Pls house I need to confirm the cost of evaluation of result

Pls house I need to confirm the cost of evaluation of result.I mean the total cost of evaluation of transcript sent from Nigeria school to evaluation company

BabygirlDee:
Visa Aproved this morning in Abuja by the guy in window 7
Korede Bello was also on the line �
Hello I’ve been a silent follower for a couple of days now and I have to admit this forum is really helpful. But the approval is nothing short of God’s work. This forum really helped me prepare so I think it’s only fair that I share my transcript.
Anyway when I was called to window 7 I was terrified because I had noticed that this this particular go was very fast because he kept cutting people off when they were speaking and not being patient at all. He had given out about 5 blue pallets and not a single white. I was even praying in my mind God please don’t let them give me this guy but aperently God had other plans.
So I was called to the guy and here is my transcript

Me: Hello,

Vo : Hi, pass Me your passport and I-20

Me : (passed it over )


Vo: (types for a while) so why did you choose the university of Denver?

Me: after deciding I wanted a masters in
communication management, I found 8 schools that offered the program. So I weighed them based on program content, international student surport and and start date and I chose the university of Denver because they have more courses in thier program that I’m excited about, the have a start date in April (actually March ) which is really convenient and they have a significantly sized international student community which I think is really important.


Vo: (types) so the past times you’ve been to the United States what’s the longest you’ve ever stayed in the United States ?

Me: about 3 and a half weeks (actually we’ve never stayed longer than 3 weeks so that was another mistake)


Vo: (types for a really long time) so who will be sponsoring your trip?

Me: my dad, sorry my dad and my Mum


Vo: what do they do for a living ?
Me: my dad works for......and my mum works for..


Vo: so I will be approving your visa, good luck in your studies
Me: thanks you
And off I went �

If these are just the questions, the VO was only interested in your travel history.

A university in USA asked for my official transcript but they are yet to offer me admission. My undergraduate school here in Nigeria offers the option of sending official transcripts via email. The school in USA also accepts official transcript via email but a friend told me that they will likely not accept the kind that my undergraduate institution offers saying they will need it from a trusted party like WES. He further stated that the only kind of transcript the USA school will accept from my undergrad institution will be the one sent through courier service. I need your opinion.
Thanks

30watts:
Guys I am applying to the University of Iowa, Tippie school of Business M.S Business Analytics program and I am required to submit a SOP. I have a draft and will appreciate if someone here that has an idea of the points to touch help review.

Thanks

Hopeful for a positive response...

HI, I really do not know about Business Analytics as such but I've done some nice job writing my own SOP and reviewing a few for my friends. I'd be more than pleased to help out. Send me a DM.

knoph2007:
Not experienced about the whole process but did gre yesterday and had this qt 161 verbal 143.. I have hnd in accounting 3.25/4 Bsc in Accounting 4.19/5 Msc in Finance 3.93/5. More than 8 years working exp. What are my chances with the gre result

With your work experience and your grades, you can get into top business schools in America. All you'd need are excellent SOP, resume, LOR, etc. If you can sell yourself well, the sky is the starting point.

tobilento:
@femi312 When giving advice, U don't come up being all conclusive and start question people's achievements, Pls add more to your courtesy level (no hard feelings bro). I know what SOPHAS is, how the body works in conjuction with schools of Public Health, coz I have done my research and started applications in schools with good reputations in MPH. I saw coming up to this platform as a plus, coz I can see there are great minds here with huge experience to benefit from in order to keep all things in check. Your contribution is well appreciated Brother.

Centralized application system. For PH is sophas. Other fields have their own. Many PH programs are members. They handle the preliminary sorting of application materials and forward them to each program you're applying to. It makes life easier for school adcoms sorting through thousands of applications.

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Pls am also in need of someone to help me out wit my sop

Boss mi abeg i need GRE materials too...help your niaja nigga....email:fx24real2012@yahoo.com

Pls femi I need ur help,amvpreparing for TOEFL exam ,what textbook should I read for it, and I also need help in writing my son.tnks

Pls femi I need ur help,amvpreparing for TOEFL exam ,what textbook should I read for it, and I also need help in writing my sop.tnks

Pls femi I need ur help,am preparing for TOEFL exam ,what textbook should I read for it, and I also need help in writing my sop.tnks

Femi Pls I need ur help, am preparing for TOEFL Wat textbook should I read and also need ur help in writing sop.tnks

lolibunm:
Femi Pls I need ur help, am preparing for TOEFL Wat textbook should I read and also need ur help in writing sop.tnks

