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Walspring:
I got your pm and i have replied you...

Thank you dear. Appreciate.

Owohfasa:
hello everyone, please i need an experienced person whom processed his/her admission personally to clear this curiosity from my mind on satisfying the proof of financial statement required by most schools in the US during admission process for international students.
can someone who has a closing balance of 2M which is not close to the required closing balance of $20,000 for community college and $41,000 for most university secure admission?

Honestly, opening or closing balances have nothing to do with securing admission . Securing admission have everything to do with your GPA, GRE/GMAT and TOEFL Test scores, LOR and SOP.

If you are thinking about bank statement to show during your visa interview for unfunded admission, then you will have to show something more substantial than 2M.

tobishills12:
Hey guys,

Please I need to ask if its possible for a political science graduate to study computer science or any related technological course in masters given the fact that the person is a programmer who had done quite a number of projects in the web and artificial intelligence (machine learning) and has a very attractive portfolio.

Please help

Yes because you have done some work in IT (Web and AI). Prepare to have something for the VOs to convince them that your masters program is not your first time to switch to IT. Once big switches like this is spotted, the 'why the switch' question will definitely come.

What tools do you use in your Machine Learning?

I have 300k naira to exchange for dollars. If you have dollars you wish to exchange for naira, kindly PM me.

Thanks.

EzekielMab:
Hi guys..

Good evening ..


I have B.Eng Computer Engineering.

I want to go for M.sc in Information Technology.

But then the question I have to ask is that do you have to pay your turion before leaving Nigeria?

I have litte savings and total inflow and outflow of 6m from sponsor per annum.

I don't have TOEFL yet though and transcript

Can I fly?

Who can guide me??

Pls I need advice..

Ezekielmab@yahoo.com if you can guide me from beginning to end

Bolded was a little funny

Typically you don't pay tuition before you travel. A couple of schools have been noted to require tuition deposits from international students before arrival. Note though that it's important to have enough financial backup because you will spend. I don't want to read further meaning into that question.
Get your transcript and plan to write TOEFL. if you dig deep though you will find a handful of schools that will exempt Nigeria from TOEFL. But it's better for you to write it.
Nobody will guide you better than you can guide yourself. Use this thread and use Google. Best of luck.

Alfred2000:
Please what is referred here as servis fee? Am a bit lost with that term

A fee you have to pay before you go for visa interview. All international students entering the US for studies must pay the fee. It's worth $210.

ChristoBam:
Hey guys I need your help with something. I'm preparing for my visa interview towards the spring semester but I have somethings to contend with. I might find it a little difficult to resume in January due to some reasons. I know it's possible to differ from Fall semester to Spring semester but I want to know if it's possible to do the same from Spring to Fall semester. And if I'm given a student visa next month, will I still be able to use it for the fall semester I'm differing to or I'll need another visa interview.

Careful. If you plan to defer from Spring to Fall, then your I-20 needs to be updated by your school to show your are coming by fall '18. Otherwise, your time of entry which is stated on your I-20 would have expired and you will begin to have issues with Customs and Border Protection.

sospunky:
Good day all....
I'm a mother of 3 and married too.im currently waiting for my admission into my schools of choice.My question is can I apply for my visa once my admission is secured with my 3kids?
Your opinions and views are needed.
Thank you

Initially, I tried to carry family with me all at the same time but later decided otherwise. I am grateful I did. Studies in the US can be rigorous.

segun544:
Good morning good people

Please I am an HND graduate of Building Technology with Upper Credit from a Federal Polytechnic here in Nigeria...please I would love to know if I can apply directly for my Master's degree in the U.S and please i would also love to know every requirement needed to make my visa application a success as I am a novice in Visa application process...Thanks

pls i would really appreciate if someone could kindly help me outline the procedures as i don't know anything about usa visa application especially for HND graduate...

pls help a brother in need

Welcome, there is always a FIRST TIME for everybody. Someone one this thread have been successful getting a master program in US with a HND from home. Someone has also suggested that you read through the last 20 pages. In addition, use the Nairaland land search on top of the page and search for polytechnic or HND and limit that to TRAVEL section. You will get handy information.
All the best.

abeolas:
Good morning house..please i need info on any school in new york that offers graduate programs in engineering without GRE

Your question made me remember the days of night browsing .

