Foreign Studies

[delling]

I think Hellfish is/was in Lund... if you wanna meet him.. :P

[Inphy]

Thanks Treachery.

Yes, I'm thinking of studying in a smaller town, more mid/north sweden. Just to get more in touch with the swedish community and such.

And I will learn swedish anyway, so that wouldn't be much of a problem, still about 1 and a half year to learn it.

[Ahkailon]

The Norwegian Lånekassen doesn't sponsor foreign students unless you come from a "third-world country" - there's a whole list of eligible countries which by the way also includes Serbia or Montenegro. Even then though the rules to get in are incredibly complicated and aside from perfect grades it's also an advantage to be a girl (don't ask me why).

It's a pluss to be a girl since Norway has been run by series of feminist infected governments for decades (not 'good' feminism with equal rights and pay, but 'we got fair treatment etc, now rather than realizing this, we still claim to be considered less worth and anyone who says otherwise is a rapist' feminism). It seems to be quite ingrained in our culture, and as such the it seems official institutions are very fond of affirmative action (think it's the right term) stuff.

[Cabronsote]

It's been a while for me tbh but her emy 2 bits of advice which is basically universal.

I did HAVO in Amsterdam as well and wanted to go to a foreign university as well as I had no intention on spending another 2 years at VWO.

I looked around for the university of my liking and ended up with 3 options:
University of Brittish columbia (UBC) -Canada
University of San Diego (USA)
University of Sinaloa (Mexico)

Now I searched for the academical CV and what I wanted to study (Marine Biology in my case)

This was back in 1988 though.

Now I called and reached to the  offices of these Universities...I would recommend that you figure out the numbers of those offices and Call them.

Then you will get their requirements for joining.

This way you are doing it outside all the things you mentioned above.

You can just as well also plan a week trip to visit the different campusses and get the information first hand as well.

Once you have made your choice and you are certain you can comply with the academical requirements you can then pursue the rest of the adminstrative actions such as inscription, tuition(finance) of your study...oh yeah also a palce to stay may be something worth looking into.

For me it worked out pretty sweet tbh, I went to the mexican University, met my current wife and halfway my first semester due to the sprots program got a scholarship for american football on San diego state so my road to foreign universities was pretty sweet.

Hope my experience(dated as it may be) helps you.

Last but not least I'd also reach out to Minsiteria van buitenlandse Zaken on thsi , they have pretty good information as well.

Regards
Glenn