TOEFL is a piece of cake compared to GRE, all you need is the TOEFL guide from ETS, Sample exam from ETS and Noteful speaking video. Speaking is the only hard part because it is not basically just speaking English but you have to link the ideas together. So just go to YouTube and download TOEFL speaking videoshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZcitwmXvmDg&list=PL6434B98632F06DB0 . If you are using Barron, Kaplan etc, you are just wasting your time. You can get a good SOP from this link and also study this SOP ebook, for your own good, don't copy the SOP just use as guide. https://drive.google.com/open?id=0BwKmQy59LeEpQ0VGeFVSd0l1eUJyMUJvQ0V3cW1oeDhmZ3J3
https://drive.google.com/open?id=0BwKmQy59LeEpZ2Y3bnk2Vlh4ekM0dy13VERhWDNpY2FGLVRV. When you write your own SOP, I MIGHT be able to help you review it.

lolibunm:
Pls am also in need of someone to help me out wit my sop

I am kind of busy but just PM me let me take a lot at it

zenithempire:

Boss mi abeg i need GRE materials too...help your niaja nigga....email:fx24real2012@yahoo.com

help me with ur Gre materials by ejicent4luv@gmail.com

folmus:


Chances of what?

phd with funding

dmajor1:


With your work experience and your grades, you can get into top business schools in America. All you'd need are excellent SOP, resume, LOR, etc. If you can sell yourself well, the sky is the starting point.

Really impressed with your response. I am grateful for your advice

Add East tennessee state university and Georgia southern university to your list. What stage of the application are You?
You can contact me for further advice and information. [quqote author=tobilento post=64820133]Good day, Please I need advice (fundings, schools, etc..) on applying for MASTER of PUBLIC HEALTH (MPH) for Fall 2018. I am a graduate of Microbiology with 4.60 Cgpa. Thanks[/quote]

Ok guys, I need some advice here, I got admitted into westcliff university, and also into Dublin business school Ireland, please guys which one is advisable to process the visa. I read through the trend here and someone said Westcliff university is not well recognise and can be denied by the VO, please advice

