Scholarship Q&A Livestream

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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. If you're new here, we do live streams every Friday. We do Q&As.

We talk about like scholarships, etc., etc. And as always, of course, I'm here joined by our expert, Aemon. Hi, Aean.

How are you? How are things going with you? Um, hi AZ. I'm doing well, thank you. How are you?

I'm doing well too. Thank you very much. So, everyone, if you're new here, we are global scholarships. Uh, we have a

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detailed. Okay? So like because in like for vague questions, we can only give

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situation, maybe we can help you a little better. That's why we have an expert here. Amen. Uh so yeah other than

that we talk we're going to talk about like scholarships. We have a website where you can get a whole lot of

information about like scholarships about studying abroad uh that sort of thing. We have a source tool uh where

you can see what scholarship options that you can have uh that you have in different countries um or different

universities perhaps. For example, if you have a country in mind that you want to study in, you can just type in, let's

say, France, right? Um, so it is going to show you all the scholarships that we

have in that country. Uh, not that many scholarships in France because in a lot

of European countries. Hi there, uh, Renegades, welcome to our live stream. I want to study in United States. So thing

about United States is United States uh by far offers the most scholarships that

you will find. For example, let me share the link with you so you can look for yourself as well. But let's also uh take

a quick look. So we have about 4,500 scholarships in our database. And if we

filter for United States, you'll see about almost 2,000 of them.

Hi there, James Von. uh what question uh just remind me please I'm from India

currently studying in class 12 so if you want to study in as you can see we have about like 2,000 uh scholarships in our

database that is from United States uh not a lot of them are bachelors uh so we

have a thousand now there are a lot of scholarships in United States but one

thing that you have to keep in mind that is that USA is very expensive not only

to live in like uh especially if you uh want to study in places like United uh

New York uh California or other like uh crowded places those are really really

expensive uh like living costs can really just skyrocket in an instant but

also uh in United States a lot of universities offer tuition charges

tuition like uh let's see $60,000 like It's usually between 30 and

$60,000. So, it is kind of difficult to find uh difficult to be able to afford

unless you have a lot of money uh to study there. So, it is really expensive,

which is why you really need to find a scholarship to be able to study there. And they offer a lot of scholarships,

but not all of them are uh full funding. So, yes, there are a lot of budget

friendly countries in Europe. We're going to talk about those in a second. Um so in Europe for example uh Germany,

Italy, France we've just seen like in France there are very few um

scholarships in Italy as well and that's mainly because uh like the universities

al already are very affordable like this is Sorbone. Yeah, as you can see, no tit like

Sorbone is one of the best universities uh in Europe like it it is I think it

would like in Europe it is as famous as like MIT or like Cambridge or other universities. It's it's really like it

has graduated some of the most famous scientists in it time and it's free. So

yeah, uh there are not that many scholarships in Europe, but it's also uh mainly because it's really uh

affordable. Like you don't have to pay about $40,000 $50,000 uh for tuition. So

yeah, um what would be the best place to go for

undergraduate study? So yeah, uh not hacks. Uh that's something we talked about like if you can give us a little

bit bit more information um about yourself about like what you want to study like your uh situation like it

kind of depends right now USA or normally it would be like places like

USA, Canada, Australia uh they were like the main countries that people who want

to study abroad uh would go for uh but recently those places have become much

much much less welcoming to foreign students and they're also very expensive

like because it's because there's a huge uh demand for their education they like

the universities offers they charge insane tuition fees about like 40 50

$60,000 uh so in Europe you can look into France

uh can say can you say these prices in rupee um I think we can I think I You

can just type in uh like USD to rupees

uh and like yeah so should be really easy to convert these like I mean I can

I can I can tell you in rupees it's zero uh but like when it comes to something

like let's say $40,000 it's about let's See, it's about 3.5

million, right? Uh when it is if it's 60, it's Yeah, you can see uh they're

very expensive. Hang on. Uh can you help me how to get

global scholarships from from global school? Do you mean our uh our external

scholarship or so? Um yeah, global scholarships also offers

its own scholarship. I think that's what you mean, like this $3,000 external scholarship.

I'm going to be honest with you, I don't have a lot of information on this. Uh because that's something a bit more uh

had to do with like the actual company and I'm more interested in like YouTube

and like content stuff. Uh so perhaps Aean can give us a little bit more

information or James Bond if you have any specific questions uh about like what exactly what type of

information you would appreciate maybe that would be easier for Aan. Renegade says I'm a student in class 12 and I'm a

student of science stream PCM. So yeah also not tech says I want to study

engineering need financial aid I just want the best education to make worthwhile for me uh to go out of my

country yes like it is a like you either it's great to see here like you

shouldn't just go and study abroad uh just to go and study abroad and if

you're going to do that and if you are looking for I want to be able to say I studied abroad I studied in another

country I think USA uh would be a bad choice for that because even if you are

extremely frugal if you spend like no money zero dollars every month you'll

still have to pay about like tens of thousands of dollars every year which will incur you a lot of could incur a

lot of student debt and like there is there are very little chance that it will be worth it but uh you could go to

Europe you could go to Germany. Let's say in a lot of in a lot of universities

in Germany, you don't have to pay any tuition fees. So like even the best universities, some of the best

universities here, you don't have to pay any tuition fees. And I'm going to give you a nice little insight. So uh so

normally people are looking for full funding scholarships, right? And full funding scholarships are like very

generous. They cover tuition, they cover, they give you a stipen, they cover accommodation, etc., etc.

