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Okay. Hi there everyone. It's Global Scholarships and I'm your host AZ. I hope you're all doing well. I hope everything is going great and as always

we are here with another weekly live stream, another Friday, another live stream. We're here to answer your

questions to give you as much information as we can about studying abroad, about scholarships and of course

uh which is why I have Aean with me. Hi Aean. How are you? How are things going with you?

Hi Oz. I'm doing well, thank you. How are you? I'm doing well too. Thank you very much. So everyone um if you're new here, we

are global scholarships. Uh we have a platform to share like informative stuff, stuff about scholarships, about

studying abroad, uh general stuff. It's completely free as you can see. Live streams are free, videos are free. I

mean it's YouTube. Uh and then we have a completely free platform. There was no just there's no pricing. there's no

registry or any create an account or something. You can just go in and start learning about scholarships. Um right

now there are not that many scholarships but we we have some and there are some great opportunities. Uh so like if you

if you can just apply in time and if you can get them they can change your life

basically. So yeah we have scholarships we have stuff about scholarships uh some fully funded scholarships like

government scholarships. Government scholarships are always very uh very popular obviously because they are

extremely generous. You can read about those uh scholarships by country. Um a

lot of times people are like people want to study in a specific country but like it is always always expensive. Some

countries are more expensive than others. Um and of course so like uh you

you don't have much fun. So like uh maybe depending on country sometimes you

need more scholarship sometimes you don't need as much which is why I have been making videos about like uh how

much does it cost to study in a country for example uh we've just made a short we also made a longer version a couple

of weeks earlier like how much does it uh how much does it take to study in

Japan for example I mean Japan is a very popular choice for a lot of people to go uh study in just like South Korea And

like, yeah, but how much does it cost? Because it can be a very expensive country, especially if you want to go

study in somewhere like Tokyo, um, like rents are like very high and if you're

lucky, you have you need to pay like very high amounts of rent to live in

like a tiny bit of space. Uh but then like when you compare it to somewhere like United States

uh like some places in United States can be much much much more affordable but then you have to pay about like $40,000

uh tuition fee. So it's like yeah uh different countries have different uh

aspects. So like if you're interested in a specific country and want to learn like what opportunities they have, what

are some pros, cons, like are they expensive? Is it difficult to live in?

uh can I find like can I do can I pay my rent or am I going to suffer just the

tuition fees like am I going to start every year with uh owing the university about $40,000

so yeah uh uh which is why like you can just go in and learn about the country

scholarships by country or we can we do have country guides as well I think those are great here under the guide

section you can find uh you all uh basically these are just like certain collections s that we have. Uh for

example, if you want to study in China, you can just click here or let's say Australia and they'll like you'll find a

lot of a lot of guides here from like how to choose universities, how to do all kind of kinds of things like uh

application fees. Um for example, five Australian universities with no application fees. I don't think we've

made a video about this. Um yeah, we we've done a but it's been it's been

quite a while. I wasn't here. So maybe I should do another one. So yeah, guys, we have a lot of stuff in here. Uh we have

a search tool, completely free search tool where you can just like search for scholarships very easily and completely

free. This is the search tool. As you can see, this is just like let me share the link. This is what you see when you

go to our website. There's no like hidden prices like or

payments or anything like that. Uh we also don't ask you to like give us your information so we can sell it to a data

broker or something. No, it's just you can just go in uh globalcolarships.com

and if you have anything in mind, any country and a school, a program, a specific scholarship that you might have

heard, for example, um what scholarships are open right now? Let's see. You know

what? Uh I have nothing in mind and I'm just going to hit enter here and let's see what we get.

We get about 4,500 scholarships. Hang on. Yeah, there is.

And we have filters here. So, let's let's say I'm a bachelor student. I want

to be a bachelor student, right? And I'm looking for scholarships that are open for application right now. And as you

can see, we have about like 50 of those right now. Usually, there are more, but right now there are not not that many

scholarships open for application. Hi there, James Bond. As always, you're here. It's great to see you as I'm

Indian but can you still teach me how to bargain with universities? I just got my

acceptance from Franklin University Switzerland with 17,000

uh Swiss Frank scholarship. That's great. And my financial is financial aid

is yet to be negotiated. I didn't even know you can negotiate or bargain about

your uh scholarship. Uh per year. It's per year. Really? That's great actually.

Like that kind of covers your entire uh entire living costs if you don't spend a

lot of money if you're frugal and usually Swiss universities don't uh charge very high tuition. So that that

is a great scholarship. Uh but I don't I don't know anything about negotiating

your scholarship. So I'm going to defer to Aean. Aean, what do you think?

Oh, it's needed. Yeah. Right. Yeah, I know. I know it sometimes can be

negotiable in the sense that you can ask the university for more aid. Uh but it's

uh really up to them whether they would like to give you more or whether they'll

stand by their initial offer. Um I don't think there is

an actual effective way to uh bargain per se because

uh they have their budgets and I don't think that

uh they're at liberty to offer more unless there's some budget left. So you

can ask but there is no guarantee that you will get more. So most of the time they tell you this is all we can offer

and that's that. Sometimes they can actually increase their uh scholarship

especially when it's need- based right so okay thank you very much Aean

uh yeah I guess that's uh that's all we can say about that. Hi, Derek Knox. Uh, I want to study MBBS abroad. So, if you

can can you please tell me about fully funded scholarships or links to apply, but usually I'm sorry, sorry. Uh, links

