International Students... Help me...

lessonwitch2
Thu, 10 Dec 2015 22:32:28 +0000

Hello. I’m hoping to hear some international students comment here.

A friend of mine is looking to go to college in Texas. She’s an international student who is a junior and currently ranked 8th of 4438, is full IB Diploma, with 2380 on the SAT (1st time) and intends on taking the new one.

She’s a full IB diploma canidate and so far has 7’s on all her exams (3 sl (Psychology, Computer Science, Biology) / 3 hl(Chemistry, Physics, environmental science)). She’s taken most AP exam except for the languages and made a 4(Biology, Physics 1,2, C Mechanics, Chemistry, Chinese and Macroecon) or 5( English Lit, English Lang, US gov, US History, Compartive gov, European history, French language and culture german language and culture, Studio Art: Drawing and 2D) .

Shes involved in school, has 500+ hours her high school career, captain of math team, science team, hosa team, and track and vice president of student body, academic decathlon, and is a gymnast since she was 8. If she new I was writing this she’d likely list more. Handicapped with dyslexia but has a gpa of 4.0/4.0 uw and 6.0/6.0 w(Should drop this year) . She’s also half Pilipino and half Japanese from a high income but uneducated family. Lowest grade ever was a 97.

3 problems:

1. since she’s international she needs a school that provides a student visa. Does Texas A&M have that?

2. What is a student visa? (I don’t know and can’t understand what I’m reading online)

3. If she got accepted, would Texas A&M provide merit aid? Since she can’t quality for national merit finalist.