When you have to sit through the night in a cyber cafe browsing God knows what.

Well, I guess you will have to employ night browsing strategy here. Use google and Wikipedia to find all schools and colleges in NY and go through them one by one to find the one that exempts GRE for an engineering program.

Best of luck!

Gracee101:
hi everyone


is it advisable to talk about first visa refusal from a country ie Canada when on the date of interview please your candid advice is needed as the visa date draws closer.

No. Not advisable.

Silva094:
Please house am applying to Cleveland State University spring 2018 in short the only thing remaining is payment of app fee, my question is how many weeks does it take for the admission decision to take place and do you pay tuition before arrival? Thanks

This can vary. When all your papers are turned in, it could take between 4-12 weeks to get a decision.

oduzbaba89:
morning, m trying to pay application fees using uba debit visa card. its not going, what can I do. I need to pay asap..thanks

How much is the application fee? I am not sure the dollar limit of UBA but I know that of GTB naira card is $1000. That would be your best bet.

Perotti:
Well, my great people, its kinda long overdue for my POE and American transcript. Departed the shores of Nigeria on the 13th of August via Royal Air Maroc and it was a nice experience except the long layer overs (10 hrs in Casablanca, 7 hrs at JFK). Nice meal aboard the flight to JFK. Got to JFK around 2am and my POE officer (Asian man) asked me just two questions I can't remember again but no big deal. The flight from JFK to Denver was nice but long too (4 hrs). Got to Denver and took a prebooked shuttle to Fort Collins. Stayed with a nice white family for 3 days before moving to my own place. First week of classes has just flown by and its been great here so far. My 2 cents advice for those who do not want to take the GRE is that the stress of taking the test is really worth it especially for the sake of funding. I wont advise anyone to come here without properly loading up financially even if you get funding.

Stats; GRE: 307, 4.0 AWA, TOEFL: 105, 4.02/5.0 (BSc), 72.3% (MSc), research/work experience (1 year), Agric Microbiology/Plant Science.
I got my admission+funding via an advert on Twitter, the PI was looking for a student to do some research relating to my field and I threw in my CV, and God did the rest. I advise anyone with similar stats to follow Profs on twitter doing a similar research, they do tweet or retweet grad students openings in related labs. My desperation for funding led me to twitter and its another goldmine of info.

Cheers and see you all at the top!!!

I do not want to sound like a spoiler because that's not my intention. I have already liked your post Perotti but I am saying this for those that are intending to come. It's good to have funding that are tied to a faculty and a particular research grant. Honestly it's better than not having anything at all and being unable to afford the fees out of pocket.

The challenge is that you find it difficult to extricate yourself from the faculty and that particular research because that's where your funding comes from. Especially when you find that the research direction does not fit with what you are really passionate about and what you want to do, or when some other matters starts arising.

When you have a funding from the department as against a particular faculty, you are not tied down to one man and any faculty member can be your adviser. You can change advisers if things go wrong. I am studying Information Systems under the School of Business and PhD students in the School of Computer Science are jealous of us because their funding is usually tied to a research grant and they find it hard to come out unlike us.

Like I said earlier, it's far better than not having anything at all and it's just a word of advise for people still intending to come.

For more of this type of information, find the free book titled "THE PHD GRIND" by Philip Guo and read. He was a one time PhD student of Stanford University and currently a faculty of University of California San Diego.

All the best!

Kukaman:
Hello house, I'm a newbie here and would like to ask a question on student visa and I really need your candid advise. Please I had a degree(online) from UK and want to study in USA for my masters. I already received one I20 from a private university but wouldn't want to use it as advised by a friend to ignore a private university and go for a public university which usually boost chances of being approved a student visa. I have 3 schools awaiting their I20 which will turn in latest early next month based on the submission of application. Kindly assist on what to tell the interviewer so as to convince the interviewer that I would return to Nigeria after the course of study as this will be my first time of being interviewed at the embassy. I don't want to mess things up hence, need your expertise advise.

Thanks.