I should use this opportunity to congratulate the lucky pundits in the house that have been offered admission. I’ve been on this platform for a while noticing things as usual. I’m indeed happy because the mission of this platform is being fulfilled. I’m pretty sure potential grad students are seriously looking forward to hearing ‘welcome to America’ but these are the few points you should be aware of before leaving Nigeria. My first question is this, are you sure you really want to accept this admission offer? Oh! You’re surprised right? I’ll explain elaborately on this based on my experience. This time last year, I got a plethora of admission offers that I became bemused on the one to accept, and the ones to let go. I got an undergraduate degree in industrial chemistry from the university of Lagos, but I have never for once cherished what I studied. Throughout my university days, I never gained anything, I was never serious because I hated the smell of chemicals which emanated from the chemistry lab. I’ve always wished I studied chemical engineering. Upon graduation, I said to myself this is the best time to fulfill your chemical engineering dream. The truth is if I had known, I would have applied for an MS in chemical engineering, but because I wasn’t advised and based on ‘do it all by yourself’ phenomenon, I fell into a trap, and it took various deliberations before I was able to get out of the trap I got myself into. I knew I wasn’t going to get into top schools that offer PhD in chemical engineering because of my industrial chemistry background. I applied into 6 or 8 schools (not too sure), I applied for PhD in chemical engineering in three low ranked schools(with research areas that I don’t even like or have a fundamental knowledge of), I was eager to leave this country because I felt this country doesn’t have anything good for the youths. My first admission offer (PhD Chemistry) was from Michigan Technological University with a fully funded, amazing stipend package. I was like ‘wawuu’ I saluted myself, and said to myself, ‘Tobi, welcome to America’ I didn’t even wait for the second offer before I grabbed the first one and accepted it. Seriously, I made the biggest mistakes of my life by accepting that offer because I didn’t do enough research before; (I) showing interest in PhD, because research isn’t my thing, I’m always and will forever be in love with calculations, (II) applying into Michigan Tech, because the research areas are not what I consider funny. Not that I don’t like the research areas, I HATE the research areas. Plus, Michigan is a cold state, I went during summer, but the weather was unbearable for me, it was extremely cold and I’m allergic to cold. There was a day I was coming from school, I cried and said to myself, ‘Tobi, who sent you here! You want to come and die in America right?’ Plus, Michigan is more of a white man state, I was the only black in my department. Michigan is one of the coldest states in US, and that would have been a capital NO for me if I had done my research before leaving Nigeria. Also, I loathe trying new species of food. I’m a typical Ekiti man who’s used to our cultural foods, but it was difficult in Michigan because I couldn’t find any Nigerian store. I had no choice but to result into consuming biscuits, burger and chips for three weeks. There was a day I instructed one of my friends in Atlanta, Georgia to buy our normal foodstuffs in Nigeria for me in Atlanta, because there are quite good African stores in Atlanta that sell Nigerian foodstuffs. By the time I calculated the cost of shipping the foodstuffs to Michigan, I lost interest.
If you’ve made up your mind to leave Nigeria, please and please consider the following piece of advice;
(I) Do a thorough research on the school you’re going to, the state, and means of transportation. I faced a lot of challenges transporting myself because MTU is located in a small town. There was no train(I think train is the cheapest means of transportation in US), no BRT bus. I was left with two options, it’s either I board a taxi(very expensive) or I trek to school. My apartment was far from school, and what I did most was to trek.
(II) Please ask yourself this genuine question, why am I leaving for US? Are you interested in going to US because you’re tired of being jobless or underemployed in Nigeria? Are you going to US because you want to get a green card? Are you going to US because you have flair for international education, and research? Are you going to US because you just want to leave this country? Let me answer the questions one after the other. If the reason is because you’re underemployed or jobless, have you tried being self employed? https://www.dailytrust.com.ng/news/women-enterpreneurs/affiong-williams-makes-forbes-africa-s-billionaires-list/155376.html Did you know you can get grants to finance your unprecedented ideas? I’m very sure most people know Iroko TV, the CEO got grants to finance his idea and he’s a lionized young billionaire in Nigeria. https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/amp.ft.com/content/b02cab5e-c378-11e5-b3b1-7b2481276e45 if you’re not called to be self employed, please and please, don’t go there because many are called but few are chosen. On a more serious note, what attracted me to US was the amazing stipends grad students get, but I was wrong when I got there. When I got my I-20, I was uncontrollably happy when I found out that I would be earning close to 500K naira per month after being fully funded. I was like I will have enough savings at the end of the month. Unbeknownst to me, US isn’t Ojuelegba where you can survive on 50K per month. I was staying in a one room apartment (three persons share one bathroom. Bathroom is also known as toilet in US.) and after calculating the yearly rent, I would be paying close to 2 million naira every year in what we call face me and face you apartment in Nigeria. That’s not all, I was also responsible for my health insurance, and other payments that would be made known to you when you get to the school. I realized the pay wasn’t what I anticipated. What’s left was passion, which I never had for the course I was given and the area of research that was available. I give crocodile smile whenever people tell me that they would work their asses off by combining multiple jobs in US. The truth is as a GA or RA, you will never have quality time for yourself coupled with the fact that you have projects you’ll be constantly working on. Disregard any of such information that tells you that as a grad students, you’ll have time for yourself. Especially students with science background (Eyin omo science student) be prepared to spend most of your day in the lab. If the pay is the reason why you’re going to US, please disabuse yourself from such fallacy. If you belong to the second category of people going to US because of green card, please think twice before leaving Nigeria. My first question is, are you ready to deny yourself of true love by marrying a citizen because you want to become a denizen? The bitter truth is not everybody would get citizenship through the means of securing a job upon graduation is US. Do you know how many US citizens are unemployed? The ones amongst us that might be lucky to get a good job in US upon graduation are the ones in top ranked schools. If you’re eyeing an unranked or low ranked school, have you thought of what would become of you upon graduation. Let me share a brief story of two persons with you. When I got to Houghton, Michigan, the only good experience I had was to meet some folks that graduated from Unilag. They told me the story of a Nigerian guy that concluded his PhD in MTU and returned to Nigeria to become a lecturer in Gombe State University. At first, I was like God forbid but on the long run, I saw it coming. I was lucky enough to meet the second guy, (this one is not them say) the guy got an undergraduate degree in chemical engineering from Unilag and proceeded to MTU for his PhD. He graduated the semester before I clocked in in MTU. We got talking and he said he had to settle for a post doctoral program when he couldn’t secure a job. As I’m talking to you, he’s a post doc student in the department of chemical engineering. My question to him is what next after post doc? Unto my next question, are you going to US because you have flair for research? The people that belong to this category are the ones that would survive the grad school heat in US. Please don’t hesitate to accept that admission offer if you belong to this category.
Conclusions:
(1) I would advise potential admission seekers to apply for an MS program instead of the over prophesied PhD program because you can still bear unforeseen circumstances for 18 months instead of 5 years.
(2) If you’re interested in getting a good job in US upon graduation, please and please target top ranked schools in your individual programs.
(3) If you’re interested in the green Pali, please don’t lead anybody on in Nigeria before leaving because I must confess to you, black Americans are the true definition of beauty. You’ll definitely find a partner in US, but don’t ever make it obvious that you’re interested in them because of your ulterior motive.
(4) If you’re interested in pursuing a PhD program, please be sure that you love research, be sure you’re in love with your area of research because PhD is over demanding. PhD would take everything called life away from you for five years. This is not to scare you. You can do it because many Nigerians that aren’t better than you have done it. But don’t deceive yourself.
(5) If you’re more concerned about being a billionaire, please neglect grad school, and invest in your idea for five years instead of spending it in grad school with nothing positive at the end but a degree.
(6) If you have a good job or earn well in Nigeria, please and please stick to your job, don’t resign o because there’s no assurance that you’ll get something close to that upon graduation.
(7) For those interested in international education, please be very passionate about it. The end result is good. Imagine a situation where Dr would be added to your name. Oh my! it’ll be so sweet being called Dr Tobi Crowns in future. But don’t ever let go of your dreams because of grad school.
Conclusion: grad school is only interested in passionate applicants. PhD program is very demanding and be ready to pay the price. A PhD program in ABC is more demanding than BS in Electrical electronics engineering because you won’t just learn the alphabetical order but you would learn why A is A and why X has to come before Y and why B is called B and why M is an inverted W. Be prepared! Be prepared!! Be prepared!!! Grad school is interesting, but demanding.
Ask yourself this question, ‘why am I leaving Nigeria’? Please be sincere with your response. God bless you.

