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Global School Chips. I hope we're global scholarships. I hope you're

all doing well. I hope everything is going great. I am as your host and I'm here as always joined by Aean. Hi Aean,

how are you? How's it going? Uh hi, I'm doing well, thank you. How

are you? I'm doing well too. Thank you very much. So everyone, we are as always

here for another Friday live stream. If you're new here, we are global scholarships. Uh we do live streams

every Friday pretty much at the same hour. Uh we talk about scholarships. We talk about studying abroad. If you have

any questions, this is a Q&A live stream obviously. Uh we are here to answer your questions. Uh so we are global

scholarships. Let me share the link. Actually I never do that. Uh basically we're a platform that shares a lot of

informative stuff about scholarships, scholarship opportunities all around the world about studying abroad like what

problems, what issues you might encounter, uh what countries are the best, what schools are open for

application, what scholarships are open for application. So this is pretty much all the information that uh we have and

I suspect it's all the information you will probably need. Uh as you can see we have guides like scholarship guides

about scholarships by degree about government scholarships. These are very popular ones. You can click on any one

of them. This is a completely free website by the way. There is no registration. There is no pricing. There

is no uh like membership or something like that. You just can go in and like

read pretty much all the guides that you want. Uh we have currently open scholarships. We also of course make

videos uh like make content on these. We have guides about countries. So hang on.

Uh basically country guides. Uh these are kind of collections. Uh as you can see for different

countries and you can click on any one of them that you might be interested in. Let's say you want to study in Australia. And these are basically like

collections of guides about different subjects like from higher education, choosing a university, best programs to

study, applying to a university, uh documents and tests, uh English proficiency. There are of course

different like language tests uh in different countries and of course one of

the most uh one of the things that you're most interested in uh financing

uh like how to study for free cost of studying and what scholarships what

affordable universities exist. Hang on let me see something.

Okay everything's working. Um so yeah

basically if you're interested in in any specific country sometimes people come into our live stream and ask like I want

to study in this country what do you propose like what do you advise what advice could you give to me basically

just going in and reading all these guides uh I think will give you almost

all the information that uh you might need of course there will be specifics to your uh to the school that you want

to study to where where and when you want ago. Uh but like in general the

these will give you the information you'll need. Um other than that we have like free cheap and free universities,

English taught universities in different countries. So yeah and tests and

documents. By the way we do have consulting services now. We used to have this and a lot of people had been coming

into our live streams and asking about like do you give consultancy services but for a while it it was down. We

didn't accept any uh any new people because like we already have enough people and you don't want to make it too

crowded uh because you want to be able to like you want to be be able to give enough attention to everyone. Uh but now

we are again open basically uh this is done through our YouTube channel. Uh we

have memberships and if you become a like tier 2 member uh you can get access

to our discord server where you can get like direct uh support for your applications for your like for like

scholarship applications uh university applications etc. So yeah these are the

things that you can find and of course uh we also have a search tool uh but

which we'll talk in a second. Um other than that we have like an external

scholarship. Uh can you help get one? So yeah uh if

you have any question like any specific question we'll be happy to help you but

other than that like if you are asking in terms of um like if you have a specific question about a scholarship

about a university perhaps we'll do our best to answer them but if you mean can you help get one in uh in sense that

like consultancy service u yeah then you need to get like the YouTube membership

other than that like you can't ask your questions here. You can ask you can ask your questions on our YouTube uh videos

in comment section and uh for example let me see

like dad scholarship for example uh every page that we have in our website we have a comment section so you can

leave your questions here and Hani who is the founder of global scholarships he

answers every single every single question here uh like if I had a question that I needed answered This is

where I would put my question. So yeah,

uh we have scholarship stories. Basically these are stories of people who have earned

some great scholarships all around the world. Uh chancellor scholarship uh Australia

award scholarship that is the uh government scholarship in Australia fullbride scholarship max scholarship

all of those just click here. I think it's it's a really good idea to get as much

information as you can uh if you're if you're if you want to get like a big

scholarship because uh scholarships like these um like for example

commonwealth scholarship uh or let's see

hang on I'm trying to find like a big yeah for for example the AAD like this

is the German government scholarship and usually these scholarships um are very

very popular. A lot of people apply to these scholarships. So you really need to stand out among a huge amount of

people like hundreds, thousands. Uh so I think your best chance to stand out uh

among tons of people is to get direct information from people who have

achieved that. Basically, you can click on any one of these people and read about their stories. Basically,

where they get their scholarships, like what university? Uh, hi there. Uh, welcome to our live stream. It's great

to see you. Uh, so like how like their educational background, how they prepare

to apply. Uh, like what made their their application stand out? So yeah, those

things really uh I mean there are smaller scholarships that you can apply to and uh like you'll you'll have a good

chance of perhaps getting that but if you're look going for a big scholarship I think this is a great idea. So yeah

also usually they are really okay with uh being contacted through for example

linkedin for example if you want to get this scholarship uh manuen scholarship I

think like you can basically contact this person and get like directly ask your questions to someone who have

earned that scholarship. I think that's a great opportunity. So yeah scholarship stories are really

good. uh you might want to check these out.

