Study in the States

1. Search thoroughly on google what major in what univ you really want. Admissions close in October-November the year before, so please get ready fast. 
2. General necessities: 

• TOEFL: Get it on https://toefl-registration.ets.org/TOEFLWeb/extISERLogonPrompt.do . You pay $50 via credit card to register. Schools usually want your score to be over 500, 550 in better schools. That's about 70-80 in the current IBT measure. I got 113/120 LOL just to make you pumped up for it ;) Take it early, around Summer, so that you can focus on the SAT.
• SAT: It's an Aptitude Test, or TPA in more familiar terms. Held on the first Saturday of every month at JIS Pondok Indah and at another school in Kelapa Gading. You pay $50 via credit card to register. It's divided into Math, Reading, and Writing. The math is painfully basic (not that I'm being cocky, I just know how smart and loaded you all are), and you really have to study for the Reading and Writing part. They feature high-level grammatical mistakes you're supposed to be able to spot, weird vocabs, and really long texts that can bore you to death. Pretty much like the Indonesian Language leg of the SBMPTN. Get it on http://sat.collegeboard.org/ and get the practice books on http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/sat-preparation/1277787-links-additional-official-sat-practice-tests-collegeboard.html . I used a different 1000-page practice book but I'm really sorry I really forgot the link I got it from.

For these two tests, you get to send your scores to three schools for free, and then you pay an extra $12 for every other school.

• Translation of Academic Record: Go to a sworn translator and get it done for 50k/page, or do it yourself and get legalization stamps from school. Going to an educational agent will really save your time, but they're so expensive it hurts. I did stuff myself--well my mom did this one.
• Form: Get it from your respective univ websites. They usually have an Intl Admissions tab on the site.

If you've submitted your application, test results, and all the related documents before Nov 30th this year, then most probably you're administratively safe.
People usually get their news by April.

The numbers are fully written on-memory, please forgive me if I wrote it wrong. Thank you and good luck.