to apply. So, N that kind of depends on what country you are entering. Maybe

like if you can give us a little bit more information about your um like your

plans uh or I mean I can ask aan about like how to study where to study MBBS or

like how what kind of full fully funded scholarships uh exist but we don't we

won't get much help from him unless the questions are a bit more specific but

usually they do increase for early applicants. James Bond says um

medicine. They want to study medicine. Okay. I ask for a country but okay uh

maybe Aean can give us some insights about like uh James Bond said usually

they do increase for early applicants and Knox is asking for scholarships for NBBS abroad for medicine. Do you want to

say anything? Um yeah, it's as I said, it's not guaranteed because we get a lot of

messages uh of students who got accepted then they asked for more and the university

said no and then they're looking for more aid somewhere else. So, it's usually the case that um

the offer they gave at the beginning is probably the best. Uh it's not unheard of that they

increase it, but it's not guaranteed. Right. Um about medicine, what do you

think uh for MBBS

there? Um I guess it just depends on the country because some countries offer

uh medical degrees in their native language. So I would say that's the case for for

example Japan where uh there are little to no medical degrees. uh that are not

offer that are offered in English. So you actually have to uh

be able to speak Japanese first and there are many countries uh that follow

suit when it comes to this. So, um

it's hard to narrow down the list of countries that would be uh a fit.

If uh the profile of the student is not clear what languages they speak, if it's

only English, then maybe stick to English-speaking countries only. Maybe

go to countries where uh they offer medical degrees uh in English. But that

comes down to research as well to find out what universities within a specific country that offer such degrees uh in in

English. So I guess that's uh the biggest piece of advice I can

give concerning this. Right, man. James Bond, you're going to have some really nice scenery,

right? So um yeah, I've shared a link with you Knox. Uh so like what that

there you can look for scholarships for medical programs. The thing is uh so like if you if you are interested in any

one of them you can just click on the program they'll give you like it'll give you a lot of information. Uh you can

click here to go and see the universities page and if you have any if you see a scholarship and still have a question you can always either come to

our live stream or you can just leave the question here in the comment section where pretty much every single question

is answered by Yani founder of global scholarships. So other than that, the

thing is, so you're going to see a lot of scholarships here, about, as you can see, about like 2,000 scholarships. But

yeah, the first ones are usually the ones that when you choose a subject here, uh the ones that mention the

specific program that you are looking for. So these are for example, this is uh Kagawa University in Japan. This is

specifically for medicine programs, right? for any degrees. It's not it's not a very high amount of uh scholarship

to be honest. Um there like you can of course filter here for like full funding, full tution or something like

that. Uh but then when the when the system like our search tool runs out of

scholarship programs that is for medicine specifically, it gives you scholarships for all subjects. But that

means that these are all subjects offered in this university. So, if you're looking for a medicine

scholarship and you see this, oh, it's all subjects, so I can apply. Uh, well, it kind of depends on whether the

University of New Orleans offer offers a medicine program or not. So, keep that in mind. Okay. But there are some good

scholarships. You know what? Uh, let me see if we can find any full funding medicine scholarships.

Um, no, specifically actually maybe full. Hang on. You know what? Let's

let's look for partial funding in Europe. Uh because some universities in

Europe they do have very low tions. Um

so medicine in University of Aberdine. Yeah. Not very not very high though.

Anyway, you can apply for like other uh scholarships as well. Yeah. This only

covers like half your tuition fee. So yeah, if you have like look into it. If

any scholarship picks your interest, you can just ask us about that scholarship, we can look into that. Uh anyway guys,

this is how to use our search tool. We can just like if you're interested in medicine, you can just type in medicine.

Uh just choose that or choose an institution and if you see a scholarship

that you are interested in, you can just click on it. go to our page where you see like uh what degrees it is available

for the university uh scholarship type basically there are three types of scholarship uh scholarships fundings um

there's partial funding partial funding means it covers less than the tuition fees full tution covers just the amount

of tuition fees and full funding the rate one obviously covers uh tuition and

then a little bit more sometimes accommodation sometimes it gives you a little stipent uh maybe an allowance for

something like uh books or other stuff like that. So this is full tuition for example this is engineering for uh for

engineering or medicine and then we have the coverage here we have eligibility criteria like what do you need to have

to be able to apply and procedure sometimes we used to make videos about

these as well but it was pretty much the same like us talking in uh live streams

and of course for example if I read um about a scholarship here and I had a

question this is where I would put my question. I would I would leave it here because as you can see he answers Yanley

answers every single one here. So yeah, this is how our scholarship like search

tool works basically. Uh then if you want more information, you can just click here to go to the university's

page for that scholarship that the university has. Um it can be Yeah. Okay.

It it was fast faster than normal. uh you can read it here from directly from

the university and then of course you can contact them for this scholarship. So that's basically how it works. I use

it all the time to find scholarships to make videos about and I think if it's good for me a complete like lay man who

knows nothing about scholarships pretty much I'm just a YouTube host to make

videos I think it's good for you good enough for you to be able to find scholarships and research basically.

Yeah. So, by the way, I was talking about like how um some countries are

like normally more affordable, but they become very expensive when you kind of

like also consider tuition or not or like otherwise. Uh some people ask me because I'm from

Turkey, some people come in the live streams and ask about Turkey. I I think it was a couple of days ago I realized

that uh because there's a huge inflation in Turkey and people are like people in my country were talking about how

expensive the universities like the private schools started to become and I realized like coach university which is

one of the best universities in Turkey has become more expensive than Cambridge. So keep that in mind. Uh Turkey is

becoming more and more expensive for people coming from abroad from other countries. Um, for example, I like again

a couple of days ago, I just realized uh maybe you know about this like there's something called Big Mac Index.

