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Originally Posted by iDreamAct
I'm willing to bet that this dream act isn't going to pass, so I've started looking at colleges on the country where I'm originally from. It amazes me that a semester there only costs $4,000 while on the other hand a semester here in the US is about $20,000 (for undocumented students) even in a cheap school and when I say $4,000 I'm talking about the best university in the country.
But I find it fascinating that I could easily get accepted into a really good university here in the US (I know this because a lot of my stoner friends have gotten acceptance letters from really good universities and their grades pretty much suck, they have about a 3.4 GPA but they have something I don't, a US birth certificate), but I can't afford to pay it. On the other hand, I can't get accepted into a University in my country because my Spanish is well... not horrible and not choppy either, but I'm just not articulate enough in Spanish to even understand most of "Castellano" questions that they ask you in the admissions test.
I'm pretty much stuck. I guess once I finish high school I'm just gonna go flip patties at the local Mcdonalds even though my GPA is a solid 3.8
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The best school in my country is a staggering 2k per year, and it is actually a very good school (my sis. graduated from there). I also had the same problem, my family in colombia was offering me to go and they would pay everything, even the cost of living, but.... I can barely write my language, and my family over there complain all the time that I am forgetting "mi catellano". pfft... my spanish education stopped in second grade, and only commenced briefly during high school with AP spanish, but come on, AP spanish is a joke in the US is a joke.
Do not give up. You have a very high GPA, I am sure there are some schools that would be willing to give you some sort of aid to have you in their schools, and like someone suggested, the best bet is to go private, they present the least problems if you do get a scholarship from them in the long run.