Hey guys. So basically I'm an Indian student just graduating high school here in India and I'm looking to take a gap year and apply to the US next year to some public universities. I had a few doubts so I figured posting them here would help.
1) firstly, I'm looking to major in finance or management and looking to go into financial consulting or maybe I banking or pe/vc after college. So I just wanted to know how the situation for h1b visas is regarding to that. I heard that only graduates from STEM fields usually get h1b visas to work in the us. How true is that?
2) secondly, I'm not exactly an overachiever and I've gotten about 70-75% throughout grades 9-12 and have an SAT score of around 1900(which I'm looking at improving over my gap year). I'm also giving a few ap exams, the act exam and racking up a few solid internships. Therefore, I was looking at universities like penn state, uw madison, uiuc etc. id be taking a loan of approx $40,000 over 4 years to attend college. So would that be worth it in your opinion? Or would I be better of applying to LAC's for fin aid?
3) and lastly, another option suggested to me was to apply to canada for university. A few names that popped up were mcgill and university of Western Ontario for finance. How would that option be? Since I've heard it's extremely easy to get a work visa there on graduation and it's a lovely place to live in.
(To add to that, I'm definitely looking at working abroad for a few years, getting a MBA and then weighing my options at home too)
Looking forward to everyone's opinion. Thanks for helping me out!
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