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Kaka118:
To be honest, they just want to scam you, you'll have to wait for at least 2 months to collect your passport, no let them decieve you

2 months? No nau.
Well, I don't know what happens in that Lagos Sha, because all the horrid tales emanate from there, but it's just one state amongst a whole lot of others.

chibertha:
I do not know what that is.

Chiberta, hello, please is there funding/GA for MPH in your school? And can it be gotten from our home country?

toluene23:
Please buddies here
Help me throw some light on this
How do I relate admission MSc in IT to BSc biochemistry. Please I need a thorough guide please.
Please

Have you actually gotten the admission? What did you write in your personal statement?

prayfornaija:
You can do GRE at home in naija FYI. No need to travel to go do it at a center. Just wanted to share...

I haven't recovered from my GRE-at-home experience. And I opted for that route because a friend succeeded at it. The proctors could not get the website to launch. After they finished dealing with my laptop, till date, five keys have refused to resume functioning. Worse yet is that ETS refused to refund me. Had to register again to take the GRE at a test center.

TWoods:
Ok sounds like you have this under control. Sorry if my initial response was harsher than was intended. Wish you all the best!

I'm good. The context I shared wasn't robust enough, so I understood how that could affect advise. Thank you.
Hopefully, I will share a complete success story someday as I see lots of successful people do here. Be it with this prof or another.

TWoods:
His response is fairly straightforward, the problem is you haven’t bothered to do your homework.

He is saying that while his group does a lot of research work, it’s not clear that you’re a good fit for his group. Your MPH program likely allows for only limited research work and mostly in your second year practicuum. He is however willing to chat with you if there are specific research areas you are interested in that could be a good fit for them too.

That's not true, TW. I understand the intricacies of clinching such RA-ships, so believe me when I say that I researched the life out of this man. I can't post the entire correspondence here, but I had shared my enthusiasm to learn in his lab and intentions to apply what he literally does to Nigeria's PH system, which is why he shared that info about working internationally...and implies the possibility of adding Nigeria to it.

I'm mostly disturbed by the mention of a second year, but even now, I kind of feel like I'm overthinking it. Because he said most and not all my lab work and the reality is that MPH students, do get assistantships in that department, right of the bat. So yes, I have sent an email to ask him about how we may proceed and I hope for the best.

Thank you for being so kind as to even answer me.

The littlest things worry me and make me ask all kinds of questions. So please you guys should indulge me this time abeg. Please is this prof saying it is my second year that he needs me? Because I don't see an actual invitation/schedule to talk in this message nau.

Someone might have idea here, so please help. How does Worldpay work for receiving payment? I have also tried google and couldn't find a clear explanation.

I had earlier sent money to an exam body through a Worldpay link that was emailed by the Worldpay.

Now, the same exam body has sent me a refund through Worldpay again and all I got this time, was the notification of payment.

How do I make this claim and access the real money please?

I had earlier sent money to an exam body through a Worldpay link that was emailed by the Worldpay.

Now, the same exam body has sent me a refund through Worldpay again and all I got this time, was the notification of payment.

How do I make this claim, please?

Please how do we access the refund made by NEBOSH through Worldpay? The person that helped me make the payment in the first place, got the notification of the refund and we're stuck on how to actually get the money.

Sisib15:
I applied to plenty schools so he just did like 4 and was asking how did i get money to Apply to all those schools

Not to worry. Such people always have their comeuppances. Some times that we apply to plenty schools sef, the very first application, might end up being the favourable or/and earliest decision.

Just make sure you meet their requirements and avoid all those schools that outrightly give mumu connotations like; meeting requirement is not a complete assurance for acceptance kinda BS.

chibertha:
As in eeeh

It's so strange and sad how people can comfortably bilk someone trying to make a headway in life. Maybe he's a professor, so what? As you hear America, so the next thing is to kill the person? So sad really.

When I asked my own lecturer for the sake of just adding one academic recommender, as my way to say thank you, I offered to send recharge card and before I said jack, he was sending account number. I just laughed, say na you know and still went ahead to send the 5k that I originally wanted to send. He did not acknowledge and me, I did not say nada. Didn't think I needed to. After that, I still inboxed him to goan do supplemental application, by way of 'extending the good he has started"..lol. He wasted time..so I went and dropped another message and I was like; I would not know if you have completed the recommendation because my right is waived, but I want to let you know that I'm grateful. Only him waited for two weeks and went to complete it.

