By Marty Bennett

Planning to attend a university or college in America? You need someone who understands how to help students from your country search for the right school. You need tips for how to express your ideas and dreams in your application essays. You need someone who can help you navigate the financial aid process. And you need someone who can help you prepare your student visa application.

In more than 400 locations around the world, you’ll find EducationUSA Advising Centers where professional, caring advisers are trained to help you attain your goals. They’ll take you step-by-step through the entire admission process, explaining procedures in terms familiar to you, usually in your own language. Their knowledge is cutting-edge, and they are sensitive to what works for students from your culture. They will help you maximize your chances of admission, and they’ll keep you from making mistakes that could leave you behind.

How to locate them

Six questions to help you make a wise choice

By Adrienne Jerram

Not all universities are the same, some are small and aim to prepare you for a specialist career and others are larger and have a range of study choices. Some are located in the country, others in the urban jungle. Some are traditional, others more modern. So, how do you narrow your choice? Start by asking yourself these questions.

In April, we asked future international students to tell their stories. We wanted to hear about their backgrounds, educational goals and their interests. The Tell Your Story competition was a huge hit and we learned a lot from our student community. We debuted a compilation video of those stories at NAFSA with one message to universities: GlobalCampus students have talent.

Type “international scholarships” into Google. You should get about 15 million results.

If you’re a future international student, how do you find the right scholarship for study in a specific university program? How do you sort through the information to know which scholarship is right for you? If you’re a university administrator, how do you get your international scholarships to the right students? How do you get your scholarship and institution seen in a Google sea of scholarship listings?

By Nicolle Merrill and Gleyce Oliveira

Hello students!

We’ve just returned from NAFSA, the world's largest convention on international education, held in Kansas City, USA. During the event we presented GlobalCampus to many more universities, showed the videos of the winners of the ‘Tell Your Story’ contest and explained how to reach our talented users. The result? Loads of new universities are joining GlobalCampus to find students like you!

When you receive a message from a university on GlobalCampus and click on “Yes, I am interested” , a notification is sent to the university who can then view your profile. Admission officers told us that the more complete a student profile the better the student’s chances. So we’re here to remind you: complete your profile, universities are searching!

Completing your profile is like preparing to a fancy party

Imagine that a friend invites you to a huge party and that girl/boy you are crazy about will be there. You put on your lousy sweater and tracksuit pants and head to the party, right? NO! You’d dress up like a celebrity: glamorous shoes, stylish hair and shiny accessories. So why get lazy when it comes to ‘flirting’ with universities?!

This post will give you some hints on how to make your profile look fabulous and make any university think ‘mmm, this is a strong candidate!’

At our second NAFSA this week we’ve been chatting non-stop at the GlobalCampus booth, showing off our international talent and telling universities and colleges all about our unique community. We’ve talked to university and college staff representing institutions from 6 continents, heard about their detailed plans to draw talent to their institutions, and the challenges they face in a time of budget cuts and reduced staff. And we’ve been inviting all of them to participate in our global community.

Here’s what universities are discovering at booth #436:

Ladies and gentlemen,