If doing A levels you would normally get a conditional offer based on predicted results, then finalized after those results are out.
I know. So are my 12th grade results good enough? Theyâre the ones for Q1.
For MIT and Stanford? Combined with your SAT itâs a very long shot. Youâre talking about schools with maybe a 1-2% admission rate for internationals. The others on your US list are publics that I donât think will meet need for out of state/internationals.
Additionally, OP has to demonstrate he already has the funds to pay for college in order to get his student visa.
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There are need blind schools - but not what you chose.
But do your parents have need - and if they do, how much?
You donât get to say - my parents wonât contribute. Therefore, you need to pay.
Your parents will have to submit a lot of financial data.
MIT is $89K. What if they say your parents need to pay $20K or $40K, etc.
You canât do it.
So if you have full need, really Stanford and MIT are your only options.
But which schools in the US are need blind for international and meet 100% need.
So if you find out you qualify for a full ride scholarsihp, the schools are:
- Amherst - youâd have to do physics
- Bowdoin - youâd have to do physics
- Brown - youâd have to do MechE
- Dartmouth - do a Bachelor of Engineering, maybe 5 years.
- Georgetown - have to do physics
- Harvard - Meche as a sub
- MIT
- Notre Dame
- Princeton
- Yale - Meche as a sub
- W&L - apply by today for the Johnson full ride - has engineering, not accredited. App deadline for full ride is today. Yes, International is eligible.
Now if you are a full pay or above letâs say $25K, and your family will give you $25K, U of Alabama may work - cost is $56,166 but youâd get $30,500 off for your grades (if they count them as a 3.5) and your SAT.
btw - the list above, based on your SAT, would be tough - but again, just because your parents wonât pay doesnât mean they canât pay some - and that will be your issue.
You cannot get a job to make the delta.
Best of luck.
Just reiterating that a student on a visa, can only work on-campus jobs.
On-campus jobs pay minimum wage. The on-campus jobs provide funding for daily living needs. They donât provide for full tuition expenses. Daily living includes money for your laundry soap, a coffee, off campus meals, train tickets. As an international student, you pay full fees at a lot of these schools.
The definition was explained above for âneed blindâ schools. In universities across the United States they typically have an admissions department and a financial aid department.
If a school is, NEED BLIND, that means that the admissions department receives your academic information only. They donât know whether or not you will âneedâ funding. They are blind to that fact. Thatâs why your application will be considered need blind.
Some of our universities are $90,000 per year. There is no way you would be able to make that in an on-campus job.
Applying to need blind universities, where funding for you might be available, means that you shoot your shot. But you had better be the top student from your country, in every academic and sport or art.
Full scholarships are very rare. The only schools that have them are the top schools. But they reject everyone who isnât a top athletic prospect, top artist or musician, and top world leader.
Additionally, once you receive your degree from a university in the US, youâre expected to return home after you graduate. Your student visa allows you to be a student until you graduate. There are no guarantees for jobs or to remain in the United States.
A lot of jobs in aerospace engineering and engineering as a whole, require US citizenship to meet security clearances. My father-in-law worked at NASA during the development of the space shuttles. American security clearances were difficult to get but were required.
Now that my husband and daughter have had experience with those types of contracts, their employers require US citizenship. The websites of those contractors, for NASA-types of work, indicate that they arenât sponsoring non-citizens.
There are international companies that may have space âcoordinationâ and have their own employees participate in NASA-coordinated businesses. If Canada or England participate in those types of contracts, then you can look for employment within those companies.
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Seems like universities in Alberta and the UK would be much more likely to be within financial reach, assuming you have Canada and UK citizenship.
UK unis may not be in financial reach as there is a domicile requirement to pay domestic rates. There are a number of good universities in Canada other than Toronto that I donât understand why they are not on the list. I donât know specifics of what each offers, but I know that Waterloo is considered very good for engineering (my neighborâs high-achieving son chose to go there rather than US colleges - they are dual citizens and apart from the fact that it is an excellent university, their cost of attendance is apparently well below what a US college would be).
Any financial aid will take into account your parentsâ finances. You will get no aid based solely on âmy parents donât wanna pay.â
A. You have to get a student visa first, and you need proof you have the money to pay for university
B. You wonât find a job paying anywhere close to cost of attendance
With a 2% international acceptance rate, MIT and Stanford are pretty close to zero chance with a 1460. And the publics will likely be unaffordable. UToronto is likely.
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How about my explanation for my SAT score?
Excuses
nope
anyway - you have a money issue.
How much can your parents pay?
Not how much do they want to pay but how much can they pay?
They might say $50K but MIT might say $90K.
But as of now, theyâre not paying so as long as they keep that stance, unless you are extremely poor, you cannot come.
But I would apply to W&L - and I would do it by today (the deadline) for the full ride Johnson Scholarship.
So, they wonât accept my explanation of circumstances?
Iâm not them.
But you have a 1460. MIT - has 800 in math as the 50%.
My guess is they are not concerned with excuses. They are concerned with people who perform.
Yes, you had an accommodation you didnât get to use - but thatâs life. You deal with the cards dealt.
You continue to avoid the money issue.
Apply and see. Donât make an excuse - let your score be. But if you get in, how will you pay?
If you canât, why waste your time applying?
Colleges generally donât like what may be perceived as excuses; when they âworkâ it is usually along the lines of âthis was the issue, but this is how I addressed it and it is fixed now/these circumstances no longer applyâ. You only have the first part of that. You said your accommodation paperwork arrived late - when did you write the SAT? Is there a reason you couldnât schedule and write another once you had the paperwork? Your score is also pretty lopsided - a very good math score but (for these colleges) a low English score. There are, by the way, plenty of universities in the US who would be fine with a 1460 score. Have you considered looking at any of those to see if any offer funding? Youâd be better off at a need aware school that might offer funding than at a need-blind one that doesnât.
The paperwork was delivered past the next examâs registration date.
This was the accommodation that I used for GCSEs which are determined in university admission in the UK.
I also couldnât register as it would be rather expensive. $222 with regards to 4 children.
That wonât be considered.
The fact remains that both MIT and Stanford require scores and your score unfortunately is well below the 25th percentile for both. If you are unable to redo SAt before applications are due, take your shot if you want, but I strongly suggest you look at affordable options a little lower down the ârankingsâ table or focus on more Canadian universities (which in any case are likely to be more affordable).
Which again begs the question of why you are looking at the most expensive university system in the world. (I donât know what 4 children means but the point stands.) I know itâs not that reliable for internationals, but have you run the NPC on any of the US colleges to get an estimate of what your family might be expected to pay?
Even if it was in the additional information section?