Excerpt from a friend's experience

Hello,

Are there any female students aged 25-35 years old who plan to come to the USA (specifically the New York City area) by 2019? PM me if so.

ga2157:
Hello,

Are there any female students aged 25-35 years old who plan to come to the USA (specifically the New York City area) by 2019? PM me if so.

You didn't tell us what they will do with you.

folmus:


You didn't tell us what they will do with you.

Full-time (35-40 hours/week) babysitting of an infant, basically. One could attend to other things such as school on weekends etc. But the work would be mostly during the day. It's not for right now, it would be for next year. But I would prefer to explain details to interested parties.

My Own Question Is I have About $10,000 Dollars in My Account I gathered from small small hustling and would like to study Economics or Business Administration in the US as an undergraduate, and would love you to advice me with Info's on Cheap Schools (Public Schools) I can attend within this budget( P.s This budget includes cost of tuition and all the visa processing Stuff plus bank statement)
Will this be enough!
Cuz i heard some public universities tuition could be as low as $3,000/year. Please Help a person in Need! Abeg
+ on Plan B I am also thinking of asking My Uncle (my Dad's Best Friend ) who works at NNPC to help me by showcasing as my Sponsor till i land in the US by helping with his own bank statements as proof of funds.

RearVoice:
My Own Question Is I have About $10,000 Dollars in My Account I gathered from small small hustling and would like to study Economics or Business Administration in the US as an undergraduate, and would love you to advice me with Info's on Cheap Schools (Public Schools) I can attend within this budget( P.s This budget includes cost of tuition and all the visa processing Stuff plus bank statement)
Will this be enough!
Cuz i heard some public universities tuition could be as low as $3,000/year. Please Help a person in Need! Abeg
+ on Plan B I am also thinking of asking My Uncle (my Dad's Best Friend ) who works at NNPC to help me by showcasing as my Sponsor till i land in the US by helping with his own bank statements as proof of funds.

business is an overrated major in the states man unless you wanna proceed to getting an MBA or something which I would suggest you do after undergraduate in Nigeria i suggest you reconsider besides the budget you have is unrealistic unless you maybe get a fullride scholarship or something
Ps public schools are only affordable to in state student

