Hi everyone! I'm a UK PhD student and, for many reasons, I'd like to spend some months in the US as a visiting student. I was thinking of universities like MIT, Harvard, UCBerkley, or Stanford, because their research groups focus on my interests (and they are in places where I wouldn't mind to live!). My questions are:
- How common/easy/realistic is for a UK student to be admitted as a visiting student in a top US institution? [Maybe I should give some more background: I'm currently a STEM student at a top UK uni for my field, and I'm in my first year, so the visiting student thingy would be during my second year.]
- How does it work with the fees? Would I have to pay the $30k+ tuition fees (or, at least, the amount corresponding to the months I'd be visiting), or is there some sort of tuition waiver or scholarship for visiting students?
- Should I contact the departments first, to see if they have a visiting student scheme, or should I write directly to the professors I'd be interested in working with?
If anyone has some experience they'd like to share, feel free to!
