Foreign students studying in USA?

VCharette

VCharette

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Alright so I'm a canadian and I want to go study on the west coast for university(in the usa). I know that if you have your residency the university cost is like 5 grand let say and if ur foreign it's like 20 + grand. I don't want to pay 20+ grand so I was thinking would it work to spend a year in the usa before registering to university so that I would be a resident after a year. Has anyone ever done that before? I am aware it's not the best place to ask advice but I figured there's probably a couple people who did that before and anyways I can't find where to ask those kind of questions. Thanks ns
 
it's harder for foreigners to get visas these days because of the employment crisis in the USA. so you'd need a work visa first to do anything, and good luck with that.
then you'd need a student visa to go to school, which might be a little easier, but no guarantees there.
even then, i dont know if in-state residency tuitions require you to be a US citizen. if they do (and it would seem likely) then I really have noooooooooo idea how hard that would be...probably very, very hard.
in all, if you have to achieve citizenship AND residency, you're looking at probably 2-3 years and a lot of expenses/trouble, and that's assuming it goes smoothly.
best bet is looking for some sort of study-abroad scholarship program that your government offers.
 
i think when you start looking around, you'll find that you're not going to have an easy time of it at all
getting residency from state to state is really hard for US citizens, i would haaaaaate to have to do it as a non-citizen
 
BUT lets say I get the citizenship in a state, I would pay the same thing as any other person from that state so like usually 5k ish?
 
oh, and when i say that, i mean in the eyes of a state education system. you can get state residency pretty easily, but to get any sort of tuition benefits out of it state schools usually require a shitload more of you above and beyond simple residency...
 
yah, well it depends on the school, sometimes there's a huge gulf between instate and out-of-state, sometimes not so much, just depends where
my point is that getting that residency and citizenship figured out in a way that meets the requirements of your target state school system might take a lot more time, effort, and money than it's really worth
i wanted to go to undergrad in canada at one point, yall have some pretty good schools, why dont you just go somewhere in BC?
 
because it's like 3 hour ride from whistler so at this point i might as well just go to utah and colorado, so you don't think that I can meet the requirements after like 1 year of ski bummin in the usa?
 
your best bet would be to call the university and tell them your situation and what you would like to do in the future

 
Yeah I might as well send them an e-mail and ask.... I'd still take a story from someone who did it! thx everyone for the answers
 
ya prob best bet definately check out the university of Utah...that's where i'm heading and theres sick skiing all around there
 
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