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What is the difference in the application process for the international students who are applying for full financial aid?

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What is the difference in the application process for the international students who are applying for full financial aid?

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What is the difference between the approaches of that counselor and the Education USA approach?

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What is the difference between the approaches of that counselor and the Education USA approach?

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What are the mistakes the students usually make?

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What are the mistakes the students usually make?

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What types of financial aid are available to you as an international student? 

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What types of financial aid are available to you as an international student? 

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What can be done if the financial aid is insufficient?

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What can be done if the financial aid is insufficient?

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What is the one thing you can start doing today to increase your chances of getting financial aid (and getting to the US, in general)?

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What is the one thing you can start doing today to increase your chances of getting financial aid (and getting to the US, in general)?

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What a wonderful day!

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We can do fundraising, loan money, or seek on-campus job opportunities.

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There are three types of financial aid available: merit based scholarships, means based scholarships and hybrid merit/means based scholarships.

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They list the colleges they want to apply in order of which one they prefer instead of listing them alphabetically.

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International students can benefit from private scholarships or from university scholarships.

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Only aim for big schools such as Ivy League Schools where there aren't lots of chances to get a scholarship

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financial aids form must be completed for international students

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The counselor is dictating while Education USA is advising

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Students sometimes apply for schools where they aren't sure to get all the aid to cover their studies.

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Students usually apply to their "dream schools" but doesn't check if the school checks all their needs

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The diferences are that it requires careful selection of schools known to give full financial aid, or a completion of additional financial aid. You also need to understand the U.S.-specific scholarship terms, such as the limited availability of aid.

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To increase our chances of getting financial aid, it would be useful to build connections to be able to do effective fundraising, and also to contact relatively early a counselor.

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We can plan ahead and budget the cost of attendance and living. Once it is done, we can start looking for scholarships through online search engines, for example, and prepare convincing essays.

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Ask for help at school, get in touch with a counselor

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Education USA will take into account the different difficulties an international student could face and would help them find solutions and give advise. The consular of the podcast would personally take into account the arrival country and difficulty of the alumni, and will direct them into the right path for their best condition. However not all counsellors have this approach.

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students can applied to additional scholarship, consider work-study programs, or negotiate with the college for more aid

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A merit scholarship such as The Jefferson scholarship

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Education USA will mostly give advices to the students whereas a counselor will be more involved in the application process of the student and will not hesitate to restrict them

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A counselor may be biased towards some universities and towards some students from certain countries, while Education USA cares most about getting the students to their full potential all the while being able to afford schooling and have a good university.

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The easiest way to obtain financial aids is through the school you're applying to. Therefore, to increase your chances of getting financial aid, the one thing to do is to upgrade your profile. To do so, there are many possible things to try, such as extra-curricular activities, taking optional classes or doing some volunteering. Show the school your motivation to succeed.

Some students may also wish to obtain financial aids through sports. To do so, they will need to reach a semi-professional level in sports, and find a coach to promote them.

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We could have access to different resources such as :

Education USA

Family

Internet research

Bigfuture

College navigator

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