The process is really complicated and the US education system is very different from the UK one and, unless you find someone with personal experience of marrying the two, it's pretty frustrating. We were also lucky that one of Dan's school careers advisers is American, so she was familiar with both systems. I think in hindsight, we could have sought her advice more than we did. The trouble is that you don't know what it is that you need to know at the start and so we just stumbled around for a while before we picked up the thread of what was required.
She put us on to the Fulbright Commission which is a very good source of information; they advise people from the USA wishing to study abroard as well as 'aliens' who want to study in the US. They have a good web site but also run seminars where you are talked through every step of the process. We attended one of these evening meetings and had a good chat with one of the advisors at the end which gave us a much better understanding of what to do.
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