How generous are the Cambridge Trusts?

BRavichandran

Hello all.

How generous are the Cambridge Trusts? I'm particularly interested in Overseas students, whose total expenses per year exceeds 20,000 GBP. In my case, I come from a very poor family in India, and I need almost the entire amount to fund my education through Cambridge. King's just told me that there are no full scholarships for undergraduates, and only part-cost bursaries are awarded, although occasionally they can be substantial. But I don't know what to expect, and I'm exhausting my avenues rapidly.

Any information might be of help.

If you are doing a science course, you may want to consider appling to companies for some kind of sponsorship. You'll have to do some work for them, but my friend gets £4k a year in exchange for working during the summer.

With regards to the Trust, I don't know anything about it. I'll leave that to the other people on here.

Reply 2

Taiping

If you are doing a science course, you may want to consider appling to companies for some kind of sponsorship. You'll have to do some work for them, but my friend gets £4k a year in exchange for working during the summer.

With regards to the Trust, I don't know anything about it. I'll leave that to the other people on here.

Really??? I have the same situation, cant pay 20 000, its nuts. How the hell do i contact companies!

Reply 3

metaphysical

Really??? I have the same situation, cant pay 20 000, its nuts. How the hell do i contact companies!

I never said that they could pay the WHOLE cost. :eek4:

And have you heard of the medium of post? :P

Reply 4

minimo

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OP are you an affiliated student? I thought you guys already got everything paid. I get 2500 pounds for an Arts course and if I remember someone last year got 7k for Maths. :s:

Reply 5

Taiping

I never said that they could pay the WHOLE cost. :eek4:

And have you heard of the medium of post? :P

haha. no i didnt mean WHOLE :wink:

I can afford SOME of it.
And yea post, but hell, i don know what to do. think i might just marry an english dude i know here and get eu fee status :p:

Reply 6

abless

Hmm, gotta love girls from East Europe :wink:

But seriously, I always thought Czech Republic was part of the EU - what's the problem?

Reply 7

I am not Czech!! :biggrin:

I am Russian

Reply 8

abless

Oh, so a Russian living in Czech Republic.

That starts getting complicated :wink:

Reply 9

Haha, and i am actually half Armenian by blood. LOL, talkin about complicated :smile:

But yea, the money is an issue :frown:

Reply 10

abless

I know, this money issue really sucks. I guess your government isn't of great help either, right? Maybe you can still find some scholarships, though. If I were you and money would be a big problem, I definitely try everything and ask anybody to support me. I know of a German guy who had financial problems and he actually went to politicians and asked them for help - I don't know the end of the story, though :smile:

Anyways, Cambridge is too great not to attend.

Reply 11

fundamentally

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BRavichandran

Hello all. How generous are the Cambridge Trusts?

I really dont think that you are going to get 20,000 pounds out of them.
They generally give you up to 5000 pounds although, very rarely, they have been known to give up to 10,000 pounds.

Even if they let you study without university or college tuition fees or let you room there for free ( extremely unlikely, unless you are the intellectual peer of C.V Raman, Bose, Ramanujan or Chandrashekar ) , there is still the cost of food, clothing, transport, books, stationery, shoes etc. This would be around 5000 to 6000 pound a year.

I see from your wikipedia user page that you are a 22 year old gay rights and HIV/AIDS activist.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Balaji_Ravichandran Perhaps there is something in that world that can fund your jaunt to Cambridge.

Reply 12

Johnny01638

That would be a bit generous.

Reply 13

BRavichandran

OP

Apparently, a student from Brunei got a bursary of 17,000 quid. Of course, he must be the next Einstein or something. As for my intellectual capacity, I'll leave the experts to judge. For now, all I can do is keep trying other sources, and "hope against hope hopen" (to borrow the words of Ogden Nash).

Reply 14

To the OP, I take it by "admitted" (on your wiki profile) you actually mean "got an offer". Unless it was unconditional of course.

Reply 15

BRavichandran

OP

Unconditional (and firm), of course.

Reply 16

BRavichandran

Unconditional (and firm), of course.

Of course! :P

Reply 17

sp2007

isnt the guarentee that you can pay for the course at cambridge part of your conditions though?

Reply 18