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Afolabi6046:
You need to understand that not all MSc CS programs admit people without CS backgrounds. Some like UTDallas do with specific requirements though

Degree requirements: Bachelor's degree which includes 2 semesters of calculus and 1 semester of linear algebra and a strong foundation in programming.

i understand this but for an accounting major there are alot of options eg: Data science (which is booming and in demand, doesn't have alot of prerequisites and he would you would be taught basic programing, R, python, ruby and one can pick up from there. Or Just go for MIS which is more flexible. What i am trying to pass across is you necessarily don't have to reset every time you want to make a career change. Also i do hope the dude as at least started self learning to ensure that he has interest in CS!

Dot1:
Good day everyone. I have a bachelor degree in Accounting with some work experience. I would like to change my career path by going for another undergraduate program in computer science in the US. Would this be a problem at the embassy? Would the fact that I am almost 40 be a problem? Thank you all

Just go for a masters in CS (you might just have to take some additional courses) or associate degree*...if you already have some coding skills its better. or go for Management information system to tone down the heavy coding requirements.

associate degree* - I have my reservations about this approach but thats IMO


I don't know why people in this part of the world think that in order to switch career paths you need to start bachelors again. No you dont!

connectgt:
That means you were able to get the unscratched card. I even checked 3 cyber cafes, before going to WAEC office, same thing.
Alright, I will keep searching na.
Thanks

i was able to get the unscratched card. It is very scarce because WAEC has stopped production. I got it from this site http://www.mecnigeria.org/contact-us/ if you are in any of these locations you can try calling them to find out. Got from the festac branch tho

FA13:
Hello,
Has anyone applied to graduate program at Texas A and M College station this year.

I have difficulty in paying the application fee. They change their application website this year and it is not accepting all atm cards I used.

use a getbarter.co virtual card fund it, convert to dollars and use.

pronto543:
Good Morning friends,

I received my first admission decision mail this morning from Michigan Tech. It was a rejection . I applied for 2019 Fall intake session-an early application as the application deadline is February 2019.

Reason: "There currently is no advisor available in your specified area of interest". My application was marked "Completed" on November 10, 2018.

I'm awaiting decision from 5 other schools. USF is another school that has marked my application as complete as my program requires 2 references. It been marked completed since November 5th.


The 4 remaining schools require 3 referees. The third referee has failed to complete the online reference forms after several promises. I intend travelling to meet him next tomorrow. I wouldn't fold my hand and watch my dreams truncated.

I am not really surised by the rejection from Michigan Tech as most applicants on grafcafe and Yocket are usually rejected or not funded at all. I wouldn't have applied if not for the free application fee waiver. Although, I had to send my original TOEFL result to the dept.

My advice to everyone is to apply early and to many schools and be careful about applying to schools with application fee waiver. We shall make it!

can u expatiate on the bolded? What does applying with an application waiver have to do with anything?

ollypapi:
With God all things are possible.
New bsc degree because i got a job after nysc in another field which i hav been doing but im limited due to lack of degree in the new field of course i found myslef and that is why im applying for bsc in it.
Kindly reply my questions one by one

instead of BSc go for a masters in your new career change. Alot of people change career path nowadays and its so flexible. You can do a BSc in history and go for a masters in IT the world today is that flexible. No one will stop you from achieving your dream

cumz:
Hello guys
I need advice on this issue.. and it will be highly appreciated

I’m the United stares currentlly and I need to get my certificate and transcripts evaluated by Wes... I do not have my transcript with me.. or better put I’ve beer bn in possession of my transcripts before..
Please how do I go about this..thanks

your uni has to send your transcripts to WES. every school you have attended post-secondary school. So contact your school(s) and make necessary payments to wes. But first you need to open a WES account and see the requirements requested by WES and follow it verbatim to avoid issues.

babisho:
So I wrote the GRE too and i'll like to share a bit of my experience. 
Analytical writing: 4.5 (82nd percentile).
Quantitative reasoning: 158 (70th percentile).
Verbal reasoning: 164 (94th percentile).

Quantitative: . As u can see above my math is average, so I have nothing much to say...well, except that whoever wants to do well must know how to manage time. Given adequate time, the questions can be answered. But the time ETS gives is so-so for average math guys like myself. Add exam nerves and 10 +10 which should take a millisecond to answer takes more time than appropriate. Bottom time:
1. take timed tests while practicing. It helps with pacing and this is absolutely key. 
2. U don't have to answer all questions and it is important to know when to let a question go. The silly exam has "time wasters". Nothing hurts as much as finding that u spent 4-5 minutes on a particularly question (which u aren't certain u got right by the way), only to find that there are some pretty cheap (takes less than a min) questions u no longer have time for. Again. Bottom line. If u're spending too long on a question when u haven't seen all the questions, u're setting urself up and it's a pretty bad strategy. Better to go through all questions, murder d cheap questions and then if time permits, face d hard ones. 

