A Peruvian Student Built a Free ‘Tinder for Scholarships’ — 15,000 Have Used It
A 22-year-old Lima student built a free swipe-based scholarship finder. More than 15,000 young people in Peru, Mexico and Chile have used it. The post A Peruvian Student Built a Free ‘Tinder for Scholarships’ — 15,000 Have Used It appeared first on The Rio Times .
A Peruvian student named Raúl Jáuregui Penny has created a free platform called Becas para Migajear, which translates to "Scholarships for Scrounging." The platform, launched in Lima, aims to simplify the scholarship search process for students in need of financial assistance to pursue their education abroad. Jáuregui, a 22-year-old environmental engineering student at the Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, grew up in extreme poverty and has secured fifteen scholarships and exchanges himself.
He noticed the difficulty many students faced in finding relevant scholarship opportunities and decided to build a solution.
The platform gathers public scholarship offers from governments, universities, and international organizations, using AI to sort and filter them based on users' specific profiles. Users can swipe right to keep offers they qualify for and left to discard those they don't. The result is a shortlist of relevant scholarships. Since its launch three months ago, the platform has been used by over 15,000 young people in Peru, Mexico, and Chile, with the founder estimating a reach of over 400,000 people.
While the platform does not award scholarships itself, it helps users navigate the existing public offers, ultimately reducing the time and effort required to find suitable funding opportunities.
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