 I don't have a great intro planned. I'll be honest. I'm just kind of like kind of winging it today Would you like to introduce yourself and tell us who you are? All right. Hello, I'm Aransa Ferrari. Such a funny last name to be honest I'm 20 years old and I'm a score student. Awesome. Thank you. Yeah, how often do people comment on your last name? Pretty often pretty often they make jokes about it I would imagine but it's pretty fun to have a good last name especially if you're a formal at one fan I mean that Sundays for me are religious because I every morning I sit down on my couch to watch the races and can you tell us just like what you are studying right now? How you got into that? Okay. Let's start there. I'm studying communications at the University of Lima with it with a track on journalism and advertising and marketing. I got into communications because Being a nutritionist apparently didn't work. I failed chemistry at the IB. So I was like, this is not gonna work So let's go to University of Lima. I checked what I what like seemed more fun to me and I said communications Okay, let's try it three years later. I'm studying communications How much of that is gonna be like You know applied towards your credits in the new universities. Do you know? Depends. I've got a decent amount of credits here. I think like a hundred something But it depends on each university if they consider that my syllabus are not good enough for them. They're okay. I Got accepted but it depends. How did you get started thinking about like maybe going to study abroad? I had this idea since I was 17 because I I wanted to go to Argentina But back then I was really mature So my parents had waited a few years things are things didn't seem really good looking in the political and this Health context. So my parents and I decided that it was the best idea for me to go study abroad Okay, so would you say it was more those current events in Peru? Yeah, tons of people my age are looking yeah to go study abroad It's sad it's sad because you don't want to leave home because of this circumstances But sometimes you got to do what you got to do where did you start looking what countries? Are you thinking of applying to what universities? I'm thinking of applying to Spain the UK and the Netherlands applying to USC Then the University of Amsterdam which is considered to be the top university for communications in the world My my own socials aren't in Spain actually and what program do you want to transfer into? Well journalism, of course That's my main goal, but then I'm also open to the communications option the advertising and public relations program to programs to I'm pretty open. What do you think is going to be maybe better about the education over there? What have you seen something that you like or something that makes you think like? Oh, this is definitely gonna be better than what I'm getting here job opportunities first of all because the job marketing is really tough to find a good internship then The faculty I think the faculties abroad are great The experience to have an internship at well-known companies for example one of the universities that I'm applying to Has internships with Real Madrid That's how is it really cool imagine having real Madrid internship in your resume Making connections making connections with with big names with people from all over the world and also The quality of the education and the price to active is much cheaper for me to go over there and study Then staying here. I think it would be better To have that experience live by myself to learn how to do things to be more independent Especially me being an only child. I've obviously been spoiled my whole sport of my whole life So that's gonna help me develop new social skills life skills survival skills especially Tell how to how to be an adult that big you mentioned about the price tag Like I think most people will assume that studying abroad is gonna be way more expensive than Staying here to study. So it depends which country in Europe is much more cheaper than the US Thinking a little bit about the process of transferring them so far Like can you can you walk me through sort of what you've had to do so far to get to the point where you're ready to apply? Because you're gonna be applying soon, right? Yeah, so yeah, it's it's very close. So Like what have you had to do walk us through the steps? Well, first of all shout out to my lovely counsellor Pilar Pilar It sent me this list of universities with different programs in different countries Whereas Australia, Europe, the UK and I had to choose the ones who were more appealing to me Then we filtered that list into 12 universities We searched for each requirements for me to apply there and that's it I had to make assays to for the UK and in the US Shout out to Alyssa who's helping with that And so when you were going through and looking at those different curriculums from these different programs What were you looking for? What did you see that you liked? I was looking for a program that what that is bilingual first of all because English is much more Appealing for me because my education has been in English always It's easier for me to express myself in English Then I was looking for the basics of how to be a complete journalist and Programs that have good internships. What do you think are the qualities that a good journalist should have then? Wow Oh such a tough question. I'm gonna go into it. Wow good generally snits have ethical and Ethical values then curiosity curiosity to Maybe look look more into some topics Investigate investigate a lot and your journalists should read Always read it's important to read to know about history because how can you tell something? That that's happening on the present without knowing the causes. What's happened in the past? What late what led to that? So you're gonna be applying to universities, I think next month Have you already started applying or I'm doing the paperwork because of course if you're especially if you're going to Spain you guys need to get your papers done over there then go to Ministerie de ocasión then go to Minister relations exteriores then go to embassy of Spain. Obviously that takes time Especially if you're in the middle of a pandemic things take to tend to take a little bit more time I'm gonna apply on December. I think because we've made changes on the list