But they are very rare and like in places like Germany, France, Italy, like

very affordable places, you you don't really find a lot of those countries don't really offer. Italy does. Italy

does offer a couple of full funding scholarships. But what you could do and

what you should do is go to Germany and look for partial scholarships because

even though partial scholarships only offer you about like um $1,000

€1,000 a month, like €500 a month or something like that. They don't cover your tuition fees because tuition fees

does not exist in the first place. Tuition fees do not exist in a lot of these universities. Like if you want to

go and study in RWTH AI University, this is a great opportunity for you. For example, this is available for bachelors

as well. Like it will give you about like €6,000 per semester, right? When

you look at it at face value, it looks like it's it's a partial scholarship. It's not a full funding scholarship. It

is not as attractive as a full funding scholarship. But that is only because Aan University

does not charge ti fees. So it cannot be full funding scholarship because it cannot charge a tuition fee that doesn't

exist. Do you understand? So I would look into partial funding scholarships in Europe. In a lot of times they will

be better for you than a lot of full tuition or full funding scholarships in

United States. All right. Um James says, "I applied for this but I

didn't get any confirmation mail or anything. You're from Turkey, right? How's the education there?" uh one of my

friend got full funding scholarship there. So first let's let's talk about

uh the more comfortable subject that is uh the scholarship. Ammon uh do you have

any information about this like they've applied for our scholarship but did not get any confirmation mail or anything?

Is that normal? Um yes. So we only

email people who are shortlisted. Oh, uh, we get a lot of applications. So, if

you have applied, we've definitely gone through your application. It's just that

you weren't shortlisted. And we have already announced the winner for this year. So,

um, if anyone wants to apply, they would apply for next year's,

uh, scholarship, which will be awarded around uh, June or July.

uh of 2026. Okay. Thank you. So, um let's talk about

uh they're they're aiming for next year. Uh do you want to add anything? Is that

pretty much the same? Um yeah. So if you have an acceptance

letter from a university, you are an international student, uh you have filled out the form and you have uh

written the essay then uh yeah so your application has gone through and you are

eligible. It just depends on other applicants and

uh how good their applications are and yeah so it it all depends on that from from

there. Uh since you did all of that, I think you you've done everything right and we'll go through your application

and if you're shortlisted, you will be contacted.

Okay, thank you. Uh so let's talk about uh Renegades. I'll get back to your

question, but uh first let's talk about James Bond's question. Um so education

in Turkey is it's a bit complicated. So there are

great universities in Turkey. It's not Aman. Uh are you not you're not

from as far as I know you're not from any Targaryen family are you? Aan it's

Aean Ame. Uh so in Turkey there are some great

universities like coach university um like a lot of universities in uh Ankara

or Istanul are great but there are also a lot of uh like newer universities that

um that do not offer great educational value I'm afraid to say and like because

the government has been like opening new universities like a lot and a lot of

them like so many of those universities don't really have pretty much any uh

students or like professors or things things like that. And there are um

especially recently some of those universities and quality of education and the reliability of education uh

higher education in Turkey has been put into question. So yes, if you can get into one of the

better universities in Turkey, they offer great education. We have like we have so many talented people in this

country that is giving like insanely good education but it is not very

reliable. It is not like it's not very homogeneous as you would see in let's say in Germany perhaps. Also another

thing that uh even with a full funding scholarship your uh friend will probably

face is uh financial issues because Turkey has been going through a lot of

economic issues for last I don't know 5 years 10 years uh we have a we have a very high

inflation rate which is why it is it is especially bad for people who are living

on a stipend because um the thing is like you have a you have a specific

stipen, right? Let's say I know like4 $400 uh a month. The problem is that you

get the same amount of money every month from your uh scholarship, but things keep getting very much much more

expensive like everything gets more like I don't know like 40% more expensive but

you are still getting pretty much the same. Can you get can you name few universities? Germany requires 13 years

of education I guess and yeah also heard about inflation Turkey and it's yeah so um like for example Bosichi uh coach

university these are great in Ismir do or either

good um in in Ankara there is um Hajepe

there is Ankara Ankara University um there is um hang on what was what was

the name of that uh so yeah I think I think like you can see like top top some

universities for aid students yeah we're going to look into that uh like there are a lot

of lists and I think like maybe top 10 universities in Turkey uh would be uh

would be kind of worth it because even in spite of a lot of issues Turkey is

still not as expensive as a lot of other countries uh in uh Europe or like United

States or something like that. And like if you go to a good university, you can get very good get a very good education.

