OP can probably contribute nothing except cobble together the plane ticket with help from relatives and friends. Average household income in Mongolia is under $2,000 PER YEAR so even if OP is middle class it’d only mean something like $6,000 yearly income. OP doesn’t have the luxury of having preferences wrt environment, university size, etc.
So only “meet full need” and, most likely, “need blind/meet full need” colleges would work (the super reach super rich universities from that small list also help with plane tickets and let students borrow warm clothes for the winter because they truly want the best from the entire world) and these are incredibly competitive.
@DB1118 : you’ll need to prepare for the SAT or the ACT and do as well as the top 1-2% American test takers. Are you ready to do what that takes?
A business major is NOT necessary to work for a business; that’s why elite colleges don’t offer it. What is your strongest subject in school, where you also have related extracurriculars? What A-Levels and are you expecting A or A*? Did you take iGCSEs or OLevels and if so, which ones/what results?
Suggestions:
- Berea: they may admit ONE student from Mongolia. All their students have incomes under 65K (meaning: working class in the US). Excellent academics and outcomes.
- once you have a SAT score, automatic full rides for scores available to internationals would be safeties (they’re very rare) and competitive full rides for scores would come into play (such as McDermott at UT Dallas). Once you know that score we’ll be able to help. Some scholarships aren’t open to internationals though.
- strong universities that welcome internationals, although they are slightly less well-known and may only take one or two students in your financial situation - Grinnell, Denison, Dickinson, St Olaf, Kalamazoo… Odds there are very low because they don’t have the same budget as the “need blind/meet full need for internationals” colleges.