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Torres Sarrià, Carrer de Can Ràbia, 3-5, 4ª Planta BCN 08017
Pº de la Castellana, 93 2nd floor MADRID 28046
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Our Integral Service will take you by the hand through the ENTIRE process:
We will help you define your application strategy.
We will help you prepare for all official SAT and TOEFL exams through one-to-one private lessons with a specialised live online tutor.
We will also help you with all the written part of your applications: Essays, Letters of Recommendation, CV, School Profile, Bank Reference Letter, etc.
We have won more than $75,000,000,000 academic scholarships for our students. But beware: Scholarships are not free, i.e. the higher the scholarship offered by a university or college, the lower the academic level of that university will be compared to the level the student deserves. In other words, with a lower scholarship or no scholarship at all, the same student could have been admitted to a university with a higher academic level and higher ranking. Therefore, when faced with a limited budget, it is preferable for our children to study without a scholarship at a cheaper university with a higher academic level and surrounded by good students than at a more expensive one with a lower level and mediocre students, even if we are offered a scholarship. We will never recommend that you sacrifice the quality and level of the university for a scholarship offer, no matter how generous it may be. There are pseudo-university options for much less than $30,000 per year (categories 7, 8 and 9), but they are NOT worth it and we will NEVER recommend such a low level university.
We maximise our students' chances of admission to the best universities in the USA through our Comprehensive Service. Don't settle for a good college, we will help you get into the best college that can admit you, by boosting the overall quality of your applications and entrance exams.
We classify universities by assessing multiple variables: quality and prestige of the teaching staff, quality and prestige of each faculty, academic facilities, sports facilities, size and quality of the campus, dormitories, food, level of security, hospital, police, university life, and other rankings. All this allows us to classify them into 9 Levels o Categories, 1 for top universities and 7, 8 and 9 for universities that we directly discard (to go to a 7-8-9 level university, frankly, it is better to stay in Spain).
Through our 3 types of processes: INTEGRAL, SIMPLIFIED o LOW-COST, we adapt to the needs of each student. Depending on the date or the course the student is in when we start the process, depending on their academic level or the economic capacity of their family, we will design the best strategy to make the wishes of the student and their family come true in an absolutely realistic and at the same time ambitious way. If maths or English are a problem for the student, there are very good options of Universities at level 5, 4, 3 or even 2! that allow us to access «through the back door» without the need to obtain a good SAT or Toefl score. Put yourself in the hands of our expert University Consultants. Tailoring our application strategy to the needs of each student and their family, without sacrificing the quality of the universities, is what sets us apart from the rest and is the key to our success.
| MENU OF SERVICES | COMPREHENSIVE PROCESS | SIMPLIFIED PROCESS | LOW-COST PROCESS |
| TYPE OF UNIVERSITIES | Levels 1, 2 and 3 | Level 2, 3 and 4 | Level 4, 5 and 6*. |
| APPROX. DATE START OF THE PROCESS | 4 ESO and 1 Bachillerato** | 1st and 2nd Baccalaureate | 1st and 2nd Baccalaureate |
| DURATION APPROX. OF THE PROCESS | 18-24 months | 3-12 months | 3-12 months |
| APPROXIMATE GRADE POINT AVERAGE OVER THE LAST 3 YEARS | >7 out of 10 | >5 out of 10 | >5 out of 10 |
| MINIMUM LEVEL OF ENGLISH | B2, First or equivalent | Any level of English | Any level of English |
