CSC Scholarship Results - 2011

[Angelina]

1) What is your native country? Macedonia

2) Where did you apply? Macedonian Ministry of Education and Science

3) When did you apply? April 7 2011

4) When was the deadline? April 8 2011

5) Have you applied for the scholarship before? No

6) What program did you apply for? 1 year Chinese Language Student

7) What schools did you put for your preferences? Peking University, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Fudan

8 ) Did you apply for your school of choice beforehand? No

9) What agency number did you use? Chinese Embassy in Macedonia

10) Where did you get your physical done? A private clinic in Skopje. They did the whole thing in 2 days. Plus, I had to pay only 50 kuai and I didn't get tested when I went to the Outpatient Medical Care in Beijing.

11) How did you get your documents notarized? A notary public did that

12) Where do you get official Chinese red stamps? /

13) Were you accepted for the scholarship, if you were not then why? Yes

14) How were you notified? By phone

15) When were you accepted/rejected? July 19

16) What school and program were you accepted to? BLCU, 1 year General Scholar

[Robbie513]

1) What is your native country? The Bahamas

2) Where did you apply? Online and through the Ministry of Foreign Affairs

3) When did you apply? End of March

4) When was the deadline? Apparently the middle of March still unclear was never given a concrete date.

5) Have you applied for the scholarship before? No

6) What program did you apply for? Two year language program followed by a two year Master's Degree in Information Systems

7) What schools did you put for your preferences? 1. Wuhan University 2. Najing University 3. Fudan University

8 ) Did you apply for your school of choice beforehand? No

9) What agency number did you use? Wuhan University

10) Where did you get your physical done? Used my local doctor.

11) How did you get your documents notarized? I let my doctor do that.

12) Where do you get official Chinese red stamps? Did not bother.

Finally, for those getting results:

13) Were you accepted for the scholarship, if you were not then why? No

14) How were you notified? I called into the Ministry of Foreign Affairs

15) When were you accepted/rejected? Found out I was rejected in mid September.

16) What school and program were you accepted to? see above

I think I found out where I went wrong I should have used my Ministry of Foreign Affairs agency number, also I did not turn in a printed copy of the online application instead I manipulated a PDF application form I downloaded off the CSC site. I think I will have much better luck next year especially realizing my mistakes. I've also began a course in Mandarin in preperation.

[roddy]

Some additional info via email.

Dr Haseeb Sattar - didn't get the scholarship

Tim Ryan - hang on, will come back to this

Apetshin - rejected due to not having recommendation letters

Joao - accepted for PhD at Wuhan University, did not take up the scholarship

Joshuamahnedra - rejected

Hiten - missed deadline

Lovelife - got a scholarship to BLCU

Will close this again now, not sure we'll get any more info.

[roddy]

Last minute entry from Tianjin 42:

1) What is your native country? U.K.

2) Where did you apply? By Post to Belgium (EU Scholarship)

3) When did you apply? February 2011 (if memory serves)

4) When was the deadline? March (again, if memory serves)

5) Have you applied for the scholarship before? Yes and no – I applied once before but after failing to secure the scholarship I was told that the electronic part of my application had encountered a problem and though I received notification that it had been received, it was never actually considered. Needless to say, I wasn’t very impressed.

6) What program did you apply for? One Year Language Program

7) What schools did you put for your preferences? 1, Tsinghua, 2, Renmin 3,Tianjin University (天大).

8 ) Did you apply for your school of choice beforehand? No

9) What agency number did you use? EU Code

10) Where did you get your physical done? I didn’t. I emailed The EU Mission in Belgium beforehand and said that I had recently undergone a medical on entering China as a teacher. I requested that I simply include a photocopy of that. They agreed.

11) How did you get your documents notarized? I Sent all the required documents and simply had the British Embassy in Beijing notarize the photocopied degree certificates/ transcripts (which wasn’t cheap but served purpose).

12) Where do you get official Chinese red stamps? /

13) Were you accepted for the scholarship, if you were not then why? I was accepted for the scholarship.

14) How were you notified? The EU results were posted together online.

15) When were you accepted/rejected? I think it was early August.

16) What school and program were you accepted to? Tianjin University, one year language course – as requested.

It is worth me pointing out explicitly, I went to Tianjin University which was my third choice. Whilst I was very happy to secure the scholarship I was a little disappointed not to be in Beijing. I originally included Tianjin because I have a few links to the place myself. Given the demand for places in Beijing there might be a lesson in this for the next round of prospective students. Whilst the Chinese course at the lower levels was, in my opinion, poor at Tianjin University, I am now in class D (of classes ranging from A to G) and the professionalism of the teachers seems to increase relative to the ability of the students. Tianjin is only 30 mins away from Beijing on the fast train and so this might be worth a punt as a third option for those keen to be near the capital.

[roddy]

One more from Jedija

1) What is your native country? Indonesia

2) Where did you apply? The Chinese Embassy in Jakarta

3) When did you apply? Early March 2011

4) When was the deadline? April 30th

5) Have you applied for the scholarship before? No, this was my first time.

6) What program did you apply for? one year language program

7) What schools did you put for your preferences? 1. Tsinghua University

2. Renmin University 3. BLCU

8 ) Did you apply for your school of choice beforehand? No

9) What agency number did you use? Tsinghua University

10) Where did you get your physical done? from government hospital

11) How did you get your documents notarized? Get an official sealed

transcript from my university in Indonesia

12) Where do you get official Chinese red stamps? no idea

13) Were you accepted for the scholarship, if you were not then why? no,

no notification from chinese embassy

14) How were you notified? -

15) When were you accepted/rejected? -

16) What school and program were you accepted to? -