Gunnerson:
I should use this opportunity to congratulate the lucky pundits in the house that have been offered admission. I’ve been on this platform for a while noticing things as usual. I’m indeed happy because the mission of this platform is being fulfilled. I’m pretty sure potential grad students are seriously looking forward to hearing ‘welcome to America’ but these are the few points you should be aware of before leaving Nigeria. My first question is this, are you sure you really want to accept this admission offer? Oh! You’re surprised right? I’ll explain elaborately on this based on my experience. This time last year, I got a plethora of admission offers that I became bemused on the one to accept, and the ones to let go. I got an undergraduate degree in industrial chemistry from the university of Lagos, but I have never for once cherished what I studied. Throughout my university days, I never gained anything, I was never serious because I hated the smell of chemicals which emanated from the chemistry lab. I’ve always wished I studied chemical engineering. Upon graduation, I said to myself this is the best time to fulfill your chemical engineering dream. The truth is if I had known, I would have applied for an MS in chemical engineering, but because I wasn’t advised and based on ‘do it all by yourself’ phenomenon, I fell into a trap, and it took various deliberations before I was able to get out of the trap I got myself into. I knew I wasn’t going to get into top schools that offer PhD in chemical engineering because of my industrial chemistry background. I applied into 6 or 8 schools (not too sure), I applied for PhD in chemical engineering in three low ranked schools(with research areas that I don’t even like or have a fundamental knowledge of), I was eager to leave this country because I felt this country doesn’t have anything good for the youths. My first admission offer (PhD Chemistry) was from Michigan Technological University with a fully funded, amazing stipend package. I was like ‘wawuu’ I saluted myself, and said to myself, ‘Tobi, welcome to America’ I didn’t even wait for the second offer before I grabbed the first one and accepted it. Seriously, I made the biggest mistakes of my life by accepting that offer because I didn’t do enough research before; (I) showing interest in PhD, because research isn’t my thing, I’m always and will forever be in love with calculations, (II) applying into Michigan Tech, because the research areas are not what I consider funny. Not that I don’t like the research areas, I HATE the research areas. Plus, Michigan is a cold state, I went during summer, but the weather was unbearable for me, it was extremely cold and I’m allergic to cold. There was a day I was coming from school, I cried and said to myself, ‘Tobi, who sent you here! You want to come and die in America right?’ Plus, Michigan is more of a white man state, I was the only black in my department. Michigan is one of the coldest states in US, and that would have been a capital NO for me if I had done my research before leaving Nigeria. Also, I loathe trying new species of food. I’m a typical Ekiti man who’s used to our cultural foods, but it was difficult in Michigan because I couldn’t find any Nigerian store. I had no choice but to result into consuming biscuits, burger and chips for three weeks. There was a day I instructed one of my friends in Atlanta, Georgia to buy our normal foodstuffs in Nigeria for me in Atlanta, because there are quite good African stores in Atlanta that sell Nigerian foodstuffs. By the time I calculated the cost of shipping the foodstuffs to Michigan, I lost interest.
If you’ve made up your mind to leave Nigeria, please and please consider the following piece of advice;
(I) Do a thorough research on the school you’re going to, the state, and means of transportation. I faced a lot of challenges transporting myself because MTU is located in a small town. There was no train(I think train is the cheapest means of transportation in US), no BRT bus. I was left with two options, it’s either I board a taxi(very expensive) or I trek to school. My apartment was far from school, and what I did most was to trek.
(II) Please ask yourself this genuine question, why am I leaving for US? Are you interested in going to US because you’re tired of being jobless or underemployed in Nigeria? Are you going to US because you want to get a green card? Are you going to US because you have flair for international education, and research? Are you going to US because you just want to leave this country? Let me answer the questions one after the other. If the reason is because you’re underemployed or jobless, have you tried being self employed? https://www.dailytrust.com.ng/news/women-enterpreneurs/affiong-williams-makes-forbes-africa-s-billionaires-list/155376.html Did you know you can get grants to finance your unprecedented ideas? I’m very sure most people know Iroko TV, the CEO got grants to finance his idea and he’s a lionized young billionaire in Nigeria. https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/amp.ft.com/content/b02cab5e-c378-11e5-b3b1-7b2481276e45 if you’re not called to be self employed, please and please, don’t go there because many are called but few are chosen. On a more serious note, what attracted me to US was the amazing stipends grad students get, but I was wrong when I got there. When I got my I-20, I was uncontrollably happy when I found out that I would be earning close to 500K naira per month after being fully funded. I was like I will have enough savings at the end of the month. Unbeknownst to me, US isn’t Ojuelegba where you can survive on 50K per month. I was staying in a one room apartment (three persons share one bathroom. Bathroom is also known as toilet in US.) and after calculating the yearly rent, I would be paying close to 2 million naira every year in what we call face me and face you apartment in Nigeria. That’s not all, I was also responsible for my health insurance, and other payments that would be made known to you when you get to the school. I realized the pay wasn’t what I anticipated. What’s left was passion, which I never had for the course I was given and the area of research that was available. I give crocodile smile whenever people tell me that they would work their asses off by combining multiple jobs in US. The truth is as a GA or RA, you will never have quality time for yourself coupled with the fact that you have projects you’ll be constantly working on. Disregard any of such information that tells you that as a grad students, you’ll have time for yourself. Especially students with science background (Eyin omo science student) be prepared to spend most of your day in the lab. If the pay is the reason why you’re going to US, please disabuse yourself from such fallacy. If you belong to the second category of people going to US because of green card, please think twice before leaving Nigeria. My first question is, are you ready to deny yourself of true love by marrying a citizen because you want to become a denizen? The bitter truth is not everybody would get citizenship through the means of securing a job upon graduation is US. Do you know how many US citizens are unemployed? The ones amongst us that might be lucky to get a good job in US upon graduation are the ones in top ranked schools. If you’re eyeing an unranked or low ranked school, have you thought of what would become of you upon graduation. Let me share a brief story of two persons with you. When I got to Houghton, Michigan, the only good experience I had was to meet some folks that graduated from Unilag. They told me the story of a Nigerian guy that concluded his PhD in MTU and returned to Nigeria to become a lecturer in Gombe State University. At first, I was like God forbid but on the long run, I saw it coming. I was lucky enough to meet the second guy, (this one is not them say) the guy got an undergraduate degree in chemical engineering from Unilag and proceeded to MTU for his PhD. He graduated the semester before I clocked in in MTU. We got talking and he said he had to settle for a post doctoral program when he couldn’t secure a job. As I’m talking to you, he’s a post doc student in the department of chemical engineering. My question to him is what next after post doc? Unto my next question, are you going to US because you have flair for research? The people that belong to this category are the ones that would survive the grad school heat in US. Please don’t hesitate to accept that admission offer if you belong to this category.
Conclusions:
(1) I would advise potential admission seekers to apply for an MS program instead of the over prophesied PhD program because you can still bear unforeseen circumstances for 18 months instead of 5 years.
(2) If you’re interested in getting a good job in US upon graduation, please and please target top ranked schools in your individual programs.
(3) If you’re interested in the green Pali, please don’t lead anybody on in Nigeria before leaving because I must confess to you, black Americans are the true definition of beauty. You’ll definitely find a partner in US, but don’t ever make it obvious that you’re interested in them because of your ulterior motive.
(4) If you’re interested in pursuing a PhD program, please be sure that you love research, be sure you’re in love with your area of research because PhD is over demanding. PhD would take everything called life away from you for five years. This is not to scare you. You can do it because many Nigerians that aren’t better than you have done it. But don’t deceive yourself.
(5) If you’re more concerned about being a billionaire, please neglect grad school, and invest in your idea for five years instead of spending it in grad school with nothing positive at the end but a degree.
(6) If you have a good job or earn well in Nigeria, please and please stick to your job, don’t resign o because there’s no assurance that you’ll get something close to that upon graduation.
(7) For those interested in international education, please be very passionate about it. The end result is good. Imagine a situation where Dr would be added to your name. Oh my! it’ll be so sweet being called Dr Tobi Crowns in future. But don’t ever let go of your dreams because of grad school.
Conclusion: grad school is only interested in passionate applicants. PhD program is very demanding and be ready to pay the price. A PhD program in ABC is more demanding than BS in Electrical electronics engineering because you won’t just learn the alphabetical order but you would learn why A is A and why X has to come before Y and why B is called B and why M is an inverted W. Be prepared! Be prepared!! Be prepared!!! Grad school is interesting, but demanding.
Ask yourself this question, ‘why am I leaving Nigeria’? Please be sincere with your response. God bless you.

