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Travel / Re: General USA Student Visa Enquiries-part 15 by Admitwithschola: 1:15am On Aug 25, 2020 |
Jubrilawest: This person could be helpful: stepoluchukwu AT gma.il DOT com. Reach out. Hope you've spent time mastering the test. Otherwise I would suggest you do. 2-3 months of 8-10 hours preparation per day can work wonders. Sorry for the unsolicited counsel - but it's important I say it. 5 Likes 1 Share |
Travel / Re: General USA Student Visa Enquiries-part 15 by Admitwithschola: 1:09am On Aug 25, 2020 |
Well done to all.... A couple of people have reached out to discuss recommendation letters for PhD. Much as I'd like to write - and I actually enjoy doing this and bigging up deserving students - I can't! To write the kinds of breathtaking letters that land a student into a serious doctoral program, the writer needs to know the student in an academic setting. For example, as the student's former or current professor/lecturer, research project supervisor, or research boss at a place where candidate does serious research work, either as an RA (research assistant) to some PhD level researcher (preferably a serious researcher) or as full time RA to a group of researchers at a research think thank or consultancy, etc. PhD researchers are always preferable for doctoral recommendation letters. So I encourage you to reach out to one of these people. I'm happy to provide comments on letters if your recommenders choose to get a second opinion. But it isn't feasible for me to write such, I can only do that for my RAs and those connected to me via academics. I've like up to 15 letters to provide for this admissions cycle, already completed 8, no be small work. Each is about 4-6 pages, raving and raving and raving about the students and their uniqueness. In February 2021, I shall be posting an update of where these students obtained positive outcomes and accepted scholarship positions. Let me reiterate, once again, that letters are very important, and the credibility of the writer can be a big plus too. Thankfully, this is something applicants have power over, because you can choose someone who will write you the bestest letters. And if they do it well, you will swim in offers. A good letter goes beyond "this student is good and well behaved' and actually tries to provide arguments about why a student's average GPA is not reflective of their innate abilities or why a student's extraordinary research potentials are not reflected in the C they got in computational dynamics, etc. 7 Likes |
Travel / Re: General USA Student Visa Enquiries-part 15 by Admitwithschola: 7:50pm On Aug 23, 2020 |
Mechatronika: This is also correct @Timitex. I will like to hear what the prof's response will be. It will be interesting for me to be proven wrong...So come back with his response. |
Travel / Re: General USA Student Visa Enquiries-part 15 by Admitwithschola: 7:49pm On Aug 23, 2020 |
Timitex85: @Timitex I think the prof is pretty clear. Consideration means consideration. It does not mean certainty. The prof did not say you're deferring your funding. He says you will be considered for funding This means you will enter the pool of competition for funding next year (which you didn't this year because your packet came in late). If you outperform that pool, you will get funding. If you don't, well, anything can still happen. They "may" still give you funding. But note the professor has not promised that you will be getting full or any funding. That said, in your shoes, I will arm myself and apply to other schools this year - to protect against any risk of not getting any funding from this prof's school. 5 Likes |
Travel / Re: General USA Student Visa Enquiries-part 15 by Admitwithschola: 4:10pm On Aug 22, 2020 |
Paragontek: Yes, the route, as clearly spelled out by TWoods, is friendly to all - PhD holder, MSc holder even BSc holder friendly. This is the employer-sponsored route and relies on the willingness of the employer to sponsor you. So, it applies to MSc and even BSc, provided employers are willing to sponsor. More information is excessively available online. Once you're PhD and have research pubs and citations, then you are open to this employer-sponsored category plus other categories. In this case, you can basically shenk your employer's help and go your own. This self-petitioning is not everybody-friendly - the employer route is relatively more everybody-friendly - but it's doable. If it's possible, it's not a bad idea to produce and publish research papers whilst doing a PhD; it helps to gather citations too. When you're