so hello everyone today we are in Bera
College the college with zero tuition
fee where tuition is free even the
apartment is provided so you don’t have
to pay any rent for this apartment
amazing they pay for your flights to
come here if you ask for it they pay for
your housing absolutely everything
covered you don’t need to worry about
anything as an international student
coming to the US but it’s the acceptance
rate because they care about diversity
they accept anyone from any country I
met someone from India Afghanistan
Gambia so let’s start with the
introduction can you please introduce
yourself
hello Texas
May yeah my name is uh I am from Gambia
West Africa I’m computer science major
um in my second year right now and I
work as a IT specialist here at the
college as a student position um the
school is amazing honestly uh I could
not believe it when I was
accepted I came here and I was collected
from the airport like um that was
amazing um the college came searching
for me I can remember they have a poster
weaving if there any P college student
coming in from the flight if you see
this com I was like wow the college came
to receive me and it’s been so good um
everybody was so helpful they have a
special department just to help incoming
students to trans to transition so they
actually show you everything from course
registration showing you everywhere on
campus showing you all the Departments
where to seek for help for everything so
the college is absolutely amazing your
finances are also safe amazing so let’s
start with how you were received so how
how was your reaction when you figured
out you got accepted to a university
which charges nothing it’s like too good
to be true right so how was your
reaction so for me uh when I because I
had a fight other colleges and other
colleges when I applied like they were
not covering tuition or like it was like
partial and all that I said that’s this
going to be pretty expensive like I
cannot like just work and like sty at
the same time so I said uh when I apply
to burio college they uh provided like
full right scholarship like I when I
even like when I landed in the airport
the way they received me uh like I was
like so fascinated man like this is uh
amazing uh like someone the call is
welcoming you I’m like picking up
picking you up from the airport it’s
like a whole new experience that uh you
can never forget and uh yeah so I was
like wondering like how am I going to
like be here while I and in the b b City
and I was like wondering like how my
experience is going to be but the
college was like like people were so
welcoming they the way they had
organized things from the day one I felt
so welcome like I felt like like my
family you like I uh was so amazing like
the whole four four years that I was
here uh uh I was like I didn’t have to
worry about tuition I didn’t have to
worry about my housing or finding a
housing because you know when you come
here like the big trouble is the big
problem is that oh man like how am I
going to like because you don’t know
anyone here and like you don’t know how
to work here so it’s going to be hard
for you to cover your tuition or
something like that and when there’s an
institution like this which is covering
everything for you like uh and welcoming
you like like a family member then you
feel so energetic to do things like even
I did a couple of internships here with
a relaxed mind and I did go to uh
California Silicon Valley explored
Silicon Valley like while doing my
internships uh that was a really good
experience and now I after years of
all that I got my full-time job and that
was because of perer college I would say
amazing obviously the chances of getting
in are limited how many students apply
how much’s the acceptance rate about
about , now currently about ,
people apply and they accept around
you know to and sometimes
students so it’s very competitive but
there is a strategy like if you realize
that they did not accept from your
country for like a year or two then
there is a high possibility that they’re
going to accept from your from your
country so it you don’t have to be the
best when I was applying I was not the
best in my country so they check your
application holistically your story
matters write that good essay try your
best in your testes and make that
application really good put it quite
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so now we are entering the Cs building
because both of them are sing computer
science so what’s the most common major
here computer science interational I
think it’s mostly computer
science computer sence mainly computer
signt second year first oh okay so this
switch and by the way which which
country you’re from you want to mention
uh so for me uh it’s very uh uhhuh it’s
very diverse but I have very diverse
background so he speaks seven languages
it’s amazing uhhuh okay so let’s enter
the computer science building Yep this
is very new it was founded in
oh wow this coming semester is going to
be the first semester we using this
building very nice nice yeah welcome
uhuh thank you and it’s a liberal arts
college so what’s the class size usually
usually uh it is like uh at Max
students in a classroom yeah wow so so
that the professor can
have quality time with the
students yeah very
nice thank
you and it’s a completely new building
very new architecture and this college
has an history right so why this was
developed and this is the only
University or college in the US which is
zero tution yeah right so what is the
history behind it I mean uh the colge
was founded by John GC In a
Christian abolitionist who was fighting
slavery and then he came up with the
idea that black people also have a right
to education and that regardless of what
obstacles are there they should have
access to Quality education so he
started the college in where he
welcome black people to come and learn
with white people in the same classrooms
in the same College it was the first
thing uh it was the first thing seen in
during those times in in in the south of
the United States so that’s why be
