How to get your first financial aid on Coursera
Hello everyone, I am writing my very first blog so apologies if I make any mistake.Okay so those who don’t know what is financial aid on coursera I would like to tell you about it.
First of all what is Coursera platform. Coursera is an online learning platform for courses and https://www.coursera.org/ is link to this platform. Why it is so famous than udemy and other platforms? What is so different? Udemy can be taught but anyone but Coursera has mainly academic courses from top-notch universities So till now you will get an idea what is coursera all about.
On coursera you can audit courses too but after working so hard you would expect if you would have got certificate,it would look good on your cv. Professionals can pay for courses and those who have money.
Specifically I am writing this blog for those who do not have enough money to pay but still they want to upgrade themselves for their career or academic oriented. This are the fees around 3.4k a month and 35,441 a year.
What is the procedure to apply?
- When you want to enroll any course, to the right you will find an option financial aid available. (Note: It takes 15 days for your application to get reviewed, be patient mostly financial aid applications are accepted.)
.After seeing this option you can continue with the application
2. After clicking that link, you will be taken to this screen below.
After clicking on continue, you will get another screen.
3. You have to check about your background information and please be real don’t lie otherwise coursera can take your account down.
These are the important questions who are game changer. You have to be true to your words. Example if your course is about marketing then why are you applying for it. I am inserting links below which will be useful for you all.Kindly refer to it.
Why are you applying for this course? Your reason should be authentic. For an idea you can refer to the above answers. Now I am copy pasting here my answers which I wrote for applying financial aid.
4. I am posting answers which I wrote for my financial application
Why are you applying for Financial Aid? (150 words minimum required)
I am applying for the financial aid because I am a student from India and want to learn Machine Learning. I think it will be beneficial for my thesis work. But I’ve no job of my own to carry the expanses to pay for the certificate of this course. I live only for my scholarship. In this circumstance, it is very much difficult for me to gather such amount of money for the certificate. Financial Aid will help me take this course without any adverse impact on my monthly essential needs. So I’m badly in need of this financial aid.
I want to take this course as I want to learn Machine Learning.
I want to complete the Machine Learning course by Andrew Ng:. This Course will boost my job prospects after graduation from my institute. It will help perform better in carrying out Machine Learning and give me an edge over my competitors. A verified certificate will attach credibility to the certificate I receive from this course.
I plan to complete all assignments on or before time as I have done in previous Signature Track Courses. Also I intend to participate in Discussion Forums, which I have found to supplement my learning immensely in the other online courses I have taken on Coursera. I also plan to grade assignments which are to peer reviewed which I believe will an invaluable learning opportunity.
How will taking this course help you achieve your career goals? (150 words minimum required)
Receiving this scholarship will boost my self-confidence, knowing that I not only completed a very important task, but also took the responsibility of creating a foundation for getting me closer to my career goals. I believe in the importance of earning a college degree.
I also believe in giving back to my community by helping others in financial crisis, so they won’t have the same financial burdens that I had growing up in a single family household.
A scholarship would help me achieve my career goals in the next five years by reducing my stress over the lack of money and giving me the opportunity to focus on a well-rounded college experience. A scholarship would help me complete my studies concisely and allow me the best opportunity to fully grasp the material to the best of my ability.
This Machine Learning Course is a Great course for understanding how machine learning algorithms work, I did some other course before this one and it was more on a higher level, talking about algorithms which are already implemented in library and showing how to use them, but this course gave me more insight on how they actually work, which is really useful and interesting. Great material and interesting tasks, not too difficult.
For this you have to answer that you are not able to pay because of and mention your reason and submit your application.
5. Now wait for 15 days and you can check your email or coursera account for result.
Thank you so much for reading my blog. Hope it helps