If not that we're trying to do things properly sef, I know someone with a gmail-owning recommender..and he get full funding ontop am.

@Creativeweb.
Well, I kind of get where two of you are coming from. Plenty, if not most PhD candidates, get to the middle of their program and run away because they land a job...fact. A lot of people are not as enthused over spending four to five years ontop studying, when they could be making cool dollars and PhD is usually a backup plan, when you can't find a job as per lots of Masters graduates that I know...

Then on your part, yes, it is true that lots of schools will hint at the fact that your admission decision would rely on if you can have a line of communication with a faculty member, so you can be sure of a right fit, according to them...So that's why it could be hard to get in, because profs have their own for body and would not respond... So I don't know if that can be entirely referred to as competitive.

Sisib15:
Sincerely, the lecturer collected huge amount of money like 45k yet he has not send the reference letter

Ehnn? You say wetin? Is it your VC you went and asked for a recommendation letter?

vicdom:
Michigan Technological University are just stingy with fundings. Tueh!!
I got two offers of admission in Chemical and environmental engineering for fall 2023, and none of them came with fundings!

When I emailed one of the directors of the programs, I got the reply below �

Not even assistantships? What an insult to the Engineering field!

Newbiein2016:
If your only answer to why you would return after your studies is, "so you can go through NYSC and work in Nigeria", I'm afraid you are ill prepared.

Is NYSC some sacred thing that pulls you back here? If yes, why will it happen for you when your brother went to school and never came back for this NYSC - instead he got a job with a big tech and stayed back? There already is a pattern, no?

Even if NYSC is part of your bucket list, shouldn't you also speak to what this degree will allow you do/become in Nigeria?

Ok, I see what you meant now. That was poor, if the long term goal he mentioned, was indeed only the NYSC program.

Newbiein2016:
Another guy, confirmed he intended to come back to do his NYSC and work in Nigeria. Once asked if his brother (who is a part sponsor of his program) returned from his studies for the NYSC program, the response was negative.

So what would you have had him say? That he will not come too? Abi is there something I'm not understanding in this statement?

Capitalbase:
Hi everybody,
Please, for those who are currently applying for PhD, did you have to email one of the faculty members whose research interests aligned with yours to facilitate your admission process. I applied for 3 PhD positions since September and this were open positions for Fall intake. However, I just felt like doing a follow up with graduate departments and one of the response I received seemed to suggest they are "ONLY" accepting those candidates whose "would be" mentors has approved for their applications to move to the next stage.
If anybody can throw more light to this, it would be much appreciated.

Best Regards

One of my applications is for a PhD program and I emailed the profs before applying, because it was advised on the school's website. However, up until now, no response from those people and the school will not let me rest from constantly bombarding me with emails about deadline and how all their profs have plenty extramural fundings. Of course, they want my application fee, I know. I asked an alumnus and she told me to email profs like I'd done, but if they don't answer me, I should still go ahead to apply because some of her friends succeeded that way. So I have done so...Whether it will bring out anything meaningful, me and her can't tell for sure, but I have sha applied to three other schools for masters, jejely.

Guys, for schools that use last 60 credit hours for GPA requirement, do these include our research project and Industrial attachment credits?

dduchess90:
Hello

With WES it depends on what you have requested for

They will send to the recipient if you have selected that, there should be a discount for multiple recipients if you want that or perhaps just stick to your copy,you should be able to also toggle different recipients if needed

Why are you using WES for your study application?


Cheers

Oh thanks for responding. I am using Wes because I am applying to schools through the SOPHAS centralized system, which is a system that most public health programs (in US) use. I remember adding only SOPHAS as a recipient but I did not pay an extra cash, so I don't know if it was sent. I look at the list of recipients now and I see only myself as the recipient (by default) who has been mailed a report and I'm confused, because I don't want to waste time if I have to pay for it to be sent and I don't want to pay twice for a service (if the first recipient does not require any extra payment).

I've come again. Guys please I'm confused about something. Do I pay for the very first Wes recipient I choose with my own hand (before completion of evaluation), after myself that's been chosen by default to receive a mailed report?

Guys please I'm confused about something. Do I pay for the very first Wes recipient I choose, after myself that's been chosen by default to receive the mailed report?

SpatialKing:
I was admitted with 2.98/5.0
I didn't evaluate on WES

Perhaps a WES evaluation would've pushed your score beyond the 3 points mark and they knew that? My worry is that they are threatening me,even though I meet the requirement...God de.