Other than that, we have a search tool. I think this is our best uh best

feature. I would say it is really intuitive to use. It is

really easy, free. I use it all the time to find scholarships to make content on.

Basically, as you can see, you just type in something that you're interested in. Could be a country, could be a scholarship, could be a university.

Let's say Oxford, right? And then you can choose the institution or uh the scholarship or hit enter. Um

it'll show you results based on that. Or you can type in a country. Let's say you

want to study in uh United States, right? Choose the country.

It'll show you all the scholarships that we have in our database in that country. Or you can just hit enter without typing

in anything. I need uh the what the damn scholarship. Do you mean

the AD scholarship or do you need a scholarship uh for Germany?

I don't think I I understand that specific question. So as you can see we have about 4,500

scholarships in our database. These are scholarships that are given most of them

are a scholarship given by the universities to uh Yeah. No, no, it's fine. So, if you're looking for

scholarships in Germany, um, well, unfortunately, there are not

that many. Uh, we've made a couple of videos recently about scholarships that

are open. So, what you can do is go to our search tool, type in Germany,

okay? And I'll share the link with you. So these are the scholarships that are

offered by the universities. Um you'll see a lot of these are free tuition

which just means that that country for example University of Hamburg uh they do not charge any tuition fees. It's just

free education. But if you try to find like full funding scholarships in this

uh country you won't find any except the AD government scholarship.

Let me also share the link with you. You probably know if you are looking for scholarships in Germany, you probably heard about the AAD scholarship, but you

can always get more information. Um, now the thing is there are not that many

full funding scholarships in Germany because um, okay, so let's first talk

about uh what's full funding. So there are three types of different scholarships. Okay. Uh, partial funding,

full tuition, full funding. Partial funding means it covers less than the university's tuition fees.

Uh full tuition means it covers just the tuition fees and that's it. And full funding means it covers the tuition fees

of that university but also gives you something a little more. Could be accommodation, could be a living

statement, could be insurance. Some scholarships are extremely comprehensive, extremely generous. They

cover pretty much everything. Some of them just give you like a couple of hundred every month or something like

that. Uh now full funding scholarships are obviously very popular but they're

not that many. There are not that many of those because obviously they're are more expensive uh for the university. So

people want full funding scholarships but in Germany there are not that many full funding scholarships because there

is like a lot of universities don't have tuition fees at all. So a scholarship if a scholarship cannot cover the tuition

fee it becomes partial funding even though it practically is a full funding

scholarship. So I would advise you to look for partially funded scholarships

in Germany because let's say a University of Castle student

assistantship. So this is partial funding. It does not cover the tuition fees of this university because

University of Kasel do not charge any tuition fees in the first place. Okay, so do not get confused. Uh, a lot of

partial funding scholarships in Germany are actually kind of practically full

funding scholarships, right? So, for example, we have a lot of uh scholar

student assistantships uh in Germany. Now, student assistantship uh I think

you're from Turkey and I do believe that you might probably know that we have assistantships in Turkey as well. like

you go and work as an assistant in the university. Basically, it is kind of being employed by the university. You

get uh like all the benefits. Uh you get usually you get your tuition covered. Uh

there are a lot of these in uh United States. Um we basically work at the university.

Usually they are for masters and PhD students for graduate students. Uh in

Germany you have some of these for bachelors as well. For example, uh technically University of Munich, one of

the best universities in Germany, uh a student assistantship, you can apply to this and it covers pretty much like a

wage equal to or higher than €12. Basically, it is just like kind of a a

living wage, the amount of wage that you would get in that university. Um we have

Opportunity Manheim scholarship. We talked about this one uh like either last week or a week before that. Uh you

might want to check that video. I think we have healthcare insurance. It's called uh at learning. Um yeah. So

I think yeah I think a lot of uh assistantships also give you uh health

insurance. I mean in a lot of countries like in Europe health insurance is not that big of a deal uh as much as it is

in United States obviously. Okay. Do your research.

can apply. If you have any questions for about like specific um universities,

specific scholarships, uh sometimes we cannot really answer all the comments uh

on our comment section, but you can always come to our live streams and ask your questions.

