Thank you so much! I’ll send an email as soon as I can. I really appreciate the help ?
Thank you so much! I’ll check them out as soon as I can. I’m actually feature editor of our school’s newsletter and my teachers say I’m a pretty good writer.
I’ll check it out ^.^ thank you so much for the help!
Being an American citizen helps you a lot because you’re eligible to all the scholarships a college offers plus federal aid.
That means a Pell Grant for $6,300 and a loan for $5,500 which you’ll get for every school. Unfortunately that doesn’t even cover tuition let alone room&board. So you need to look at meet need colleges.
(I listed a few names)
Do you have any family or friends in the US who you could live with while getting started here? If they are in a state where you can establish in-state residency on your own, even better. That would cover your worst cases scenario - live with Auntie, work part-time, study at a community college, and eventually transfer to a public U in that state.
I have but they refuse to help me and my mom is still trying to get in touch with some of her friends in the States to see if they can help me. So far, I’ve been looking into work colleges like @MYOS1634 had said earlier.
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Hi! I checked out Berea like you suggested and a couple other work colleges like Warren Wilson. If you don’t mind, do you have a general idea of how much income I’d be getting…is it really just for room and board? What about the food? I’ve seen there’s on school cafeterias but does that mean the food there would be free for the students? Sorry if this is common knowledge. Here in the Philippines I’m used to having to pay for every single thing including our electric fans, chalk, cleaning supplies, etc. Thanks again so much for the help. It’s greatly appreciated.
Hello! your email seems to have been deleted by the site…Could you maybe send me an email if you could? Sorry for the bother. My email is XXX. Really sorry for the bother but thanks so much for the help!
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@goldenkookie, Please don’t post your email on the internet. Use private messaging.
Room and board means housing and food. You can eat everything you want for three meals a day (everything… within reason: freshmen sometimes overdo it and gain a lot of weight. But if you want to eat a plateful of everything no one will stop you.)
At work colleges, your work covers your rent, health insurance, and food. At Berea, you usually have a little left over for personal needs.
At meet need colleges like Amherst, Williams, Harvard, Yale, Princeton… you’ll get work study. You’ll need to find a job on campus. Your wages will be paid twice a month and must cover your personal expenses (housing and food will automatically be covered from your financial aid package).
When you arrive, you will need to have a little money on hand to buy sheets, a mattress topper, and towels, as well as notebooks (you can bring the pens etc). Then you’ll need to save to buy yourself a coat (appropriate for the local weather so can’t be bought in the Philippines).
Your roommate will likely bring a fan and a fridge for your room.
Classrooms and dining hall will be air conditioned. Professors are supplied with chalk, markers, etc. Note that buying stuff for professors is a big no no (except perhaps as an end of the year present).
You will have access to computers. At generous universities (like Amherst or Yale) there’s usually an amount set side to help you buy a laptop computer. You’ll need to use the college’s printer. You usually get a certain number of pages for free (normally sufficient to cover your classes for a semester) then need to pay a small amount for the next 100 pages.
Make sure you read the requirements for establishing instate residency for tuition purposes VERY carefully. Many states will not permit you to establish instate residency for tuition status while you are enrolled as a student. Many states will consider the residency of your parents while you are an undergrad…period.
In some states, they are more lenient with community colleges for instate residency for tuition purposes than they are for their four year universities. You could find that you can easily establish instate residency for that community college, but NOT for the four year to complete your degree. @“aunt bea” can explain CA, for example.
In some states, you won’t even be eligible for instate tuition status at a community college unless your parents move here too…and many have the requirement that your family reside there for at least 12 months BEFORE you enroll in college.
And then there are some where you would more easily be able to establish instate tuition residency status. @twoinanddone can you elaborate because I think you know some of those places.
Please. Please read the details in each state on establishing residency for instate tuition purposes. It’s not as easy as folks want it to sound in most places.
Part of you email will be ****d out even in a PM.
Agree with @thumper1 that it would be extremely difficult to establish residency in California for the California public colleges and universities (Private universities are another matter, but you still need cash for incidentals.) You would need to pay full fees at any public university because you would be coming to California for educational purposes, so, fees at the public colleges for nonresidents would be full fees without financial aid.
Working full time, for a year, to establish residency, would be extremely difficult because of the expense of just living day to day. Our public transportation in most of California is horrible. Finding a job that could sustain you, would be really difficult. You are not allowed any financial help, nor bartering system because that is not considered self-sustaining. You would need to maintain receipts that match your income to your California tax return. Many students try this, because they are so desperate to come to California, but their expenses do not match their tax returns, so they end up paying full fees anyway. California is now having a problem with homeless students because a number of students can’t afford rent and live in their cars or under bridges.
Besides the bed sheets and coats, you need cash for toiletries that you have to go through every month. Your roommate may or may not let you borrow their shampoo, laundry soap, or toothpaste every once in a while but that will only go so far, especially now in this Covid-aware environment. You also need cash for transportation if you plan on going outside of the University area. California is one of the most expensive states in which to go to school. Everything costs money, and it seems to be double in California.
@goldenkookie, I don’t know how I can give you my email. It seems we’re not allowed to post it, but I also have no access to PMs as yet. Maybe the moderators or senior members can give suggestions on how I can pass you the details of the college counselor?
@lfrs11 - You need to have a certain number of posts before you can send a PM. So go read some other threads, and see if there are other conversations you’d like to join or questions you’d like to ask. Use the Forum Index to find forums to investigate. Here is a direct link for you: https://talk.categories.collegeconfidential.com/
Alright, sorry about that…how do I do private messages on here? Sorry again
@goldenkookie, seems we need to have at least 15 posts before we can send a PM. I presently have 7 posts only, but you already have 12 posts so you only need to post 3 more times then you can send me a PM. I’ll try to post more, but you have a better chance of reaching the milestone before I do. ?
@happymomof1, thank you for your advise as well as for providing a link to the forums. I’ve been content just reading posts, but I will definitely try to engage more actively to get to that magic number.
There are 2 state I know that allow a non-resident to become a resident while they are a full time student.
Utah allows a full time student who has continuously maintained a Utah residency for 12 month (lived in UT, registered to vote, obtained a UT driver’s license, etc) to petition for in-state status. The student cannot spend more than 14 day outside of the state during that first year.
New Mexico allows full time students who join the New Mexico National Guard and have completed 12 months of honorable service to petition for in-state resident status.
However neither UT nor NM public colleges are “meet full need” colleges.
Missouri also has a path to residency similar to Utah’s. I think Illinois also has the national guard rule.
Several schools give instate residence rates to high stat/scholarship students.