And also I think Turkey is way more uh lenient when it comes to like trying to

work in here. Uh so yeah, I don't think we are as strict as like Germany or

United States or something like that. But yeah, uh money is a real issue. like

other day I was looking into maybe you know about uh Big Mac index for so for

um Big Mac index is pretty much like you're looking at the Big Mac prices in different countries since it's it's a

very standardized product and like you see how expensive

how expensive the country is kind of like it gives you an idea based on how expensive Big Mac

is. So right now in Turkey, Big Mac is more expensive than like 80% of uh

American states. Like for example, in Texas, you could get a Big Mac more of

cheaper than you would get in Turkey. So that's how expensive Turkey is. Keep that in mind. All right? Like right now,

um minimum wage in Turkey is has is has the like highest level it has been in

dollar terms. So like in dollar terms it's very expensive as well. Just keep that in mind. I just don't want to I

just don't want people to come to Turkey and be disappointed. That's all. Anyway,

so uh I talked way too much about that. Um so I want to pursue. Hang on. Let me

see. Um who said best universities German demands?

Uh okay. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Uh there are there are things to say about government that I

would not say uh in live stream or any anywhere else basically there yeah we

yeah people people are hearing those those type of thing those type of things. Okay so I want to pursue

undergraduate in CS with specialization in AI and quantum computing. Uh it says

renegade and then says uh can you suggest affordable European countries where UG degrees in CS and AI technology

are great. Germany demands 13 years of education but in India we stood for 12

years. So how will be is that so Germany demands 13 years of

education. I'm not sure how I don't know I have I have a couple of friends who went there to study and we also have uh

12 years. Uh Aean, what do you think about this last question?

Um yeah, I don't think it's going to be an issue in particular because

uh they are aware of what countries uh do and their education system. So

it would always be like 13 years or equivalent. uh which means that if your country

offers 12 years then that would be the equivalent of 13 in another country so I

don't think it's going to be an issue there are many many people from India who study in Germany uh and it's never

an issue also uh like if you're interested in seeing how you can apply

to any German universities with like 12 years of education from your country you can look at our uh tutorials we have

application tutorials for Germany universities. A couple of them I've made

and like basically you can or you can look into our tutorial on UNI assist uh

where which you can use to apply to a lot of German universities like how can you uh get your own qualification on par

with German qualification. Yeah, that yeah that student colleague

is also part of that. So um

how can we get okay hang on not hex asked could you suggest best universities for engineering aim

mechanical or CS who do offer aid to students um Aean would you like do you

have any specific uh universities that you want to name or maybe specific

insights about this? Um, not really. I think the best way to

go about it is just search the tool because when it comes to specific

subjects, I wouldn't really know. Okay. So, what you can do is uh not h

not hex. Yeah. Um, you can look into our uh search tool. So, when you choose a

subject here, uh, let's say mechanical engineering,

right? Keep in mind what it does is first it shows you scholarships that specifically

mention uh mechanical engineering and when it runs out of them it shows you

scholarships that are for uh all subjects but in this context all subjects mean uh all subjects offered by

this university. So if University of New Orleans does not offer uh mechanical

engineering, you cannot obviously apply uh to this scholarship through that

program. All right. Uh you can look into our search.

Yes. Uh I think we answered that. Uh how can we get scholarships in Europe? Can

you state what is the criteria? So criteria of course um changes changes

based on the scholarship. Uh so like again there are not that many

scholarships in uh in Europe. So for example, when you look at our website

and our search tool, right, you'll see a lot of full tuition scholarships in Germany.

But uh these are not really um like scholarships in the sense that it is

given financial aid uh but more like they are just free tuition. Basically

these universities do not charge tuition fee any tuition fees. So um

so these for example you don't have to try and get like you don't like in United States or if you go to um

basically any country really out of Europe like Canada, Australia, U Korea,

Japan, China, Taiwan um doesn't really New Zealand doesn't really matter if you

go to those universities those countries uh universities charge tuition and to be

able to get free tuition like full tuition scholarships. You'll need to get

a scholarship like apply when maybe like by merit or by your uh like need-based

or Hong Kong. Yeah. Uh Hong Kong has very high tuition as well. So uh but in

Germany or in a lot of uh like French universities, Italian universities, let's look at Italy as well. Uh you

don't have to do anything. It's just basically free tuition and you don't have to apply for anything or something

like that. Uh, hang on. There is one question that I've skipped.

