Financial Help - International Students
Financial help is a very dicey subject I have discussed about this in detail in several messages to the group.
Every university claims it offers financial help to students and to this
they add even international students. Mind you I have used the term
financial help and not financial aid. Aid and scholarships are mainly meant for local candidates.This is their marketing technique to attract students.
I have seen universities offering a token aid of 1000-5000 dollars for the first year in order to get more students.
The percentage of students who get aid is different for different
universities depending on the program of your study and local situation of availability of funds with the professors. For it is the professors who can offer you research assistantship. Along with this comes fee waiver.
My experience is that percentage of students who get aid sitting in India is negligible.Yes there is a positive aspect to this that percentage who are able to get the assistantships during the first semester of their study is quite high.
The conclusion of the above discussion is that while you should try for
financial help you should be prepared to spend for at least first six
months. If you get any help you will be lucky. If not there is a great
chance for your getting it on joining the university.
If you adopt this strategy your initial efforts and money shall not be
futile.
If money is your main concern then I would suggest you apply to universities whose expenses you can afford. There are good universities available with low costs. This in itself can be considered as some sort of financial help.
Good Luck
NBS
Filed under: F-1 Student, Financial Documents, Financial Help
Dear Sir/Madam,
I have been selected for United Nations Internship Program- Spring 2008 Session (mid January to mid March) which will be held at United Nations headquarters, New York . According to internship rules, selected candidates have to arrange funding from other organizations such as yours. I am writing here to request you to kindly consider my candidature to support my internship at UN headquarter for two months (extendable up to six months) http://www.un.org/Depts/OHRM/sds/internsh/index.htm According to UN website information, living in New York City during the internship will cost approximately $2,500 per month to cover accommodations, meals and other living expenses.
I will be highly benefited on attending “United Nations Internship Programme” because of its immense importance in my career. This kind of international exposure will motivate me towards my career for environmental and societal development.
For the last five years, I have been working as a Ph.D. student in the Department of Environmental Biotechnology of Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology, New Delhi . Thirty five patents, thirteen research publications, two conference papers, one book chapter and four copyrights have been the outcome of my research work in the last four years. I also have been awarded “Young Investigator Award” from China HUPO for presenting my research work in China and “Young Scientist Award” from IUBMB organization to present the research work in “IUBMB 2006”, June 18-23, Kyoto , Japan .
Kindly consider my request as I don’t want to miss this opportunity and anxiously looking forward to participate in this program. I am highly excited and motivated to this internship program at UN headquarters because of its immense importance in my research career. This kind of international exposure definitely will push my career to new dimensions.
Please find attached my CV and a copy of selection email from UN for your kind perusal.
Regards,
Sincerely yours’
Anil Kumar
506, Environmental Biotechnology Division
Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology
Mall Road, Delhi-110007, India .
E-mail: anilcbt@yahoo.com
Phone: 91-11-27662133, 27666157 Ext.-154
Mob: 91-9891-53-17-97