Can I apply for Arasmus? I'm in my final year of bachelor. Shows how to apply for

a scholarship. So honey, um there are not a what would you say a uniform way

of applying to scholarships. Every scholarship is difficult uh so different. Some scholarships don't

really need uh for example let me show you one. There are a lot of scholarships that do not require any additional uh

application. Some scholarships you can only apply for after you you're admitted to the university which is why I cannot

like make tutorials. Um some scholarships you apply while applying to

the university and for example I think that was uh I think it was Kais tutorial. uh we make we make tutorials

uh application tutorials all the time uh but to for applying to the universities and in some of those application

tutorials you also apply to a scholarship uh for example um I think

financial aid is one of those. So yeah, I cannot really show you right now how

to apply for a scholarship. Like if you have any specific scholarship in mind, maybe we can help you a little better.

Can I apply for Arasmus? I'm in my final year of bachelor.

Um I'm not sure how that really happens in different

countries. Can you also give us perhaps information about your country? Uh Aean, what would you make of this?

Um, yes, you can. There's no reason why you can't apply for any scholarship

um at your final year. So, you're applying for a master's program. Um,

generally speaking, they would uh ask for your transcripts.

if you don't have them ready, uh you'll probably be able to apply and

then submit them before the deadline. Uh but for the most part, I think uh you

definitely can apply because when you apply now, you get in for to next year's program. So each year is like the year

after you get into the program, which means that applying it in your final year is the best time to apply.

Okay. Thank you. Uh so in United States if you are looking for a full funding

bachelor scholarship uh we have need-based financial aid. Um this is

given by a lot of universities uh to bachelor students. Basically if you show them you have financial needs um like

you need to give them a lot of information about your family's financial situation like tax uh and

income etc etc. And if you're a really good student, the university can look at

you and say, "Okay, uh you need about $30,000 to be able to a year to be able

to study uh in this university, and we'll cover that for you." Uh so these

are the scholarships, financial aid. Actually, we're going to talk about uh one of these today. A lot of these are

not really open right now because there aren't that many open that many programs

open for application right now. uh but there is one and we'll talk about uh

that today. So yeah there are different scholarships different application

procedures I was talking about uh our search tool. So how our search tool

works is you can filter for yourself. Can I ask

question beside the topic? Yeah sure feel free. Uh you can ask anything you

want. Um so yeah filters we have you can

filter for yourself um like degree based on degree based on

location based on funding type. I talked about that uh partial full tution full

funding for example there are not that many full funding um

scholarships that that are open right now.

Hm. Yeah, for bachelors.

So, as you can see, there are just five uh full funding scholarships that are open right now for bachelors, but when

you get the mast's or PhD, uh you have way more. Anyway, so you can obviously, as you can

see, uh filter for like whether it's open or not. All deadlines open. Uh

let's make this all funding scholarship type. As I said most of these scholarships are university

scholarships. Basically these are scholarships given by universities to new coming international students. So

for example University of Texas at Austin uh might have other scholarships that they are given to um enrolled

students like second year, third year, fourth year students or uh scholarships that they only give to domestic

students. uh these are those are not included in here. All of these are given to new coming international students. Uh

we have government scholarships and company scholarships, external scholarships.

Is it harder to get scholarships in USA than Europe or other country? So I think

that's a that's a kind of a difficult question to answer uh because there are

more scholarships in United States usually. Uh but also United States has

extremely high tuition fees. So for example like if you talk about

Germany, France, Italy, even just a partial funding scholarship uh might

really do it for you, cover your living costs because you will probably not have to pay a high very high tuition fee like

€1,000 a year uh or something like that. But if you're going to study in United

States and you do not have funds for yourself, um like you will have to get a

full funding scholarship because otherwise you would have to pay about $40,000 $50,000 uh tuition fee free

tuition fee every year. So I think I think it is easier to get scholarships

in the United States because they have more scholarships. But um I think a lot

of those scholarships will not cover all of your like for most of those scholarships even if you get them you'll

still have to spend a lot of money to be able to study there. Like maybe you'll

get full tition scholarship but then still you'll have to pay about a,000

$1,000 every month based on where you live. Um, of course, there is the there's also the fact that, uh, United

States is not as welcoming to international students, uh, foreigners

any as it used to be. Uh, I think Europe at this point might be a better idea to,

uh, look for scholarships. I think so. Yeah, basically in short, I

think you can find a lot of scholarships in United States. There are more scholarships. I think it's easier to get

a scholarship in United States, but I don't think it's that's what I No, hang

on. Hang on. I didn't even ask our uh expert yet. That was just my personal opinion. Uh Aean, what would you say?

Amen. I cannot hear. Yep, I can hear you.