Basically, how much a Big Mac costs in a specific country to kind of like to compare countries, how expensive

countries are. Uh, so in Turkey, a Big Mac right now is more expensive in terms

of dollars than about 90% of United States. So yeah, um if you are

considering coming into Turkey to study, keep that in mind. Like if you are coming from another country that is not

a very developed country, high income country, uh you'll probably financially struggle. And I'm just talking about

finances here. Like I don't even want to get into other stuff. So yeah, keep that

in mind. Turkey is becoming extremely expensive. Um but Europe otherwise is

becoming quite an attractive option. Aean, uh, are there any kind of like news or something any occurrences uh in

like scholarship or studying abroad that you might want to mention?

Um, I guess so. So, lately I was going through some scholarships

and the Chevin this year closed a month earlier than uh the other year. So

usually it closes in November but this year it closed in October for some reason. So they have shortened the

length of the scholarship which I find really interesting. So I couldn't find a

catalyst for that. Uh they as far as I can see there was no reason provided uh

for this one month shortening of the length of the application period. But I

actually find it interesting because usually around this year we remind students uh to apply for the ching but

uh to my surprise it was uh already closed and much much earlier. Yeah.

So yeah I can see it's October 7 here so it's past deadline right now. Yeah. Usually it's November 5th

right? I mean keep in mind keep it in mind guys. Uh so if you if you're

interested in because if you're interested in studying in United Kingdom um there are not that many scholarships

that you can go for. Um usually because tuition is

is expensive not as expensive as incredibly high quality education countries like Turkey I guess uh but

still very expensive compared to like I don't know France, Germany, Italy or

like uh mainland Europe. We have some scholarships and actually

let's see what scholarships do we have open by the way guys. Um so this is very

much an a Q&A live stream so if you have any questions uh basically that's what we are here for like we talk about

scholarship stuff obviously to give some information but that's what our videos

are there for uh like you just go and see our videos. So this is for us to be

able to answer your specific questions. So keep it like feel free to ask any questions that you might have about

scholarships about studying abroad like in general. Um otherwise it's going to

be a short live stream. Just keep keep that in mind. So for bachelor right now

we have some scholarships uh but not really that many when it comes to full funding scholarships. Uh

we have like usually they're in United States and there are not that many that

was open. um last last week I believe. So this one is a really good one if you

if you're uh if you're considering studying in Canada. This is I guess this

is the best scholarship that you might apply for except for the uh government

scholarship. So Lester B Peterson this is for bachelor students. Uh it's full

funding. It gives you a lot. It gives you tuition fees, book and materials accommodation which I don't need to tell

you is a big deal in Canada like um rent is very very high especially in Toronto.

So yeah this is open and not only this is open but like

scholarship deadline is kind of close. Uh so like if you want to apply you

really need to be fast like real fast. So keep that in mind. Uh we have some

yeah presidential scholarships in United States. Cincinnati scholarship in Cincinnati.

So this is this is fine like it's about $100,000 for four years

and we have some I think we have some also uh like ones for masters

graduate fellowships um at Czechman University. So usually you have like graduate assistantships or graduate

fellowships and like basically assistantships are just like going to the university and

working there. It's pretty much that and yeah other than that not not much

really. I mean let's let's look at um full tusion ones in for example

Asia. Uh, by the way, I made a another short about like some um very

affordable Korean universities. So, some of the most affordable ones in a scholarship that does not require

application fee because some people cannot afford it. So, usually scholarships don't really um require you

to pay application fees. Uh you pay the application fee to apply to the

university. But there are some ways to uh like there first of all there are some universities that you can apply

without any application fees and we made made some videos for those. We also have guides here if I remember correctly. I

cannot find them right now but I will look into it applica free application

universities. Uh you you can look into our channel to see like uh free

application videos. No application P ones. um you can apply to those like

scholarships in those universities as well. Otherwise, if you're applying to a university usually, for example, in American universities, you can just

apply to a scholarship uh if you are admitted to university or while you are

applying to the university. You don't pay application fees for scholarships, but you have to pay application fee for

the university. But there are some universities that can wave that like you don't have to pay tuition uh application

fees in specific conditions. So you might want to look into those. Um for

example, I would go to Common App if you're interested in studying in United States. And they have like com you can

apply through a lot of American universities uh through Common App and they do have like a common app do have

like a an application fee waver. So if you uh if you fulfill any of the

criteria there, you don't have to pay any application fee to apply to the university. So you wouldn't have to uh

pay any application fee to apply to a scholarship there as well. Ammon uh do you want to add anything maybe any

corrections or anything like that about this question?

Um no I think you've covered it all basically that's

uh that's it. Uh so there are universities that

uh do not charge any fees when you apply and throughout the years they're getting

fewer and fewer. There are fewer of those now. Um even those that were free

at some point no charge application fees. Um but there are still uh other

universities that don't. Um you can apply for a waiver uh at some

universities of course uh and they always uh state that on their website.

So if you are if your financial uh if your financial situation doesn't allow

you to pay any application fees then you can apply for a waiver. Uh I

think these are the ways to uh go about applying to universities without having

to uh pay any fee. All right, thank you very much. So with

Becky says, "As a person who have no English proficiency certificate like ILts, TOFL dual lingo, do you think I

can get accepted to fully funding scholarships? I want to study computer science or AI abroad?" I mean the most

obvious but also the lame answer to this is yeah if you are applying to a

university where the where English is not the like language of instruction but then you would have to learn the

language of that country like in Germany you can study in German etc etc but I'm guessing you are looking for somewhere

you can study in English but you do not have any English proficiency so I don't

think you like first of all a lot First of all, I think pretty much every university offering English courses will

ask for an English proficiency and like you cannot apply for a scholarship

unless you can get into the university. I mean, even if you can, you will not get the scholarship if you're not admitted to the university. So, Aean,

this is a tricky one. Do you think what do you think in general about this

question? Um, yes. So there is no real way around

this. Uh uh all universities would require a certain level of English

proficiency to be able to admit you. Uh that being said, there are two cases

where the uh English proficiency certificate is not required. Yeah.