Because I need to take my English exam the aisles. Oh, well, of course you guys need to take your designated like second language exam if you're going to study in an English speaking country The decision part is gonna be tough because obviously I gotta meet the numbers and all of that but In the end I'm gonna I'm gonna live. I'm gonna study wherever it's meant to be How difficult has the process been for you? It's pretty easy to be honest I tried to do the process alone with my mom It drove us crazy, but since we got with score Really was like it's like an angel from that fell from the sky. She's been amazing with me She's been really patient, too And she has guided me through the process and she and I've also asked for her advice For which university is gonna be better for me which university is gonna have The things that I really want So she's been pretty happy with that and with the paperwork too and in this obviously has been amazing with the essays We've shared amazing ideas and we got Amazing results, you know, I'm not trying to turn this into a score commercial But like you're welcome to say more nice things about us if you want but not it's awesome I'm glad you're having a good time with it and that it's making it easier for you Good, that's what I want. We did a lot of research right talking to people who've been in other places You know other ones that have five letters in their name and you know sometimes numbers and stuff like you know The thing is most people's complaint was like they didn't feel like it was about them And that's what I think is missing from a lot of this and it's like I want you to feel like it's your experience because it should be Of course, you're the one that studies not your parents not your counselor. You're The one I've had a tough time with my mom is lawyer so from your list Like what would be your number one like this is the one I really want to get into Yeah, I go that's Wow, I think the ones in the UK I think the UK is pretty amazing option for journalism. You've got the quality and you've got BBC over there That should be a great experience and well personally. I want to get into sports journalism I'm not a petrohead, but I'm fascinated With the person with the people who are behind helmet in this formal one world So I want to specialize in that and obviously the UK is the birthplace of formal one So imagine working next to I don't know Max Verstappen or whatever That could be amazing. Yeah, that would be fun. Obviously right to get actually, you know inside Who knows they ought to just I feel like if your last name is Ferratty They should just give you a job automatically like you just walk in and be like here's my idea. Like where do I go? I mean clearly there's a connection here. Is there anything that you're maybe a little worried or anxious about? Okay, why? because my family's pretty big and I'm obviously Used to being around a lot of people my mom had 16 siblings Yeah, and they've got kids and they've got kids. So we're like the nuclear family is about 40 50 people so not having bad I Don't know each month each Christmas. It's gonna be hard and Me being an only child friends with like family shout out to Fabi Camila And while learning the survival skills, I don't know how to Turn to turn on the fire or if something breaks turn how to fix it then the financial stuff I'm worried about that like Okay, how do I how do I administrate my money? That's something that should be taught at schools to be honest On the other hand though, what are the things? Maybe you're looking forward to like what are you excited about meeting new people? making good connections Friendships Learning about the culture how things work over there. How the world group the work cultures over there Then I'm excited for the new curses The faculty I think everything's gonna be amazing, but obviously I'm gonna miss my house my school University of Lima who has been a lovely experience is a really good university But sometimes you gotta fight hi, so what advice would you give to anybody who's maybe thinking about doing this or? You know contemplating like okay, maybe I want to study abroad. What would you tell them to do? Contacts core. I didn't tell her to say I swear. I swear wasn't a setup. I promise. I'm not trying to do I didn't want to turn into a commercial No, well, of course speak to your parents first then research about your degree Research what what you want to do in the future? What option is more suitable for you then if you spoke to your parents research then? Find a program that matches your program over here in this in the case that you're transferring like me you should try To match the programs. What was something that surprised you the great equivalents? Because first of all I went to this company a lovely company that told me your grades aren't good enough So I was like oh so all the work that I did in school It was like all for nothing because my grades aren't good enough, but it was a lie because the great equivalents the international equivalent to To proven grades is obviously favoring the students. So turns out that my grades were amazing So I could apply to any university. I wanted to whether it's you know, Italy Spain UK Whatever, I would love to come and actually like see you in a year or so and see how it's going Yeah, I know we already did one video like that actually yeah, you guys can check out the one I did with Julia University of Cincinnati. Yeah, she's pretty nice Yeah, she is pretty nice any last words anything else you want to tell us anything else you're thinking well first of all Thank you to score. It's been a lovely process if you want to start your process contact score the rest It's in a lovely interview. Thank you for your time. Thank you actually honestly seriously you're doing me a favor So thank you so much for coming Thank you for watching this interview and if you want to be in an interview Please tell us because we want to do more of these and it's I think important to hear from actual students perspective So having somebody here like I said to tell us about her experience and share her reasons for transferring and like what it's been like So far I think is really helpful for a lot of people who might be thinking about the same thing But just haven't decided to pull the trigger yet So if you are thinking about pulling that trigger go to prepwithscore.com to see more