College Pride itself as the first uh
inter interracial College uh in the
south of America
opportun and people do internship even
as a software engineer on the
campus what is the percentage of student
getting job here can you share uh I mean
the uh like students in general like
like getting into compies out I think
it’s uh most I have seen like most CS
students uh who they have been working
in places like Amazon and Facebook or
all those tech companies I know for sure
about the tech companies but they also
students who in other departments like
physics or they they also have like a
they have been going to really good
schools after uh this college and yeah
amazing uh and uh what about research
opportunities you want to talk about
yeah um we have uh St students that uh
research in various top universities top
institution and even in NASA every
college student uh B college students uh
do research at Nasa they go to MIT John
Hopkins a lot of various universities
that you can even count so we are
everywhere uh just because it is a small
College um that doesn’t mean like
opportunities are limited it is like
everything is available here uhh we have
a lot of opportunities amazing and how
many uh girls or versus boys in a
classroom uh it’s very you can say uh
like equal ratios I guess uh yeah I
guess yes I’m not
wrong so so this is the research lab
what what is it called This is the
student software developer team lab
where they come and you know meet and
you know uh build the uh educational
softwares or help you know repair them
so it’s also a label position a lot of
students are working here and they’re
working as software developer so you can
imagine if you a computer science major
and you have this kind of level position
you’re going to get a lot of experience
and you can put it in your resume in
your LinkedIn and you can project you
very F amazing I was uh I when I came
here uh in the second year I uh worked
with the uh the the sare developer team
they have they have another Branch there
this what this for the Cs department
they have another one where they build
we Ides for the uh College like the
labor application or like something then
uh I was a part of that team and like I
gained some experience like building
full stack obligations like all my uh
three years that I was here and uh that
was really good experience for me like
to transition to my uh job and it really
helped me uh like the experience I get
here was really uh fantastic and this
college works on donations but it’s not
mandatory to donate here no one pushes
you so let’s start with the application
process so can you please share what
were the scores for you to get accepted
here are scores most important essays or
what what was the most important thing
here I mean uh I will go first I mean I
think um your scores matter because at
the end of the day it’s still
competitive but it’s not everything like
I will not say your scores is even %
of the of the application your story is
what matters uh B College believes in
your story they they believe uh um Your
Story begins from from your home and if
you come here your stories they’re going
to help you and then you continue that
story Beyond beer
so your essay is really really really
important because when I was applying I
was applying with somebody with higher
SAT scores higher uh order exam scores
but I put a lot of effort on my essay
and then I was the one accepted I was
the only one accepted from my country
just because I think my essay so put a
lot of effort in your essay your story
matters the reason why you are looking
for a free tuition college is because
you are very determined and you need
somebody to help you that matters it’s
not like it’s not trivial uhhuh yeah I
think the application process as uh CD
mentioned is uh it’s a holistic approach
like it’s not just scores are not just
one factor there are a lot of us
colleges mainly they look into so many
different factors uh like your uh your
your scores they should be good enough I
mean like it’s not it’s not one of the
factors but you if your scores are lower
then uh like that you can like
compensate that with a real with story
like personal statement that you can
write about your experience about the
the experience you had like the impact
you had the volunteering and all that
stuff I think those things all combined
give your application uh makes it easier
uh and you have all those uh because
already you’re like a diverse person
from a different region and that’s one
factor and like they there other factors
like scores and all that combined then
yeah definitely you’ll get accepted and
uh yeah but like they pretty much accept
one student from every country it’s
pretty much that difficult right wow so
like if let’s say they they accept
International students every year
there’s possibility if they selected one
person from the same country next year
every different country that country
might not be accepted so lot of luck but
give a shot thought it could be worth
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yeah amazing now go ahead you want to
say yeah I just wanted to say that um
there’s no application fee and if your
country is very big they might take two
to three students from your country so
that should been nothing to stop you
from applying just apply don’t be
intimidated by the acceptance rate apply
it’s free to apply wow and it’s just so
good to be true in one of the world’s
most capitalistic country you know like
everything is about money here and
hearing that is just mindblowing and so
what is your favorite part of studying
in Beria College uh for me uh all those
four years now I’m I’m outline so for me
I think uh the best part was uh the uh
labor position I had like uh the uh
experience that I gained beforehand like
before I uh dive into the professional
world I had experience with because my
field was like I was when I came here uh
I was like uh premedical and then I
switched to uh Cs and then started
exploring like business and all that
stuff so I already had like experience
with uh computer computer science
