With all of visa restrictions now in place by the current administration and all of the focus on narrowing the possibility of work experience in the USA, why is there such great tenacity to study there? What about your home countries are pushing you to consider taking massive student loans to study in a country that is making it very vocal that skilled labor from foreign countries is not what they want?
Hello, I'm a Nigerian I'm currently trying to apply for filmaking/screenwriting university in US, does anyone know universities with high acceptance rate and are very good. And would be able to make it easier to enter Hollywood.
I'm currently an 11th grade student from the Philippines, weighing the pros and cons of applying to schools abroad. Apparently, standardized test scores are required for most of the schools I'm currently eyeing, which is my current dilemma because I can't afford the SAT. So, is it even worth trying? Is there a way to get the fee waived? Please help, I'm planning as early as now! 😞😞
University of Rochester ($89k aid) or UBC (full ride).
My major is Data Science and AI.
For context, I am a student who wishes to study internationally in the USA, but I am not aware of what are the ECs or other stuff that can grant me a spot in those schools. It’s still early and I want to try my best to start now.
Academics:
1550 sat first try (school avg is 1100)
4.0/4.0 gpa uw (weighted not offered)
Valedictorian
Aps not offered
Ecs (kept abit vague):
2 published research papers (prefer to keep them anonymous but werent literature reviews and won in multiple intl competitions)
Research intern at 3 university departments and at Alexandria's medical research institute, worked with 4 professors/ phd students
MTC summer program scholar ( Medical research institute's research training program exclusively for college students, became first every high schooler to be allowed to enter and given full tuition waiver to attend)
Deci scholar ( egypt full scholarship for stem high-achieving students to take stem course training and start independent projects)
Yygs scholar
Leadership in an orphans-dedicated nonprofit which organizes community-based events for 3000 orphans yearly, includes 300 volunteers, 30 sponsors, and given 9 national awards
Mun president
400+ students at organzied conference, train 100+ delegates weekly, 6+ regional awards
Student council founder and president
Introduced 12 afterschool clubs (and the first ever club system into school) for 400+ students, helped organzied multiple events and trips to lower grade students and high schoolers.
Medical Convoy volunteer in rural egypt and gaza
Awards:
Isef finalist
John Locke institute Science& Tech global finalist
EISTF (intl science fair in egypt) bronze medalist
BASEF (national fair) 1st place in entire fair
Blastoff (national fair #2) 2nd award
Hello everyone. Im from the middle east and it has been my dream to study in europe, but my o level grades have been very avg my o level grades r 1A (Islamiat) 3Bs (pak studies, bio, eng) 2Cs (phy chem) and one D (maths). I want to study medicine, ive graducated A levels with AS grades A* chem A* bio and A* physics, (yeah i locked tf in after those grades) said A2 grades and have decent Ecas. I wanted to know if i still had a chance abroad (+with scholarship) i will give my SAT this session and im aiming for 1550+ (gap year) since ive been preparing for 3 years. Can anyone guide me as to which Uni would be most suitable? Thank you.
Hi, guys
Pls be honest, i wanna apply for EA
From Moscow, Russia
Low-income, full time job as manicurist since 9 grade
Gpa - my school doesn’t provide, I calculated 4.5 over the last school year
SAT haven’t handed yet, AP my school doesn’t provide
Major - economics
Where to apply early?
A. Brown ED + MIT EA
B. Yale REA
C. MIT EA + NotreDame REA
D. Stanford REA
E. Cornell ED + MIT EA
High stats FGLI international student
Perhaps I don't want a clear cut answer but an approach to find the solution.
PS: I think in the back of my mind, ik what should I do but I'm just super prestige-driven right now....
I am from Pakistan and have studied in the national curriculum.
I first time heard about common app and SAT test a month ago , and I started preparing my essays , and application and also preparing for SAT
My goal is liberal arts colleges like Amherst, Williams, Bowdoin , Wesleyan. I know they are reaches for every applicant on Earth.
But , my question is that they all list they have a contextual way of evaluating the applications and have admission officers trained for students coming from different contexts and curriculum.
They explicitly also list that not submitting the SAT will not hurt your application.
But in all majority posts on Reddit everyone say it isn't even possible to get admitted without SAT.
My question is from who already have experience or gone through the applications to these colleges.
"If someone is coming from south Asia ( developing countries like India , Pakistan, Bangladesh, Afghanistan), and he with reference to his curriculum has excelled and applying from a college on his own effort which has no history of sending kids to USA and put effort in his essays and application, is there still no chance at these top Liberal arts colleges."
I just wanna know if there is zero chance there without sat and to Cambridge or IB scores to confirm whether the effort I put in my applications - essays, and all other stuff, guiding teachers and counselors for recommendations,
Is it really worth putting my effort and time or is it completely out of reach.