finished, you have much much more options as far as green card applications go. If employer is being tricky and only wants to hold you on H1B, you can simply shenk them and go your own. I remember a story where I think one eastern european guy was promised "oh, once we hire you on H1B, we shall begin your green card application.". Well, after they hired this guy on H1b, they told him that, "see, we will only initiate your green card application after you've achieved so so so and so". What!, the guy screamed. He suddenly became someone at the mercy of the employer. Being able to file yourself is a big plus. MSc holders, in addition to having the employer file for them, can also file for the green card on their own. There are success stories too, but not as many as the positive outcomes for PhD holders that have the other things as I stated above. Finally, as TWoods noted, nationality is important. Fortunately, Naija people do not face the backlog wahala that Indians and Chinese face. This is why it could take anywhere from 1 - 3 years for a naijan to get green card. Before Trump wahala, even naija/ghana/zimbabwe etc lecturers, who're based in their native countries, could, if they wanted, file for a US green and do all the processing in the countries they're based, provided they are prolific researchers, have a PhD and have good lawyers to prepare wondrous applications for them. On this path too, there are several success stories, although this route is different and you do what they call 'consular application' instead of the I140 that US based people do. Finally, please note that predicting green card possibility as a reason to embark on an MSc/PhD program, whilst a good idea, has its own risk, like any other thing in life. If status quo shifts and policies change when already in the program, regrets may result. I just wanted to say this. The green card used to be much easier before, but now, they ask many more people than before to attend interviews. Although interviews are largely a formality for people without any skeletons, any gben or suspicion during these interviews can spoil things. Good luck to all green card hopefuls. Maybe we can revert back to deliberating and debating graduate admissions and scholarships 25 Likes 4 Shares |
Education / Re: How To Achieve High Scores On The GRE by Admitwithschola: 2:49pm On Aug 20, 2020 |
Prodigy01: In addition to the helpful comments you have gotten above, please refer to this below which I recently posted on the visa thread ---- People, while trying to gather information for some people we're trying to place in major programs, I came across this wonderful post on redddit. It would prove useful for anyone who nurses the ambition scoring pretty high on the GRE https://www.reddit.com/r/GRE/comments/i63eg6/v_163_q_170_awa_50_from_a_european_with_a_stem/ Enjoy reading and, mostly importantly, following the tips. 2 Likes 2 Shares |
Education / Re: How To Achieve High Scores On The GRE by Admitwithschola: 2:45pm On Aug 20, 2020 |
TJ0987: Yes, please do, madam TJ |
Travel / Re: General USA Student Visa Enquiries-part 15 by Admitwithschola: 2:39pm On Aug 20, 2020 |
Guruindahouse: Thanks for the mention. Glad you found the comments useful. Yes, please send PMs, although my above comment about posterity would have been better 2 Likes |
Travel / Re: General USA Student Visa Enquiries-part 15 by Admitwithschola: 2:37pm On Aug 20, 2020 |
Shuayb0: Yes, please PM. But it would have been nice to ask and answer questions here so that posterity can benefit. Meanwhile, thanks for your comments. But you know, I've been into the game for many, many years, so that's expected. You too will be the same or better if you have same experience. |
Travel / Re: General USA Student Visa Enquiries-part 15 by Admitwithschola: 2:37am On Aug 20, 2020 |
Soleye24: This is good GPA, but good GPA is not enough, far from it. Review mine and others' posts on this thread and then come back with your questions. Some of the questions being asked and asked had been answered. So review and come back with specific questions. As I said, GPA not enough. I should also add that many schools these days say GRE is optional, but it will take a miracle for a school to reject candidate B in favor of candidate A if B and A are otherwise fully identical but B has GRE and A does not. So, one place to start is to spend the next 6-8 months prepping fire for the GRE. Yeah, it's math and english and writing, but no it's not just math and english and writing. This should give you an example of how to plan ahead - https://biochem.oregonstate.edu/content/admission-information. Oregon is not bad, although I admit I know very little about your field, biochem. I'm just trying to give general advice. Hopefully a biochem admissions expert will appear here and answer you 2 Likes |
