Summary
YOU'RE ADMITTED! focuses international students on how to gain admission to affordable, accredited U.S. or Canadian universities, get the study visas, save on application fees, save thousands of dollars avoiding expensive programs, avoid risks, disappointments and frustrations, locate scholarships and study online. It even shows international students how to choose a room-mate and get free placement to American and Canadian universities.
The book combines extensive research, information from university and college officials, feedback from past students and the author's expert knowledge of American and Canadian university and college systems in this authoritative book. It is easy to read and goes beyond the boundaries of the Internet, libraries or university brochures and fairs to provide international students with objective information on what goes on behind the scenes of admissions, financial aid Visa processes.
Other topics include:
- Selecting among university offers
- Successfully gaining admissions at the university of choice
- Getting the Admissions Officers to pay attention
- Locating affordable fully accredited universities
- Getting admitted in no time at all
- Saving thousands of dollars by choosing the right university
- Where and how to find financial aid money to pay for studies
- Successfully getting the Student Visa or Study Permit
- Selecting their roommate
- College sports and a US college degree
- Free place to selected colleges and universities.
- How to avoid "fly-by-night", diploma mills, rip-off artists pretending to be colleges or universities.
YOU'RE ADMITTED! is for a) all international students planning to study in the US or Canada, b) Asians and Canadians who are large subscribers to American universities and colleges, and c) American and Canadian high school, college and public libraries since their students study in each others countries.
About the Author
Dr. Hilroy Thomas is expert on Canadian and American higher education systems, including their colleges and universities. His knowledge in that area resulted in an earlier book: The Easy Way to American and Canadian Universities (2001) - a guide for international students who wish to study in accredited US and Canadian colleges and universities. He has assisted thousands of international students to access American and Canadian colleges and universities and maintains an extensive network among admissions officials in those countries.
Professionally, he is a strategic planner and public policy advisor to many international governments and agencies. His professional interests and expertise are in Distance and Online Learning, the Assessment of Experiential Learning and Public Policy. In the 1990's, he helped design the Ontario's (Canada) Assessment of Experiential Learning programs for its 25 Colleges of Applied Arts and Technology.
Born in Dominica in the West Indies, he earned his Bachelors degree from the University of Massachusetts /Boston State College, and the Masters and Doctorate in Education from Harvard University. He is a former recipient of both the Harvard University Fellowship and the Ford Foundation Fellowships for Latin America and the Caribbean.
He is Assistant Dean at the School of Leadership,
Special Assistant to the Provost & Assistant Professor at St. Thomas University, Miami, Florida, USA.