P.s: I think this should be pretty obvious, but u'll find it surprising that it is hard to let a question go and to move on in d real exam. So again. Practice ur pacing with timed tests. 

VERBAL. 
My score here suggests that I have a bit of a "bragging right" and I probably know what I'm saying. (lol). Unfortunately, I don't have a quick fix solution here. But for the long haulers who have a couple of months to prepare, here I think is a good strategy. The verbal as we all know is 20 questions per session. 10 reading comprehension, 5 sentence equivalence and 5 text completion. 
Good news: the sentence equivalence and text completion can be destroyed quickly, leaving ample time to face the convoluted, opaque, recondite and abstruse (haha! Bloody hell. I show off)...difficult to understand reading comprehension passages. 

So this was my routine. I used aldaily.com everyday for several months. Aldaily.com basically recommends 3 essays daily for its readers. Now one has to attack these essays. Not just a cursory reading. The essays are academic, high literary, GRE language styled. Some of them are from newyorK times, New yorker, LA review of books, London review of books, aeon magazine, new Republic, the Atlantic bla bla bla. The point in reading all these is that one then begins to see various writing styles. The way people shift their sentences, the nuances and subtleties, and of course GRE type words and vocabulary. Now with these new words, I had a list I was keeping. Upon seeing a new word, I would go to vocabulary.com. The advantage of vocabulary.com is that it not only gives the meaning of words in simple language, it gives SEVERAL examples of usage. In seeing those examples, one appreciates how the words can be used in sentences.  

If one can conscientiously follow this routine, what happens is that u find that sentence comprehension and text completion questions become a godsend. The time one spends answering the questions remarkably drops, leaving time for the reading comprehension. U'll become so used to the sentences u'll be able to predict what goes into what in the text completion, and sentence equivalence becomes rediculously cheap.  Of course the voracious reading would also help with reading comprehension generally, but men! Those questions, bloody freaking hell! 

P.s. I didn't say anything about reading comprehension strategy. Here I think magoosh GRE blog offers excellent advice. So u won't lose anything by checking out magoosh.com/gre and reading the blog. 
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I might also have oversimplified the process of reading those essays from aldaily.com. Sometimes it is so much tedium and mental drudgery u just want to close the page, and leave the essays...when u get to this point, know that u're not alone. Even the best of us struggle with some of these passages and sometimes there's so much jargon in the passages u begin to think they are straight from hell. Besides, it really doesn't hurt doing well in the exam and not wasting money (the $205 these days...pretty hard to come by)

Finally on analytic writing, i'm interested in knowing anyone who has scored 5 or more. I know people get it, but I think the exam is rigged. Unless u type pretty fast of course. But that's by d way. My advise here is to use official material from ETS. Especially sample essays and reader commentaries. By the time u focus on samples that are scored 4 or 5 or 6, u'll begin to see what u have to do to get the required scores. So please, read the official examples. Sorry, read is an understatement...study them. 

Overall, abeg practice, practice and more practice, there is no short cut. Good luck and see yah all in America. ‎

great advice

Coloniel5000:
hello house, actually have been here once and I did write GRE but no much preparation and I score low Q,139, V,145, Awa,3.0... and I decided not to write again since my school never ask for GRE as requirement for my program, my visa has been refused on several attempts and have started my MSC here in Nigeria... but I'll be applying for my PhD next year and I'm considering top schools like Harvard, Standford and the likes...I know I'll be needing a good GRE score, but truth be told, I'M SCARED OF GRE, I can cope with the verbal and AWA part but maths is my problem... frankly speaking after months of preparation I remember I went for my GRE test and in the exam I had to just pick quantitative answers at random because I just couldn't solve any...just to say I'm TERRIBLE at maths...but I really want to score at least 310 above if I must get into those schools since my other application is good.. have decided to write GRE again and spend enough time preparing against next year application for those top schools..... PLEASE HOUSE, HOW CAN YOU HELP ME..I REALLY NEED HELP. THANKS.

i think you need a private tutor if u can't crack it on your own

Roland17:
I visited New York recently for work related purposes and my cousin drove past the Barclays Center one night while we were hanging out. Downtown Brooklyn looks very different now and this edifice makes the lights of the city even brighter.

If you are in NY or live around NY and want to get your NBA feel, you should visit the Barclays Center because tickets are very affordable for good seating positions. If the Celtics were in town on that day, I probably would have ended up inside. I checked the schedule just to be sure.lol.

