yeah ... i had this wish when i was 15 years old... i had a realization that i wanted to study in the US ...

i got a mara loan/scholarship that let me study 2 years here and transfer to US to complete the degree ... but now i have to pay for the loan lah ... haha ... cause i was to busy enjoying life in the US and did not study

if you believe you can ... you can

Apply to more than 1 university for the major that you want ... there should be alot of university offering the major that you want ... unless i understand the question wrongly

i applied for 3 previously ... all 3 accepted my application...i apply using the credit transfer method ... not straight after spm ... but i had to reject 2 of them because they need around US$500 as deposit ...the deposit is for housing/lodging... and that time my parents and me don't have the money to pay for it ...

if you want to get your application accepted ... you have to check what are the university requirement first ... usually listed on the respective university prospectus ... i think most of the resources can be found at MACEE? If i'm not mistaken lah .. left university long time ago

the universities that I applied for not that prestigious lah ...
I applied for State University of New York (SUNY) - Buffalo, University of Washington and University of Missouri - Kansas City (UMKC)

Both the SUNY and University of Washington need deposit. The only one that didn't ask for deposit was UMKC - most of it are public university, public university cheaper than private university ... but still it is very expensive because malaysian are foreign student in the US.

and err I've graduated already ...

to answer the question what are you going to do after this - I am currently working? ...

i was at UMKC ... took computer science ...fun course .. but didn't study ... played too many games and having fun

hmm ... what you want to know more about? ...

if you're in the university ... mix around more with the americans ... I made the mistake of just being around the malaysians only ...

if you need extra money in the university ... my university allowed me to do part time work on campus around 20 hours per week ... my pay per month was about USD300+ ... good enough to cover for food and entertainment expenses

maybe if you had specific things you want to know about ... I can explain more ...

the state I was in is Missouri, the city is Kansas City. I have left university long time ago

studied there in late 90s. got mara loan, nowadays don't know if mara still offer loan to go overseas or not. I am paying it back now, slowly lah but paying every month ... still got RM70,000 to go i think. Haven't check the loan statement

mara do not have rules that you must come back to work in malaysia after graduation.
some of the malaysian students stayed back in US and they are paying Mara from the US.

some have been staying there for more than 13 years ...

I think for JPA you have to come back to malaysia to serve for the government, unsure of this though cause I'm not a JPA scholar ...

hmm ... it's open to Bumis I think, I don't know the new rules though. Can find other type of education loans too. Bank loans, association loans, state loans but most of these need mortgage.

Don't limit your options, look around, ask other friends or relatives that has study in America on how they manage to pay for their studies.

You can do anything you want as long you put your mind into it.