Do I have to take the SAT to get into the top 10 schools in the United States?

The SAT is counted as the college entrance examination in the United States, because high school students do not have majors, so the SAT is still convincing as a test to test the learning ability of high school students, at least in literature and mathematics, because reading, writing and mathematics are the foundation of most majors. Good colleges in the United States, not only the top 10 colleges, require SAT scores. Some schools accepted ACT scores before, and I don't know if they still accept them.

You can understand it this way, without SAT scores, how do schools in the United States know how well you can learn? Is it just based on your PS to write a lot of sky? If you don't have any evidence, you have to test your real skills.

SAT test failure does not exist, because the SAT is not like the Chinese college entrance examination once a year, you can take the SAT multiple times a year, and studying in the United States does not require a fresh high school graduate, so you don't have to have the idea that you have no hope if you don't do well in the SAT once. On the contrary, the vast majority of people have a hard time getting the SAT the first time. Believe in yourself and work hard.

For the question of tuition. The few you mentioned, except for the University of California system, which is a state university, are all private universities, and as the name suggests, the tuition fees are very high. The annual tuition fee of the top 10 schools is around 50,000 US dollars, and the cost of food and housing should be 1.5 million yuan in 4 years.

If you have excellent grades, you can apply for a scholarship in the United States, of course, it is difficult for universities in the United States to have a full scholarship now, only a bursary, if you can apply for a bursary of 500,000 yuan, it is already very good, that is to say, 1 million yuan is actually really the bottom line. I think it's easy to go to one of the top 10 universities in the U.S. and compete with the best people in the world for the highest scholarships. I'm not saying it's impossible, it's just that if you choose to go abroad, you can't pin all your hopes on it, because the insurance factor is almost 0.

Loans in the U.S. are rarely given to foreigners because they need to be repaid after graduation with a job. For a foreigner, it is very likely that he will return to his home country immediately after graduation and avoid repayment, so unless you can have a guarantor with very strong funds, there is no way to apply for a social student loan in the United States.

You can understand it this way, as an undergraduate, you don't know anything, and you go over there to take their resources, so that they have no reason not to take your money. If you are going to study for a PhD, you do research for their school and do academics, which creates value for them, so most of them are free of tuition.

You must have an SAT score, not only SAT but also SAT2 score, otherwise you can take the ACT. If you study for more than 1 million yuan for four years, you can also apply for a scholarship, which should rarely be given to international students. As for international student loans, if you are just going to apply for them, definitely not, they must be students in the United States who apply for loans, or international students should have stayed in the United States for three or four years.