I've found this article about enrolling as a foreign student, and I'm concerned.

Submitted ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨YourWumaoFriend@lemmygrad.ml⁩ to ⁨china@lemmygrad.ml⁩

https://www.sixthtone.com/news/1010310/how-foreign-students-are-cheating-chinas-college-admissions-system?source=channel_home

You see, I've found a company in Poland that seems to offer a similar service here.

This is their website:

www.studiawchinach.pl

The thing is, they have put in requirements for example what you can get withyour GPA. Also what is interesting, they offer an intense Chinese learning course before studying begins. (The article didn't mention that about the Vietnamese agencies, just that they also provide teaching services)

But still, I'm a bit concerned to know if this is a good choice. The students in the article seem to have struggled with their studies, and I'm in quite a similar situation as they were at the beginning. My fascination with China is quite recent, and I have unfortunately no knowledge of Chinese. Now I think enrolling might be a bad idea, due to the high fee and risk I might undertake onto myself, still I'm not sure if I should try or not.

Have you heard of stories like that, or know of students who enrolled in these ways?

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Weyland@lemmygrad.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Why are you using a private service to handle your admittance? You're better off contacting people at the Confucius Institute and try to get a scholarship through them (you have to be under 25). You're from Europe so it's a different story. There is a quota per nationality for scholarships, and thus as someone who isn't from the global south, it will be easier to get in.

If you're interested in studying in China; start studying Chinese. While your Chinese will improve a lot more rapidly when in China it is still a difficult language that requires you to invest a lot of time and effort.

It would help if you told us what kind of program you're interested in. Do you want to study sinology? Do you want to study engineering? What is your goal? Depending on the type of direction you want to go you might need an entirely different scholarship.
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- YourWumaoFriend@lemmygrad.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  I'd like to study either computer science or data science, although I would be happy with anything IT related. What I do know, is that these fields are extremely competitive in China so I might look into other possible study fields. Currently I've only been researching anything I could find in Polish which unfortunately isn't much. Also, yes I'm aware of the possibility contacting the CI directly, but the company I've named not only helps you with applying but as I said also provide the learning course as well as getting acquainted with China. What I'm also aware of are the scholarships provided by individual universities, so that may be useful. Currently, I haven't done any direct research into CNC but now I'm going to look into them more so I can possibly plan things out better (or even completely independently of AsianShip).
  
  I'm not really in a big hurry, so I'll spend some more time on that.
  
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  - Weyland@lemmygrad.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    Be aware that the deadline for these scholarships is REALLY early, as in December/January. Your best course of action is to assume that the deadline is in October and work towards that.
    
    While computer data/science courses are quite competitive, they do recruit a lot of master's students to work and study in China from abroad. If you're interested in AI then you're golden, albeit said courses are pretty hefty on the math so (e.g. imagine a physics degree comparable to workload).
    
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squaresteak@lemmygrad.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
To my understanding, scholarships from the China Scholarship Council have various dollar values, with the highest value scholarship being allocated by the Chinese embassy in your country. In my country, only 10 grad scholarships are available through the embassy. These students must be getting the lower value scholarships which are administered by the school.

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