Excerpt from a friend's experience

Hmm..nice write up but some of your points are not entirely true and shouldn't be taken at face value 1) Whether a state is mostly white does not indicate whether you will make it or not in the state. Infact some whites are more accommodating than some blacks. There are people who schooled in mostly white states and they never felt uncomfortable, they always contribute in class, Its left to you to show them that Africans are not dull as they think. Even when they talk about racism, I don't know what racism looks like, I cant even feel it even if you racially abuse me so far you don't touch me while saying your trash.
2) You talked about rent etc and you were converting to Naira while making your conclusion which I don't agree with. A graduate student on full tuition waiver earning average of $1120 after tax with no car is better off than a worker earning #250k in Nigeria. For instance, out of your $1120 lets assume you pay average rent of $500/month, phone bills of $30, Groceries of $100 and miscellaneous of $90, at the end of the day you are still left with $400 to save for raining day. $400 in today's exchange rate is about #144k. Can a person earning #250K working in Lagos save 144k in a month? Your answer is as good as mine. Not to even talk of the condition of living in Nigeria which is very poor, someone once said 'Everything in Nigeria can Kill you' which I totally agree with. I remember while working in Lagos then, I wake up 4:30am every day and I don't get home until at least 11pm just because of #150K per month, and that is basically the life of a typical average Lagosian. How can one grow old working like that? One will die young and that is not a curse. In summary if you are in Nigeria and you are not happy about your life,your Job or you are unemployed and if or not a graduate degree will get you closer to your dream then start working towards it. 3) You said 'do you want to deny yourself of true love by marrying a citizen because you want to become a citizen' My question is, so people that married citizens are not inlove? marrying a citizen won't give you true love? That's what your statement suggests and I want to believe that came out wrongly. 4) In as much I am a strong proponent of going to top ranked and good schools, we cant deny the fact that there are people who attended top schools and they find it hard to get jobs whereas people who attended even unranked schools get jobs. There is no hard rule to this, people's destiny is different and everything is by God's grace. What worked for you might not worked for someone else and vice versa, we should stop living/programming our lives based on people. I know a Nigerian guy that finished his 5 years Phd in Chemistry at University of Arkansas and got a job with SealedAir, I believe MT is even highly ranked than UA. Most international students getting a Phd are not getting it because they wanted to but man is got to do what he is got to do and you cant blame them, if you can survive Nigeria with all the stress, you should survive a Phd on the average. Africans are known to be hard worker and resilient and, luckily Phd might you more paths to permanent resident than a BSc or MSc would (http://www.greencardforphd.com/ https://www.phdgreencard.com/). People finish Phd and end up going to work in the Industry, America is not Nigeria where no one will employ a Phd holder except Tertiary Institutions.
5) On a joking note, as regards food I am a typical Ekiti man too and my taste bud was calibrated with Pounded Yam, I don't even think you are as picky as me. I cant eat and have never eaten a typical American food like Mac and Cheese, because it is tasteless, its irritates the hell out of me and that has never been a problem. You should adapt and you can always find rice, beans,Pasta etc except swallows in any store in the US. You can get African like foods in Hispanic section in various stores like Walmart or Indian stores. My ultimate question for you, if you have the chance, would you choose your present Phd or your past job/past unemployment in Nigeria?