Um yeah, so I was saying that I totally agree with you. I would have said exactly what you said. So I don't really

have much to add. Um yeah, the United States is not as

uh welcoming anymore. Mhm. Uh I I don't think

uh that many students or as many students will be getting into the United States uh through scholarships. I think

they're the funding is being withdrawn from big universities as well that provide

university sorry that provide scholarships. So like the political

scene is affecting education and affecting international students in general. Um so probably for the next

four years at least uh the United States is not uh a viable

choice as it used to be. Of course, one thing to add that uh if you are looking

for a scholarship in Europe, well, first of all, uh I think it would be really

wise to distinguish between uh like mainland uh Europe and United Kingdom

because uh there hi there, it's great to see you here. Uh welcome to our live

stream. Um because United Kingdom is quite different uh to like it's more

similar to United States than it is to Europe when it comes to scholarships. Uh you don't find sorry you don't find that

many scholarships. Uh and usually tuition fees are uh

really high in United Kingdom as well. They do have a lot of uh like sanctuary scholarship, scholarships for uh

displaced people uh things like that. But if you want to study in France,

Germany, Spain, uh Italy, I think it is kind of like easier in terms of like

tuition fees, in terms of how much expenses you'll need uh you'll have. But then also you'll have to think about the

language of course like if you can learn for example Italian and go to Italy um it would be much much much easier to

find uh like scholarships or job opportunities in United States than

finding those in United States uh with just English because uh like if you learn Italian I think going to Italy is

a really good good idea. I have VPD for Bremen uni but I have not any

certificate for German language. What should I do? Can I take uh I don't even know how to pronounce that. I'm just

confused. Yeah, that's a very specific question and of course I'll defer immediately defer to Aean.

Aean, what do you think? Um [Music] it depends on the program. So if the

program is completely English taught, you don't really need any uh certification

for German language proficiency, which is like quite the misconception. When

people want to study in Germany, they think they would need uh a certain level in German. You do need it in general,

but it's not a requirement by the universities themselves. So you just need uh your English certification if

the the course is not in English. Yeah. And I do believe like some for

example especially graduate courses are only available in English as well. Um

like I think you're a bachelor if you're asking for bachelor but so yeah that

that that kind of depends on the program. Uh, one thing to keep in mind that if you want to study in Germany or

France, I'm not saying this to you, Emir, you probably have, uh, done your research about this, uh, but I knew that

it existed in Germany, but apparently it also uh, exists in France as well. There's something called a blood count

that you have to like, uh, get you have to deal with. Basically, if you want to

go to Germany and study, the German government says, "Okay, I do not want you to come into Germany and then find

yourself out of funds like find that you cannot you do not have enough money to

cover your living expenses and become an issue. So, I'm going to need you to show me uh before coming for this year, I'm

going to need you to show me that you have enough funds about €12,000 in

account. I'm going to block it. That is your money. I'm going to block it and I'll give it to you uh every month.

Enough money to like a,000 uh euro to spend that month. So basically, if you

want to go and study in Germany, you have to put €12,000 in a blocked account and you'll get one 12th of that every

month. So keep that in mind. I think a lot of people might see that that as

some like as a disadvantage. I think it's a really it's really an advantage

because like um I think it's really good that German government is really kind of

uh concerned about your uh finances. So I can study in Germany without German

with only English. Yeah, there are English programs. There are programs that offer only offered in English. Uh

but of course like it would be a little like it would be more advisable to learn uh German. But

yeah, you can definitely go there and study uh without knowing any German. It

will be difficult. Bro, can you share about the job market after MSC from

Arasmus in public health if you are aware? I am not aware at all. That is a

very specific question. Uh Aean, do you have any idea?

Uh my advice is to just check our uh scholarship stories. There are so many

Arasmus Mundus uh recipients and they share everything

in detail. So that's the best place to find information about such things. How

did I not think about that? So let's say Arasmus Arasmus Mandos about 83.

We do have 83 people. Gosh. Okay. So I'm going to share this

link with you. Uh so we have about stories of 83 people

different people who have got Arasmus Mundus scholarship. Uh you can just click on any one of them to read their

stories and hang on. I'm pretty sure we'll find at least a couple of them uh

who have given us their perhaps like LinkedIn

or in like any way of contacting them

if you want get want to get more information direct information.

Uh I cannot find any. Yeah, here is here's one for example.

Pakistani energy engineer wins Arasmus Mund scholarship to study sustainability across Europe and you can uh contact

them through their social media. Okay. I love Algeria. Tell me a scholarship in

Europe with English like Poland. You are okay. First of all,

nationalities do not really matter all that much. Uh yeah, that's another thing I want to talk about. So for example, we

have subjects and nationalities filters here. Uh you can choose for example,

okay, let me show you. We have about 4,500

scholarships here, right? This is for everyone. If I choose Algeria,

you lose about 300 of those. So basically, most scholarships are just

for all nationalities. Uh about three 300 scholarships are targeted to

specific nations, specific regions. uh sometimes they are for again displaced

people a lot of scholarships in United Kingdom or uh or things like that

other than that your nationality does not really matter I don't think we do have any scholarships in Poland though

let me see okay we have three u but only one of

these are um for bachelors and I don't think That's

for English programs. Okay. So, this is for all subjects, all

programs offered in this university. Um, so if they are offering English programs, English taught programs, uh, I

think you can apply to this. But other than that, um, not really. So, what you

can look into, hang on. Uh, I have one scholarship for you.

