<p>I don’t know what happens to the child of non citizens parents who have SSN. I think you should email the admission directly.</p>
<p>âbove, forgot to type “In Texas”…
Anyway, I did think F1/F2 was an exception, but you never know…
If your parents are on an F1 visa, where do they study?
There may be a “discount” there.</p>
<p>F1 students can only work on campus, and they get SSN with their schools’ helps.</p>
<p>This is just my opinion, but there are many F1 parents in the USA who study in private university/Community college, and have children who are mostly F2 students. There would be too many F2 students who would apply for OOS tuition exemption if their parents having SSN would allow their children to be eligible for exemption. Sorry for lengthy sentences…</p>
<p>What about Soka University?</p>
<p><a href=“http://www.soka.edu/admission_aid/Undergraduate-Admission/default.aspx”>http://www.soka.edu/admission_aid/Undergraduate-Admission/default.aspx</a></p>
<p>They have a performing arts program and they have students from 40 nations. Did not spend time on Adm. and Fin Aid. Check it out.</p>
<p>Just let you know, with your stats, there is no school will provide you a FREE RIDE, even with CC, they require tuition payments as well. Even if you are lucky enough to get in a 4 year college with full tuition scholarship, you still need around $20K/year for food, lodging, insurance and traveling.</p>
<p>To answer the question about SSNs: no, your parents (or you) having a SSN won’t help you get in-state status. SSNs are taxpayer identification numbers. Anyone who has ever legally earned money in the US has one. Having a SSN says nothing about anything else, including
- whether you are legally in the country right now
- whether you are currently authorized to work
- whether you are a bona-fide resident of any particular state</p>
<p>The CA residency classification rules are spelled out clearly on several college websites, and you can also read the actual legal text if you want. Take-away points for you:</p>
<ol>
<li>Temporary non-immigrant visa holders are always out-of-state no matter what.</li>
<li>If your visa status changes to dual-intent or immigrant, you can apply for reclassification if you meet all of the regular residency requirements.</li>
</ol>
<p>Yes, it what i expected, i have to pay tuition as an international student… thanks guys, im going to look up more colleges, i never believe i was going to get a full tuition, so im still considering community college. Do you think community college would be bad?</p>
<p>No, unless you can get your SAT score CR+M to 1400, or your ACT score to 32 before December 1st, odds are very VERY low you’ll get a full tuition scholarship and in any case not for a California college. Check for small colleges like Caroll of Montana, or College of Idaho, as they often want students.
An alternative for you is to take a gap year, stay with your parents, work on your scores (I don’t think F2 dependents can work anywhere?), volunteer, build a better app, and apply next year for Fall 2016.
Once again: ask where your parents are students or TA’s. There may be a “family” discount or something.
Community Colleges in California are very good, some like DeAnza or Santa Monica CC or Diablo Valley are excellent, but the issue is: what will you do after you finish classes at the community college? You won’t be eligible for scholarships as a transfer and you’ll have to pay full price for two years at a UC or a CSU. You could choose a community college close to home, get your F1 visa for there, try to work on-campus and save the money for a CSU…</p>
<p>Unlike F-1, who can work in campus, F2 students are not allowed to work anywhere. There is no way that F2 students can get SSN, which is mandatory to have to work in the USA.</p>
<p>Also, many community colleges DO have some discount if children of the parents who go to the CC also attend the school.</p>
<p>My dad is studying at nyfa, so i wouldnt get a discount… I’m going to try to raise my scores, i can send my scores until december right?
I’m an F-2, but If i want to go to college here i would have to change to F-1</p>
<p>To get f-1 visa, you can get it in your country, which will take less than a month.</p>
<p>if you change your status in the USA, it will be much longer. Keep this in mind.</p>
<p>
Not super relevant. Since the OP would be allowed to attend college on either F-1 or F-2 status, it doesn’t really matter whether the change-of-status application gets approved a month before classes start or a month after. The only practical difference is when the OP would be allowed to start working part-time on-campus. (And a round-trip oversea plane ticket is likely more expensive than a month or two of forgone part-time minimum wage salary.) </p>
<p>I’m thinking it might make sense for you to take a gap year, because you’ll need major scholarships and in CA, university deadlines are Nov 30 while most merit scholarships will require your application for Decmber 1st. If you take one more year, that gives you plenty of time to bring these scores up so that they’re merit-worthy for full tuition at different places. An alternative is that you could check at your high school whether you may be entitled to an extra year of high school as a newly-arrived ELL. In addition, that extra year gives you more time to bring your GPA up. However if you take a gap year you can’t take any class (except for ESL classes, test prep classes, and continuing education classes), even at a Community College.
If you choose the COmmunity College, that’s a good option for 2 years, but it’s still quite expensive for internationals, and after 2 years you’d have to pay full international/OOS fees at the four year university where you’d transfer so you may be stuck.</p>
<p>If your dad’s in NY, how come you’re in CA?</p>
<p>
Turns out I was wrong on that. F-2 status is one of the few dependent visas that does not allow the dependent to attend college. </p>
<p>Paul2752 and MYOS1634 brought up some good points regarding the extra complications that this causes.</p>
<p>@MYOS1634 actually I’m already in my gap year, i had some problems with my transcripts and a lot of stuff and couldnt apply for Fall 2014… But If i do go in a CC am I able to get scholarship as a transfer?
He is here, is the NYFA in California haha</p>
<p>Oh ok for your dad lol 
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<p>No, if you go to a CC, you aren’t eligible for a scholarship as a transfer. There aren’t any (ie., so few and from such specific places, that there could be none) international transfer scholarships. So, after 2 years, you’ll have to pay the full fees.</p>
<p>So you’re not in high school anymore?
If so, no chance of an extra “late arrival ELL” year, then. Bummer.
What have you done with your gap year?
How come you haven’t prepped like mad over the summer to raise those test scores, knowing they were the key to getting a full tuition scholarship?
Are you registered for the November SAT and both SAT and ACT for December?
How high are you scoring now on practice tests? (Keep in mind that some sections have become harder)</p>
<p>Are you going to take ELL or regular classes?</p>
<p>My school-University of Alabama-offered me to take ELL class until I get my F-1 visa; the advisor told me that I could stay at school with F-2 visa for ELL classes ONLY.</p>
<p>Why don’t you ask the school?</p>
<p>@MYOS1634 I’m not in high school anymore, i graduated may 2014, I haven’t done a lot, because I wasn’t going to go to college here, and this gap year wasn’t because I wanted to do it, I had some problems with my transcripts so i wasnt able to apply… I’m registered for the October SAT and ACT, and I’m thinking about registering for the other ones
@paul27 I was thinking about taking regular classes, because I know english (I know I have some grammar errors, but I don’t think I need ELL) Wait, ELL classes are for people that doesnt know any english? </p>
<p>@anaclara Yup, for total Eng newbies. Not useful at all for you.</p>
<p>Anaclara: you CANNOT take ANY class for credit. You can only take ESL classes (you could take the highest/most advanced ones), community education classes, or high school classes, but not community college classes or classes at any college whatsoever. If you take classes that carry college credit, you will not be able to apply to public universities as a freshman.</p>