Let me see. Yeah, not hack said, "I've heard that in Germany jobs are scarce for non-native

speakers. Uh, have to generally work for delivery jobs." Not a bad thing, but

still. Uh so yeah I mean one thing that one thing about like most

recent events is that a lot of um English-sp speakaking countries has become less attractive because they're

less welcoming. So non-English-speaking countries uh some of them like in Europe for example are more attractive but you

also don't know the language. But a lot of these countries also offer they have universities that offer English

programs. For example, uh there are um there are programs in uh University of

Bolognia if I remember correctly, University of Pedua. These universities offer English taught programs. We made a

lot of videos about those as well. If you're interested in going and studying in a European country in English and

like cuz if you don't know the language, uh in Germany as well, there are a lot of universities offer English taught

programs in Germany. uh like there's a huge uh like education opportunity there

if you only speak uh English. Um so yeah you can go and do that but obviously

that kind of regardless of country if you go to a country and you don't speak

the language and like yeah in Europe you don't have to pay tuition in a lot of

universities or tuition is very affordable but you if you don't have enough money to uh kind of like take

care of your living expenses and living expenses can be quite high in Europe as well. Uh for example in Italy if you

live in a touristic country touristic city like go to Venice or like live in

Berlin your living cost might be high and well then you can you can do

part-time you can work part-time jobs. Uh but yeah there'll be like being a barista uh like being being a delivery

uh like doing delivery jobs but yeah if you don't know the language it will be a little bit more difficult. you we get

the scholarship then also we have to pay rent for accommodation food travel fee etc. Yeah. So um so if you that is true

for um a lot of like uh tuition scholarships

uh fullfunding scholarships usually cover at least some of those uh like for example in United States you know what

in Canada there is a scholarship that is a great scholarship that is that has just opened for application let me show

you uh full funding Canada in places like Canada you have to get

like a really good scholarship ship otherwise it will be very expensive. Lester B. Pearson um Aean I think this

has opened for application this week. Am I right? Because I don't remember seeing

it last week. Um yeah, probably. I think so. Yeah.

So yeah, this is like one of the best scholarships in Canada. It is for bachelors. It's full funding 37 people.

not that many but again uh full funding scholarships are rare. Uh it covers

tition fees, it covers book and materials fees, it covers accommodation fees and accommodation can be pretty

much a nightmare in Canada. I I had a cousin who lived there and like uh rent is just a nightmare. Uh so yeah you have

to again pay like food um travel fee um

like there are other stuff as well for example insurance not everyone like very few people talk about insurance but in a

lot of countries you have to have student insurance and very very few scholarships cover insurance there are

other stuff one thing you can do that I really like is let's say you want to

study in University of Bolognia right let me hang on university city of Bolognia

living costs. You can just uh Google the university you want to study in and then

uh living costs and usually a lot of universities have those um budgets

basically except all cookies. So basically they give you kind of like how much it would cost for your rent, your

uh like as you can see like a meal, pizza, something like that, bus ticket, city pass, and sometimes they also give

you like a budget. You have to have like €800 or something like that. And as you can

see, there are a lot of different like for example uh application for the

issuing renewal of the permit to stay for non-EU students. This is like 120,

right? Nobody nobody talks about that, but that can be a really

heavy burden. Um, in your opinion, which country Europe is

cost effective and great in UG programs and Okay. Uh, Kais well known around the

world. Are they just underdogs? One of the concern. Okay. First, let's start

with um first let's start with Renegades question. You know what? First, let's

start with MorbiiUS question because it's been a while since they've asked it. H how can I learn writing a personal

statement that can win scholarship? So, it is really difficult to give you advice on uh writing a personal

statement because that's such a personal thing like that it has to be your own voice. It is really difficult to give

you a structure and I think last week we talked about that. Um this was asked and

Aean uh as many weeks before that said like you shouldn't really look into

other people's personal statements or something like that because then you will be like it will affect you and

you'll probably write something that is not quite your own voice your own experience. So I don't think there is a

really uh great way to uh learn that uh from other people's experiences. But

Aean, uh, would you say anything else about this writing personal statement?

Um, yeah. So, it's the same thing I said last week. Um, and it's the same you have

reiterated right now that personal statements are very personal and they

need to be that way. So, um, the best thing you can do is just

learn the structure. uh know how to structure your personal letter, but the rest should be on you to

uh to write. If you read other people's uh

personal letters and then you know that they have won

uh a scholarship, you will definitely be influenced by uh their experience and

you would somehow try to project that onto yourself. And sometimes it's not

fully applicable to your situation and you'll end up with uh a personal letter

that doesn't really sound sincere or genuine uh or authentic enough uh for them to

see you as a potential good applicant. So my best advice is just to learn the

structure. Um there are many guides online and then just write your own

story, write about yourself uh as a person as and as an academic.