One is if you're a native speaker, if your country is considered to be uh or

if you're native to a country where English is considered to be a native language, then you don't have to apply

for that. So for example like uh Ghana

uh is one example where uh students from there are not required to uh provide any

proof of language proficiency as they are considered native speakers.

Uh the second option is that if you had your previous degree fully in English so

you get a certificate from your university proving that uh your studies or your previous studies uh if uh you're

a bachelor so if you had a your bachelor's degree somewhere they would uh vouch for you that you uh have taken

that degree in English and that would be proof enough of your proficiency. Other

than these two uh cases uh you must take one of the uh English proficiency tests

be the Alice for Dualingo dependent on what the uh university asks for. Uh

concerning the list of countries that are exempt from uh providing uh a

certificate. They will always be on the university's website. So they will tell you that students from this country do

not have to and it will be very clearly stated,

right? I mean yes it would be easier to just like get a certificate from Dualingo

perhaps probably. Uh but yeah I mean unless maybe you're from a country or

native language is also used in in another country for for for specific programs. I don't think you can just I

don't Yeah, I don't think you can you can um study abroad without learning a

language that is used abroad. So yeah. Um so yeah, this week we're talking

about like some affordable Okay, we have most of this university needs SAT test

score. I wish there's a way around it. Um which specific universities or group

of universities are you talking about? uh because there are a lot of

universities that I think are not looking for that. Um Aean, what would

you say? Yeah, like I would disagree with that statement because most of the

universities I check on a daily basis are test optional. So

yeah, they they provide SAT an SAT score that

you might want to apply with, but it's always optional. So they tell you that you don't have to. Um so it is

definitely not required by most universities. There are a few who still do but the majority are test optional.

They don't require any uh standardized tests in order to admit students. It's

mostly for students who have lower GPA and who think that their GPA doesn't reflect

their real level. uh they resort to taking the SAT to prove that um their

level of proficiency in whatever uh subjects they their GPA shows they're lacking at is not real and is not

reflected in their GPA. So they just take the SAT. Other than that, I would

definitely disagree that most universities uh need it because they don't.

And obviously of course uh the universities that are not in Qatar University required for scholarship does

it I I didn't know that u yeah some universities do but for in a lot of

scholarships as well um it's kind of I guess optional but some of them there

are some scholarships that um there's just like they don't require it as much

as it is kind of given to a specific uh test score For example, if you go to

Korea and you get a test called uh topic, which is test of proficiency in Korean and like there are a lot of

universities that will give you automatic scholarships based on how well you did on the test. Uh so maybe it's

like one of those um Qatar this is Qatar University required for which

scholarship is that? International student scholarship. This is a full funding one.

H but a minimum high school GPA of 95% having good reputation and background

not receiving other scholarships and sponsorships. I don't think we've we have that scholarships you're talking

about in our uh in our page in our database. Let's look into the university

academic scholarships, admission scholarship. Perhaps you're h now I was going to say maybe you are

looking for a scholarship. You're looking at a scholarship that is for uh okay the applicant may apply to the

admission scholarship through online uh etc etc during announced application upon receiving may applica.

[Music] So the for example for this one it's not I don't think it is mandatory. It just

like they will consider like it's usually a way for them to be able to um

rank like to see how good a student you are. I mean that's that's basically why

it exist of course but I don't see any scholarship um that is that requires you to have it

SAT SAT so uh which English proficiency test do

you think is acceptable in most countries I guess like from what I've seen TOEFL and LTS is pretty much the

same and it it goes everywhere I guess uh Amen do you think Uh do you have something like a better information for

us perhaps like oh tuffle is better for this situation

might be better for like these countries or something like that. Um I don't think there's such such a

thing as that. It's just they're both equally as good and they're both uh

accepted. So it just comes down to Mhm. uh the applicants themselves

because they're are different tests in so many ways and you have to see which one works for you best. But as far as

being accepted by universities, they're both uh accepted. So Dualingo is the

exception where some universities accept it, some don't. But these two are always

interchangeable and the all universities say you have to have either or. It

doesn't matter which one. I mean I've never seen any scholarship or any application procedure that one is

accepted and the other is excluded. It's just like English proficiency and it's

just like uh TOFL or LTS is pretty much this first two that is named. Hi as hi

there Solu Krypu. Um is it always better to include SAT score in applications or only if

they're above average scores? I I would I would guess so. I would

guess like if they're not uh I'm not sure uh what happens like if your safety

score is like bad and you kind of don't admit it uh included. Aean, what do you

think? Um yeah. So I don't I don't see a point

if it's not required. I don't see a point in having it there if the score is low. So it will just probably hurt you

more than it will benefit you. So I guess if it's not required then it's

low then just don't include it. As simple as that. Yeah. I guess it kind of depends on the

rest of your application. Like if it's dragging it down I don't I don't I don't

think there is as much reason to include it.

So uh I mean also like what what would you say is it main difference between

TEFL and LTS? you said like uh they would work for like different uh like

they have different aspects and like I never taken any either of either of that

or any other like proficiency test. Uh like what would you say for example if you're maybe would say like if you're

this type of person or like you are better at this I know like speaking or listening or something like that is

better for you. if you're something uh more into this type of thing, tough could be better for you. Like could you

give us any information about that? Um so generally the TOEFL is notoriously

known for being longer than the ILTS. I think sometimes it goes as long as 4

hours and uh many students don't really uh like that. Uh it is uh in some ways

uh easier but the length doesn't really help. Um

generally you take the TOEFL just with a computer. You don't have any

uh human interaction when it comes to uh

the exam. Whereas the eyelets you in the speaking portion you usually have an

examiner who talks to you either in person or through a live call.

