What International Students Aren’t Asking!!!

So I'll just start off by asking with all the years of experience that you have, why do you believe that it's so vital for students to start asking questions early or start asking questions even before they're fully ready?

Yeah, absolutely.

The biggest challenge that every family, every student faces is when to start, right? We don't know what to do, so we don't know when to start.

And the answer is... now the the fact that you just had a thought about study abroad means you should start asking questions right now you say oh i'm in sixth grade or i'm in grade eight or whatever it doesn't matter you had a thought about it that's the time you start you start asking questions and you start searching for answers and the reality is that one of the reasons we do this show is because there's so much information that you even finding a place to begin so if we can just be the place where you start give you some, some ideas about how to do research and how to find your answers.

That's great.

If you want to do everything with us, that's great too.

But we're not prescriptive like that, right? We just want to work with people and get you where you're at.

I interviewed Lara Peco, who runs a consulting company that helps people find scholarships.

And one of the things that she said, and it's a really good episode.

If you haven't listened to that one, you should go back and listen to it.

One of the things that she said was that it just breaks her heart when Somebody comes and they outline their situation and she knows that if they had come six months sooner, she could have helped them so much better.

There were so many opportunities that they missed just by delaying their questions by six months.

It's always better to ask early and start exploring early than late.

Late

means wait, right? Late means wait.

Hmm, that's very profound.

I think even from experience, I've experienced that as well because finishing high school, I thought, okay, maybe I have to wait till I'm in my final year so I can start figuring everything out because maybe I'll know what I actually want to study, which university I want to go to.

And I was met with so many challenges.

I remember finding out so much information, but all at the wrong timeline.

So finding out things like, oh, your visa has to be done in a different country and this is after you've been accepted and everything so you couldn't plan ahead you couldn't save ahead so asking early is definitely something that a global student should do that just makes the whole process way way

easier

that's exactly what we're here to do yes so what would you say a student should do if they think that their question is maybe too basic Or maybe they should already know the answer to the question.

Maybe even with our parents as well, who have students, what would you advise them to do? And how could they start? How could they interact with us?

Yeah, I think, well, one of the reasons we started doing a podcast is because we wanted to put stuff out there that would start these conversations, right? They're not intended to provide a ton of answers.

They're really just provided to think, oh, I hadn't thought about that.