Yeah. Okay. Thank you. So um Chile asked

a very simple question. Let's talk about that very shortly. Uh is there I think you mean is there a maximum age for

studying? Um not that I'm aware of. Like in Turkey there aren't. I don't think

there is any like to be to go and study like bachelor's degree. We hear always

hear about like people getting their bachelor's degrees uh like Alex in in their 60s. If you're if you're talking

about scholarships, um some scholarships do have um like maximum age limits. Like

for example, uh it's something like for bachelor level you can apply until like

you're 30, for masters 35 and PhD 40. Uh

some scholarships do have that. I don't think all of them do uh for applying to

the scholarship but I think chances are like if you're I think it's more

understandable for universities to uh like keep their scholarships that are

which are very scarce. I mean I'm sure you'd uh agree for more

for like younger people who don't have any jobs or uh something like that. So I think not that many scholarships do have

age limits as far as I can see but I think like a lot of them would um kind of prefer

people uh under certain uh ages. Amen. Uh would you disagree?

Um no no I wouldn't. So for studying there's never really an age limit. I I

was on a page yesterday and I don't really remember what country it was. I

think it was Japan and they had discounts for people over 60 who wanted

to pursue a degree. So, uh there is never an age limit when it

comes to studying, but there is an age limit on scholarships of course. So, when it comes to scholarships, there are

always age limits. uh generally I think 25 is the limit for bachelor's

degree. Um 30 is for masters sometimes 35 and then

the maximum for a PhD is uh 40. Um yeah so these are the only

limitations when it comes to uh studying abroad or in your own country I guess.

Yeah. Uh there are no limitations when you're paying but there are some when uh

you apply for scholarships. Yeah. Okay. Thank you. So Renegade asked

in your opinion which country in Europe is cost effective and great in undergraduate programs in CS AI

technology. So I can I think I can only give information about like being cost

effective uh because that's usually what I look into when making content and I also

study economics. Um so I'm going to give you a website.

Uh you don't even need to know the name just living to type in living cost. So Nambio has a cost of living map.

Basically you can look into this. Uh it's not 100% reliable, but uh for

example, I think like a couple of months ago, um I asked my cousin, my cousin

lives in London. He uh he moved there a couple of years ago and I asked him

like, "Do you think these are uh like these are accurate like the numbers in here?" and he said he'd looked into

these uh like this website and these numbers before he moved in and he said

like it's quite reliable, quite accurate. So you can look into these and see like which countries or which cities

actually because cities also differ a lot when it comes to cost of living. uh

you can look into which cities like you would see places like Spain and Portugal

um that they would be more the most affordable places in Europe in general

uh or perhaps Italy when it comes to education. So I think like um I think

Italy is kind of uh kind of does have an

advantage in the sense that uh it has hang on it

has some really good scholarships that you don't really see in a lot of other European and I'm here I'm talking about

just like the mainland Europe because when you add in United Kingdom things completely change because United Kingdom

kind of is like United States in the sense that it has a lot of scholarships but also uh tuition fees are very

expensive. Hang on. Our Zoom meeting has ended. So I'm going to have to jump into

our next meeting. Sorry about that. So in Germany, one thing that is really

good about Germany, I believe, is the fact that they are very uh specific.

Like a lot of people are like when they move into Germany, they they complain about how uh strict and like complicated

the bureaucracy is. But also like Germany universities are very specific

about the about the financial type uh side of the situation. So like if you go

there, you know what is going to happen. You know how much you're going to spend, you know how much you're going to need. Uh for example, I think the fact that

they have like a blocked account uh practice is a really good thing. And I

believe Italy also uh has that. I think Aean told me. Aean, it was Italy. Was it

also having blocked accounts? Um, no. I I don't know about Italy. So,

it's France and Yeah, sorry. Yes, France. Yeah. Yeah, we talked about France. So, as you

can see, Italy has scholarships. Uh, for example, we have there are some very

good scholarships here that we've talked about. uh Perua international excellence scholarship and benefits and exemptions

for college superior are really good like these cover pretty much your pretty

much everything and yeah these are I think that's that's the main thing like

uh Spain and Portugal is more affordable uh France and Germany is very strict so

they're very specific Italy has a lot of scholarships stay away from Switzerland that these are the things that I would

say uh because Switzerland do they do offer some good scholarships and their

uh tuition are not very high but cost of living is just I mean look at this

it's like I don't think you can find anywhere that is more expensive so yeah

I think that would be my uh that would be my take but also you ask about like great undergraduate programs for CS and

AI and for that I'm going to have to defer to Aean Aean what would you say cost effective and great undergraduate

programs for CS and AI.

Um so I guess you have talked about the

free countries and uh despite being free uh you always

uh need to cover your own living expenses. So I don't know if that qualifies as

cost effective. Um the alternative is to go to countries

neighboring these countries like for example Austria, Poland where tuition fees are cheap to an extent. So

sometimes it's as low as €1,500 and where the living is less expensive

than uh France or Germany. So, you would uh get away with

living on, I guess, €500 a month and it would be fine.