Uh whereas in the tofu you just talk to the computer through a microphone and uh and that's that. So for people who feel

like they would be anxious talking to a person uh just an in person or just a

live uh video call and they would feel like they wouldn't perform as well uh

it's better that they take the TOEFL because they don't really have that pressure of talking to another person.

And for people who feel more confident talking to another person and think that they would do better if there is a live

interaction then eyelets is for them. Um I think there is a portion in the

eyelets where you have to describe a chart and uh describe a map and that's

not in the TOEFL. most of the uh the questions in the so far are just uh MCQ

so it's multiple choice questions. Mhm. Um yeah so I think these are the main

things that I can think of on the top of my head but I'm pretty sure there there are a few more uh differences between

the two. Okay, thank you very much. So Ki says what documents should I prepare while

applying for scholarships? I mean I wanted I wanted to stay prepared before their admission began. So can you tell

me sorry what documents shall I own at least. So first of all um like you can

see our test and documents section uh like what what to get uh like documents

also you can read about proficiency tests standardized ones etc. And like

usually you can also I would advise you if you have a specific country that you want to apply for a scholarship in I

would advise you to go to our country guides and let's say you want to apply to a scholarship in Australia. Um and

like we do have stuff here about like documents and tests needed uh like

review recommendation letters uh complete guide to GMAT um or like hang

on applying to university complete guide etc etc etc. So, first of all, that is

like usually a lot a lot of those are uh like you would hang on. Uh I was going

to just defer to Aean and our Zoom call just ended. So, it's going to be like a

minute of lull in here. Um so, first of all, regardless of what

happens like uh whatever you read, you will always have to go and read

specifically about the scholarship. Let's look at any scholarships, right?

Hi, Em? Yeah, I can hear you. All right, I can hear you as well. Um, great. So, I was saying uh there are

specific uh documents that you would always kind of need. For example, let's

look into the this and

uh hang on application deadline. So in school application procedure you

can look into these like a lot of these will be pretty much the same with uh you applying to university like your

credentials uh if you have uh any like

proficiency or something like that cobe says what documents should I prepare while applying for scholarships. I mean

I wanted to stay prepared before their admission began. So, can you tell me what documents I shall own at least?

Like they're look they're asking for like a basic uh

list of documents that you would need pretty much for any scholarship. Would you like to say anything about that?

Yeah. Well, that's the thing. So, the list of documents is uh for one

scholarship dependent. So some scholarships require more documents than others and uh for two it is country

dependent. So what what country you're coming from and to have a comprehensive list I think

my best advice is to go to our section of uh scholarship recipients then filter

by nationality to your nationality then go to uh any of the stories there and

then go to how did you prepare to apply for the scholarship uh section and then there they will most of most applicants

would uh give you the full list of the uh documents they had prepared prior

to applying uh for the scholarship. And most of them state that the first step

they had to do was to check the university's official website for the

required documents. So it's as simple as that. And the moment you apply for your

first scholarship, you will have most of the documents you need. Uh and most of the time you would have to add one or

two or just remove one or two. Uh that would be the case most of the time. So I

think to to have a comprehensive list, this is the best way to go about it. and

you'll see and you'll start to see what documents most applicants uh prepared

before applying for scholarships. It's usually um their uh letters of motivation,

recommendation letters. uh these are uh usually documents that

you should get uh quite early especially for the letters of recommendation because you'd have to reach out to uh

your teachers to give those to you and that might take some time. So

I guess that's uh one of the most important documents to secure pretty

early. the rest is really up to you and when it's in your hands uh you have time

to do it whenever but whenever it's up to other people you have to secure those

documents first. So if it's uh a teacher is going to give you that the early you

do it the earlier you do it the better it is for you because they're busy and you don't have any timeline as to when

they're going to give it back. So, it's better to ask early. But when it comes to other documents, you can get those

whenever you want, right? Okay. Thank you very much, Aan.

Um, yeah, I guess that's that's pretty much all we can say about that.

And so, yeah, guys, if you have any other questions, feel free to ask them in the

chat. Yeah, I didn't talk about scholarship stories. Sorry about that. So basically scholarship stories are um

let me do like hang on right we have

couple of hundreds stories here apparently so these are people who have earned scholarships that are very

popular uh like deans award uh here we have commonwealth scholarship Chinese

government scholarship um so let's see again Chinese so like

basically the best scholarships you'll find and global scholarships find these people

and have them tell their story to us. For example, you can just uh like filter for country, let's say uh let's say

Germany, right? And a lot of these people will be people who earn DAD

scholarship which is the government scholarship in Germany which is one of the hang yeah which is one of the most

um competitive scholarships uh government scholarships because Germany

doesn't have a lot of full funding scholarships anyway. So I think if you're going for a like a big

scholarship, a popular competitive scholarship, um the best thing you can

do is to go to our scholarship story section, look for that scholarship. You can just click on that scholarship to

see all the the stories that we have and just basically read about these people

have won who have earned that scholarship, right? their journey,

scholarship details, educational background, how they prepare, uh how was your how was their experience, uh like

what did they do to apply, how what would they do differently, what advice

would they give? And uh I think the best thing here is a lot of these people are

sharing their LinkedIn or other social media contact information. So like if

you want to go and apply for a DAD basically you can just add this person on LinkedIn and directly ask your dad a

question questions to to a person who have got DAD scholarship. I think this is like

the best thing you can do if you're looking for a really big scholarship. So uh they are very very much useful.

