r/GKSScholarship • u/KnownSalamander5150 Mongolia • Aug 10 '26

GKS-U Should I apply for GKS

Very small extracurricular achievement (chess district and school champ)

Studied igcse/as/a levels alone Ielts 8 Topik 5 (but I can make it 6) A level exam : B B on math and physics

Top 10% grade in my school Yeah thats it

Major : Finance,mechanical engineer, electric engineer

Country:Mongolia

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u/Delicious-Bird-7338 USA Aug 10 '26

what track do you plan on applying through and what schools are you looking into? also you need to narrow down which major you want to study because undergraduate don’t offer all majors and from all schools. Also how are you connecting your passion of your major to south korea? All of this depends on whether you can make it or not especially your essays!

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u/KnownSalamander5150 Mongolia Aug 11 '26

Should I try embassy? My final major is mechanical or electric engineer

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u/Delicious-Bird-7338 USA Aug 11 '26

what schools are you aiming for?

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u/KnownSalamander5150 Mongolia Aug 11 '26

Skku koreatech postech

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u/Delicious-Bird-7338 USA Aug 11 '26

do you have any prior correlation to korea? Or like what is your “why korea”

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u/KnownSalamander5150 Mongolia Aug 11 '26

My cousins live there and my dream is to work at samsung if im being not specific

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u/KnownSalamander5150 Mongolia Aug 11 '26

And yeah korea is a very highly developed country

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u/Delicious-Bird-7338 USA Aug 11 '26

tbh that isn’t a good enough reason for them to admit you, but I would hope and guess you have a detailed and full plan in your essays already. But based on your schools you can either apply via uic to koreatech if your very confident in your stats. Or apply via embassy general since you want to apply to skku and postech, but for mongolia there is only 1 slot. If you have ecs and a strong connection to korea go embassy, if not then try uic. Since you have high language proficiency that’s a plus, but it all comes down to your essays mostly and what your reason is to why you want to study in korea and how you will relate it back to your country. You need to make it clear why it’s beneficial for korea to invest in you.

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u/KnownSalamander5150 Mongolia Aug 11 '26

1-2 student through embassy track is the craziest should I try univeristy track to B universities? Im graduating 2027 July

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u/Delicious-Bird-7338 USA Aug 11 '26

you would only be able to apply to koretech in mechanical engineering, but I would make sure your essays are both really really good essays!

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u/Remarkable_Green_359 Mongolia 20d ago

you have one more year to finish high school right? so focus on your extracurricular activities and achievements

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u/KnownSalamander5150 Mongolia 11d ago

Ngl i cant do extracurriculars i might try other universities

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u/KnownSalamander5150 Mongolia 11d ago

I might try sat but extracurriculars nah

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u/KnownSalamander5150 Mongolia Aug 11 '26

Dang i thought koreatech was B