So you're ask you're looking for bachelor, right? Hang on. Uh are you the one

asking for? No. Okay. You're looking for a bachelor. So we have Pedoa scholarship. Pedro International

Excellence Scholarship. This is for example, this is a great scholarship. The university is already a great

university and it has very low tuition fees. And this scholarship covers your

tuition and gives you €8,000 every year. And the one of the criteria that you

have to fulfill is to apply for an English taught program. So I also have

made an application tutorial.

Yeah, there it is. So you can uh it is not open for application right now. Uh

but if you're interested, you can apply to this university. And uh when you go through this tutorial and apply to the

university, you don't also have to apply for a scholarship. So if you apply for

an English program following this tutorial, you will also be considered for this scholarship.

Um it's given to 62 people and it gives you about 8,000 every year. uh which

would which should take like which should take care of pretty much uh your all all your living expenses almost

let's say and the tition fees. So yeah is a great university. It is a great

scholarship. It's one of my all-time favorite scholarships in uh Europe and

is for English taught programs. We also have this one but I don't I'm not sure

if this is for English taught programs. Uh Aean, do you have anything? uh in

mind like from top of your head you can

you can talk about like in Europe with English

I mean I believe that's what they mean by with English like English taught

programs. Yeah I I think you can study in English

in most European countries. Mhm. Um because universities that's the that's

the language of instruction in most universities except for a few subjects

that are taught in uh the the country's native language. Sometimes it's

medicine, sometimes uh it's that kind of uh uh subjects, but

for for the most part they're in English. Uh yeah, for Poland uh there

aren't many scholarships because education is already quite affordable. I

think uh tuition is around 4 to 7K for

perhaps per year. So it's not really bad. Uh I think the countries that I

would recommend for English talk programs would be Austria, the Netherlands,

um Belgium,

uh yeah, Germany, Hungary, Romania is also a decent

uh choice uh when it comes to studying uh in Europe, but It's really slept on.

I don't think that people uh go there much, but the education there is really good. So, yeah. So, I

think these countries, they're really close to each other. Uh are really good.

So, that's Poland, Austria, Hungary, uh Germany, Belgium, and the Netherlands.

All really good countries that are international studentfriendly and that

provide courses that are taught in English. Okay, thank you very much. Um, so yeah,

uh, deadline deadlines are passed, but usually most deadlines are passed right

now. There are not that many scholarships open for uh, bachelor students,

let alone in Europe. So, these are pretty much hang on, let me see.

Those are the ones the ones in Germany might be good for you. um because the

universities do not charge any tuition fee but at this point there are not that many full funding scholarships.

So for example, let's see again full funding and currently open we have about

five of those. Um memorial scholarship

Hong Kong we've talked about this quite a lot. So sanctuary award scholarships

are again given to people looking for uh displaced people let's say.

So I'm kind of uh we have less than a minute in the zoom

call with Aean. So I'm kind of uh like just stalling a little bit here.

Is there any fully funded MBBS scholarship? You can look into our you can look at our search tool. I think

it'll help you. Uh you can choose a subject. Let me talk about the subject while uh we try to

figure out the next Zoom meeting with Aean. So uh here's how subject works.

Basically, when you choose a subject in a in a in our filter section, uh what it

does is it shows you it shows you first the scholarships that

specifically mentions that program like business, whatever it is. Uh right,

and when it's done, when like it's out of those, we have a lot of scholarships specifically for business by the way. I

didn't realize we have that many. Uh okay. Wow.

All right. Does it ever end?

We have like eight 80 what 100 scholarships just for business. Let me

see. Uh anyway, at some point it goes back to

just uh all subjects, right? All subjects in this context means all

subjects that are offered in that uh university. So for example, this is

University of Texas at Austin.

Wait, hang on. What? Okay, I'm trying to join Aemon.

Uh he he has sent me a Zoom link that is not for a Zoom call.

Okay, that's

That is interesting. Let me let me let me try the other

um Okay. I think he is sending me the proper

zoom. Yeah. Okay. Hang on. Okay.

Sorry for that slight intermission.

Yeah. Um, so I didn't miss any questions, did

I? Can I say in Germany without German?

