same here.
iâm having the same issue. i had mistakenly tried to initiate the student verification when logged-in to my personal account.
Tried getting the âwe have succesfully confirmed your student statusâ email. but the apply discount does not work when i did login to my .edu email address.
This is what it is like dealing with Customer Support⌠Hereâs the updated last two emailsâŚ
Dizzy Dizzy and a waste of timeâŚ
Hi Edward!
Since youâre having issues with the student verification, I recommend reaching out to SheerID directly at FAQ Page and filling out their contact form. We use SheerID as our verification service provider, and theyâll be able to help you with the verification process.
Let me know if you need anything else!
Best,
Sam
Cursorâs AI Support Assistant
[-cursor.com] ⢠[[email protected]] ⢠[-forum.cursor.com]
Pranatosh D. (SheerID)
May 29, 2025, 06:38 PDT
Hi Edward,
Thank you for reaching out to SheerID regarding your Cursor discount. I apologize for the delayed response, we are currently working through a higher volume of emails than normal.
I understand your concern regarding the difficulties that you are facing but upon checking our records it seems that your request was approved at the first instance under Cursor. Kindly note that a user can get an approval for only once in 365 days as per the guidelines of Cursor.
You should have received a confirmation email from [email protected] with a success link to complete the verification process. Please check your spam/junk folder if you do not see an email in your inbox. For your convenience, I have re-sent the confirmation email that contains the success link. Here are your approval details:
- Approved email [email protected]
- Approval date <May 7, 2025>
- Approved Request ID
Kindly note that we are a third party verification team and SheerID does not have the ability to assist with the redemption of the offer, migration of the discount from one account to another or any payment/account related issues after the completion of a successful verification. If you face any issues on getting the discount or face any issues with your account, kindly reach out to Cursor at -www.cursor.com/students-.
I sincerely expect your kind understanding about our limitations.
Kind regards,
Pranatosh
Verification Support
SheerID
Hi, I verified my student status, and it was succeesful. However, the first time I clicked the link, I was using my personal email, and it failed. Therefore, I registered another account using my student email, but it still doesnât work even I click the link again. Could you please have a look? Thanks!
Hi
My student status has been successfully verified via SheerID. However, when I log into my Cursor account with my verified email (the university email), I only see the standard page, and there is no option to apply the discountâeven on the payment page!!!
I have the same issue â when clicking the discount button on the email saying that im verified it takes me to the cursor account but no discount applied at all.
Is this offer not active any more? I have the same issue as everyone but I see we are many
Same issue. Approved by SheerId but the discount doesnât apply to my account⌠Emailed support but didnât get any response. Is there anything different that I should do?
Hi, I got the same problem as many elses - I login with my personal email, verify for student discount using schoole email, which is not good but I didnât know - and then when I knew that, I used my school email to log in, but it doesnât allow me to verify again any more.
My Email:
Hi Nino - thanks for reaching out!
Unfortunately, we cannot transfer memberships between accounts, and each student email can only be applied for the student discount once.
Let me know if you need anything else!
Best,
(Nino: "Keeping it private")
Cursor's AI Support Assistant
same here
Shame on you people from Cursor for limiting student discount for US universities, shame on you! The most privileged people with the most privileged education are entitled to not pay while the normal poor students from the rest of the world still give you 20 dollars per month while your customer service simply ignores everyone asking for clarification. This act is shameful and would deserve a journalistic investigation.
I canceled my cursor subscription and I donât want anything to do with Cursor for life. Github copilot is not payed to bias and favor US Academia, I strongly suggest any researcher,student or anyone in the scientific community to drop Cursor until they explain this decision.
Same problem
Did you find any solution bro
Seems like im also one of those that have the same problem as others. I do not have any edu. email as it is not provided by my school whatsoever I was able to continue with SheerID verification and came as far as I was able to get the below mail:
However when I then try to access the pricing page then it still asks for 20$ and im pretty sure it should be 0? Why and how did someone solve it?
Could you please help me to cancel the failed applying one, and reapply my student discount to my student account?
I had verified my account but still no student discount. Is it because still of the .edu account? My school email doesnt use .edu. 
SheerID did verify it though.
Anyone else who signed up, verified their email but is still being charged 20$ per month? Iâve tried emailing them about this and at first got responses but then got told I will be transferred to an agent and havenât been responded to since.
If anyone has a solution to this I would love to hear it
This is what happened to me! I verified and applied the discount in may, and it was working fine until today, which my account suddenly went back to free! Can you please help?
I just reverified but the link it gave me to apply discount does not apply the discount!