scholarships can be for sports as well and sometimes there is even something just for being abroad due to the institutions wanting more cultural diversity. There have even been things if your country has few college grads. Granted though those last things are not as in vogue in the current us climate. Honestly you have to be a bit mad to want to go to the us from abroad at the moment. literally have been grabbin students with greencards and deporting them and not necessarily to the home country. Rule of law is vague at best here atm.