Why is the bill 50K Usd a semester whos paying that??? how do i reduce this number help
Hello, I’m from Russia. I really need your help. Recently, I decided that I really want to study in the USA. Right now, I’m studying law at a Russian college. My English is not very good, and I don’t have many personal achievements — only some sports and volunteer work, but that was a long time ago. I have 2–3 years to prepare for admission. I would really like to find someone who can inform me and give me some advice?
I’m studying computer science in Ukraine. Recently, I’ve started thinking about and looking into whether it’s possible to study in the U.S. Since I come from a low-income family, full funding is my only option. I’ve found out that getting full funding in the U.S. isn’t that easy, but I still want to try. I’m not considering the Ivy League, but rather more accessible universities that might offer such funding. Recently, I came across some interesting information suggesting that universities aren’t always willing to pay for a second degree. Perhaps someone is familiar with these issues and can tell me whether it’s even worth trying to apply for admission with a degree from another university. I also have a question: is it possible to be admitted to a master’s program with full funding?
please give help or advice if you can!!
I’m applying to columbia early decision this autumn im an international student from england requesting full financial aid. i’m not first generation but i have a single parent with less that £50,000 made for three children annually .
my stats and ecs:
predicted A* A* A (english, politics, psychology), 1540 SAT. planning to double major in psychology and philosophy/anthropology, pre law track.
ECS: 1.wrote my epq on whether the UK fails to invest in basketball for specifically black youth (got an A*)
2. started an organisation to help british black youth further basketball careers raised £5,000.
3. Thinking Black ACT Prize where i worked with oxford students, professors and other professionals on writing a project about race and gender and how they interlink 1 week workshop.
4. journalism workshop at the guardian
5. spoke in front of 100+ secondary school aged children and memebers of parliament in the lack of youth spaces in my local area partnering with GYG a local youth community. we hosted a workshop with 100+ students form our area and asked them about b what youth spaces mean to them. we have now been able to secure a future youth space in our area.
6. worked with Faith in encounter to talk to 300+ primary school aged children and introduced different faiths to them widening their religious education.
7. elected member of my count youth parliament
8. school outreach ambassador for start up company founded by young students Gradify helping to connect students with work experience opportunities
9. Reachd prefect (school diversity prefect) raising £5,000 for related Black, Minority, LGBTQ+ charities and planning and creating successful culture days, spirit weeks and the schools first Graduation
10. peer mentor, studied for two months in become an adequate peer mentor leaning throngs liek communication and understanding and then for four months was assigned a peer mentee that i met onece a week for an hour helping them intergrate as a year 7.
Awards:
ACT PRIZE £100, shortlisted for publication
Northeastern Univestily London Sxhopl Certificate in Philosophy Grade 9
HSK 3 Qualification in chinese
what are my genuine chances of getting into columbia ED, it’s my dream school
Hi everyone, I’m an Indian high school junior looking for advice on U.S. college admissions, particularly on where I might have the strongest combination of admission chances, financial aid, and career outcomes.
Academically, I scored 97% in Class 10 and expect around 93% in Class 11. I may have a lower Class 12 result, potentially around 90%, because I will be undergoing surgery shortly before my board examinations. I’m generally a strong student academically. I have not taken the SAT yet, but I’m currently scoring 1480+ on practice tests and expect to target 1500+.
My extracurricular profile is primarily centered around finance, entrepreneurship, consulting, research, public affairs and leadership.
Some of my main activities include:
For honors and competitions, some of my notable achievements include:
I also have a personal essay focused on growing up in the Indian Air Force environment and how that experience shaped my ambitions, values, interests and the opportunities I have pursued. I believe this provides a coherent personal narrative behind my extracurricular profile rather than simply presenting a list of activities.
My intended career is primarily in finance, particularly investment banking, private equity or asset management, with management consulting/MBB also being a strong possibility.
The biggest constraint for me is financial aid. I would need essentially a full ride to attend a U.S. university. My family comes from a defence background, and Indian defence officers are not particularly highly compensated relative to the cost of a U.S. undergraduate education, so paying the full cost of attendance would not be financially realistic for my family.
Given this profile, I would really appreciate advice on which U.S. universities I should target where I have the strongest combination of:
I’m particularly interested in understanding whether I should prioritize extremely selective universities that provide generous need-based aid to international students, universities offering major merit scholarships, or a combination of both.
I would also appreciate recommendations beyond the usual Harvard/Stanford/Wharton/MIT-type schools. I’m especially interested in universities that may be somewhat less obvious but could still provide a strong finance recruiting pipeline while giving an international student like me a realistic path to a full ride.
If possible, I’d love to hear how you would categorize schools into reach / high reach / realistic / financial-aid-friendly options based on my profile.
Thanks in advance for any advice.
