g major. It’s hard for an int’l to get a JOB here after graduation, particularly in eng’g. So what incentive would a college have to give an int’l a free ride merit award? What’s in it for the univ?
I don’t believe any UK universities offer free tuition to overseas students for undergraduate study. Unless you can find a scholarship sourced in your home country, you may be out of luck.
German and Norwegian universities are free, although you’d need to cover living costs. You’d have to do some research into courses, admission requirements, and language skills needed.