<story><title>Countries where Americans can study at universities, in English, for free</title><url>http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2014/10/29/7-countries-where-americans-can-study-at-universities-in-english-for-free-or-almost-free/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>wil421</author><text>Well in my state, Georgia, anyone can go to any public college in the state for free with the Hope Scholarship.&lt;p&gt;Have a 3.0? Dont have any drug arrests or convictions? Legal resident of Georgia&amp;#x2F;USA?&lt;p&gt;Then all of your tuition will be paid by the state unless you drop below a 3.0. The lottery is what funds this scholarship and its really great.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dilap</author><text>That&amp;#x27;s excellent, but it seems insane to not make this available for people with drug arrests.</text></comment>
<story><title>Countries where Americans can study at universities, in English, for free</title><url>http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2014/10/29/7-countries-where-americans-can-study-at-universities-in-english-for-free-or-almost-free/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>wil421</author><text>Well in my state, Georgia, anyone can go to any public college in the state for free with the Hope Scholarship.&lt;p&gt;Have a 3.0? Dont have any drug arrests or convictions? Legal resident of Georgia&amp;#x2F;USA?&lt;p&gt;Then all of your tuition will be paid by the state unless you drop below a 3.0. The lottery is what funds this scholarship and its really great.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>anigbrowl</author><text>You sure thinned the ranks of &amp;#x27;anyone&amp;#x27; quickly. Even legal residents of the USA from abroad face barriers because most other countries don&amp;#x27;t employ the US&amp;#x27;s grade point averaging system, but employ matriculation instead. If I hadn&amp;#x27;t lived here so long I wouldn&amp;#x27;t even know what a &amp;#x27;3.0&amp;#x27; referred to.</text></comment>