Yeah, I don't think I did. Uh, hi Evan, can you hear me? Um, yeah, I can hear you. Okay. I think OBS is also like live

streaming is also picking up your sound. Let me try to check.

Yep. Okay, great. Um, what were we saying? Yeah. So, uh,

subjects work like that. Basically if you if you see for example uh University

of Texas at Austin uh and this is for all subjects you have to go and see what programs the

university offers and then uh I have two USF1

visa rejection what you think should I re

you you made me forgot uh how it's pronounced reapply reapply

yeah uh I don't really know much about the visa rejections. What do you think?

Um, so the F the F1 visa.

Um,

is that not is it not the proper visa to apply for? No, no, no. It is. It is. I'm

I'm just thinking why you would be rejected for the F1. Um like did they give you a

sorry go ahead a reason like after the interview were you given a reason that you don't have enough funds or

like usually uh you are given a reason? Yeah. Yeah. it is this visa

but I'm just trying because usually you get um this kind of projection for tourism

visas but for the F1 provided that you have enough funds and you have

uh like you have been accepted by a university there is no reason for them

to reject your visa and if you still don't have the funds or

uh an an offer letter from a university, there

is no reason to apply again because those are the conditions to get the visa. So I'm I'm trying to understand

why you were rejected. Did you have like an offer letter or reaccepted by

university when you applied for that scholarship for that uh visa, honey?

Okay, we are waiting for the answer.

If you could give us more details.

I don't think I have anything else to talk about. Uh I will talk about the scholarship of the week that

but I want to wait a little bit more. I don't want to interrupt honey.

Meanwhile, we can so we also do have this uh currently

open scholarship section. Uh you can just click here and see all the scholarship that are currently open

and of course filter by degree type and country. I think this is a bit too down.

Uh okay. I was applying for a language school. I think I need to apply for uni with a scholarship.

Hm. Amen. What do you think?

Um, yeah, you you won't get any F1 visa for a language school. Uh, most

countries now don't accept visas for uh language schools because they would tell

you that you have language schools in your country. So why would you want to come to the United States or to the UK

to study the language? So it doesn't make any uh sense to them and you you

probably like they would ask you if you have even tried to go to a language school in your country before applying.

Um yeah, so this used to work like before CO I guess like the the countries

used to accept uh uh language school visas but since co to this day it's just

uh it's not an option anymore. I don't think anyone should bother to apply for

uh language schools. Um yeah, so you do definitely need to

apply for a university, get a scholarship and once you have an offer letter and if the scholarship can uh

cover all your expenses, you will definitely get the visa. I guess it's not even it won't be an issue at all

because you fulfill all the criteria to get the visa.

Um okay, thank you Ammon. So between full funding and all funding. I can

understand how that might be confusing. All funding is not really a category. It

means any like it like all funding types. It means like partial funding,

full tuition, full funding or all funding types like it's it's like

Australia, Austria, Belgium or all locations or all degrees all funding.

All right. That it's not it's not really a funding type. It means like you can give me any type of funding. Uh no, they

give but not like uni because in English school everyone can apply for Yeah, I guess. And also like they're kind of

looking for um reasons to turn people down, you know. Okay. So, if you have

any questions guys, uh feel free to ask them. But uh for a couple of minutes we'll talk about the scholarship of the

day which is so today people asked about

um hang on this is the university

the link for the scholarship which is this okay so this is a full funding scholarship in United States you don't

have uh a lot of those open right now uh this is one of them a need-based

financial aid at Grenell College. I made a poll uh and you guys chose this over

another one in South Korea. Basically, this is for bachelors in Grenell College. It's what is it? Tiny school.

Uh but it's an old university uh full funding. There are no specific nationalities or subjects. You have to

apply for this uh separately. We've talked about uh need-based financial aid

in United States before uh but it's been quite a while because uh the none of them have been open for application for

quite some time right now. So basically a financial aid means that that when you

apply to a university, an American university, a lot of them have these.

You say to them, I need financial aid to be able to study in this university. And what the university does is okay. Uh so

give give us information about your family's financial situation so we can

understand how much financial assistance you need. So what you do is you apply to the university you let them know you

need financial aid and if you get accepted like uh if you get accepted to

to the university they can cover your one cover 100% of your uh demonstrated

needs. What demonstrated needs mean is you create something called a CSS

profile. Basically CSS is a platform that uh you can use to apply for a lot

of financial aid in United States. You go, you create a profile, you give them your family's like tax uh information,

income information and etc. And universities use that to basically

estimate how much financial assistance can your family give you. So the

university says, "Okay, you you're going to need about $60,000 to be able to study in this university and from the

information you g gave us from your CSS profile, I think I estimate your family

can cover about 30,000 of these. So you need 30,000 financial assistance every

year. And if you get accepted to that university, they cover that. That's what demonstrated needs mean. So some

universities so you let them know uh this when you apply to the university.