femi312:
Hmm..nice write up but some of your points are not entirely true and shouldn't be taken at face value 1) Whether a state is mostly white does not indicate whether you will make it or not in the state. Infact some whites are more accommodating than some blacks. There are people who schooled in mostly white states and they never felt uncomfortable, they always contribute in class, Its left to you to show them that Africans are not dull as they think. Even when they talk about racism, I don't know what racism looks like, I cant even feel it even if you racially abuse me so far you don't touch me while saying your trash.
2) You talked about rent etc and you were converting to Naira while making your conclusion which I don't agree with. A graduate student on full tuition waiver earning average of $1120 after tax with no car is better off than a worker earning #250k in Nigeria. For instance, out of your $1120 lets assume you pay average rent of $500/month, phone bills of $30, Groceries of $100 and miscellaneous of $90, at the end of the day you are still left with $400 to save for raining day. $400 in today's exchange rate is about #144k. Can a person earning #250K working in Lagos save 144k in a month? Your answer is as good as mine. Not to even talk of the condition of living in Nigeria which is very poor, someone once said 'Everything in Nigeria can Kill' which I totally agree with. I remember while working in Lagos then, I wake up 4:30am every day and I don't get home until at least 11pm just because of #150K per month, and that is basically the life of a typical average Lagosian. How can one grow old working like that? One will die young and that is not a curse. In summary if you are in Nigeria and you are not happy about your life,your Job or you are unemployed and if or not a graduate degree will get you closer to your dream then start working towards it. 3) You said 'do you want to deny yourself of true love by marrying a citizen because you want to become a citizen' My question is, so people that married citizens are not inlove? marrying a citizen won't give you true love? That's what your statement suggests and I want to believe that came out wrongly. 4) In as much I am a strong proponent of going to top ranked and good schools, we cant deny the fact that there are people who attended top schools and they find it hard to get jobs whereas people who attended even unranked schools get jobs. There is no hard rule to this, people's destiny is different and everything is by God's grace. What worked for you might not worked for someone else and vice versa, we should stop living/programming our lives based on people. I know a Nigerian guy that finished his 5 years Phd in Chemistry at University of Arkansas and got a job with SealedAir, I believe MT is even highly ranked than UA. Most international students getting a Phd are not getting it because they wanted to but man is got to do what he is got to do and you cant blame them, if you can survive Nigeria with all the stress, you should survive a Phd on the average. Africans are known to be hard worker and resilient and, luckily Phd might you more paths to permanent resident than a BSc or MSc would (http://www.greencardforphd.com/ https://www.phdgreencard.com/). People finish Phd and end up going to work in the Industry, America is not Nigeria where no one will employ a Phd holder except Tertiary Institutions.
5) On a joking note, as regards food I am a typical Ekiti man too and my taste bud was calibrated with Pounded Yam, I don't even think you are as picky as me. I cant eat and have never eaten a typical American food like Mac and Cheese, because it is tasteless, its irritates the hell out of me and that has never been a problem. You should adapt and you can always find rice, beans,Pasta etc except swallows in any store in the US. You can get African like foods in Hispanic section in various stores like Walmart or Indian stores. My ultimate question for you, if you have the chance, would you choose your present Phd or your past job/past unemployment in Nigeria?

