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Bolisticbond026:
See inspiration i am really galvanize by this profiles they are out of this planet earth.Drhopeful's profile is just is a gangster india or Chinese profile i doff my fila(Cap) for you maa i think i need to start addressing you as mama mama(Grandmother).Scolar don't worry guy your admit is coming with the speed of light.Wishing you all the best in your endeavors.Thanks for sharing your profile with the house guys.

I go beat you oh! Lol. My profile is just a regular one. I no even get first class sef for BS. Thanks. Wishing everyone success!

Scholastica16:
University of New Mexico. Saw 2 attachments and thought one was my acceptance and the other my "funding" letter so I hurriedly opened it. You can imagine my shock when I saw "I regret" somewhere. I could have reported it but I came online and saw you celebrating PennState, so I went back to silently moan.

I guess it is -2/8 now for me.

Hugs.... Your great news will come soon. Good that you still have 6 schools to hear back from. I understand how you feel. Please hang in there. We are here to support you.

Scholastica16:
I forget the page but she did state 4/4. After I saw it, I understood why she was confident enough to apply to those biggies.

Even the relative minnows wey we apply to still dey do us shakara. I don chop 2 rejects already as I type this. I even went to make sure my GRE scores were what I reported because I am beginning to doubt it.

I don't know where HappyDay is o. Him and ChemEngr01.

Which reject again oh? Thought it was just LSU....

Topiipii:
I remember the 4.3/5 and also knew she got a distinction, but did not know the GPA. In fact, I have to start putting Aunty in front of her name whenever I want to address her.

Aunty ke? Abeg I be young sisi oh!

Scholastica16:
If you are asking Drinview (Time2Smile, 2017) she got her tuition totally waived and I guess she would get an RA or TA which will keep being renewed as long as she maintains 3/4 (lol..which means she has the scholarship till she is done).

You are too funny.... Infact you and Time2smile.

fredoricko:
That's some Indian gangster profile.
MIT material. I am loyal

I wish! Thanks for the compliments.

Undergrad course and GPA: Petroleum Engineering, 4.3/5
MSc GPA: Materials Engineering, 4/4
GRE (Verbal and Quant scores): 157V, 164Q, 4AW
TOEFL scores: 107
Work Experience: 8 years
Papers Published: Nil
Date of application and decision date: Nov 10, 2016 / Feb 27, 2017

I would also like to mention that I had no contact whatsoever with anyone from the school. Not even for an interview. So you can imagine the shock.

Time2Smile:
Whoa, I am so happy for you. You have put a lot into this and I am pleased you have been rewarded. Don't abandon us now. Please continue contributing to the forum, I really gained from your experiences and posts. Drhopeful is now Dr.inview

No way!!! I can never abandon my e-family. I will still be contributing. We are all together in this journey.

hublot:
Congratulations!!!
kindly share your profile ??
PhD or MS ??

PhD Materials Engineering

Thanks my e-family. Now I can grow back my hair!!!!

So apparently an email with the offer was sent on Feb 22 but I never received it. Anyway, just this evening, I randomly checked through all my portals as I normally do every week and saw two buttons to accept or reject offer. I literally flew out of my window. Took me sometime to wrap my head around it. I immediately called the department for clarifications. It was then I was told about the mail. Told the grad coordinator there was nothing, even in my junk folder. She just resent it with the financial package. Truth be that, I held out no hope for Penn State and Carnegie Mellon. Was busy crying over Ohio State and UVa.

Anyway, 1/6..... Keep them coming!!!

Good luck to all of us still awaiting news!!! It is well. Please keep checking your portals. U never can tell when something will pop up!

iCool:
Decision 3/5

University of Houston, An ACCEPTANCE.


Accepted in the 3 decisions received so far - I am humbled...


Got a $1k scholarship and in-state tuition.

Congrats @iCool!

And it's Penn State breaking the ice!!!!! Acceptance with full funding for first year. Subsequent funding dependent on 3.0gpa blah blah and availability of funding..... Now I am relieved!!!! Thank you guys for all the encouragement!!!

Toy002:
Ok, I'll print out 4 copies. Thanks a lot. Please have you gotten any response from FBI?

U are welcome. No news yet. Mine got delivered just last week. So I have at least 2 months to wait.

specrealq:
Hello,

Please can i create another express entry profile with another email address im tempted to decline my ITA, but i want to be sure i will get in the next draw. My crs score is 467

Why do u want to decline the ITA? Did you make mistakes that cannot be adequately covered with a LOE?

Toy002:
Hello house,

I'm new on nairaland. I must confess it's a very useful platform with wealth of information. Thanks to everyone here contributing & assisting others. Kudos to you all.

@damidamsel; Please can you share how you processed your US PCC. I'm in the process of doing same but I need clarification on whether I can complete the fingerprint form on my own & submit or I need to visit any law enforcement or US consulate to complete the finger print form.

Also, I will like to know if you just printed the form on an ordinary paper or you printed on a cardboard.

Then for the first application form, how did you complete the attention part, I left mine blank at the moment and in the mail to part, I put my name but my uncle's US address which is different from my own address that I imputed earlier. Please how did you do yours?

Have you also gotten any response from the FBI that what you submitted is fine for the purpose of getting the report.

Please just advise on the whole process.

Thank you.

You can print the fingerprint form on a normal white paper and complete the fingerprinting on your own. Just make sure to include 3 or 4 copies in case some fingerprints are rejected.