Uh some universities are need blind some of them are need aware. Basically that

means if the university is need blind when you apply to the university when they are trying to decide whether

to let you in or not. They do not care about your they do not care about care

whether you need financial aid. So if they're going to let you in, they're going to let you in regardless of you

need financial aid or not. Okay? So like if you let them know that you need financial aid, that will not uh harm

your chances of getting in if the university is need blind. But if need aware, uh that might happen. So basic

basically just an international bachelor student or applicant. I think I've explained that terribly by the way

because I'm a bit rusty. We haven't talked about these uh for a long while. So if if there's anything that you

didn't understand about financial aid, just feel free to ask. So you can get more information uh here about

prospective students, uh application deadlines. Um

so you can apply to this university through common app. Um

yeah, I think we've made a tutorial on common app and perhaps CSS. I'm not

sure. Uh, Aean, do you know whether this university is need or need blind?

I really am not quite sure. Um, don't we have

I think we we have a list of universities that are need aware or need blind somewhere. Oh, I do you think I

can find it very easily right now? Like guides.

How would I go there? Financial aid statistics I think. Oh yeah. Yeah. It's in

financial aid statistics. It's need aware is the first one. So if you go there financial aid

statistics you

all right there is so I'll just type in gray

it's the first one just the first one there it's neither way right I didn't say yeah it's neither way so basically

if you guys uh apply to this you were asking a lot of questions I'll be back in a second don't worry we'll answer

those questions yeah so if you apply to this university. Uh let's see about the university. By the way, it's a good

university, an old university. Uh we have some application results. Someone

from Turkey applied, rejected. Philippines, someone from Canada applied, rejected. Uh someone from

India, Asia, accepted. Uh ex extremely expensive, like very high tuition. And

financial aid covers tuition as well. So

hang on, let me see. Yeah, this is let's see the university where it is what it looks like. It's in Iowa. There are any

school based on LTS and where are you from? Uh so this is this is where the

university is in Iowa. Uh this is what it looks like. Again, it's a it's an old university.

So yeah, basically this covers pretty much everything if you get it. If you

are a really good student, you can apply and get everything covered. Uh but if

you're not a very good student, they will say, "Yeah, no, thank you very much." So yeah, that's pretty much it.

Ammon, do you want to add anything about this university or this scholarship basically?

Um I think you covered everything really. Um yeah so since it's uh a need aware

university uh your financial need would impact your

chances of being admitted as you mentioned uh that is something to always keep in

mind. So if there are other applicants who can afford to study at the university or applicants uh whose family

contribution is higher than yours, they would have the uh priority of getting

into the university. So there there are definitely students who get in through

financial aid but uh it's the chances are quite low compared to students who

can at least cover some of the tuition uh or some of the expenses. So that that

is what needware means if the university was need blind and there aren't many of

those for international students. I think it's just five universities in total. I don't know about the situation

uh right now if they are if if it is still the case because the federal

government is pulling funding from those big universities. Yeah. So I'm not sure

if they are still uh need blind but when they were or if they are uh those

universities the your chances of getting admitted are not impacted by your financial aid. So

the moment you are accepted uh at the university, you will get a

fully funded scholarship. So no questions asked. Uh you will be treated uh same as everyone. Your application

will uh be just judged on its merit, not

anything else. So they wouldn't care if you need financial aid or not.

Okay. Thank you very much. Um, so all right, we have a couple of questions. Um,

yeah, especially nowadays it become harder. They start to do social media checks. Yeah. Yeah. And as I said like

especially in United States, United States they are pretty much looking for reasons to turn you down. Uh, what is

all subject? Okay, I get it now. Honey says, "I got an partial a partial scholarship in uni on a POTM. I just

speak to an admission officer per email and she told there is partial scholarship but still expensive."

Um so yeah um that's yeah that's what I meant by you can get scholarships in

United States but like a partial scholarship like a partial scholarship

in Europe and partial scholarship in United States are completely different things uh because like for example the

one we talked about right Pedro excellence scholarship it gives you €8,000

um every year so it is completely different when you have to pay about

$1,000 every year for tuition and you have to pay about $60,000 every year for

uh tuition. So like it doesn't even make a dent that €8,000

if you have to pay about $60,000 every year which is why like partial funding

in United States is much much easier to come by but it won't like it will still

be extremely expensive and quite frankly unaffordable for a lot of people. Uh can

you tell us some scholarships which do not require strong academic background but any international student can get

those scholarships. Um so I'm not sure what exactly you are

talking about like the second part uh any international student can get those scholarships like it is open for any

international student and does not require very strong academic backgrounds. uh they would be probably uh some of the

more modest scholarships I would say like partial scholarships. There are a lot of scholarships uh that just go go

to waste because no one really applied to them because no one really knows about them. Uh so like I think there are

a lot of smaller scholarships perhaps you can go. Uh but I think Aean will have better insights on that. Aean, what

do you think? uh scholarships that do not require strong academic background but open for all generation students.

