You may not WANT to move to Yemen for your education, but you may not have a choice. I don’t see any way for you to get the aid you need to study in any other country.
The idea that other countries are “rich” or “generous with FA” is not really true in most cases, particularly for int’ls without super high amazing stats.
@mom2collegekids i have no plan to go to Yemen, The education there is better than Saudi Arabia but the corruption is very high, I went to Yemen and enrolled in a University majoring in English Language, I failed in the four core subjects ( Speaking, Listening, Writing, Reading ) and ironically i passed in French !
The professors somehow knew that i live in Saudi Arabia, I would pass very easily if i give money to them.
I was 100% sure that i will pass in the core units but after i saw the result i knew it’s not a place to study but rather i place for Pay to Pass if you come from rich countries.
I wonder if Community colleges are good for international students ? Some of them have very low tuition and accommodation fees, And most of them have Financial Aid for International students !
Any Advice ?
I’m sorry that you seem pretty stuck. One idea while you are looking might be the online Global Freshman Academy sponsored by Arizona State University:
https://www.edx.org/gfa
If you did well in those classes, maybe it would be something to show other U.S. Universities down the line. It’s not free, but pretty cheap compared to real tuition and living expenses.
Community colleges don’t have financial aid for international students and most don’t have housing. However if you don’t go through Igcse 's they’re the only way you can study at a university. Igcse 's would be much less expensive though.
When I mentioned your uncle, I didn’t mean as a petition for you to immigrate. Students aren’t immigrants. They go to learn, not work and stay. In fact I’d you say you want to live and work in the us your visa will automatically be denied. So, your uncle’s help wouldn’t be with an immigration petition. It’d be help with logistics : would your uncle provide you with free housing and food while you study? Get you a car? It still means community college would cost you about $12,000…
Yeah, no one in their right mind would study in Yemen while it’s being bombed to ruins even if they can ‘pay to pass’ (note to readers: in many countries, including Yemen, teachers aren’t paid a living wage, their way of living depends on students paying them for grades.)
@cc30303 Thanks for the link, I couldn’t find the fee info, Any idea on how much it costs each year?
@MYOS1634 I thought US college will accept me since many colleges in New Zealand and Australia accepted my high school certificate!
Honestly the only countries that i wish to live in are #1 New Zealand #2 Australia. but only after i complete a diploma or associate degree.
I’m looking for a solution every day on the internet, I think i should go for majors that qualify me for practical jobs such as Agriculture, Environmental engineering, etc.
autocorrect will be the death of me… “In fact, IF you say”…
I wouldn’t take the classes on Global Freshman Academy, because if you take the credits, you’ll lose your “freshman status”, ie., never enrolled in a post-high school program. (“pay to pass” yemeni English classes don’t count, fortunately for you). This is important because only freshmen are eligible for scholarships, basically. GFA costs $49 per course, apparently (?)
HOWEVER this is a great idea: take remedial courses in everything, through EdX and Coursera. It’s free, you learn on your own time, and you can get certificates that don’t count against freshman status but show you’ve reached such and such level. The certificates are very cheap and you can get them for the specific science classes you’re missing. You have to take pre algebra, algebra1&2, geometry, trigonometry, precalculus, plus physics, chemistry, and biology - at a minimum.
Australia is more complicated than the US:
on the one hand, it’s very open for immigrants and wants people with agricultural/engineering skills. If you get a degree there, there’s no visa hassle like in the US (mostly because in the US offshoring companies “take” the visas meant for students who graduate from US colleges. This is infuriating because legit international students who qualify for H1B’s individually don’t get them, and American workers are laid off in batches while batches of foreign workers based in other countries get these visas which weren’t meant for them. There’s an article in the NYT today about this, which forgets to specify that H1Bs are NOT meant for this purpose :(. The immediate reaction to the article is “lt’s cut those H1Bs”, when the reaction should be “let’s stop the loopholes that allow the abuse of H1Bs”. The result is that, if you have a skill that’s in-demand and have a job offer, you can’t take it because offshoring companies have taken/bought thousands of visas for people who weren’t US-educated, aren’t in the US, don’t have a job yet… and so everyone loses. Because of these offshoring companies, getting a visa has become a nightmare for qualified international students who graduated from a US college whereas in Australia, things are very streamlined: get a degree in our country, get a job offer, get the visa, a couple years later you’re a permanent resident. Same thing in Canada.)
BUT getting a degree will be more complicated since they have no scholarships and are incredibly expensive for internationals. So, if you get there and manage to get a degree
Another issue is that no, they won’t admit you based on you credentials - you’re not qualified for technical courses without stem pre-requisites. SO, they’ll recognize your high school diploma and tell you you’re allowed to study history, or English Literature. For agriculture or engineering, you need the pre-requisite stem courses. If Australia really is your goal, then Global Freshman Academy could indeed qualify you for first year admission - email Institutes of Technology and Technology colleges, include the GFA link, and ask whether completing a program through that would indeed “count”.
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wonder if Community colleges are good for international students ? Some of them have very low tuition and accommodation fees, And most of them have Financial Aid for International students !
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Where are these CCs??
I don’t know of any CCs that give FA to int’ls in the US. If there are some, it would be very few that would have “low fees” and give FA to int’ls. The low fees JUMP for those who aren’t instate residents.
Plus you’d have housing costs.
I doubt you could attend a CC for less than $20k per year inclusive.
^that’s hy it’d be useful to now if the uncle would offer hosuing/food/car, free of charge. It’d make the costs of a CC much more affordable, and it’d allow OP to prove what he can doa academically.
True, but where would he get the $12k+ tuition plus books AND insurance for an OOS CC?
“I went to Yemen and enrolled in a University majoring in English Language, I failed in the four core subjects ( Speaking, Listening, Writing, Reading ) and ironically i passed in French !”
Most colleges and universities in the US will consider you to be a transfer applicant because you have studied at a university in another country. This will make financial aid even harder to come by. When you apply for admission here, you will be required to provide an official transcript from that university in Yemen.
^they wouldn’t, unless it was strictly monitored/approved… Not many are official in Yemen. It may have called itself “university” but been a private outfit, a few rooms where teachers used “pay to pass” to make a living, and there may or may not be transcripts.
Interesting to know @MYOS1634 but that means the OP needs to investigate the status of that Yemeni university before going much further in this process. I hope the folks at AMIDEAST can help the OP sort things out.
^ I was going to suggest Amideast but (thinking of Yemen) wondered if they hadn’t left the country… But they’d definitely help in Saudi Arabia.
I’m blown up by the helpful and kind posts ! What a wonderful caring people…
I’ll check with Amideast and post the updates so that others like my situation find a solution.
Thank you VERY much everyone.