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that there is an increasing number says.
of students seeking scholarship to
go abroad. She stresses mentors do not
write applications for students,
Đinh reveals from 2017 to 2019, they only give students guidance.
she only had 287 students, but the
number rocketed to 3,000 in 2023. Lê Đình Hiếu, a PhD candidate
in education at Johns Hopkins Uni-
“Many Vietnamese students versity, observes there are 700,000
want to study overseas, but most of secondary school final-year stu-
them do not have enough financial dents researching or applying to
capacity, so they need to apply for study abroad every year.
scholarships,” Đinh explains.
“But only about half of these
“One-on-one mentorship has students make it,” he says.
the highest success rate of stu-
dents getting a scholarship. That Lê says students want to study
costs 16 million Vietnamese dong abroad for many reasons such as to
Hồ Trung Thành’s revision materials for
cramming, having been told by an agency to (US $644.6) per application,” Đinh find better jobs, experience multi-
get at least a GPA of 9.0 out of 10 tp get a
scholarship in Australia
(Photo courtesy of Hồ Trung Thành)

work-life balance is much better,”
he says.

The student majoring in com-
munication and media points out
that his major is on Australia’s pri-
ority migration skilled occupation
list so it is easier for him to earn
P.R.

He admits that applying
through an agency is faster than
applying on his own because the
agency has a partnership with the
universities he applied.

“I received admission and
scholarship results only two weeks
after application submission, while
applicants without help from agen-
cies waited for three months,” the
18-year-old student adds.
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Đinh Thị Thanh Hoa, who has demic merit scholarship. (Photo courtesy of Nguyễn Hươg Trà)
been running a study consultancy
agency for seven years, observes