establishments, although their financial aid system does not always seem to agree. In

leaving my native country for university I have personally gone through the difficulties of

trying to get financial aid. If you are an international student your only hopes of

obtaining any aid are based on your athletic ability or your SAT scores. If we chose to

come to America to get a university education, we should be treated as equals and

allowed to apply for all the same financial aid that the American students do.

It is every student-athletes dream to come to an American university. Athletes

from around the world try to obtain athletic scholarships in hopes of getting the training

and recognition to be able to go professional. Unfortunately not every athlete is able to

obtain a full athletic scholarship, leaving the student to come up with the remainder. Not

that we all deserve full scholarships, but in order to qualify for an I-20 student visa you

must show proof of having 15,000 American dollars at your dispense. Once that am

test is $100 American, which converts to approximately $ 400 Malaysian, the cost of

As well as the thought of only being nineteen years old an already being in debt, because

or taking away from either economy by studying in another country. We aid the

experience new things, meet new people and become more educated, just like the

those it does come to, it is a very difficult opportunity to pass up. If we are invited to this

to be treated like what we are, students, regardless of where we came from.

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