By the way, scholarship decisions are based on holistic application package review.
If you are weak in an area, complement it with other resources.
Irrespective of your grade, there is a scholarship that suits your profile if you can search.
Let me explain:
1. If you are changing your field because of work experience, do something online related to that field so that you can convince anyone that you have the background.
Learn how to write good SOP to explain yourself. Write application exams and pass excellently.
Send emails to Grad co-ordinators, tell them about what you have and ask them what you want. They will reply.
2. Recently, I discovered some USA schools accept HND after I told people in my class to send emails and ask questions. However, do WES evaluation if you have the money.
3. If you have left school for a long time, it's not an issue, provided you can explain what you have been doing for those years.
4. Finally, volunteer in that your prospective field, learn how to write research papers, attend conferences,.
If you see any admission condition that says that you don't need to contact anyone in your department to get a scholarship, let me interpret what they mean in basic simple English.
I have received tons of questions about this.
So read:
1. You can get admission for sure if you meet the minimum qualifications. However, scholarship decisions will be based on the available budget.
Departments/School may have some assigned budgets for a particular semester. So, you will be competing with many other people
who have been given admission too. Hence, the scholarship may not get to you.
2. This means that you have to either source for the money, get to the school and hustle just like @amuta_ann did, or look for agencies that can give you grants.
Call your friends and neighbours; the food is served.
Tag them here to see what's happening in the Netherlands.
Let's go:
The Netherlands generally have about 3 pathways to scholarship:
1. Erasmus Mundus Scholarship 2. By Institution e.g Rotary Scholarships, Bill and Melinda Gates Scholarships 3. Orange Knowledge Program (OKP)
OKP is the mother of all scholarships for all international students
in the Netherlands.
So, what is the OKP Scholarship Program?
The Orange Knowledge Programme aims to advance the development of the capacity, knowledge and quality of both individuals as well as organisations in the field of Technical and Vocational Education and Training
1. Go to University pages in different countries of the world, look for your course and email professors in your field. (This is the best and most efficient).
Everything you need to achieve this is described in my pinned tweets 1-10.
2. Look for Government-funded Scholarships in different countries of the world. Check their criteria, and apply.
I have explained how to get fully-funded scholarships in Sweden, Germany, France, UAE, Australia, Poland, etc. Check my pinned tweets again. Next is China.
Note that this method is more competitive because it is already public.
3. Look for advertised Positions by Lecturers or Departments: Sometimes, lecturers advertise scholarship positions in their labs. We usually post many of this on this street. Send emails to the lecturers
If you click 'Scholarships for citizens from developing countries', as shown above, you will see the list of all available scholarships for your region.
The First Scholarship you will see is 'The Ignacy Łukasiewicz Scholarship Programme', known as NAWA.