Scholarships will not be awarded in the following cases:
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3: The Applicant was a grantee of a Japanese Government Scholarship in the past will not be selected unless he/she has had at
least three years of research or teaching experience after returning to his/her home country. This exclusion will not apply to
a research-student applicant, who (i) as a foreign student in Japan received training in the Japanese language and/or Japanese
culture at a university and graduated from it
Menrui -
Yeah, I was confused - someone else on here that I regularly talk to uses a different flag than their actual nationality and I think I confused you with them. Sorry.
That is probably the factor, however, if you notice: I fit that exact exclusion: I received the MEXT scholarship for Japanese language study and successfully completed my period of study.
In all likelyhood, that subtlety is lost on whoever read my application at MEXT.
In any case, I'm pretty depressed at this point. Plan G looks very likely to work, but I'm still pretty down about this stuff happening. It's not entirely that I won't get the scholarship, it's the fact that I feel semi betrayed by the institution that had done me a good turn in the past.
Also, I feel like I've somehow "lost" in all of this. The scholarship was more than a prize for me - it was an opportunity to go to school where/how I wanted to, unlike my undergrad, where I had to choose a local school because neither I nor my family could afford it. It's really, really disappointing.
I will go to grad school, most likely at my 2nd choice for schools. The first one is too expensive for me to cover with my savings, unfortunately, and is no longer taking applicants for April - I'd have to wait for October, a short period, seemingly, but one far too long off for the me that has waited so long already.