Hi Eugene, I really appreciate your support and comments on my videos throughout this year. Thank you very much. And I agree. If there's any Uber driver that has the time to maintain their Uber Pro rewards out there, they should definitely jump on the free college for themselves or a loved one who is eager to receive higher education!
@@TheRideshareCoach yeah I’m a driver and I was enrolled, I just couldn’t maintain it. It got crazy out here after upfront pricing, and my acceptance has tanked.
@@fyffitness hmm, that’s strange. Upfront pricing has been in my market for what seems like forever and it always made sense in a business perspective for the passenger and driver. Maybe it affected your market in a way different way than it did for Hawaii? I’m curious as to which market in you’re in and why it caused your acceptance rate to tank. Mine is currently at 85 % because I’ve been very picky with my rides lately but it’s just enough to keep my Uber Pro Rewards.
@@TheRideshareCoach so I’m in Atlanta, and to accept 85% of the trips here you have to accept a lot of trash trips. Every other trip is a loss. I’m talking $4 for 13 miles and 20 minutes type of trips. We have a lot of traffic, and the pay after upfront pricing went down maybe 15-20% as it’s no longer a per mile and per minute scale.
Congratulations and good work! I’m working on this now. I wish I had found out about it sooner! I plan on using the scholarship for a degree in environmental economics. Currently at around 600 trips in doing it full time for the past 8 weeks.
Congratulations! 🎉 I’m thinking of doing this as well I’m so close, but not close enough for them to pay when I want to start. Do you know if they allow you to redeem this award after you have already applied? For instance if you want to apply it to your sophomore year, or do you need to initially sign up with the Uber reward?
Thank you!!! You should watch my entire video! I talk about how I transferred an entire 2 year AA degree earned on campus in Hawaii over to ASU online. Technically I started as a Junior if we are looking at just credits, but it was my 4rth year attending college overall! You need to apply for FAFSA(pell grants) first and Uber covers the rest. Uber pays for your application fee of $70 too! Watch my vid! LOL.
@@TheRideshareCoachI did watch your entire video actually. I just wondered if you have to apply to ASU with the Uber Reward initially to redeem it or if you could redeem it after you’ve already applied and started taking classes online, seeing I don’t qualify at the moment but will soon. I have no transferable credits so I’d be starting at a freshman level. But thanks for the reply.
Oh, Hey thanks for watching first of all. And as far as tuition coverage goes it doesn’t matter if you already applied to ASU or any other school or not. Uber will pay for any tuition costs as long as you are working towards an associates or bachelors degree and you can sign up anytime. For example, I took a semester off and I re-applied for tuition coverage and they still covered me.
do you have to keep your Diamomd/Platinum/Gold status every year in order to get free tuition ? or once I enroll can I stop driving uber and get the 4 year free tuition?
That's a very good question. Yes you need to keep your Uber Pro status active. There is one sort of "hack" though. If you reach Diamond then you get a feature where you can get a "free" Uber pro status period if yours expires. You can get about 6 months of Uber Pro status without even having to drive at all if that makes sense. So my advice would be to hit Diamond first before getting the tuition. Diamond has many good perks and if you do need 6 months off of pure studying you can do that as well which I did at one point. However, generally it's pretty easy to do a few rides per week to keep the status as well.
My husband Ubers and I'm about to start at ASU in a few weeks for free! Funny enough, I chose the Digital Audiences major too. Just curious, how did you like it? Did you learn helpful, real world solutions to help with online businesses?? My only concern is that social media changes so rapidly so will everything I learn be relevant in a few years.
Congratulations on starting! I really liked it. Already completing an associates degree on a campus it was nice to do the 2nd half of my classes online. It's just so much more convenient with my busy lifestyle. As far as the materials and classes themselves, half the information was brand new and the other half was stuff that I already knew from managing this RU-vid channel and my website. For the final project of the capstone class you get to do work for a real client. The thing about social media is that I believe that it's not so much changing as it is evolving. If you look at Facebook, RU-vid, and Instagram which are the 3 that I've been using the most for years, they are essentially the same thing at it's core since they have come out but there's just a lot more features and more and more users jumping on the platform. In 2024 the main thing is figuring out how to get your audiences attention and how to keep it AKA audience retention. People's attention spans are getting shorter and shorter and thus short videos of 1 minute or less are dominating right now across all platforms. I only expect this trend to continue for many years to come and I expect future companies to try to compete with the current ones we all use today. @brynninbloom
I'm get two more degrees from asu through uber. Uber really is paying 100 percent. I already had a previous degree. I could no longer qualify for Pell grant. Uber is paying it fully.
Wow! 😮 that’s the first time I heard of that. No pell grants and Uber is paying for that portion too? Awesome. Are you willing to jump on a podcast sometime to talk about it? @myhandsspeak1925
@@shapley4980 I believe so. I got my bachelor's degree through them and I'm about to sign up for 1 or 2 classes for this semester. So I'm about to find out for sure if they cover a 2nd one.
The only thing I paid for were my books which I got for cheap on Amazon and my graduation fee which was $50. I'm from Hawaii so I was definitely out of state.