Travel / Re: General USA Student Visa Enquiries-part 15 by Admitwithschola: 2:30am On Aug 20, 2020 |
Guruindahouse: If you give more details about yourself, you could get sharp answers that will address your questions. Are you a man (>35 and especially >40) or you're a guy (<35)? What's your educational record and work experience like? Are you an academic in Naija? Which field are you into? And which field do you hope to do this PhD? Do you have research experience? Papers in decent places? Finally, do you have profs who are willing to write you the type of letter that I just finished writing for a student? . A letter that will make oyinbo beg you to come their country? To your question, green card is doable. But one thing though - provided the government does not change status quo that much and if you;re self-petitioning, you would need a decent job with decent pay and a good research record. This is just one way. There are several ways/categories, and it's a good idea to do some google searches. it's all on the internet. To summarize, it's relatively easier (not easy though) to get the green card via one of the categories if one i) has an advanced degree ii) has a nice job iii) has research papers (sometimes with citations) and iv) has the grace of God. In fact, people get US green card from outside the US. There is a colleague in South Africa who will be applying and getting the US green card there in SA. This person seeks the green card so they can enter and leave for life. Academic jobs in SA are very lucrative, at least at the professor cadre level, so this person does not plan to "ja komot" from SA, but they are open to opportunities nonetheless. I hope this helps you. Meanwhile, if an academic institution hires you as assistant professor after your PhD, then you will get a green card. This is because many of them initiate the process of your green card application immediately you join them. In most cases, you join them with an H1b, which they obtained for you (no cap for academic people for H1B), and then they file green card for you once you are hired. The sad thing is just that academic jobs are hard to get in the US, but it becomes easier either if you i) attended a strong program or ii) do a path-breaking research which your advisor does a good job "shouting" about. All the bestest, Sir. 11 Likes 1 Share |
Education / Re: How To Achieve High Scores On The GRE by Admitwithschola: 8:58pm On Aug 16, 2020 |
TJ0987: What type of research are you doing? What are your ideas? You should research your ideas and the type of research you want to do, have them clear in your mind, and try to discuss them to the best of your ability. Nobody expects you to know all the literature and research in your field as you're just starting out. However, you do need to demonstrate that you have done your home and have some understanding of what you're talking about. All the best 4 Likes 1 Share |
Travel / Re: General USA Student Visa Enquiries-part 15 by Admitwithschola: 8:36pm On Aug 16, 2020 |
Jona48: If you want specific advice, be very specific. Social science has like 10 courses. What did you study? Give an idea of which school? And what do you want to go and study? Which country do you like? US? And if it's econs you're talking about, then you should state the micro and macro and econometrics courses you have taken and grades obtained. You should also list the mathematics courses you have taken and the statistics courses you have taken and the grades you obtained. If you read my long long posts above, you would see where I argue that stating the GPA may not be enough. Which modules did you do well in and which modules did you not do so well. If it's any other social science course, all the things I said before plus your above GPA can get you into a masters. But full scholarship may be a bit harder, though not impossible. I know of someone in the sciences with like 0.03 more than your GPA. They got 80% scholarship from one US university often mentioned here. However, this person has a GRE score and research experience and good letters of recommendation. In general, the lower the GPA, the lower the chances of securing scholarships. Nonetheless 3.49 is not a bad GPA, so there is a fighting chance if other parts of the application are bam, though you may have to spend something since you may not get 100%. 1 Like 1 Share |