department working as a uh full tack
developer for for three years and that
helped me a lot uh for making me ready
for the uh professional work I think
that was one of the uh unique thing that
I found here I think uh I didn’t have
any
I was not like new when I started my job
it was like I already knew bunch of
stuff beforehand uh y yeah as Abdul said
um that’s definitely a like a big thing
in the college here it is a walk college
so you get to explore a lot of uh walk
uh experiences uh when I came here uh
first I did a job um I I like Facilities
Management like you help the college uh
clean everywhere
and then I became a physics da and then
I also became a computer science da now
I’m a IT specialist and now I have an
internship so you exper you have you
have a whole lot of um experiences on
your resume even before graduating I
think that is very unique amazing and
now like you know in the US majority of
innovation has happened because of
research if you remember remember
internet it came from an research
initiative called arpa arpanet so arpa
net and similarly these AI Innovations
have come from research Labs of
universities as well so can you share
about how is the research infrastructure
here because more majority is coming
from PhD but yeah can go ahead um I
think uh when it comes to research um
since it is an undergraduate college um
they did not they don’t do research to
the PHD level but they do research um
like there’s a program here called the
UR CPP B College uh Bera college is uh
actually if you it’s a undergraduate
college mainly so uh if you’re thinking
of doing a PhD research and there are
some professors during summer they do
research you can join you can uh you can
can tell them and you can just join
their project and you can do research uh
you gain experience in research too like
it’s not that you there’s not research
opportunities here and also they have uh
also one good thing here is that uh uh
they have one program with a uh
university wender university where uh if
you get accepted that program in
freshman year then you uh with vable
University they have this program and
then it’s a medical it’s for medical
students so you don’t have to pay for
tuition for Medical College like when
you uh when you go to re University then
it’s all covered I guess wow so you can
become a doctor for free after this if
you want to so let’s say you do a
medical degree undergrad here and you
want to go to med school and then you
can do for free in Vanderbilt amazing so
I think uh that is for domestic they
have one except one international one
international in freshman for for
medical for medical just one medical
okay yeah I mean uh when it comes to the
uh dual degree program I got to explore
it when I came here first um we we were
told that like uh most if you a domestic
student uh if you are an international
student you have to pay it when you when
you go to another University but while
you are at the college everything here
is free but when you do another course
in another University you will have to
pay it like as part of the Dual degree
but B College will still give you a
degree and anything that has to do with
B is going to be free amazing and what
about research you were saying can you
finish that yeah yeah yeah the UR CPP um
is like an undergraduate search
experience that is GE towards uh all
students so that they can have research
experience during the summer I got to do
it uh last summer it was very
interesting you know having to work with
very experienced faculty and you know
exploring something completely new
different from what you have been
learning throughout the semester and
also having something achieved at the
end is quite mindboggling and it’s not
only limited to one Department all
departments math physics you know all
the Sciences all the humanities you have
an opportunity to work with your uh
faculty for for an experience and you
and then you will be paid Bera college
is going to pay you $ an hour for the
entire summer so you are not you would
be paid so and then you’ll be giving
free housing free free food free
everything and then at the end of the
day you get the experience for fre uhhuh
and what about uh I me what about
part-time opportunities so do students
have enough jobs if they want to make
money as well I think for that because
College when student that accepted they
uh the college had this labor program
it’s called Uh as they assign students
those jobs let’s say uh student comes
and they uh already have a job assigned
for them even if they don’t apply it’s
just if you pick a some kind of work
they send you some kind of questionnaire
whatever you’re interested in like they
pick based on that and you’re already
place for some kind of job and if you’re
interested in software then they’re
going to put you a feel related to
software that you’ll be working in that
uh with someone like professional in
that field at at the same time you’ll be
paid uh say uh every week I think you
have you have to come at like hours
uh hours and sometimes if you want to
like do more than that I think it’s like
or hours yeah so
application process
thank you yeah thank you for to and C
because like they took out so much time
B he especially flew from Austin to come
here and you know took a break from his
job I really admire his dedication and
reached out thank you so much and no
problem awesome even the apartment is
provided so you don’t have to pay any
rent for the apartment no amazing
everything the scholarship covers
awesome let’s check out the science lab
okay so this is the science building and
they have lot of departments such as all
the science departments are here and
those are some skeletons right stud
areas you can sometimes if you want to
like take a break after your class then
you can just come here and it’s very
quiet room and yeah professor’s office
very close so you can go to your wow
Professor it’s like it’s a very small
and closed community yeah amazing
Athletic Club so this is the athletes
coming here lot of tennis
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