No live games for me this year but I am definitely resuming next year.

Do you live in Boston?

Decale:
You just supported my opinion there. What's making LeBron unique to join Brodie? Nothing


Now look at Curry:

He's averaging less minutes than Bron with more points.
He's making 5 3s a game at over 50% . Yes!!! 50%
He has a +/- of 10.3. Yes!!!! 10.3 Bron barely has 2
He has an offensive rating of almost 120 when he's playing. 120 points!!!!

He's the game changer in a team that's struggling with the all stars. His numbers aren't like yesterday or last season's (unlike Bron). These are game changing numbers that you can't help but admire. Someone that ends up with 40s playing only 3 quarters shouldn't be lower than Bron that barely scrapes a win


LeBron is in the conversation but most definitely not "way higher" than Curry.


Thanks!

grrr:
Anyone with idea of how to pay for WES here in Nigeria?

I used a getbarter.co dollar virtual card

GboyegaD:
One good tip to tense yourself is to remind yourself you are going to have a conversation. If that doesn't help, then see yourself as a celebrity and the VO as one of your fan who is dying to have a conversation with you. Remember that the VO is as nervous as you are so relax and make yourself comfortable.

VO is nervous ke why if u may ask?

connectgt:
Good morning my lovely people.

I want to make payment for WES but can't find debit card as payment option. What I see is credit card. What should I do please, click credit card? What about the billing address on the credit card?
Besides, must I make payment before getting the reference number? I want to use WES because of two or more certificate (University diploma and Bsc)

I need answers please.

create a getbarter(dot)co account. Fund it and pay or just use your debit card

Goma10:
Please i want to send to US too kindly assist with your email and mobile number

join the chat room copy the link and remove the spaces

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@Yomit2 and Libber

Reply your mails so I can know how many people are buying this scratch card. Today I want to purchase it

GUYS IF YOU ARE INTERESTED IN BULK SENDING TO WES USA SEND ME A DM...... would be buying the scratch card tomorrow and sending on Monday /Tuesday

Niyi101:
My profile updated to this; saying waec will verify. Will it still update to scratch card level or is this the point I need to get the scratch card?

Please I need an urgent response. Thank you all

Scratch card fast...

Niceyenuf:
Hello beautiful people of Nairaland,
I just have a question regarding sending WAEC result to WES. On WES' website is a form that I needed to fill the top part and WAEC would fill out the second part of the form. However, WAEC has refused to fill and sign the 2nd half of the form ( they say it's not their form)
Anybody been through this? What to do

you don't need that form for WAEC. Has WAEC sent your result to WES? IF Not don't bother just send waec scratch card to WES yourself. Check the WES thread we are doing bulk sending.

Niyi101:
Please send your whatsapp number pls fuwapeg@gmail.com
Thank you

would do so. Guys holla for WES USA

hi Guys anyone interested to sending WAEC Scratch card to WES USA not Canada o should send me a mail. I have someone selling for 1500 if you are interested or if anyone has someone cheaper lets know. Would create a whatsapp group and take off from there. Lets try to close this out this week ABEG.

lexychuks:
I am interested. But isn't the scratch card is 750naira?

Hi wassup have you seen where we can buy for 750? so we can close this out thanks

Toyinmusa:
My WES timeline:

Status: In progress

We received your documents, we are reviewing your documents.

status last updated: 11/27/2018

Evaluation in progress
your evaluation is in progress. You are not required to do anything at this time.

GREAT THANKS

Toyinmusa:
It was delivered yesterday but WES hasn't updated my profile.

Great pls lets know when its done. So we can project. Thanks

Toyinmusa:
You can imagine.

Has WES updated your profile now?

Toyinmusa:
Hello
Just send the scratch card bro. WAEC is Amaka, they received my (VDR) verification mail 500BC till now they've not responded.

Mine would be 2 months next week.

lexychuks:
I am interested. But isn't the scratch card is 750naira?

pls if u see it 750 kindly let me know so we can just buy from there tnx

iamblisz:
Baba please how do I join such groups, my gre is in few weeks time. Please���� help, thank you

I'll suggest that you just focus on the real GRE questions and answers posted on the group. So you don't be overwhelmed with other things you will see there

iamblisz:
Baba please how do I join such groups, my gre is in few weeks time. Please���� help, thank you

Not everyone is a guy on Nairaland. Search for GRE Group Study on Facebook. Good luck

Jaay1:
Hi, I would like to join the bulk sending, we should use UPS or Fedex and split the bill.
So it gets to Wes faster.

Sure got a contact