Travel / Re: General USA Student Visa Enquiries-part 15 by Admitwithschola: 4:02am On Aug 16, 2020 |
Heylonmusk: Seriously? I wish I had a thread 4 times as long as this one many years ago when I was just launching out. You don't know the gold you have in hand. Anyway, if you're a poor guy like I was years ago, then the first step to studying abroad would be to get a fairly competitive GPA. If however you're not poor, or better still if you have the financial means, then the first step would be to start searching for schools that have the course you want to study. In my experience, many schools in the UK will admit you today or tomorrow once you can cover your expenses. But this thread is mostly US focused, hence you would normally need a GRE score plus your GPA plus letters and others to be able to study in the US. Many schools are cancelling GRE these days, but it's still a great idea to take it and 'wound' it if you're dreaming of getting a full scholarship (and this is not impossible, fellow Nigerians get full scholarships to US schools, plus the very top schools, every year). If you're the high-achieving, ambitious type, with a very solid GPA, and you have plans to reach the end of formal education (read PhD), then I would suggest you, as I already wrote in a previous post, start befriending your lecturers, offering to work for them as a research assistant, write papers with them and get them invested in your growth and success. If all goes well, this move will get you extremely solid letters from them when the time comes. With these letters, research experience, possibly research articles, your GPA, and strong GRE, you can walk into many US PhD programs fully funded. Ok, to make things more real, let's assume you want to do engineering, below, I give the profile of one girl who recently got into a US top 3 engineering, PhD...It will give you an idea of what to do and you can adapt to your own situation.. BSc engineering + solid GRE + 3 solid letters from naija profs + research experience with these profs + wonderful SOP + some luck= full scholarship in US top 3 So, in your case, although you didn't give much information, let's assume you have a CGPA of 4.3 in engineering and maintain this into graduation (or even increase it to like 4.4). If you get a GRE of, say, 165Q/155V/4.5, plus research experience, plus maybe some nontrivial articles and, importantly, have strong letters from 3 of your professors saying you're the next best discovery after slice bread, then it will be hard for you not to get into some very good or even top engineering departments in the US. Anyway, I'm sure this gives a preliminary answer to your question. The bottom line is that it's indeed possible to study abroad, and on full scholarship too, if that is your target. Many Nigerians continue to achieve this every year. You too can do it. Just keep sourcing for information by taking time to read as much as you can. It's when you can't easily find something that you should ask questions. Not because threads are long. 7 Likes 1 Share |
Travel / Re: General USA Student Visa Enquiries-part 15 by Admitwithschola: 2:07am On Aug 16, 2020 |
People, while trying to gather information for some people we're trying to place in major programs, I came across this wonderful post on redddit. It would prove useful for anyone who nurses the ambition scoring pretty high on the GRE https://www.reddit.com/r/GRE/comments/i63eg6/v_163_q_170_awa_50_from_a_european_with_a_stem/ Enjoy reading and, mostly importantly, following the tips. 2 Likes |
Travel / Re: General USA Student Visa Enquiries-part 15 by Admitwithschola: 4:36pm On Aug 15, 2020 |
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Travel / Re: General USA Student Visa Enquiries-part 15 by Admitwithschola: 4:46am On Aug 14, 2020 |
gaeul: Ok. Be sure you're taking the right test that is valid for your program of focus. If I remember well, management, strategy, accounting, finance, and others are done at the business school. Verify that it is GRE they need and not GMAT. If it's either, then I'd research which is easier to pass and take that. I suggest spending 3-4 months, 6 hours per day, if time still permits you, preparing well for the test. Yes it's math and english and writing, but no it's not just math and english and writing. When you have the solid GRE or GMAT score, with your other documents, reach out to me privately - it's possible for me (if time permits) or someone equally experienced to do 'application strategy' with you. As I told you, with your profile, top 30is/50ish is possible, and your field is very good. You won't find it hard getting a tenure track AP position after 5 years of PhD in the US. AP pay for business school people is also 'atrocious', it's really damn good, and the research budget and exposure are also added perks. So I encourage you to make all the sacrifices required to get admitted into a solid program which will mostly fully fund you. All the best 3 Likes |