~3.7–3.8 uw GPA
Targeting 95% in Class 12(most rigorous course)
SAT: 1520, aiming for 1550+ in sept
ECs:-
Built an app for the very local Farmers with 1000+ genuine farmer downloads helping them with crop diseases, cost cutting measures and etc with low or no network connection required
Built and deployed “School App” that is currently used by 2 schools, 1 private and 1 govt and plans to expand more
Built a Tribal Education App used by 25+ tribal students at my aunt’s tribal education initiative
Built a website that helped save my physics teacher time by organising loads of her
teaching course, easing up her schedule by almost 4 hours a week
Built 5 websites for local Instagram micro-merchants as pro-bono work
Built an independent robotics project during freshmen
Participated in multiple hackathons, including a winner and a top-3 finish
subject topper in 10th year of school
Completed a 150 hour internship experience
Built a contracts-related app that received recognition from a regional government body
all the above apps on google playstore btw
helped 5-6 juniors with SAT prep and school courses
lead almost all internal school group projects in high school years
Football:-
4+ years of continuous football training and coaching as well Competitive football experience
4+ years of piano and baking , tho no competition won, just hobbies
research:-
2 research papers, including one with a tier 1 university professor and its applied for being published
YouTube channel with 8K+ subscribers and 2M+ views
startes an additional Instagram page tho its too small for mentioning any analytics
Intended Major
Computer Science
Interested in minors like Business, Economics, and Entrepreneurship as secondary areas
recommend me some reaches, targets and safeties as an international student broskies😔😔my ahh kinda scared
Hi everyone, I'm a 17-year-old student from Italy interested in studying Finance/Business abroad, and I'm trying to figure out what I should focus on over the next 1–2 years.
My academic history isn't perfect. I finished middle school with an 8/10 average, failed my first year of high school, then completed two school years in one with a 7.8 average. I'm now in a social-economic high school and my latest average was 8.31/10.
My main academic goal is to get to 8.5+ and maintain a strong upward trend. I'm also working on my English, aiming for B2 this year and C1 the following year.
I'm considering universities both in Europe and the US. The US would only be possible for me with essentially full financial aid, so I'm not relying on it and want to keep strong European options open as well.
Outside school, I'm planning to focus on a few things:
• Finance project: I want to first learn accounting, financial statements, financial analysis, business analysis and eventually valuation. Then I'd like to analyze one real business each month — how it makes money, its financials, competitive advantages, risks and valuation — and turn the research into a newsletter and eventually YouTube videos.
• Barbering: I already cut hair and want to develop it into a small real business. My goal is around one client per day, more on Friday/Saturday, eventually charging €10 and tracking clients/revenue/growth.
• Football: I play at regional/youth level, but I'm planning to move to a more relaxed team with one training session + one match per week so it doesn't hurt my grades or sleep.
I'm deliberately not trying to do everything. School is my priority, then English, the Finance project, barbering and football. Gym is optional and SAT preparation would come later if the US becomes realistic.
I'd really appreciate honest advice on:
I'm not looking for "you can do anything if you work hard." I'd rather hear what is unrealistic or what you think I'm doing wrong.
Hey guys,
So, I've been applying to US as an international student from Pakistan for my MS program in IT, and after considering various factors such as COA, living costs, safety, and overall OPT opportunities, I've decided to choose these 2 universities to go with:
Saint Louis University - Missouri
Southern New Hampshire University - NH
So, my concern is which one would make the visa interview or holds reputation with officers for international students.
It's gonna be my first F1 attempt s I wanna maximize my chances along with preparation, I want you to share your thoughts overall: what do you think of these institutions?
Thanks!
Hi guys! I’m a Syrian student who got a place through the Russian government scholarship, and I’m going to Russia this year to start a Bachelor’s in Computer Science (including the preparatory year).
Because of my financial and personal circumstances, I basically have to go to Russia for now, but I absolutely do not want to settle there long-term. My plan is to keep applying for opportunities abroad while I’m studying there.
So my question is: can I apply for Bachelor’s programs/scholarships in other countries while I’m physically studying in Russia? I’m talking about Europe (especially Romania/Germany), Canada, the US, China, etc.
I’m completely fine with starting my Bachelor’s from Year 1 again — I’m not trying to transfer my credits. I’m mainly worried that being a Syrian citizen already studying in Russia might make me ineligible for certain scholarships or create visa/admission problems that I wouldn’t have if I were still in Syria.
Also, is there anything that would actually prevent me from leaving Russia later if I get accepted somewhere else?
I’ve been trying to find real examples of Syrians or other international students who started university in Russia and later moved to another country, but I haven’t found many.
Has anyone here done something similar, or knows someone who has? I’d really appreciate any personal experiences or advice on the best pathways. Thanks!
Was named Semi-finalist in ICSC, Is this considered a strong honor to list in the Common App Honors section? How much weight does it usually carry?