LLLaureate Lab
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FUNDED
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2027
Scholarship training ground · cycle 2026–27

Practise every part of getting funded.

Find live deadlines, write each essay type with colour-coded feedback as you type, rehearse interviews against a timer, and plan every document backwards from the deadline. Every practice session earns XP and passport stamps.

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Passport stamps

Earn each stamp by completing a real preparation step.

Readiness checklist

The documents most scholarships ask for. Tick what you already have.

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Scholarship Atlas

Global awards open to international students, plus national, corporate and state awards for Nigerians. Green "confirmed" dates were published for the 2027 cycle. Amber "typical" dates follow past cycles — confirm on the official page before you plan around them.

Status

Eligibility matcher

Enter your profile. Each scholarship is scored against level, nationality, degree class, age and work-experience rules, so you can spend effort where you qualify.

Essay Dojo

Pick an essay type and write. Each sentence is colour-coded as you type, and each required section (a "move") lights up when the Dojo detects it. Hover or tap a highlighted sentence to see why it got that colour.

Mode
How the Dojo reads your writing
  1. It is a style and structure coach, not a grammar checker. It flags vague, clichéd or evidence-free sentences, and a few mechanical slips (missing capitals, repeated words, stray spaces). Run a spell-check as well before you submit.
  2. Colours rate each sentence. Green = specific and evidenced (numbers, names, action verbs); blue = sound; amber = vague, hedged or long; red = cliché or no substance. Hover or tap any sentence to see exactly why.
  3. Moves are the sections panels expect. Each lights up in the left column when the Dojo detects it. Guided build walks you through them one at a time.
  4. Meters sum it up. Specificity (evidence), Structure (moves covered), Clarity (length, passive voice, filler), Originality (clichés), Length (against the usual word limit).
  5. You do the rewriting. Nothing is changed for you — edit your draft until sentences turn green. Write in your own words: funders check for copied and AI-generated essays.
Your draft0 / 500 words
Live colour reviewScore 0

AI essay coach

Checking…

Sends your draft to Claude for a rubric review: scores per move, the three weakest sentences, and a rewrite for each. Uses your own Claude account.

Arcade

Short games that train the instincts behind strong essays. Each one feeds your XP.

Cliché Buster

Score 0 · streak 0

Decide in 6 seconds: would this sentence help or hurt a scholarship essay?

Press start.

Structure Sort

Tap two paragraphs to swap them. Put the essay in STAR order, then check.

Rewrite Arena

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You rewrite the weak sentence in the box. Your version turns green when it is specific: an action you took, a number, and a named place or organisation — with no clichés.

Word Budget Sprint

Cut this 68-word paragraph to 40 words or fewer without losing the facts marked in bold.

In the year of 2023, I was basically the only engineer who was working at a cooperative of 40 farmers in Benue State, and I noticed that a very large amount of our tomatoes, around 30%, were actually rotting before they could reach the market, which was a really big problem for all of us. So I designed a solar dryer.

Interview Room

Draw a question, answer against the clock, and see whether your answer follows STAR. With the AI panel on, a Claude interviewer asks a follow-up and scores you.

Question

Press "Draw question".

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Your answer review

Finish an answer to see feedback.

Funding routes

Scholarships are one of twelve ways to pay for study abroad. Tick a step when you've done it — each step earns XP.

Scholar Stories

Scholars who won an award share how they did it. If a scholar has agreed to be contacted, you can reach out to ask about their application. Every story is checked before it is published.

Share your story

Be kind and specific when you reach out, and never pay anyone who promises a “guaranteed” scholarship.

Toolkit

Planning and writing tools applicants usually hunt for across a dozen sites.

Reverse deadline planner

Pick a scholarship or a date. The planner schedules every task backwards from the deadline.

Grade converter

Approximate equivalents. Each university makes its own call, so quote your original CGPA too.

Professor cold-email builder

For funded PhDs and research master's. Keep it under 180 words.


      
    

    

      
Referee request builder

      
Ask 6 weeks ahead and give your referee a brag sheet.

      

      

      

      
    

    

      
Funding gap calculator

      
Add yearly costs and funding sources to see what remains.

      

        

        

      

      
Gap per year

      

    

    

      
Scam check

      
Tick anything true about the offer you're looking at.

      

      

      

    

    

      
Focus timer

      
25-minute writing sprints. Each finished sprint earns 20 XP.

      
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Word limit trimmer

      
Paste any text to count words and characters, and find the words to cut.

      
      

      

    

  







  
Application tracker
Move each application through the pipeline. Saved in this browser only.