Travel / Re: General USA Student Visa Enquiries-part 15 by Admitwithschola: 4:28am On Aug 14, 2020 |
TheNoble007: This is good advice. Nonetheless, answering those questions will help all HND holders who visit this thread. 1 Like |
Travel / Re: General USA Student Visa Enquiries-part 15 by Admitwithschola: 3:02am On Aug 14, 2020 |
Hannania: Do a search here and ask people for GRE material, people who did exam yesterday, last week, etc. I prepared for GRE 12 years ago! 4 Likes |
Travel / Re: General USA Student Visa Enquiries-part 15 by Admitwithschola: 12:10am On Aug 14, 2020 |
saheedniyi22: Read hard before classes and participate hard. Then try to get rumors about the ones that are active in research. Go to those ones and offer free service. They would love it. I love it when people say they want to do research with me, for free..Lol..But I still pay something sha. Yes, search for papers on anything you learn in class and discuss with these identified lecturers. Tell them you will be happy to do something similar with them, etc. In all these, don't sacrifice your GPA sha. If you execute all the points well, in 3-4 years time, you will be among the students in a US top 5 program in your field by God's grace. You have advantage, because you're getting this information 4 years earlier! Good luck 6 Likes 1 Share |
Travel / Re: General USA Student Visa Enquiries-part 15 by Admitwithschola: 10:06pm On Aug 13, 2020 |
saheedniyi22: Yes, you can get full scholarshipS. Since you're still second year, focus on doing the following 1. 5/5 from now on every semester 2. Researching with your lecturers/professors and try to write papers with them 3. Cramming and reading and understanding GRE for the next 3 years so that you can get top scores when you take it. No matter how hard, any exam can be blasted if someone prepares long enough for it, even if that person no too smart. If the GRE is finally cancelled, then no wahala. No knowledge is wasted. 4. Making friends with the most research-active lecturers/professors, working research stuff with them, let them know you, make them invested in your successs. This is important because these are the people that would write you big big big letters and send you to MIT in years down the line 5. Keep praying hard, doing right, and working hard and having faith in yourself. I'm also speaking to myself with this last line Good luck 9 Likes |
Travel / Re: General USA Student Visa Enquiries-part 15 by Admitwithschola: 9:59pm On Aug 13, 2020 |
KlausMichaelson: Nice, thanks for your kind words. But you should do more research online. These are well known facts. Some "sharp" people who don't want PhD, some even pretend they wanted to do a PhD so they can get full funding....Only for them to drop out after two years with masters. You should ask questions, that's a good thing to do. Also a good idea to do more research online too. You will find a lot. Go here - https://www.urch.com/forums/phd-economics/ Look at most profiles for PhD...Very few have MSc 3 Likes |
Travel / Re: General USA Student Visa Enquiries-part 15 by Admitwithschola: 9:38pm On Aug 13, 2020 |
KlausMichaelson: 2:1 BSc in the right courses + strong GRE + Other Strong things like high sounding letters, research exp etc = US scholarship for PhD...It happens well UK, Europe and elsewhere, that's hard. This is because, as you may know, PhD in the US is >=5 years. First 2 years is where you take some deadly courses, which can pass for MSc, even Mphil, then next 3+ years is for the research. People who don't do well in the first two years but did not too bad, they dropout of the PhD after 2 years with an MSc in hand. Someone just sadly told me last week that this is their situation.. 2 Likes |
Travel / Re: General USA Student Visa Enquiries-part 15 by Admitwithschola: 9:12pm On Aug 13, 2020 |
KlausMichaelson: As I wrote before, in a class with no first class, you can see that any student better than 95% of the class is indeed a top 5% student. In a scenario where grades are curved, there will almost always be someone with summa cum laude (top first class). But in naija, it's possible to have zero first class because grades are generally not curved and nobody got the mark. I don't know if MSc admission and scholarship is as thorough sha, but for PhD, we look very deeply! Many people I know, with 2:1 and around the best in their classes, got PhD scholarships. So, it's possible, very possibly. A way to play the trick is to have a professor who will explain everything in letters. This is usually time consuming and only lecturers or profs who want to help a student will do this. Again, first class is good...But there are many instances where it may not be the 'be all and end all'. Sometimes we carefully go over where the A's are gotten 2 Likes |