Uh as opposed to Germany where you would need up to a,000.

Um yeah, so rent would be much cheaper. Uh most utilities would be much cheaper.

uh but you would have to pay some tuition which is a little bit higher

than uh say Germany or France even though you have to pay a semester contribution in Germany for example

which is around €2300 uh every semester it's not a big deal

but uh you still have to pay some uh so in comparison you would pay the

difference of uh 1,200 I this uh intuition and then you would be at an

advantage of a cheaper uh life and you have lower expenses. So I don't know if

uh which one would be cheaper but I would assume that uh being in uh Austria

or Poland or Romania, Hungary uh those uh countries in

uh so uh Eastern European countries or to a lesser extent uh those that are

neighboring uh the western ones.

uh are much much cheaper uh when it comes to uh uh just living in general.

So you'll have to do your research and see which one comes as uh more cost

effective for you and which one you would consider uh to be uh cheaper in the long run. So

you'd have to consider that it's going to be at least 2 years for a masters or

four years for an undergraduate degree and then see which one will uh

ultimately be cheaper than the others. All right. Okay. I think that's a good

point. Okay. So there are a lot of questions that have accumulated.

So, not hex says are unis like postc and ka

well known around the world or are they just underdogs? One of concerns is not to go uh thousands of miles far only

just to get a degree equivalent to 69 you need back at home.

That is a good question. Um

well known around the world. what you what would you say to this question?

Um uh of course they are I think uh Kais and Fasttech are both very very

well-known universities very reputed universities and their degree uh degrees are recognized in

many many countries. So you will have uh a very respected degree if you get it

from one of these universities. Um I think they rank really really high.

Um probably in the 1% even of

universities in the world. So um they are very well-known countries

and recognized by uh all countries

right? Um,

so I'm not sure if they they've meant like underdogs or as in like not not

known enough or they're just um Anyway, I think I think that that answers the

question. Also, you can look into like word university rankings as well. That might help you a little better. Uh, how

should we prepare to get accepted in scholarship? Um, what if you understand English well but can't write well? In

this case, should you write your essay and statements in your native language

first? Ask MorbiiUs who also asked us about uh how to write a personal statement. Aean, what would you say to

this one?

Um, yeah, but then what's the next step as in translate what you have written?

Um I don't know like I I don't know how I feel about uh writing something in one

language then translating it to another. Uh many things are uh lost in

translation because more some languages are more expressive than others when it

comes to word use and just the overall uh structuring of

ideas. So, I'm not sure if it's a good idea to

uh write something in one language, then uh translate it into another. I think

the best thing you can do is just write it in English and then have people give

you feedback. Uh if you know anyone whose English is

really good then maybe they can go through it and give you some pointers on

how to say things better than you have. Uh that is the best approach because at

least you have written it in English and it's easy to go through but if you have translated it it would come off as a

translation. So that is that is most of the time the case. you

can tell that something is translated rather than just written in that language in the first place. So this is

my advice. Maybe just write it even if it's bad and then get feedback and get

people to just uh go through it and give you pointers.

Yeah, I also think that like if you are planning to go in and study in that

language, I think it's kind of like better to try to force yourself to have

like more practice in thinking in that language uh expressing yourself in that language because otherwise like you know

going there and studying in that language would be very difficult. Could you apply to university in the United States doing medicine to show us uh how

to do it full funding scholarship? Are those two questions

like one together? So uh we have made tutorials about studying to universities

in uh applying to universities in United States. You usually can do that through common app. Um we can look into some of

those. Uh I think the most recent one was um Harvard. So when it comes to full

funding scholarships uh usually application procedures can

really like for scholarships in general application procedures can be very different like it is really difficult to

go through the whole application procedure in a tutorial because like a lot of times first you have to get

admitted to the university uh to be able to um apply for a scholarship. In that

case, I can't like get admitted to the university to be able to make a tutorial like I I prefer not committing fraud to

make a tutorial. Uh so but there are also in United States there also you have these uh financial aid programs you

see. Uh and basically you apply like you tell the university um that you need

financial aid and you tell the university that while applying like while

going through the whole common app procedure and then you would create something called a CSS profile and then

like give them information about your financial uh status as well etc etc. So yeah uh we've made a couple of uh

tutorials you can look into those. uh doing medicine. I don't think medicine

I'm not sure if medicine programs are um like they have different procedures

in every university. Um is that so for example I've made tutorials applying to

American universities you know uh through common app um is there something like med medical universities don't

accept application through common app or something like that? I don't know much about that.

Um there are some yeah that don't but sometimes uh the med school it is within

the university itself and it does accept it. So it's just a case by case thing.

