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  1. I found another way to attend masters for free! For international students, you should consider J-1 Scholar Visa. The minimum requirement is that you need a bachelors degree and haven't received a J-1 in the past. This will make you an employee to the university meaning you can get staff benefits. The benefits are different with universities. For example, if you are a Case Western "research assistance I" employee the benefits are 1) Free tuition up to 6 credits, 2) health benefit (you only pay $24 per month for minimum health insurance) If you pay $9 more you get dental and if you pay $4 you get some other benefit that I can't remember right now 3) pay check ($25,225, but you have to subtract tax + health benefit). There are many master programs that are designed for staff students which means you can get a masters degree for free and get living expenses at the same time. It takes about 2 years (including summer) to get the degree and its mostly 1-2 classes max per semester so that's not a huge load of work compared to regular master students. The other plus side is that when you go for thesis degree, you can work with any professor in any department as long as it is related to the department you want to get a masters, so for me its any science department. The only down side about this is that the professor you want to work has to have enough funding to support you and if he runs out, your contract is over. Which means if you are 2/3 done with your masters, but your professor runs out of funding, you have to either go get another job or get a student visa and continue. Hopefully my professor has enough funding to support me for at least 2 years. I forgot to mention, J-1 visa is up to 5 years and each year you have to renew (update) them. I am not sure if you have to go back to your home country to get it renewed, but I think they just check if your professor has enough funding to support you the next year. Anyways, I think that's the best option so far. I will still apply just in case my professor can't hire me as an employee, but hopefully that won't happen. Good luck to everyone!
  2. Thank you for all these great comments I forgot to mention my field I got a B.S in biochemistry and currently working as a lab technician in the department of Pathology. I am planning to apply to Case Western, department of pathology, pharmacology and physiology both the Masters and PhD direct admission programs. (Trying to stay at Case Western because of personal reasons) My current professor is also talking with different professors and directors to get me into a program at Case. I talked with some professor and directors and they mentioned that for PhD programs, they are not planning to accept international students (unless they have funding) because they can't receive the NIH training grants so the department or the PI has to cover everything which they don't really have the funding to do so. The PhD program I was interested only accepted 13 students this semester and all of them are US citizens which tells me that as an international student I have almost no chance of getting accepted. I also talked with the international student office and yes I can only work 20 hours a week during school year and 40 hours a week during summer which sucks because 20 hours don't really make that much money and doing research requires more than 20 hours a week. I did get an offer from a professor from a different university to fund me partially, $1500 a month, so that might help a little. I really don't plan to do on campus jobs like dining court because it really is a waste of time and you get minimum wage. Thank you for all the comments again
  3. Hi I am an international student who is going to apply for masters degree in US. I was wondering if there are ways to get tuition waived and make some living expenses because my parents can't afford to pay the tuition (they paid for my 4 years of undergrad). I got an offer to work as a lab technician, but that won't be enough to pay all the tuition and living expenses. I heard being a TA gets you some money as well. What other options are there for international students? I was thinking about working as a technician and TA while taking classes. I am just worried that it might be too much and screw up everything. Also, I heard that international students can't get fellowship, training grants and financial aid. Thank you in advance
  4. Thanks for the reply. As for my info: - International Student - Major: Biochemistry; Minor: Biology at Purdue University - GPA: Above 2.5 but below 3.0 (Most downside about my application) - GRE: Average (Planning to take it again soon) - 1.5 years of Undergraduate research including summer - Currently a paid Lab Technician (Contract for 1 year) at Case Western Reserve University - 1 undergrad Poster and 1 Publication will be submited soon (by mid July; Helped big on one of the PhD candidate's project) School location doesn't really concern me. I think places like Cali, New York or Florida will actually distract me from studying so a school in middle of nowhere would be better. I am planning to apply both Masters and PhD and hopefully I get into a PhD program, so I don't have to waste 2 years getting a MS degree because I know I want a PhD degree in the end.
  5. Hi I am looking for graduate programs that have full funding for Masters or PhD programs on cancer related field (mainly alzheimer's disease or Parkinson's disease). I know Purdue (PULSe), Case Western Reserve University (BSTP), Northwestern have full tuition cover + health insurance + stipend My parents can't afford to pay for my graduate school so it is very important that I find programs that offer funding. The most important will be not paying for tuition. I really don't care too much on the stipend because I can do TA or something to fund for living expenses. If you know any programs that have full tuition funding please let me know Thank you Have a good day
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