While preparing a letter of recommendation, which one do you suggest? Writing the letters general for all universities or specifically for one

university? That's that's a very specific question. So, I'm going to defer to Ammon immediately. Aean, what

do you think?

Um I'm not sure why they're writing the letter of

recommendation. Um I thought they

to get the recommendation letter uh like targeting to targeting a

specific university or or code would be key. Were you talking about personal statement? I'm not sure. Yeah, that's

what I'm trying to Yeah, that's that's what I'm trying to understand. Whether they mean their personal statement or

would a personal statement already be targeted to a specific university when

you apply? Yes. Yeah, it definitely would. So, my answers would be different dependent on

whether it's a letter of recommendation or a personal statement because or a

letter of motivation. So, it's it's the same thing. Uh, for letters of motivation, they're university specific,

they're scholarship specific, and you have to be as specific as possible because if you write a general one, uh,

you're doing it completely wrong because they're trying to find students who actually understand the

the goal, the objectives of the scholarship, and they're trying to find

their target uh, students. And if you don't demonstrate that you understand

those goals and objectives, uh you are

never getting that scholarship. So that is one big thing when it comes to applying to scholarships is to actually

demonstrate that you understand what the scholarship is about and then demonstrate that you want to use it in

the way it is intended to be used. Uh that being said, for letters of

recommendation, they come from your teachers. Um

yes, there are cases where students write them and then the teacher reads

them and then they're happy with what they read. Sometimes teachers don't have

time. They ask you to write it. They read it and then if they're satisfied,

they will say that that's what they think. uh but it's it's less common now because

generally the teacher has to submit it themselves uh and even in that case you can write

it and then they submit it. So that's also fine but generally you'll have to

talk to your teacher first before doing that. So you don't just write your letter of recommendation and then go to

them. So it's up to them whether they want to write it or they want you to write it and then they vouch for it.

Um, yeah. So, I guess in uh in the case of a letter of motivation, it has to be

as specific as possible, but for the letter of recommendation, it doesn't have to be it can be very general and

you can use it for all of your applications basically.

Okay. Thank you very much, Aean. So yeah guys, if you have any other questions um just like we because we're

going to end the live stream in a couple of minutes if you don't have any other

questions. So if you have any just write them in the chat would we're going to do

our best to answer them for you otherwise we're going to kind of end the live stream here.

Should I say to whom it concerns or just to university name?

Amen. We still haven't gotten the answer to

our main question. Yeah. Right.

Is there a recommendation letter, personal statement?

So, okay, we're going to we're going to wait for that information for a couple of minutes and after that we can perhaps

end the live stream. So I want to do like more stuff about uh

like kind of like world knowledge about like talking about countries etc as well

uh in the live streams that will help us pass the time. Do you guys have any

recommendations like things that you would be interested in perhaps like we can uh can talk about

uh learning languages we can play like Wordle or stuff like that. Uh because

this is like I I don't want this to be like I come come in just talk about

scholarships and like ceaselessly and then end the live stream. Uh I think it

would be better for us to like if it was more chill, we can wait for uh questions

to appear. So yeah, if you have any recommendations, you might consider

those doing stuff. I don't think we can play like Joesser

or something like that. Although there's a there's a game called Time Guesser uh

which is a really good game uh because it's like it's it's not like Geogesser

where you have to guess where you are but it also like it's an it's a photo

uh why am I telling you? Hang on. So it's I play this all the time. I really like

it. Is that No, I'm not interested. continue

the game. So, like they give you a photo and you not only have to guess where the

place is, but also the year from like 1900 to 2025. And it's like I will I've

realized that I'm terrible at at timing the photos even though I study history.

So, yeah, this I think this is a much more fun game.

Um, which one do you recommend? Focusing on one uni or country

country and uh okay which one do you recommend focusing on one union or

country and waiting for their scholarship program or searching all over other countries with my desired

field of study. So you you do realize code Beck you still didn't give us

answer the answer about uh whether you're talking about a recommendation letter or a personal statement. I'm

going to take this as you being 100% satisfied with our answer. So, we're

going to move on to your next question. So I think um I think that kind kind of

depends on the field of study like if you're um if you're maybe want if you

want to study something specific um like medicine or something that would really

help you study in a specific country I guess then a program over uh location

would be kind of better but if you're looking for more like your experience

your finances are more important for you. You're more looking for that study

abroad experience rather than uh getting really really really spec like uh

targeted education on a specific subject. I think looking for certain countries or regions can be a better

idea because uh they do have very specific features aspects like um like

it's going to be very completely different experience if like studying in

Japan or United States but if you are looking for I don't know let's say you want to study AI and like China for

example is a very good place for that or United states uh uh or like maybe you

want to study engineering again Japan or Germany might be might be very good

choices or like there are some subjects that are very country specific but but other than that I guess like looking for

a specific country or region might be better what do you think

um I guess either approaches is fine really so as you said it's uh uh

situational um you can

narrow your field of search, you can make it as broad as possible to improve your chances of getting scholarships.

Um and both approaches are valid. I am of the opinion that you should just

apply to as many scholarships as you can in as many countries as you can because

why not? it it it really helps and uh

there is a higher chance of getting a scholarship somewhere. So uh just do

that. But if you want to focus on a specific country uh on a specific

university on one scholarship there is nothing wrong with that because there are many many students who focus on only

one scholarship and they got it. So uh it's uh there is no right or wrong

way to approach this. All right. Yeah. I think there are some

there are a lot of fields of study that studying a specific country doesn't

really matter all that much. Uh but then there are ones that yeah you better get

it in I guess I don't know Kazakhstan is the best at studying architecture so

let's go to the are there need-based scholarships yes there are need-based scholarships that is a very very much a

quite broad spectrum of scholarships um basically there are need-based or

merit-based uh so that's what uh James Bond was talking about like for example there are

financial aid scholarships in United States they don't like they are

like the amount or whether you get it kind of depends on uh whether you real

like really need it or like your what is your financial need in the previous question I was asking about the letter

of recommendation I noticed that some letters start with to whom it may concern while letter begins with the

name of a specific university I'm I'm not sure what advantage to whom it may concern would have over

the specific university name. Uh but still let's go to Aean for that or

export Aan. What do you what do you think?