I'm at the step one now. I applied and a enrollment proffesional contacted me. I watched the video but I may have missed something so I am gonna ask it through here. How much YOU paid to the school apart from books and stuff ? Tuititon-wise
@@TheRideshareCoach I am a international student so I dont have FAFSA. In that scenario uber would pay the whole thing,right ? Thanks for the fast response btw
You’re the first international student I’ve talked to that is applying for this program. You will have to contact Uber support to verify with them if they will cover everything without FAFSA because I don’t know. Please let me know what happens so that I can tell everyone the details about this in a future video. Thank you.
Did you have to pay the taxes on the cost though? Sbux partners with ASU also and makes their employees pay for the taxes on the cost for their "free" tuition coverage...
No tax fees in this program. Everything I said in the video is true. All I paid for was my books and my graduation fee of $50 which is basically for your diploma. That's it. My tuition which came out to $43,000 for 2 years and my application fee of $70 was 100% covered by Uber and FAFSA.
Thanks for being prompt to respond. I was just curious since Starbucks advertises their program as "free-tuition". Then they have employees paying the taxes... I am on a full-scholarship tuition now through starbucks for this semester but I recently quit to just pick up contract work and think Uber is the way to go. Thanks for sharing your experience!@@TheRideshareCoach
You’re welcome. Out of everything I talk about on this channel this is what I love to talk about the most because they really covered all my tuition with no strings attached and it’s kind of amusing seeing peoples reaction to that. It sucks that Starbucks makes you pay taxes. I wonder how much that tax cost comes out to per semester as a full time student. Do you know?
If I start would I get a Batchelor?? My background is in IT i checked they got good classes i just want to make sure I get Batchelor Please reply if u got information
Yes. Lol, did you watch the vid? I'm just laughing because I talk specifically in depth about transferring my associates degree to ASU to work on my bachelors degree. The degree that I received from ASU is a bachelors degree in digital audiences and Uber and a little bit of pell grants paid for all the tuition. The diploma that I show in the beginning of the video and in the thumbnail is my bachelors degree.
@@TheRideshareCoach I did saw the video and I wasn't sure because I have no college documentation meaning from scratch which is 4 years to Batchelor degree that was my question that is it going to cover all 4 years or no ? Again thank you bro for this video I am so excited to start, looks like they have no starting for now I will check with ASU too
Ok, now I understand you. Yes, you can start from scratch and go for 4 years or whatever amount of time you need to get your bachelors degree :) As long as Uber keeps providing the benefit it will work.
No, part of the deal is to get financial aid first but it’s super easy to fill out the paper work. I go through all of that in the older video I posted about ASU. @Le_Pacha22
As far as I know it’s good for only 1 bachelors degree but let me double check on that and get back to you because now I’m curious for myself. And Thank you! 😊
Thanks for that info! I'm going to look into working on a 2nd bachelors degree then! I might just sign up for a class or 2 just so that I can have the benefits of being a student for free and just do the classes for fun!@@assassinsummer3447
A lot of people have been saying that. Well, it was definitely 3,000 for me and Uber Eats counted. With the update of 1,000 less trips I would double check to them if the Uber eats still counts today. I’ll check with support as soon as I get a chance and come back here to let you know in the r comments when I do.
Only for green card holders or US citizens... people with pending immigration status getting rejected by ASU's requirements, even with being qualified by Uber... Such discrimination based on immigration status from ASU...
@dmitryivanov740 Is US citizenship a requirement? I'm going to check the fine print when I get a chance. Thanks for the heads up. Where are you from and did you try to enter the ASU program?
@TheRideshareCoach It's not a requirement from Uber, but ASU not letting people with pending immigration status use tuition money from Uber. Saying that it's part of their agreement with Uber, Uber says that if you qualified by their requirements as a driver, it's up to ASU decision. Technically, none of them want to accept the fact that they are discriminating based on immigration status, but that's what happening in reality. I will file a complaint to the Department of Education, and I will see what federal and state laws are saying about this behavior... I have been told by the Financial Aid department at ASU that there have been many people like me who were not allowed to use Uber tuition because of their pending immigration status, which non qualified for Federal Financial Aid, we can only imagine quantity of Uber drivers who stuck with immigration pending status...
It makes sense. Maybe you need to file legitimate immigration status to qualify for the FAFSA portion. It’s required to sign up for Pell grants before Uber covers you. The government can’t give out money to illegal immigrants because that would just be illegal.
Damn my man.. I'm guessing u even had to take the trash 2$ rides huh 😞 but I mean if it's legit with this then it's worth it I guess.. trying to do this for my wife.. hopefully u can answer back for more advice
Hey bro, Good news for you. They lowered the trips needed to qualify from 3,000 to 2,000 since the making of this video. There’s no such thing as a $2 ride here in Hawaii at least. The bare minimum I get even if it’s just a 1 block ride is $3.60. Which market are you in? Think about it this way. If your wife is starting new and going for 4 years that’s going to be around an $80K value or more. If you have any more questions please ask here. @SaulRamirez-bz9cs
