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This post has been edited by ngyitkenn: Mar 7 2014, 06:55 PM

Obama's Education Plan will see reduction of college tuition fees across America. source: barackobama.com

What does this mean for foreign students? I'm positive it will go down to the cost I used to pay during Clinton's era, which was around $8,000 per semester. Compared to $12,000 to $14,000 I had to pay by the end of 2003.

Get a scholarship or just forget about it..
I'm now under JPA.. and it is not so bad. Work for the government, only 5-6 years (it's stated in the contract).. Well, it's not a problem coz that would save my worry to find a job. Think positively, you don't have to pay back, and you secure a future job at the same time

Okey, hear this:

UCLA and U Michigan both are hard to enter, and given that you are not US resident, that would mean the chances for you getting there is very, very low.

As for SAT, your math and critical reading segments added up must, and I repeat, MUST EXCEED 1300. Thats the lowest, but even if you manage to get >1500, there's no guarantee that you will be accepted.

There's other thing they would look after. Your resume and then interview.

You see, I do not mention TOEFL as the test is for foreign students, and this test is absolutely easy to pass (>80) that you wonder why they even put it as requirement.

Okey then, the last thing for you to do is just finish up the application letter.
done!

Lame ... Is it possible for an A-Level student to enter U in US when he finishes the course ?

Yes, why not?

Gotta take SAT ? ... Another waste of time ?

Yes for many universities. It's just an exam, how can you say that it is a waste of time when it only takes a day to complete.

where do you sit for SAT?

You don't have to go for lectures before you attend the exam ? Then how are you gonna answer ?

I took mine at metropolitan college, Subang

Nope dont have to go for SAT classes. I sat for it without going for any classes and I still managed to get into the 95th percentile

Self study lah.........

Hmm. Have any of you considered Canada as an alternative choice to the US? I'd say this only because if you hope of working/migrating to Canada/US one day it might be a viable option. The immigration laws in Canada allow you to work on-campus as an international student. For off-campus, you'd need a work permit. You're also allowed to participate in internships as an international student and when you've graduated, you're allowed to apply for a work permit to work in Canada for 3 years. By then, which I believe you can apply for PR as well if you'd like. It's also a chance to work in the US as there are many US companies at my school's career fair.

If I'm not wrong, you can apply for the US H1 Visa by yourself. The conditions are that you will have to join the line of work you've graduated from. After 5 years of working, I think you get to apply for a green card?

Once you graduate, you'll have to find a sponsor company to help you apply for a H1B Visa - which what most of my international student friends are trying for. However, there seems to be a reluctance amongst companies for some reason (might be a tough process to go through?) so they don't really want to go that route. You can apply on your own too but I think that's also putting your application into a lottery - there is a cap on the number of H1B visas every year so you'll have to apply well in advanced, maybe a year or 2.

Metropolitan subang? For America? Hmmmm

Self study ? Then what's the point for me taking A-Level then ... and it will take a long of time isn't it ?

You don't have to take A-levels if you don't want to.

Hello there everyone, Man, I just have to express something guys... I can't believe that there are actually a lot of Malaysians paying for their own tuition fees to study in the US, including some of my friends, even if some got apply for scholarship, its like the $5000 per year type of scholarship?? what?? to me thats like way too little because the tuition fees and all are like $12 - 30k per year! One of my friend can even go there first and THEN only apply for financial aid. Too rich already la. You all know that malaysian money is like way smaller than US money and I just can't believe some people would actually have the money to pay for the tuition fees. And my friend was telling me the other day that there was this university quite cheap in the US that was only $20 per year for tuition fees?? My friend made it sound like its damn cheap when its actually damn expensive to me, cuz its per year, and not for the whole course. Anyway those are my rants.

In a middle class family like mine, my only hope for studying in the US or anywhere overseas, is only scholarships. My dad used to have money to pay for my sister's education in the UK but it costed a lot and now he has no more money for my education if I wanted to study abroad, not even living expenses (a little bit can la).

Anyway, I was wondering if the american degree program, is accepted for the need blind admission in US unis? and imagine if I did really well for 1 year here,get a real nice cgpa, can I transfer to a need blind university after only 1 year of studying ADP in malaysia? because I wanna go there as soon as possible and not wait for 2 years to go, but i really have doubts about whether ADP credits are really credible, especially when you wanna apply for scholarships as well because they're just transfer credits and not a real completed certificate like diploma and SPM. My spm is not that good, but its not bad either, its just not great. I do know that if you have good SPM results you can transfer anytime you want but then since my spm is not that good so we'll have to leave that one out.

This post has been edited by Iliveunderwater: Nov 11 2008, 12:17 PM

Apply as a freshman. Do it really really well.

does that mean only rich folks can study in us??