Hmmmmm....(scratches head because she is now bald from ripping her hair off..). No word here yet...

hirschfelder:
Hello house, I hope we are all doing great. So, I was accepted at KSU for PhD in Chemical Engineering and I would like to share my experience with you all, since we started this journey together and will hopefully all get into great programs at the end!
This is my second application cycle, I was rejected from all the schools I applied to for Fall, 2016. I was disconsolate as you'd imagine. Luckily, I stumbled upon this thread and gained so much information from it. I contacted a very active and helpful member, SirRiddy-he gave me some tips and suggested I re-write the GRE (my previous score was 310), IELTS-8/9.
So, I did and got a better score (332), applied to a wider range of schools and got accepted into one of them. I would like to say, happening upon this thread made all the difference. If one makes use of the information posted here judiciously, great improvements in one's profile would be made.
Soo, thanks to everyone that has contributed to this thread in one way or the other! And special thanks to SirRiddy of course!!!

Congrats!!!!!

sammyacbxyz:
Why does it seem impossible for me to get any score between 413 and 460 . I can only score above 460 if I score LRSW 8,7,7,7 in IELTS. Even if I score LRWS 7.5.9.9.9 my score will still fall below 413 which will not get ITA. i have WES 2 degrees/certificates and i am 29 and single with over three years experience. Pls what else can I do to improve my score without IELTS listening band 8 .

Hi, I just want to encourage you. It's possible to surpass an 8. I remember wondering how people on here were reporting 9 in listening when I could barely get 8 in my practice test. Because of that, I dedicated 80% of my practice to Listening. I was just that desperate, but I was still averaging 8. I was a nervous wreck in my actual test, like a mouse being chased by a cat. I was shocked when I saw my result....9!!!!

Please put in your best and leave the rest to God. Good luck!

specrealq:
Hello,

Hope you are having a fabulous day, please i have some questions i want to clarify with you.
I am about submitting my appplication aftet getting ITA.
I made some changes on the form
Date of employment when i filled my express entry form was september 2008 and working hours i wrote 50 per week.
I did this because i have my employment letter that has that date and that is the hours i actually work.
But when my reference letter came they wrote march 2010 as employment date and 45 hours per week.
Stating that they wrote the date based on when i was confirmed and 45hours is the official time.
Also i had to change my Noc because the roles listed for me on my reference letter was more suited for the new Noc i selected which still fall under B.
So i made the changes based on my reference letter.
This changes does not affect my score.
And i plan to scan both my employment letter and confirmation and also explain on LOE.

Do you think is okay to go ahead and submit

Too many inconsistencies. Decline this ITA or better still, create a new profile and wait for the next ITA and thereafter decline current ITA and withdraw EE profile. I have your same issues. I waited for next ITA.

sirRiddy:
How will someone edit the email sent to him by a professor just
to impress or show off to other people? Why are some people with so little
self esteem? Please be careful with what people portray themselves
to be on here and other whatsapp groups outside here. This is incredible
Too many frauds here aswear

Congrats to the babas with admissions!!!! Please start getting ready for visa interviews! One love! We shall all conquer together.

Scholastica16:
Regret mail from LSU. They say they hope the regret will not discourage me from pursuing graduate program in other schools. Congrats to those who got it.

I am really sorry. Don't mind them. With your wonderful test scores...they are not serious. Let's look forward to better news! It's well.

Scholastica16:
Intimidators.

Intimidate us.

Where is Hirschfelder?

My brother....hmmmmm...Dia ris God oh

andradaeze:
I believe there is no cause for alarm yet, sis. Decisions sometimes, do come in April.

Thanks! But it's easier said than done.

With all the decisions on here, I guess I can now intensify ripping off my hair....

Scholastica16:
Congrats Divabiola. You contributed to the thread in your own special way. I am happy for you.

@DrHopeful, the wait is not easy but I think the consensus online say it is not bad most times if you have not received a decision by now. Let us be keeping our fingers crossed. What about the interview you had with a member of Faculty in one of your schools?

No decision from there too. The wait is very hard....

I am ripping my hair off!!!! I need a frigging decision!!! Is it just me? Ah! 3 months and counting!!!

alt3r3g0:
A bird in hand.... you can create another profile, wait until the second profile gets an ITA before declining the one with errors.

To the best of my knowledge, its after you have submitted and paid for eapr that your profile gets locked and you are assesed based on the docs you submit to back up that profile.

Personally i think you can just edit the TRF number on the profile itself.

Thanks.

dupyshoo:
I don't think you should decline your ITA because of the mistake in your TRF reference number. You don't even need a LOE. Just correct it in your application and move on. I made a mistake in my job title before ITA. I just corrected it after ITA without any LOE and there was no issue.

Beem4cupid has explained how you should go about FBI PCC.

Thanks.

ugoiyke79e2:
use another email......put in d correct details and hope to get another ITA in d coming draw......and then decline d first ITA

Thanks.

elfmann:
Just decline and wait for another draw. Correct ur data!

Thanks but it's just so scary declining ITA for just that reason. What if the cut off scores go above my score all of a sudden?

cc vcole, dupyshoo, etc

Beem4cupid:
Well like I have been advised, I think you should hold on for atleast a week to expiration of your ITA before submitting with a LOE and evidence of applying for the US FBI PCC.
On the TRF number, if it is just a little mix up of numbers, I think a LOE can take care of that but if it is major change, it might be dicey as it might be seen as a deliberate way of manipulating the system.
In my opinion, probably, you should create a new EE profile with correct TRF number and see if you will be lucky to get another ITA in the next draw.

Thanks. I will hold on till the last week or so but it will be close to the time my Naija PCC would be expiring.

On the TRF number, I am not sure what constitutes a minor or major change. The change was with the year. So instead of 16...., I wrote 17... So what do you guys think?

In creating another EE profile, can I use the same email address as current profile? I am asking because all my docs carry my current email address.