I was just thinking that Arizona State was a good idea.
@happymomof1 I applied for aid only after the acceptance came not before so that they don’t hamper my chances and yes I have only applied to 6 colleges where my chances are good and I could get aid
Thank you @Loe for the assurance
@MYOS1634 I had online chat with Texas anm yesterday and asked them if they would care about my GED transcripts in my situation. They said they can take either GED or my high school transcripts and that GED score matters. Do you think it’s okay for me to be more hopeful?
@SMMom1 What about the University of Arizona??
If TAMU will take the GED, then it’s excellent news! Send these results 
University of Arizona and ASU Barrett have good honors colleges and aren’t too demanding wrt GPA. Same thing for Ole Miss and a few others.
All in all DO NOT convert your Korean GPA to a US GPA. Instead, have your GC indicate what the mark indicates: top 20% nationally, top 10%, top 5%, top 1% nationally?
What about campuses for Unversity of Wisconsin except for Madison?
Have you talked to the education usa people in your country for advice?
https://educationusa.state.gov/
Yeah but the answers vary a lot. Some counselors say that GED score would help me but some counselors told me to apply for other branch campuses for Penn state and U of Wisconsin. I applied to Penn State Harrisburg and U of Wisconsin’s other 3 campuses.
I’m really nervous 
Which UW schools did you apply to?
Btw you can’t apply for aid only after your application, unless the process is need blind for internationals. If you do it’ll be denied. You can apply for merit aid that’s department based but it’s usually a $500-1,000 scholarship, rarely a big half or full tuition one, so it depends on how much you need.
Why are you so anxious to come to the US?
Apparently, not that anxious since you are not willing to try a CC.
I don’t know what your parents have heard about US community colleges but they are not “trade” schools.
In California, students use them to transfer to UC’s and CSUs.
We will take your full fee dollars at our California CCs. Your international student chances are better for a UC if you start at a CC.
Or maybe you can at some schools. We applied for aid at NYU (need blind, doesn’t meet full need) after acceptance and it was granted (albeit not very much). This was ten years ago and I don’t remember why we didn’t apply for aid at submission.
@vonlost: are you international? (Rules are different for internationals)
The question should be: Does every school have this rule for internationals?
If they’re not need blind, yes, because financial aid is factored into the decision. The college’s budget for international is more or less fixed, so they have to allocate it to the applicants. They choose based on what the financial need is. They may have “emergency” funds (such as for Syrian students after the War started, or students whose city suffered a devastating earthquake) but other than that, whatever the student has freshman year is what they have for 4 years. If you apply for aid later on, it means that either you relinquish your admission (because your admission criteria included your financial need and if you lied about it it no longer holds) or accept that you will not get that aid. Basically there’s no upside to pretending you have money to pay for college when you don’t.
why bother going to school in the US especially if you cant get into a decent one. Assuming you can secure a place locally you should stay home if you dont get into any decent college…
The lesson here is: OP didn’t apply to the right kinds of schools. For an international student needing financial aid there are NO safeties. Such students need to target less popular public campuses in less popular parts of the country, as well as private schools. Applying to some of the most popular, and selective public universities such as the UCs, UW-Seattle and Boulder, was a poor strategy. As someone upthread wrote, just indicating OP needs financial aid can put her/him out of the running.
I don’t need any financial aid, and I haven’t asked for any scholarship or anything like that.
I only applied to colleges that accept GED, and I know that I applied to all the competitive schools. My case is not common since most international students who applied to colleges in the US is mostly from international school. I called most of the colleges I applied to, and they told me I should send them both my high school transcripts and GED so that they can understand my situation. I know that there’s a big possibility that I will get rejected to most of the colleges I applied to, but if that happens, I’m planning to transfer.
Do you have choices outside the us (in Canada or Europe, in your country…)?
Since you don’t need financial aid you could also wait for the list of colleges that miscalculated yield and have a few more spots left than they anticipated. It’s usually published around May 5. Then you can transfer from there.
I also know that Hendrix is still accepting applications. It’s a very good college but it’s in Arkansas which is a state that, rightly or wrongly, doesn’t attract many students. Their Odyssey program in particular is excellent.
St Michael’s in Vermont is also still accepting applications and has a good reputation academically while attracting a different type of students, it’s less ‘nerdy’ than Hendrix (they have passes for a ski resort and an adventure camp, which attract students who like the outdoors.)