Yeah. Right. So yeah making tutorials about applying to scholarships is quite

difficult. There are some universities that uh like when you apply to university scholarship application is

done. For example, I think Kais was like that. Uh so other than that it's not really that easy. Uh I know these unions

are one of the best. Yeah, I just wanted to know the recognition outside. Thanks for the answer. You're very welcome. Is

Russia cost effective? I don't think we've ever talked about Russia uh in this channel in any one of our live

streams. So when I like when you talk about being cost effective, I don't

think just about being affordable but also like the the recognition and the quality of education as well because

like otherwise the most cost effective country is your own country of course. Uh so I don't really know much about the

I mean I know the Russia is way more affordable compared to a lot of other countries in Eastern Europe, Central

Europe etc. But I don't know much about the uh education quality. So I'm going to defer to Aean on that. Aean, what do

you think? We've never talked about Russia. I mean, not surprising since they're going through a war, but like

maybe say uh yeah, I've gone through a few

universities in Russia just to um

see the tuition fees and they've actually lowered their tuition fees even though the ruble is doing much worse

than it used to. So, I think it's much cheaper than many countries right now

and they're trying to encourage international students to uh come there. But I don't know, given the political

tensions and how unstable uh the whole region is, uh I'm not sure

if I would recommend uh going to Russia, at least in the

foreseeable future. But if you would like to it is yeah it is much cheaper

than probably all the countries that are in the area in in that region. So that

is something to consider. Yeah I think so you can you can get uh

like quality education in a very affordable way. Uh but there's a war I

guess that's that's the main point. Um, so, uh,

another one. I've emailed it to a supervisor, but he didn't reply. So, what do I do now?

Um, Aman, is the meaning of this question apparent to you? Can you answer

this or should we ask for more uh detail?

I can only assume they're applying for a research program where they would need a

supervisor to actually accept their uh research project whether it's a

master's or a PhD uh program and the person or the supervisor they have

contacted never got back to them. uh it's not unheard of but I think that

uh the best approach is to always uh try different teachers at different

universities um and see which ones would be open to

uh supervise you or would be even open to work on your project.

Uh that is usually how it's done. So we don't only contact one uh professor and

then bank on them uh accepting your project

because for all you know when they reply they will say no and then you're out of options. So it's better to email many

professors and uh increase your chances of uh being

accepted or being supervised by someone instead of just uh relying on only one

person from one university. Okay, thank you very much. Ring it says

Chinga and Pecking University in China are top ranked. Yeah. uh they're very good universities like elite

universities in China and we've made tutorials about them as well uh application do they have high acceptance

rate for foreign students I wouldn't know um do we have any information about

that do you think

um I'm I'm really not sure so we have information about acceptance

uh rates for many universities, but I'm not sure about uh universities in China

in particular. I would assume that uh the acceptance rate is

moderate. It's not it's not bad. It's not like very high, but

it's it's going to be within the 50%.

Okay. I think we've made I think we have a guide about that as well.

these. Do you mean as in like a guide about uh

acception rates or acceptance rates or uh as in our admission results?

Oh, no, no. We have pages for acceptance rates, right? Uh

employability. I don't think we Yeah, I don't think we have one for China. Okay,

moving on. Um, is getting certificates from Harvard CS50 online courses counted as an

extracurricular activity? Hm. How much can it help?

Aman, what do you think? I wouldn't know anything about this one really. Um, no. I don't think it would count as

an extracurricular activity. It would be more experience around the subject, but

it's not an extracurricular activity at all. Um, extracurricular activities

generally revolve around uh activities that

that involve uh more than things you can do by

yourself at home. It's it it's more about your leadership skills and many

soft skills rather than a course that you can uh take at home. So this is just

uh more experience, more knowledge about the subjects in question but definitely

not an extracurricular. Okay. Thank you very much. So um

apparently we have guides for acceptance rates in both pecking and chingua

literally the only two universities you asked. Uh you also I think you'll have to assure people that you are not a paid

actor and this is just a coincidence that we guides for both these

universities. Uh but you can look look into those renegades. I'm not sure if they're specifically talking about uh

acceptance rates for uh foreign students, but I'm pretty sure it's some somewhere in there. Our IIITM

certifications counted. I did do a final project on data science where we had to

create a model. So, these questions are getting crazy detailed like I have no

idea. I I I I'm I'm certain to have difficulties difficulty understanding the questions. Uh so I'm going to start

to defer to Aean quite a lot. Aean, what do you think about this?

I feel like there's a missing part of this question because would it count for

IIT address?

Does it help? So, I'm going to as extracurricular

um

maybe, but again, I don't see it as an extracurricular.

Um, I think you could go to our uh

recipient stories section and then go through a few stories and see

uh what people did as extracurriculars.

Um because extracurriculars are are not really

um things that you do yourself basically.

So maybe you need to see the stories to

have a good idea about what what is considered as an extracurricular.

