Cannot verify student status - French Engineering School (epita.fr)

[meknvssi]

Where does the bug appear (feature/product)?

Somewhere else…

Describe the Bug

Hi Team,

I am trying to verify my student status but the system instantly rejects my email with “Not Eligible”. Support email gave me an automated response saying I need a .edu email, but I am a student in France where we don’t use .edu.

School: EPITA (School of Engineering and Computer Science) Domain: @epita.fr

Could you please whitelist this domain or help me verify manually? Thanks!

Steps to Reproduce

student status verification

Operating System

MacOS

Current Cursor Version (Menu → About Cursor → Copy)

Version: 2.0.77 (Universal)
VSCode Version: 1.99.3
Commit: ba90f2f88e4911312761abab9492c42442117cf0
Date: 2025-11-13T23:10:43.113Z (1 mo ago)
Electron: 37.7.0
Chromium: 138.0.7204.251
Node.js: 22.20.0
V8: 13.8.258.32-electron.0
OS: Darwin arm64 25.1.0

Does this stop you from using Cursor

No - Cursor works, but with this issue

[Colin]

Hey @meknvssi

I believe you’re looking for this thread:

Student Verifications outside USA and organizations without .edu email

Attention Students Outside the USA or Without a .edu Email If you are a student whose educational institution is outside the USA or does not use a .edu email address, please reply below with your country and email domain (e.g., .ac.uk instead of university.ac.uk). If you see your email domain already listed, do not add a new comment, simply upvote this post and add a like to the existing record. This helps us measure demand for expanding our student discount in the future. Important notes: W…