"Where there's a will, there's a way," or so the saying goes. But does that actually hold up when the will requires forty thousand dollars a year and the way involves an admissions committee that rejected ninety percent of scholarship applicants last cycle? Here's the honest question so many students quietly Google at 2 AM: can international students study without scholarships, or is that just something people say to be encouraging?
"Beware of little expenses. A small leak will sink a great ship." Benjamin Franklin said that centuries before anyone was wiring tuition money across time zones, but it applies almost perfectly here. So here's the real question every student planning to study abroad should be asking: what happens to your budget when the currency itself decides to move without asking you first?
Even now, if you're started Googling "when should I apply to study abroad" after 1 AM or you have at least fifteen open browser tabs, you're not far from what most students should really be doing. A good application timeline is probably the biggest factor that separates applicants who make it to their dream university from those who can only accept what's available.
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