Okay. So uh scholarship success stories we didn't talk about those in this live stream but basically global scholarships

reaches out to a lot of uh scholarship earners right uh these people for

example uh we can see the scholarships here that they've earned and global

scholarships gets them to uh tell their stories for other students who want to

get those scholarships like for example uh this person Um you can see their like

in London University they got their uh degree and their scholarship and you can read about their journey about their

educational background and all of that and even more so you can contact them to

get like directly information direct information through LinkedIn. I'm going to share the link with you for this. Uh

you can filter for country filter for funding nationality. Usually these would be like full fully funded scholarships

because those are the ones uh that people are very interested in and they're difficult to get especially like

if you're interested I believe if you're interested in scholarships like uh government scholarships very uh generous

scholarships very competitive scholarships I think I think getting as much information uh from the earners uh

from people who have earned won those scholarships are really helpful.

can also provide link for acceptance rate of some good German public universities. You can you can uh find it

yourself in guides section. We have country guides. Uh and here we have um

in Europe we have Germany. Basically we have like these collection of guides

about a country that like go go that goes through pretty much everything. Uh

let's see here. Accept acceptance.

We have seven universities in Germany with high acceptance rates. So let me share the link with you for this one. Uh

you might be interested in this. Schiller, Berlin, Ladig. This is a great

university by the way. Ladig Maximillian um Fryberg Hleberg. This is also a

really good university and um I want scholarship for MBBS. I'm from

Afghanistan. So uh you can just look into our search tool to find scholarships that are uh interesting for

you. But uh like mainly without any context all you can do is just to give

you our search tool. Uh here you can just like if you have a country in mind, you have a program in mind, a university

in mind, you can just type them in or without typing anything in you can just hit enter. We have all these

scholarships. You can choose your degree. Let's say bachelor. you might be interested uh no BS. So let's say

masters um and foreign nationality you can choose Afghanistan. Uh but you'll

see that a lot of un a lot of scholarships don't really care about your uh nationality. Uh usually they are

for all nationalities. Sometimes they are for specific nationalities. As you can see uh these are humanarian

scholarships. Of course, if you can go for scholarships that are specifically

um targeted to your country, your nation, uh or like your general area,

region, uh it would increase your chances. Uh so I think you can look into

United Kingdom as well. United Kingdom has a lot of like um humanitarian uh

access scholarships as well. Uh so yeah, let me share the link with you. You can

just click on any one of these to see like the uh whole like coverage

eligibility criteria. Just just uh go in have a look uh and if anything psiques

your interest you can ask us uh through our I mean comment section. I can't

always uh answer every question in the comment section. Uh we're here every Friday. you can come and ask or what you

what the best thing to do would be just leave your question here and leave a comment section because uh he only

answers every question here. He really answers every question. I'm not exaggerating a bit. Um so let me see if

I can get a full Yeah, for example, this one, right? So yeah, can we get joint

scholarship in both UG and PG programs? I don't I'm not sure if there's a

wholesale uh rule about that. Aean, what do you think?

Um I don't I actually don't get the question. Is it at the same time? Because you can't apply to two degrees

at the same time in the first place. So, I'm not sure how that would work. If you

mean uh you get a scholarship in your undergraduate degree then you have a

chance of getting one as a postgraduate then yes but at the same time

I don't think so yeah also unless it's unless it's oh sorry no go ahead go ahead

yeah unless you already have an undergraduate degree you want to pursue a second one and you apply to university

as an undergraduate then you apply to another one uh for a master's degree ree with your previous degree. So, you're

applying to two universities, one for an undergraduate degree, which is a second one, and then uh the other one uh you're

applying for a post-graduate degree and you get two scholarships, then there's nothing against that. But within the

same university, and if you don't already have an undergraduate degree, it's not possible. Yeah, there are also some scholarships

that require you to not uh be receiving another scholarship as well. I think

there like I think China has a lot of those scholarships. Okay guys, uh I think I'm going to end

the live stream here. Uh thank you very much for joining in. If you have any

other questions, just type them in uh quickly, otherwise we're going to end the live stream. Thank you very much for

joining in today. It's great to see you guys here. Uh if you're watching this on VOD, uh thank you for watching. We're

here every Friday. We're here to talk about like scholarships, about studying abroad. I'm just here as uh the host.

I'm not an expert. I'm just a layman. Uh here we have our expert. That's what why

he's here to answer your questions. So we are here every Friday to answer your questions to help you as best as we can.

Um other than that, Aman, thank you very much for joining in today. Um yeah, uh thank you. So just that now

that I thought about it, I think the certification would count as an extracurricular if they're still here.

Uh because they had to work on the project itself, which I think would be

cons Yeah, it would be considered I'm not sure who it was,

but it would be considered as an extracurricular as opposed to the the Harvard course, which definitely

wouldn't. Oh, I see. I see you're talking about the second question. Okay. Uh well,

thank you again uh everybody. See you next Friday and have a nice week. Bye.