To secure a fully funded scholarship in the U.S., the process is simple but requires preparation. This guide here is specifically for first-year (freshman) applicants. These are students who have a high school diploma (it is ok if you completed high school several years ago) and have never enrolled in a college or university. If you have attended any college or university after high school, pursued or earned a Higher National Diploma (HND), or completed any post-secondary qualification, you are considered a transfer student and should follow the transfer application process instead. 🏫 STEP-BY-STEP GUIDE (first-year year students): 1. First, you need to find schools that give full scholarships to international students... I’ve made a list you can check out here or you can get the full eBook here: https://stan.store/williamlebeau/p/30-colleges-that-fully-fund-international-students. I have also added a school list at the bottom of this post. 2. Once you have your schools, the next step is to apply... You are going to use the Common App to apply: https://www.commonapp.org. I created a guide to make the Common App easy for international students, which you can find here: https://stan.store/williamlebeau/p/common-app-made-simple-for-international-students. You can also watch my YouTube video here: https://youtu.be/2yYYGHaIK04 3. After applying, you’ll need to submit the CSS Profile at https://cssprofile.collegeboard.org before the deadline and make sure all your documents are submitted. The CSS profile is how schools determine how much money you need for your scholarships. You can get a fee waiver for the CSS by looking at the list of schools that give CSS fee waivers here: https://www.skool.com/study-for-free-in-the-usa-6027/10-universities-with-css-fee-waivers-full-funding-part-2?p=40336729. You can also watch a video of how to fill out the CSS here: https://youtu.be/7RMaX-NoiBQ

These schools offer full-need financial aid to admitted international transfer students for their Bachelor's Degrees. Remember that an international transfer student is someone who is not a U.S. citizen or permanent resident and is applying to continue their undergraduate studies at a U.S. college after starting college elsewhere. They must have completed some university-level coursework after high school in their home country or another country. Their deadlines and acceptance rates are below. December 15 - Berea College (Acceptance rate - 2.6%) February 15 - Pomona College (Acceptance rate - 8.6%) March 1 - Brown University (Acceptance rate - 4.1%) - Bates College (Acceptance rate - 4%) - Columbia University (Acceptance rate - 10.1%) - Grinnell College (Acceptance rate - 18.9%) - Harvard University (Acceptance rate - 0.8%) - Princeton University (Acceptance rate - 1.9%) - Reed College (Acceptance rate - 20%) - University of Richmond (Acceptance rate - 45.6%) - Whitman College (Acceptance rate - 39%) - Yale University (Acceptance rate - 1.5%) March 2 - Amherst College (Acceptance rate - 8.6%) - Williams College (Acceptance rate - 2.8%) - Middlebury College (Acceptance rate - 8.3%) March 15 - Cornell University (Acceptance rate - 9.3%) - Macalester College (Acceptance rate - 28.6%) - Kenyon College (Acceptance rate - 30%) - Scripps College (Acceptance rate - 14.1%) - Stanford University (Acceptance rate - 1.6%) - University of Pennsylvania (Acceptance rate - 4.5%) - University of Rochester (Acceptance rate - 38.5%)