Travel / Re: General USA Student Visa Enquiries-part 15 by Admitwithschola: 8:55pm On Aug 13, 2020 |
KlausMichaelson: If your professors can argue this, yes and yes. Many profs don't know how to play this game, but for those who know how to play the game with letters, they can greatly help their students. I like your question! So, to answer your question, a first class (with A's in the right courses oo) is always good. If I were to choose, for sure a first class (with A's in the right courses) will be chosen. However, a 2:1 that is the best in class is not a disadvantage. It all depends on how this is sold. In fact, a 4.4 with A's in all the right courses and a 4.6 with B's in the right courses and A's in the "second" right courses, the 2:1 will not! be a disadvantage in this case, and I'm talking about PhD admissions. We look at where you got the A's, not just "Bola get first class". No oo. Take PhD econ admission for example. If Bola and Eze studied econ and Bola scores wonderful A's in all those accounting, sociology, business courses and a mixture of B, A, and C in hard math, econ, and stats courses, while Eze focuses on the hard stuff and scores A's in all the hard math, econ and stats courses while getting C and D and B and maybe A in the other courses. Assume Bola gets 4.62, first class, and Eze made 4.41, 2:1, it will be hard for a US program to ignore Eze for Bola in PhD econs admissions, all else constant. I think I have gone into too much detail, but I am sure you get the point. First class is always good and you should get it, but 2:1 is not always a disadvantage even in the presence of first class. We look at the courses! If you have more questions, ask. i have time today. Again, good question you have asked. 5 Likes |
Travel / Re: General USA Student Visa Enquiries-part 15 by Admitwithschola: 8:32pm On Aug 13, 2020 |
gaeul: I just read some of your past posts and it seems you have not taken the GRE or GMAT (in the case of business schools). My view is that you have a good profile as far as BSc/MSc GPA goes. I strongly believe that you could get into a, yes, very good ranking university in the US if you can get a solid GRE/GMAT score, in addition to your profile and of course exceedingly great recommendation letters. However, if you don't have plans to take this test, then you could search for the schools that have waived standardized tests for this application cycle and apply to them. Yes, also search for safeties. But, given my experience, I just strongly believe your profile is good/very good and with a strong GRE/GMAT score and other things, you could hit top 50 program, even top 30, in your area. And yes, I said it. |
Travel / Re: General USA Student Visa Enquiries-part 15 by Admitwithschola: 8:21pm On Aug 13, 2020 |
bigfrancis21: Thank you for taking your time to post this for the young lad/girl. It's true and there are no secret desire to discourage anybody in your post. Nonetheless, the young lad/girl can still try their luck if they have the money. Anything good can come out, we may never know... But, please, to the young lad/girl, know that you're competing against some other crazy kids from naija..Those with, yes, 9A1, 7 A* in IGCSE, >330 in Jamb, and almost 9 in IELTS. Yes, this is a real profile and some kids have it in naija. For example, my friend's daughter...16/17 years old. But again, anything can happen, so still try your luck, but be realistic. Finally, my own advice to my sister's son with 5 B2 and 3 B3......Do a BSc in Nigeria, get as close to 5.0 GPA as possible, then come here for your MS/PhD. As the above poster rightly said, it's way easier to get a full ride for grad school, even MBA, than it is for undergrad. Every year, people go for grad studies from naija on full scholarships, even at top top schools, name them... Another thing I've mandated that my sister's son to do is for him to start reading for the GRE from year 1. I gave him all the material. We don't want stories. The lad/girl you responded to may want to adopt same style. Good luck to him or her 7 Likes |
Travel / Re: General USA Student Visa Enquiries-part 15 by Admitwithschola: 7:47pm On Aug 13, 2020 |