Big congrats to you brother and by God's grace, I will come and share the same kind of testimony. Did you have an interview, before you were granted funding at your school? Which kain kweshion dem ask?

"Admission decisions are based upon all application materials. Successful applicants generally have a GPA of 3.00 or better. A strong science background in a prospective applicant's undergraduate work is recommended."

Please OGs in the building, follow me psychoanalyse this people. Are they low-key telling me that I can't get in with my 2.81 (Wes evaluated), even though their stated requirement is 2.75?

Lots of advice going on here, so I'd touch the part that I haven't seen anyone touch yet; you are not too old at twenty anything to consider studying medicine. Nigeria is just a useless country, otherwise, studying medicine in western countries is just another 2-3 years with transferable credits from your botany and even if you were to start again, it will only be for four years. I am thirty something and considering it myself, so why not you? Many more of our fellow Nigerians will kill to spend 2-3 years on a masters program abroad and even home, so why shouldn't we? As studying abroad is seemingly a long shot for now though, I will advise you to apply to start on your passion already...like right now, so you don't end up like me, wasting the five years I did to study something that I have lived to regret for a long time now.

Also use the time to be looking for another job. 'Cos if they eventually don't come through, one of these is likely to happen; a more serious employer will give you the CoS, they might just rescind the offer or worse, they will ask you to pay for it and we are talking millions.

Been there, seen it all and absolutely now hate them for it.

chibertha:
if you see how I dey laugh roll for the ground because of the bolded eeeh.
you get am wella

As in...na coded guy. And I can de feel coded guys

Stevenssen:
It's possible. Evaluate your transcript with Wes. Converting it to 4.0 scale with their system may boost your gpa. Also your gre and recommendation letters and research experience also help if your gpa is low.

Thanks so much for responding. I will look into these.

Guys please, I know USA is not Nigeria, but is there no chance at all that I can be admitted into masters programs with a 2.6 gpa, that set 3.0 or 2.7 as their requirement? I really want to study something I enjoy and would build a career in, so I wish to get in. My 2.6 undergrad CGPA is completely as a result of the Nigerian system, as I was getting E and Fs for courses with content as stupid as "define mood' and name ways to commit suicide, but I can't explain that to an Oyinbo school... please how do I go about this? I'm prepping for the GRE, but I hear that cannot even help the case, if a required gpa has been stated. Please what do I do?

I wish to get into the Ms.Cardiovascular Technology or Audiology or Exercise Physiology or Occupational Therapy...or even Public Health...something that could put me in a hospital setting..I need help

advanceDNA:
Lol..if they tell you ...you will likely say na scam...so just keep tryimg and praying...he go level soon....u go dey alright last, last

Another shiiity reality to accept, Englandamaka...

Only me was confronted with two organisations asking me to pay money to the tone of millionnnsss...after multiple interviews and what not...and I don't even know if they are 419 sef

But all that's in the past now....I seem to have realised that I'm way more than this care assistant shit and I'm looking to get enrolled in a school and actually get a better paid job with more dignity...and in a better country btw

I suggest people start reappropriating their funds too for better prospects....

So nobody should send me any foolish message, asking me to share the names of the organisations..

Make Una no vex, I'm just mad..but take time to understand the truth in what I'm saying..peace.

jum33:
Let me be sincere with you, most nigerians that got their UK care employment got very early wen the program was newly launched and still freah unfortunately right now most UK employer are not willing to employ from abroad again as they discover it much cheaper to employ within UK as alot of foreign UK masters student regardless of fields are showing interest and taking care Job more than before and even with the influx of Ukrainians too is not helping the matter at all.
The faster route to get a care job is either you have the true industry experience with convincing evidence which the employer dont mind paying heavily to bring u in or find a uk master to do that will make bring u to uk and give you the eligibility to work in uk .Anything apart from this " go hard gan "!!

Fact!!

AskGod07:
I think this people are toying with our emotional did 2 different interview within 2 weeks and they promised to get back, I didn’t hear from them so I try to email to know what’s going on. The first company let me to understand that at this time they are not looking for a male carer, while the second company said they can’t continue with the application without any concrete reason. however, all the interview I had was so excellent and flow even the interviewer amazed and confirm it.

I think this care worker route is sinking

God help me for the seek of my kids if not who care

Hahahahahahahahahaha
Concrete reason kwanu...these brits will not kii person.