Um I don't think there's such a such thing as uh scholarships that don't

require strong academic backgrounds. That's the whole premise of a scholarship. They're rewarding you for

uh having potential to do more. So, and that potential is shown

uh through your academic background. Of course, that's not the only criterion to be selected for a scholarship, but it's

a big one. Um, you need to have maintained a certain GPA, a certain

strong academic performance. Uh, generally does not require to be

admitted to university if you're uh paying yourself. But for

scholarships, uh they are mostly merit-based.

Even when they're need-based, you need to meet the minimum requirement to get

into the university. So there is always this element of having a strong academic

background in order to get a scholarship. uh there is no reason for any university or country to give scholarships if you

don't have any academic merit or if you're uh grades don't reflect a strong

academic background. So uh that's how it works. You you need that. Uh well, as

for uh eyelet scholarships, yes, they do exist. Uh whether it's in the United

States or um South Korea, for example, there are many many scholarships that

are awarded based on your ISIS score or just your English uh proficiency exam

score. Um there are so many in South Korea and

there are a few in the United States. um not as many but

uh they do exist and they cover up to full tuition. So they're not fully funded but they're generally partially

funded or full tuition. So this is for example one of them uh

that this is this was the other scholarship that I had in mind uh that I asked in u the poll and you guys chose

um the full funding one United States. So uh Korea has uh language based uh

language proficiency based scholar scholarships uh quite a lot of those. So normally Korea has this test called

topic it is test of proficiency in Korean and a lot of universities have

scholarships that kind of depends like if you have a high uh level like level six or something like that you'll get

100% tuition fee reduction. Uh but also they have some uh ILT tests for example

this one in Korea aerospace university this is for bachelors

uh this is for open for application right now and this covers 100% of your

tuition fees uh if you have ILts 7 or uh 96. So yeah there are a lot of those I

mean obviously you'll find more of them uh in English speaking countries but yeah um

Korea has those as well. So, um, based Okay. Did I miss any? Aemon, where are

you from? Uh, Aean, would you like to share where you're from or we could just

skip that question? No, if it's personal. Okay. So, yeah, I don't think

uh can you tell me those small scholarships? Yeah, I think there are a lot of those

and I think there are a lot of uh un uh students

talking about like how really small scholarships add up because if you do your research, if you do a lot of

research, you'll find a lot of smaller scholarships that a lot of people do not know about and they really add up to

cover like almost all of your financial needs, especially if you're not studying

in a very expensive place. But yeah, if you're looking for a lot of like those smaller scholarships, I think doing your

own research is a kind of a mandatory. You can use our search tool. We'll we

have a lot of partial scholarships. Uh again, partial funding scholarships if

coupled with no tuition or very low tuition universities can uh cover like I

don't know 80% 90% of uh of your financial needs. You can look for countries like uh France, Germany,

Italy. Um I think Spain also has uh low

tuition fees. Um China, China and Taiwan, they're very very uh affordable

compared to uh United States and they have a lot of t a lot of uh full funding

scholarships as well. So,

not Ireland, Ireland and United Kingdom, Austria as well. Hang on, let me see.

I think not. Yeah, for example, you can find some tuition fee waver. Um, thank

you for answering my question. You're welcome. We're here every Friday. You can come and ask any questions that you

might have. Uh, this is Pedro University, by the way. This is literally the university inside of the

university. Anyway, uh, okay guys, thank you very much for joining in today. If

you're watching this on VOD live stream, thank you very much for watching. We're going to end the live stream here and I

want to thank Aean as always uh for joining in.

Um, yeah, thank you for having me as all right everyone. I can't find some small scholarship or what

for Australia. Uh smaller scholarships for Australia

will probably not work all that great because Australia has very high tuition fees. Uh so like there are a lot of

partial funding like you can just type in Australia. There are many many partial funding

scholarships that you'll find. Okay, not that many perhaps. uh you quite a lot uh

partial funding scholarships but uh for example let's say let's look at ME

University right it's a good university popular university it has a tition fee of about 35,000 Australian dollars so uh

smaller scholarships will not really take care of that for you unless you get a lot of them okay guys uh by will be

here next Friday I usually try to do polls to uh make sure that I'm bringing

in something that you are interested in like the financial aid scholarship today. So if you can just like go there

and vote uh it would be better for all of us. And thank you. Bye. See you next

week.