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International students graduated from high school in US and accepted in US Colleges.
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These in-person connections can be especially valuable at the great colleges listed by @momrath above.
I always assist to all school activities, I’ll be pending from colleges fairs.
I think this is very helpful, I have some experience, because her older brother is in college, fortunately with a great scholarship from his in state commute college, he is happy there, he want to live at home.
He didn’t let me help him with his applications, we don’t knew the options that him had, and his public school counselors didn’t do it a good job, they don’t talked about this option to the only public College in their same city. I knew about scholarships options attending college open houses.(It’s your excellent point).
I’d dont knew about CC at his application’s time.
Today I’m trying to do it better for her, because she is so smart like her brother, but She like work more hard, she make a lot of sports, and she wants all college experience.
She is new in her school and She is doing great this year, she is like fifth in her course of 325 and her school in tenth place in state.
Thanks to the help than I received here in CC in the las 2 years, I know she’ll have more options.
Be this the time to thank you all for your help and share your experiences.
This is an amazing journey that I am enjoying a lot.
With my older son was difficult, because he don’t let me help with her college selection.
He applied to 9 College, was accepted in 8, but just one was affordable for us.
A great college give him their most high scholarships and insisted a lot to have him as student, but money was a big concern.
Thank goodness he receipt a great scholarship from state College (his safety), we were so stressed and receipt the scholarship notice in mailbox on may 1st.(Decition Day).
I know that probably is a little early, but I’m doing my homework to have more options to my daughter.
You can’t be successful in college if you are thinking how can pay the next year.
I don’t know if your son can have a gap year
waiting to have his green card?
What does your son want to study?
OK, engineering. Have you looked in to Capitol Technology U? They have scholarships too.
And yes, a family like yours pretty much needs to look for schools that offer large merit scholarships for high test scores (Bama, UA-Huntsville, others).
What stats does he have?
Is he close enough to commute to Pitt?
One would be Bachelor's degrees entirely taught in English. There aren't very many of them, but here's one: https://studium.hs-ulm.de/de/Seiten/Studiengang_CTS.aspx?SearchCategory=Bachelor;
Another set of undergraduate degree programs is aimed specifically at international students who may be intending immigrants. The degree program starts out in English and then transitions to German in higher semesters, with concurrent German language courses required along the way. Here's an example: https://www.htw-dresden.de/de/fakultaet-elektrotechnik/studium/electrical-engineeringelektrotechnik.html
Here's a search engine for "international" degree programs taught at German universities that you may find useful: https://www.daad.de/deutschland/studienangebote/international-programmes/en/
The last cheap option would be a "Studienkolleg." These are year-long transition programs offered to international applicants who don't quite meet the requirements for admission to a public university, particularly students who haven't completed calculus or lack German language proficiency. The curriculum for an intending engineering student would include German as a foreign language, calculus, and a review of high school physics, chemistry and computer science (with an emphasis on subject-specific language skills). Since all courses are taught in German, admission to a Studienkolleg does require low-intermediate (B1) German skills, but that's significantly less than what's required for regular admission to a university (B2 or C1).
Your son has to realize he has to play the hand he is dealt but that he could achieve his goals. BTW, UA-Huntsville has ties to aerospace. I thought their aerospace engineering is strong? However, where would he look to work after graduation? Not being a US citizen, it would be tough for him in the US.
Take a look at the community colleges in your state. They should have formal transfer agreements with the universities. Some of them might even have dorms so he wouldn't necessarily need to live at home. Check them for merit scholarships. Happykid's community college has a number of different scholarships. She earned one that covered her tuition and fees there for four semesters. Scholarships will probably have an application due date in the spring, but admissions for the fall semester probably do not cut off until the day classes start. Your son has time to think through community college as an option.
This reminds me. An international classmate from college was trying to get a PhD in aerospace engineering. Most programs told her that they wouldn't be able to fund her because funding came from sources that required US citizenship. She did end up finding a program that she could attend, but even there, she faced restrictions on which projects she could touch as a non-citizen. ITAR and all.
If Germany, uni there may make sense.
If Canada, ditto.
Accepted to University of Miami, Florida ( Aerospace engineering) with presidential scholarship ($30K per year for 4 years).
Rejected by Northwestern. Waiting for remaining 9 decisions in the next week!
1. NJIT Honors college (Full ride) 2. Rutgers Honors college (10K merit per year) 3. Northeastern (20K merit per year) 4. Georgia Tech (next year fall)
Wait listed: Brandeis, Rejected: 1. USC 2. U Chicago
Waiting for 5 more decisions in the next week.
What's the best option to change to student visa ? go to India and get stamped or apply online ? Any chances to get rejected if apply in India ?