Amen. Um I don't think you should say Oh, sorry. I was muted. I was talking.

Um yeah, you shouldn't say either of those things. You should just write it's not

when we say it's a motivation letter. It's not a letter per se where it has the format of a letter. You just have to

write about your passion about the subject. You're passion about the scholarship. You have to show that you

have made your research. You understand the objectives. But there is so the opening is just an introduction rather

than to whom it may concern or to dear someone. So you just don't do that. You

just get straight into it. uh that's how it usually works. So I

wouldn't really worry about that. Just uh do your research about the scholarship and then uh write about

that. I think you can find many many samples online of letters of motivation.

And again it's not a recommendation letter. So for recommendation letters they're

completely different and they're written by your teachers. uh they're not written by you most of

the time. So, uh you're mainly talking about a letter

of motivation and it doesn't have that format that starts as uh a normal letter

would. Okay.

Um I don't see any other questions. So, we're going to finish our live

stream here unless you come up with a very quick fast question. Um, thank you

very much. Okay, hang on. So, deep scholarships are only in the United States. No, I I didn't say that. I

didn't say that. Uh, there are NEP scholarships pretty much everywhere, right, Aan?

Um, I'm not sure about everywhere, but I think it's mostly the US.

Most other universities, uh, whether in Europe or Asia, just give

uh, at least international students merit scholarships.

I didn't realize that. Okay. So, it's it's mostly in US, right? I'm trying to do medicine. Do you have any idea the

best university I can go? So like um we made a couple of videos about like

the best medical schools in a specific country, but other than that like uh I

guess the best university you can go for to study go to study medicine is like

the highest ranking uh medicine university. Like you can just uh the highest ranking university you could

find. Uh I mean other than that if you have a specific question like a specific

thing that you're asking for make it a more detailed question maybe we can like a scholarship uh because I got three A

stars at A level I want to do medicine from your experience any best place to go or any recommendations or like in

terms of worth it for money. Okay. Okay. This is a much more um manageable

question and I'm going to defer to Aman. Aean, what do you think about this?

Um yeah, just sorry. Um just concerning the previous question, I saw some

samples of uh motivation letters that start as uh dear admission committee. So

you might consider that if you want to take that for M. Uh I was just looking that up.

Okay. What do you think about this last question?

Like they say they cannot afford like $50,000 a year, more like 20,000. So if

that's the case, I would prefer like I I would advise you to look for something perhaps in um Asian countries would be

better to find in that uh tuition range or um I guess Europe. There are a lot of

very good universities in Europe. I'm kind of excluding United Kingdom because United King like 20,000 a year is not

Malaysia. I'm I don't really know much about Malaysia. So we're going to ask Aean that too. Um but like in United

Kingdom can find universities with like about 20,000 tuition a year but usually I

think med medical schools are medical schools can be higher tuition medical school tuition. So you you need to look

into that as well. Um Aman what what would you would you uh give as an advice?

Um yeah so we talked about medical subjects earlier and how some countries

just teach them in their native language. So that is all always a big

consideration even if tuition could be uh cheaper for example in Asia.

Yeah. Um medical course could most likely not be taught in English.

Uh Malaysia is a good country to consider, but I'm not

very familiar with how uh medical subjects are are taught there.

Um, so if you if you're talking about a budget of 20,000 a year,

uh, so I would assume that it's not just tuition, but tuition and, uh, living

expenses because that's that's a big thing. Uh, to clarify,

uh, 20K would get you anywhere in Europe. Uh, so Austria, the Netherlands,

Belgium, uh, France, but I'm pretty sure that medical subjects are all in French uh,

in France. Uh, but in the Netherlands, Belgium, Austria,

uh, Hungary, I would assume that they're taught in English. So these are uh all countries to

consider and I think that the tuition would not even exceed um€10,000.

Um they say because like ME in Australia is about 8,000 80,000 a year in Malaysia

it's 30. Do you think it's worth it? I could probably afford it. And they say they don't they don't really want to go

to Europe, you know, with the racism. Um

I'm not sure if Europe is more racist than let's for example Australia. Uh

like like you would uh you would face more racism in Europe than uh you would

in Australia or even Malaysia. I'm not sure if you know like if you have much information about Malaysia but usually

we hear about uh racism against tourists or foreigners in like western

countries in like United States sometimes in Europe or like in specific countries but just because we don't hear

about uh racism in some other countries

like perhaps less developed countries absolutely does not mean it doesn't exist there. For example, in Turkey, uh,

like if you are living, I don't know, in in anywhere in the world, probably you

wouldn't hear about racism in Turkey as much as you hear about racism in United States. It absolutely does not mean

Turkey is not like Tur in Turkey, you won't face as much racism as in United

States. So I wouldn't um unless you know something about Malaysia that I don't I

wouldn't uh assume that in Malaysia you would face less um racism compared to

like let's say I know France uh for example. So uh that's it that's a kind of different question but Aean what do

you what do you think? Um, yeah. So, I'm not sure if I would

really uh

completely discard a specific country for

for example, racism. Yeah. And put a country over it just because I

I would assume that there is less less racism there. But like the likelihood is that in the country where you assume

there's no racism is the country where you'll face the most racism. Uh to me

when it comes to education I wouldn't I wouldn't really uh

factor that in. I would just uh focus on the universities themselves, the quality

of education I'm going to get because at the end of the day it's all about education. um unless you plan on uh

living there for the rest of your life after finishing your education.

