Help to build a reasonable college list

DadTwoGirls
Fri, 01 Mar 2019 17:21:54 +0000

@sunquebec If your daughter does not have US citizenship or a permanent resident visa (aka “green card”), then she is an international student. Some state schools give in-state status to international students on other types of visas who live in the state, some do not. I do not know what the situation is in Virginia. A tiny handful of very selective schools (such as Harvard) provide full need based aid to international students. However, other US schools are very likely to charge you as an international student, and most give very limited aid, if any, to international students. This is likely to seriously impact the affordability of most of the schools on your otherwise very good list.

Any Canadian citizen, whether living in Canada or not, pays Canadian tuition at universities in Canada. The exception are are few schools such as McGill which are even better, and would most likely allow you to pay very low Quebec tuition. McGill would be a great university for your daughter, and given her great stats would be either a safety or very close to a safety. You might also want to consider Concordia and Bishop’s, which are the other two English language universities in Quebec. If you daughter is fluently bilingual (I am guessing based only on your college confidential login name) then of course there are multiple very good French language universities in Quebec which are also worth considering. U.Ottawa offers lower tuition for bilingual students. I don’t know about need based aid for Canadians attending Canadian universities.

Of course waiting to get a green card is another option. As you pointed out, this might be a couple of years depending upon your situation.