You probably need to make other plans for next year. A 1100 is far too low for Yale or Princeton. Literally 0% of the students who entered Princeton last year had lower than a 1100. And remember that the lowest scoring students they admit are often athletes or other “hooked” students.
but I got a Princeton interview two months ago. I heard that it can be a good sign, is it true?
I believe many international students take out loans in their HOME countries to pay for their US educations. Maybe check into that.
Sorry to disappoint but the only thing it means is that there are Princeton Alumni in the area who are willing to do interviews.
It is simply not affordable. PERIOD.
You will not get sufficient need based aid and you are not likely to get merit aid with that score either. You should focus on the school in your home country that is affordable. You may plan for graduate study in US though.
When did you graduate from high school?? And what have you been doing since?
To be honest, I don’t believe you have a chance at acceptance at Yale or Princeton…at all. They reject 95% of applicants…and most of them are very well qualified to apply.
If NYU and Loyola Marymount accept you, it is HIGHLY unlikely they will give you sufficient aid to attend.
Do not take loans for 200k+.
“Do not take loans for 200k+.”
For an international student going to school in the US, they have to assume that after graduation they will need to return to their home country. Unlike some other countries, the US does not provide work visas for foreign students who graduate from university – instead it is assumed that students will go home pretty much immediately after graduation.
As such, if you are from a country where $2,500 per year is the typical cost of attendance for university, then I would say: Do not take loans for more than $10k total over 4 years, and do not take loans at all if you can possibly avoid them. And, @lookingforward is correct that $200k in loans, while probably impossible and catastrophic for most of us, might be necessary to attend university in the US.
can you get into Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Peru? i just think that’s your best bet. do as well as you can and see if you can go from there to grad school in the US.
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I found that student loans are a possibility but as I am an international student,I can not access them without an American cosigner and I don't have one.
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Just so you understand, even American students could not borrow the amounts that you’re talking about without an American cosigner.
By themselves, American students can only borrow
5500 freshman
6500 soph
7500 jr
7500 sr
There’s a reason for this…debt above those amounts is too much for an undergrad.
Thanks for your advices. I was trying to get more information about financial aid for international students and one friend told me about “Global Student Loan Corporation”. I was trying to contact them but they never answered my inquiry. Do you know something about that corporation and how can I contact them?
After everything that all of the posters above have told you, you still believe that you will get a loan???
Then what?
well, in their webpage they say that they’re able to finance all your educational costs even if you’re a international students but they don’t mention what do you need to apply.
Besides, I got quite far, after all that I had to go through, it would not be fair for all the people who supported me that I would give up without even trying my last help option.
Well, obviously they will not be financing all of your costs, or you would not have submitted this thread.
One thing that students don’t understand about financial aid is that the schools fund what THEY think you need. Not what you actually need. There is no bottomless pit of money. Where would it come from?
Maybe those people, that have supported you, can come up with the money to loan to you.
Please…do NOT take out loans to almost fully fund college here. That is too much debt. Period.
I don’t know anything about the financing / loan company that you mentioned. However, I would be VERY cautious.
“Please…do NOT take out loans to almost fully fund college here. That is too much debt. Period.”
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it would not be fair for all the people who supported me that I would give up without even trying my last help option.
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Fair???
You do not owe these people. You do not pay these people back for their support by ruining your life with massive debt.
Believe me…these people will go about their merry ways whether you go to school in your home country or bury yourself in debt. They do what’s best for their lives. You do what’s best for your life…and that’s not taking on big debt.
Your family can afford to pay for you to attend college in Peru without borrowing? If so, that’s what you should do.
I agree that your family contributing $2,500 out if a $7,300 yearly income is very generous. It is a huge sacrifice from your family and relatives m, which is added to the cost of the tests and travelling there.
You want to honor those sacrifices by spending the money wisely.
(Note to posters: $2,500 is a huge amount in Peru. It is not the cost of a year of college there. The best private university’s tuition is about $300 a year, which is already considered huge. The standard of living is quite unlike that in richer Latin American countries, although it is more stable: an atrocious civil war just ended so the country is trying to recover but is much better compared to where it was ten years ago.)
Your best hopes rest upon Yale and Princeton.
However unless you’re a nationally published author, the Math Olympiad winner, a concertist with records or qualified for the Olympics, your odds there are zero with a 1100.
You didn’t get enough guidance but now you’ve found college confidential and the community here will help you find universities where you can apply, how to shape your application, etc.
The most important thing is for you to improve your test scores. So, you need to find an internet connection and work using Khan academy.
Can you work during a Gap year, or volunteer somewhere, or both?
SJU is a small college NOT worth debt. You must simply email them and say they aren’t affordable, so, sorry, you have to turn them down.
If you don’t get into Yale or Princeton (and right now those are the odds), you can still apply to cheaper colleges than SJU. Even now.
Colleges still accept applications although none that will cover your need. However by applying there you will get admissions and will be able to show many acceptances to save face. You’ll explain your supporters and relatives that the acceptances indicate you have good odds next year when you apply to universities that cover financial need for internationals. Then you can prepare a real list of colleges you haven’t applied to yet and build your application carefully.
BTW, are you a boy or a girl?
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You’ll explain your supporters and relatives that the acceptances indicate you have good odds next year when you apply to universities that cover financial need for internationals.
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This student needs to stop wasting time and money applying to US schools. S/he does not have the stats to get into a school that meets need for int’ls.
He needs to explain to his supporters that unless they can come up with the $200k+ to send him, he can’t go to a US Univ for undergrad. Now, if he does very well as an undergrad in Peru, maybe he’ll get into a funded PhD program in the US later on.
There’s no shame in simply saying that very few US universities provide a lot of aid to int’ls. It’s just a fact. Once you have your likely rejections from Princeton and Yale, you simply tell them that those were the schools that provide aid…and the others don’t. Period. End of story.