Thank you for your contribution. However, let me inform you this piece is not to discourage anybody from chasing their dream of coming to US, it's only to inform and guide. Now back to your assertion;
1 well, i believe experience is the best teacher in the area of skin color, and also let me chip in that coupled with the skin color assertion, you ignored the comment about the cold weather. First, I believe Nigerians in the US can tell you what the response from a white person would be when you tell them you are a Nigerian; all thanks to our frontiers who have spoilt the name Nigeria in the past. On the weather, I believe you would say it is people that live there, but I hope you are prepared for it. #JustSaying

2, On your hypothetical calculation of saving and spending; let me inform that; in a city you can earn 1120$, you may not be getting a room for less than 600$ and you also forgot to include transportation in your expenses. If you're lucky enough to be in a city with public transport, you can factor in 100$ per month. And if it happens that no public transport,you sure want to factor at lest 120$ for car insurance and at least 50$ for gas per month. Subtract that from your $400 balance. Well you wake up at 4:30am and sleep 11pm, its quite unfortunate but at the same time, I know people that wake 7am and get back home 6-7pm, working on the island and living on the mainland. I believe it's about what works best for you #MyOpinion

3 I did not say you cant find true love. However, How about you meet a nigerian-american, tell her you love her and see her body language #JustSaying. Guess what? that is what their parents/fathers did to get citizenship; hence the believe that is what many nigerian boy that walks up to them wants to achieve; win her heart and brace up to go and win her parents over #JustSaying. And if it's white, thats story for another time.

4 "Most international students getting a Phd are not getting it because they wanted to but man is got to do what he is got to do and you cant blame them", meaning sacrifice 5years of hard labor to work as masters employee. I see


Anyways, my overt conclusion about my excerpt is for everybody to be prepared for any path they choose.
I believe you did not see me condemn any of the paths in any way.
What worked for me may not work for you and vice versa.

Thank you.

Gunnerson:


Thank you for your contribution. However, let me inform you this piece is not to discourage anybody from chasing their dream of coming to US, it's only to inform and guide. Now back to your assertion;
1 well, i believe experience is the best teacher in the area of skin color, and also let me chip in that coupled with the skin color assertion, you ignored the comment about the cold weather. First, I believe Nigerians in the US can tell you what the response from a white person would be when you tell them you are a Nigerian; all thanks to our frontiers who have spoilt the name Nigeria in the past. On the weather, I believe you would say it is people that live there, but I hope you are prepared for it. #JustSaying

2, On your hypothetical calculation of saving and spending; let me inform that; in a city you can earn 1120$, you may not be getting a room for less than 600$ and you also forgot to include transportation in your expenses. If you're lucky enough to be in a city with public transport, you can factor in 100$ per month. And if it happens that no public transport,you sure want to factor at lest 120$ for car insurance and at least 50$ for gas per month. Subtract that from your $400 balance. Well you wake up at 4:30am and sleep 11pm, its quite unfortunate but at the same time, I know people that wake 7am and get back home 6-7pm, working on the island and living on the mainland. I believe it's about what works best for you #MyOpinion

3 I did not say you cant find true love. However, How about you meet a nigerian-american, tell her you love her and see her body language #JustSaying. Guess what? that is what their parents/fathers did to get citizenship; hence the believe that is what many nigerian boy that walks up to them wants to achieve; win her heart and brace up to go and win her parents over #JustSaying. And if it's white, thats story for another time.

4 "Most international students getting a Phd are not getting it because they wanted to but man is got to do what he is got to do and you cant blame them", meaning sacrifice 5years of hard labor to work as masters employee. I see


Anyways, my overt conclusion about my excerpt is for everybody to be prepared for any path they choose.
I believe you did not see me condemn any of the paths in any way.
What worked for me may not work for you and vice versa.

Thank you.

1) I am not saying you are discouraging people, you wrote the piece based on your own perspective which might not always be true. I didn't ignore your comment about cold weather, I just believe it wasn't that important. People leaving in Alaska don't have two heads and mind you, there are Nigerians in Alaska. If you get a job in Alaska, because of cold you wont take the offer? You don't meet people in 2 months and start telling them you love them, time they say will tell. Not every American lady believes all Nigerian men are bad or scum.
2) My calculation is even based on a masters stipend, you and I know that for a Phd stipend, that figure can be higher. In as much as cities are different $100 for transport is outrageous, why on earth are you living far from your school? In-fact some/most student apartments have shuttle buses which is included in your rent.
3) Because you met one and she didn't respond does not mean others wont, even in Nigeria not all girls you ask out will tell you yes..so? There are '1001' Nigerian men who met the love of their lives in America and everything worked out. Because it didn't work out with one due to her myopic views is not justification to generalize.
4) You mentioned 'to work as a slave' as if having a Phd degree is not prestigious or respected or it wont open opportunities later in future. Anyways to every man his own.

Hello guys..

Pls aside application fee, is there anything like service fee that must be paid before given form 1-20 by the university.
I was told by an agent.

Pls guys respond

Iamkoolkay:
Hello guys..

Pls aside application fee, is there anything like service fee that must be paid before given form 1-20 by the university.
I was told by an agent.

Pls guys respond

An agent? In 2018? LMFAO. If you know what is good for you, run far from the agent if its not too late. There is nothing like service charge, however some schools require you to pay for i20 shipping, maybe that is what he is referring to. What school? Just hope its not one useless school.