By C.J. Shane
Topics coated are:
• how neighborhood faculties healthy into the U.S. procedure of upper education
• some great benefits of beginning your American schooling at a neighborhood college
• the stairs you need to battle through to review at an American group college
• key elements to think about whilst settling on an American group university comparable to move agreements
• the method of making use of to and gaining front right into a neighborhood college
• the method of making use of for a U.S. visa together with required kinds
• the kinds wanted while arriving within the U.S. and passing via U.S. customs
• opting for sessions at your neighborhood collage and the way to check in for these classes
• how you can get support bettering your English-language skills
• fundamentals approximately dwelling in the US, together with housing, transportation, and clinical care
• American tradition and the way to house tradition shock
• profiles of 7 American neighborhood schools in Arizona, California, Colorado, Florida, Massachusetts, Michigan, and Texas
• observation by means of foreign scholars at present learning at American group colleges
Includes thesaurus of phrases and index.
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