Hannania: Even, I think WES made a little rounding error, lol. 4.18/5 should be around 3.55-3.6. But grades are mostly curve in the US, not same in Naija - at least when I went to school. This could make the grades of some otherwise okayish students in the US to look good, even very good. An example of curving is giving A to the person with the highest score in the class....That highest score does not have to be the highest possible score that is needed to get A...In fact, it can change from year to year, that's what gives a student an A. Whereas in naija, we once did a course and nobody got A because all scores <70. In a curved system, the highest score would get A and even some scores slightly lower. That's why a letter of recommendation describing your rank in class is very important 3 Likes |
Travel / Re: General USA Student Visa Enquiries-part 15 by Admitwithschola: 7:39pm On Aug 13, 2020 |
gaeul: What's your profile like? See my response to the guy on the other thread - letters are important. Let's start with your profile...GPA/GRE/research experience/work experience/have you written intensive research stuff? |
Travel / Re: General USA Student Visa Enquiries-part 15 by Admitwithschola: 7:37pm On Aug 13, 2020 |
Predstan: Hello Predstan I'm fascinated by your story and it's interesting to know you've achieved all you said. Well done. I have two questions 1) Are you doing master's, phd or bsc with your HND? 2) Do you have a full scholarship? 3) If 1) and 2) are true, can you give a long list of schools that give full scholarships with HND from naija? Did they require GRE? I have 2 people I really want to help with information. One has distinction ond and hdn in statistics; another has upper credit ond and hnd in computer science..Both went to top 5 polytechnic in naija...I'm show you can guess where. If you can give me detailed information, we could have have these two people take the GRE before December and follow through with the other process. Let me hear from you soon. If you want, you can drop an email where I can email you, get your number and then speak. Many thanks |
Education / Re: How To Achieve High Scores On The GRE by Admitwithschola: 7:20pm On Aug 13, 2020 |
ofspain: This is a decent profile and you should get in somewhere decent. Although I don't know too much about chem engr, I would suggest you 1) get letters where the professors literary say that your examining taking skills have near zero correlation with your research ability, and that you're a research beast - the best they've seen in 20 years. Yes. And then they should go ahead and give plenty examples. This is how we write letters if we want to really help a student that we feel would do well in research down the road 2) apply to many 'safeties' and only a few ambitious places. It's better to be safe. 3) let me reiterate the importance of letters again. Letters that are written to help you. I could have given you a sample of what I have written for students, but I sadly can't do that. But I'm sure your professors know how to write tight letters when they want to actually help a student. Again, all the focus must be how your research capabilities put you in the top 0.1% of students they have known in 30 years. Letters work wonders, especially if it's written by someone who does good research and publishes good stuff, not crap in some pantokrata journals. 4) I hear publications can help too, so if you have at least a neatly executed publication in a peer-reviewed, non-predatory journal, that should score you some points above students with stronger gpa/test scores. I also hear engineering schools welcome potential PhD students to contact their faculty, though some other programs frown badly against this. You should take advantage of that if it's allowed in your chem engr field. Just make sure you present yourself well and send many messages to those "safeties" and then to some of the more ambitious places you're looking at. I wish you all the best with your plan. Your prof in naija can really help you a lot if they can write impeccable letters for you. And such letters take up to 1 week to write and fine tune and rewrite and fine tune again, until it sounds fluid and wonderful. When I write for students to top, top, top schools, I write 6-page letters of 'scatter pieces', crazily outstanding paragraphs and supported with examples that will help the students to compete favorably with some of the best applicants in the world. So, your recommenders can make or mar you. All the best, omo oba 10 Likes 4 Shares |
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