| APPROX. OF THE UNIVERSITY FOR THE FAMILY (INCLUDING TUITION, ACCOMMODATION AND MEALS) | From USD 40,000 per year | From USD 40,000 per year | From USD 30,000 per year |
| ENTRANCE EXAMINATIONS | SAT (2-4 official exams) AND TOEFL | TOEFL | TOEFL |
| LIVE ONLINE TUTORING TO PREPARE FOR ALL EXAMS | Including | Including | Including |
| COMPREHENSIVE PROCESS | |
| TYPE OF UNIVERSITIES | Levels 1, 2 and 3** |
| APPROX. DATE START OF THE PROCESS | 4 ESO and 1 Bachillerato** |
| DURATION APPROX. OF THE PROCESS | 18-24 months |
| APPROXIMATE GRADE POINT AVERAGE OVER THE LAST 3 YEARS | 7 out of 10 |
| MINIMUM LEVEL OF ENGLISH | B2, First or equivalent |
| APPROX. OF THE UNIVERSITY FOR THE FAMILY (INCLUDING TUITION, ACCOMMODATION AND MEALS) | From USD 40,000 per year |
| ENTRANCE EXAMINATIONS | SAT (2-4 official exams) AND TOEFL |
| LIVE ONLINE TUTORING TO PREPARE FOR ALL EXAMS | Including |
| SIMPLIFIED PROCESS | |
| TYPE OF UNIVERSITIES | Level 2, 3 and 4 |
| APPROX. DATE START OF THE PROCESS | 1st and 2nd Baccalaureate |
| DURATION APPROX. OF THE PROCESS | 3-12 months |
| APPROXIMATE GRADE POINT AVERAGE OVER THE LAST 3 YEARS | >5 out of 10 |
| MINIMUM LEVEL OF ENGLISH | Any level of English |
| APPROX. OF THE UNIVERSITY FOR THE FAMILY (INCLUDING TUITION, ACCOMMODATION AND MEALS) | From USD 40,000 per year |
| ENTRANCE EXAMINATIONS | TOEFL |
| LIVE ONLINE TUTORING TO PREPARE FOR ALL EXAMS | Including |
| LOW-COST PROCESS | |
| TYPE OF UNIVERSITIES | Level 4, 5 and 6*. |
| APPROX. DATE START OF THE PROCESS | 1st and 2nd Baccalaureate |
| DURATION APPROX. OF THE PROCESS | 3-12 months |
| APPROXIMATE GRADE POINT AVERAGE OVER THE LAST 3 YEARS | >5 out of 10 |
| MINIMUM LEVEL OF ENGLISH | Any level of English |
| APPROX. OF THE UNIVERSITY FOR THE FAMILY (INCLUDING TUITION, ACCOMMODATION AND MEALS) | From USD 30,000 per year |
| ENTRANCE EXAMINATIONS | TOEFL |
| LIVE ONLINE TUTORING TO PREPARE FOR ALL EXAMS | Including |
We should not expect to pay less than $30,000 per year, The tuition fees of an American university with an acceptable level can be equivalent to those of many private Spanish universities, i.e. from about $15,000 per year. And it is possible to reduce that figure a little with various scholarships for academic merit (although anyone who says they are easy to obtain for an international student is either lying or condemning him or her to very mediocre universities). And the costs of a university flat plus meals and personal expenses would be equivalent to what it would cost us to send our children to study in any Spanish city, or about $13-15,000 per year. Therefore we would be talking about minimum costs of approx. $28-30,000 per year In the Low-Cost segment, possible scholarships included. Are there for less? Of course, there are for $18,000, 15,000 or even $10,000 per year all-inclusive, but they are very small, bad and not recommended at all. At Cluster USA University we will never recommend such a low category university. More info at: Studying in the USA on a scholarship: The whole truth.
That is the million-dollar question. And the short answer is that it depends on the academic segment we are looking for: If we are talking about absolutely top universities like Harvard, Yale, Stanford, MIT, Princeton, Columbia, etc., obviously the best ones are private. On the other hand, if we look just one step below these top universities, we find wonderful public universities that are even better than other private universities of level 1, 2 or 3. If we talk about the Low-Cost segment, the best options are undoubtedly the public ones, since the low-cost private ones are usually very small, religious and biased. Beware of low-cost private schools!
Here is a sample of videos in which you can see the campuses, facilities, accommodation and what university life is like in the USA.
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Torres Sarrià, Carrer de Can Ràbia, 3-5, 4ª Planta BCN 08017
Pº de la Castellana, 93 2nd floor MADRID 28046