How do I get a friend from Haiti into a US college?

Question

I live in the US and have a good friend in Haiti. I would really like to get him in college here in the US as an exchange student. How would I go about doing that? I know there was an exchange student from Haiti when I was in college a few years back, so it can be done. I don't even know where to start. He's in his last year of high school right now and he is top of his class.

Answer 1

THere is no big deal about getting a foreign student into a US university. There are about 500,000 foreign students in the USA every year. All he has to do is contact the university he wants to attend. They know all about the Visas and what kind of records they need from the foreign high schools, etc.

The only problem is that there are VERY few scholarships of any kind available. So he will have to pay list price up front. If he has the money for a US education and he's from Haiti, that's both amazing and suspicious - very few families in Haiti have money unless they got it in some way that most of us would consider crooked. The average wage for a family in Haiti is about $500 a year.