Um it's it's just temporary. You're just going to get your degree and

uh and that's it. But if you plan on staying there, then that's a different consideration and then you'll have to

actually vet the country in more ways than one.

Uh so we don't really know your motivations and what you're looking to

do after the degree but before before getting the degree or while you're

trying to apply the most obvious options for

your budget. Yeah, you do need English proficiency

uh because uh in most of these countries like the Netherlands, Belgium, Austria,

Hungary, uh the uh the the medical uh courses are

taught in English or at least there are a few universities that do. Oh, well, if English is your first language, then you

don't even have to provide any English proficiency test. They're they're asking

like do you need to learn the local language or like English is enough like or in what situations English is enough?

Yeah, for for education purposes English is enough. Uh and most people in these countries at

least uh are

in Germany. No, no, no. That's that is a common misconception. Well, it depends

actually. So, I had a meeting with a university in Germany once and I and I

asked them the same question. I said I thought that in order to apply to any German university, you need a certain

level of uh German proficiency. They said no, you just need English and if the program is not in English, uh you

don't need any German uh you don't need any proof of German

proficiency. So, and I don't know why for the longest time many people

including me thought that you do need uh a certain level in German to be accepted

at German universities. But if the program is taught in German,

then of course you would need at least a C1 level. Other than that, if it's pro if it's in English, then sometimes I did

see that that they would ask for a minimal level in English uh sorry in German. Uh there are some universities

that do regardless of whether the program is taught in English or not. You do need a certain level like a B2,

sometimes it's a B1, but you do need to provide that. There are other

universities that just accept English and that's it. They wouldn't really require any German. So it's university

specific and I have seen both cases. All right. Thank you, Aean. So thank you

Seno Ko. Uh my day was great. I love Fridays because I get to come here and

talk to you and talk to Aean like do the live stream. It is just always fun. Uh

so yeah, my day was great. It's going better actually. So Colwood Beck is my

last question for today. What common mistakes should I avoid while applying? Thanks very much for your program. Thank

you very much for joining in. We are here every Friday. Um you can just join in. Um, Aean, what do you think are some

of the most common mistakes? Um, I think that probably the biggest

mistake is to write something that you think you would use to apply

to any university. So, not being as specific as possible

is going to really hurt your application. So, if you think that I'm going to write this one motivation

letter and I'm going to use it to apply to every university that I have on my list, you're going to fail at every

single one because they're looking for something that is specific to them, that is tailored to their university, to the

scholarship, and you need to demonstrate that you understand everything about

that scholarship, everything about that university, what they stand for. Um and this is the best way to show them

that you have made your research, you are really interested, you are really motivated to apply to uh this specific

university, this specific scholarship. And that's why it's called the motivation letter. You have to demonstrate your passion and how it led

to you pursuing uh studying at this specific university and uh pursuing this

specific scholarship. They all need to align otherwise

your application is going to come off as uh ingenuine or disguine. Sorry.

Uh so you're not going to sound Oh, sorry. No, no, go ahead. Sorry.

Oh, yeah. Uh yeah, you're not going to sound authentic and uh the person on the

other end reading your motivational learner is not going to feel that you are actually

uh a good fit for the scholarship because your passion doesn't show

and it's a big big thing. Um I think other than that is that always get

feedback. Don't think that uh your motivation letter is perfect once it's

done. You need feedback. You need to reread it yourself. Just leave it on the side for a few days, for a week, for two

weeks, then read it again and you can see that you can make a lot of improvements to it and then also give it

to other people and they give you feedback and then you can uh improve it from there as well. So don't never think

that it's perfect. always uh look for a second opinion and also

just look for your own second opinion after sitting on it for a while.

Uh yeah, I guess

these are things to consider. They're not

there are no common mistakes per se because it's not objective.

uh there is no it is not scored there the committee doesn't release the

motivation letters and tells you why these were denied or why these were

accepted. So there are no objective criteria to judge a letter of

motivation. But so we can't really say that there are common mistakes but at

least we can give some uh pointers as to what to do and the things you need to do

right in order to uh submit a good letter of motivation.

All right, thank you very much. Amen. And regular short says I completed my app for Kais and almost done with postc.

That's great to hear regular. I hope it happens. I hope like you get because both both kais and postc are really good

universities. Um so by the way you applied for the kai scholarship as well

right because if I remember correctly you apply to this while you are applying to the university. So I hope you get it.

I hope you get uh the scholarship as well. It's a really good university ka

uh one of the best technology universities that you can get. Uh it's all it's I think one of the one one of

the things that don't really get a lot get mentioned enough about uh Kai is that was it Da was it Da John? I think

it was in Da John it was not. So it's like it would be way more affordable than a lot of other good universities in

uh South Korea to live in even though it's really close to Soul as well. No

separate applic are you sure if I have maybe okay maybe they've changed it because if I remember

correctly when I made application tutorial for Kaist that like you could you could apply just like with uh

clicking a box or something like that. Okay, I hope you get it. I hope you get

uh like whichever you want more. Okay, thank you very much everyone for joining

in. if you're watching this uh as a VOD after the live stream. Thank you very much for watching and we'll be here next

Friday and we'll see uh maybe it will be both of us maybe we'll be we'll be

joined by Yan as well. So yeah, thank you very much and and thank you Aman for

joining me today. Uh thank you for having me. Yes. Okay,

see every everyone uh have a nice week and bye.