What do you mean by “I don’t have a budget”? Do you mean that your family is willing and able to pay up to 400K in total for your college education, and hence do not need to apply any budget, or that your family can contribute nothing, and hence you have no money to put towards tuition, have an “empty” budget?
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thanks a lot, will be looking into it
will probably apply to IU for econ
First figure out what major you want. Econ and MIS are very different. If it’s MIS, apply to schools that you can get into MIS. IU is beyond a reach.
At the same time, please explain the budget - is it unlimited? Is that what you meant?
If so, Bentley could be a possibility.
So…you are not currently living in the U.S. but you have a green card? Is that correct? Where do your parents reside? In most cases, the residence of the parents determines residency for their kids.
And, like others, I’m still confused about what your parents will pay annually for your college costs.
From an earlier post
@Emaad if your family is currently residing in the U.S., it is very possible you will have instate residency for tuition and admission purposes in the state in which your parents reside. You will need to check, but in most cases, your family needs to establish this residency 12 months before you start college. It sounds like this is the case with your family.
If this is accurate, you need to check YOUR family state of residency for their requirements. If you are an instate resident for tuition purposes, then start looking at the public universities in that state.
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It is not that unusual for even US citizens who are expatriates, who live abroad, to no longer have any in-state residence. Their children, who are either citizens or green card holders, are eligible for financial aid, such as Pell grants and federal loans, but are ineligible for in-state tuition, since their parents do not maintain residence in any state.
BTW, at least one state allows an adult citizen (and I presume green card holder, too) to establish in-state residence with simply a one night stay in a hotel! That is South Dakota. They’re clearly looking to increase their voter rolls. SD has no state income tax. A lot of military and other expats have found out about this, and utilize this. One flies into Sioux Falls, stays overnight at a motel/hotel there, and in the morning walks over to the post office to get a mailing address (they’ll open and send you images of everything, if you like), and then to the DMV, and presents one’s receipt for the overnight stay, one’s evidence of having a PO box, and one’s passport or green card. It is all located within a mile of the airport terminal. One would exchange one’s driver’s license or non-driver’s state ID for a SD state license or ID, or if one doesn’t have either, be issued a SD non-driver state ID. Then you fly out, having stayed only one night in SD, but now you’re a resident (and can vote there, too).
Of course, most students are not competing to get into the U of South Dakota. But it’s information worth having, for those holding a US passport or US green card, without any state residency.
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Residency Requirements | South Dakota State University says that the 12 month residency rule for tuition residency applies in South Dakota.
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Worth noting that South Dakota has a pretty small percentage of immigrants (<5% of the state population) and assuming that OP is ‘visibly’ an immigrant (assumption based on doing Urdu for o-levels) that may be something else to take into account. Asian populations overall seem to be 1.5% or fewer at colleges there according to Google. If OP is looking for somewhere more diverse, that may be something to take into account.
Not as a green card holder, of course.
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Try UMass Lowell
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