High score! Do I have to study there for at least 12 months to apply for an American visa?

The American F- 1 visa is a non-immigrant visa issued to full-time students. Full-time students are defined as: the minimum registration load of full-time graduate students is 12 credits, or the weekly class time is not less than 12 hours.

Since the language school gave you I-20, if you read it intensively, it will meet the requirements of F- 1 visa.

But when you go to Kaplan, you will encounter some language problems. I don't know if you have considered:

1. Kaplan is only an educational service organization, not a university, so only a few universities admit that he can apply for an undergraduate course directly without taking TOEFL or IELTS. If you apply to a school that has no cooperation with Kaplan, you still have to provide TOEFL or IELTS scores.

Interstate 2.2. Kaplan only gave you a letter of admission to a language school of 65438+ February at most. You should think about how to deal with the plan after studying in the interview.

There is actually a simpler method. To apply for general state universities in the United States, language scores are not required to apply for admission. The school will issue I-20 for 4 years (48 months), and the tuition and accommodation fees will be paid when you report for duty. When you register, you will get an English test. If you can't reach the advanced ESL (TOEFL 61IELTS 5.5) required by the undergraduate course, you will automatically enter the undergraduate course if you reach ESL6 level. There are two advantages: four-year state universities are much better than community colleges, and there is no problem to transfer students halfway. Moreover, a visa is much better than just applying for a language school.

Good English, no problem in communication is not necessarily an advantage, and the visa officer will doubt your purpose of simply going to a language school.

Tuition in state universities is very cheap, with tuition and accommodation less than $20,000. The previous ESL tuition was $3,450/16 weeks. Accommodation conditions on campus are different (several people in one room, room area, etc.). ) 1350-2530 USD/semester.

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