Rejection for Github Education application (Co Pilot integration)

[jwollin]

🏷️ Discussion Type

Product Feedback

💬 Feature/Topic Area

Benefit Activation/Waiting

Hi everyone,

Hi GitHub Community 👋

I submitted a GitHub Education verification request via the official application form, but I haven’t received any response or update yet.

It’s been about 6 days since I submitted the ticket, and I’m not sure if:

My application is still in the queue, or
Something is missing from my submission

I’ve already checked:

• Spam/junk email folder
• GitHub Education application status page
• My school verification details (everything looks correct on my end)

This is the response from one of my applications:

We were unfortunately not able to verify your academic status. Please address the following issues and apply again.

• Please ensure that your academic affiliation document contains your last name exactly as it appears in your GitHub billing information. If you have only a single legal name, enter it in both the first and last name fields of your GitHub billing information.
• Please ensure that your academic affiliation document contains your first name exactly as it appears in your GitHub billing information. Variations of your name and nicknames are unacceptable.
• You appear not to be near any campus location for the school you have selected. Your academic affiliation documentation must indicate virtual learning if you are remote. You must configure your browser and operating system to allow location access. You may not use a VPN. If you believe that our information about your school is incomplete or incorrect e.g. missing campus location(s), then please select ‘My selected school has incorrect or incomplete information e.g. domains or campus location’ option when submitting a GitHub Education support ticket.
• You are unlikely to be verified until you have completed your GitHub user profile with your full name exactly as it appears in your academic affiliation document. Please do not use a variation of your name or a nickname. Once you have updated your profile information log out and log back into GitHub before re-applying.

All of points for rejection above were in my application already, but for whatever reason it won't recognize some of the information.

If anyone from GitHub staff or the community team can help me check the status or point me in the right direction, I’d really appreciate it.

Thanks in advance!

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[mchotdograp]

Same here, my docs meet all the requirements, but still got rejected.
This is ridiculous.