Download these transcripts and read. You will learn how to respond to the visa interviewer.


https://www.dropbox.com/s/dawoicv7y9cofif/compiled%20VISA%20TRANSCRIPT%20Part%2011%20-%20Up%20to%20Pg%20331.docx?dl=0


https://www.dropbox.com/sh/vv0a0sfgaysztiq/AADbiS4UG7q57b0qcFPjaPkna?dl=0



https://www.dropbox.com/s/3nq0ft9sr52twe7/DELAYED_VISAS_PART_7.pdf?dl=0

dayjeee:
Good pm good people of this thread. I must confess you guys are doing a great job. thanks for giving ur time to answer questions. am currently serving, will be rounding up by December this year, I want to apply for my masters in U.S universities, however, the only means of paying my tuition fee is to secure a scholarship or tuition waiver. am planning towards next fall. will be going to school at the end of the years so that I can talk with some few lecturers who can be my referee. pls I need advice concerning schools that can offer tuition waiver. the course I intend applying for is international relations, or development studies. Thanks

Apart from looking through all the post on the thread which frankly is cumbersome but might be rewarding, you can also download some of the compiled transcripts and read. You will see the school that gave people funding on those transcripts.

Also try to google Teaching assistantship and Graduate assistantship and similar terms. All the best.

patomaniac:
Hello guy, is there a way or site you can check if a program is accredited for a part school

Thanks in advance.

Most times, the accreditation information is shown on the department's main website. Just know the name of the key accreditation (eg is AASCB for business schools) for your discipline and check the department's website to see if you intended school have it. You can also check the accrediting institutions website (aascb.edu in this case) to find a list of all accredited schools.

Femmyfes:
Good PM to the entire house... I'm currently following this site daily to know more about traveling experience, I have chosen to study Economics in the California state University east bay and my I 20 and admission Packages were available but my question goes does... Since my school is resuming on the 20th September and yet the agent doing the documents for me his yet to fill Ds-160 not to talk of booking appointment with the embassy. Please highlight and enlighten me more cause I'm confused as he keeps saying make I chill.

Be careful with this agent guy. There are a handful of sad agent stories on this thread. If he is not moving forward with your case, do what you need to do and sever yourself from him. Wisdom is profitable to direct.

AfonjaBoston:
Two setting is not a criteria for admission.

One important criteria is that you sit your butt down and use google

You are hilariously weird AfonjaBoston

herrlicher:
I have deferred to spring 2018 chief.
Thanks for ur encouragement.
Thanks so much cos this kind of delay can put someone easily in the state of oblivion.
Whichever way. It will end in praise.

All the best

oduzbaba89:
@u ecoleco, u are too much. I send my admission documents to uiu, they insist on official transcript. that why m asking . no problem.


please at interview if person was asked how many universities e applied to. can persin say 3 , whereas person apply to one. will they know if i lie and say three. ?

thanks

It's more easier to say the truth than to lie. Lying is very stressful. But no, they won't know.

herrlicher:
Got a mail today but not really happy. It read thus:


Your case is still under review; this type of processing can sometimes involve several different sections and can take several months or longer. The unit completing the administrative processing does not always have full control of the timing involved.

We understand your concerns and will contact you when we are able to proceed. We appreciate your patience as we undergo this process.

Sincerely,

Start working on deferring your admission to spring '18 ASAP. September is already at hand and that's when early application opens for most schools for Fall '18. Have that in mind too. Delayal is not denial!

oduzbaba89:
good afternoon good people of this forum, am currently in a mess now, please i need schools that does not necessarily request for official transcript for admission cos my school has internal strike coupled with ASUU, schs that can accept student certified copy of transcrip, pls as a matter of urgency.

For the most part, you do not need official transcript to apply for admission. Students copy or Online copy will do. You send official transcript only to schools that have accepted you. Best of luck!

Fenix:
God bless this forum!

Travel Transcript

Arrived in New York and currently chilling at my sister's place.

I tool Qatar airways, which I will never do again of I can avoid it. It was about 11 hours to Doha, then a 2 hour layover before another 11 hour flight to New York.

I got to New York around 10am. Customs clearance was easy. The officer just asked me where I was going. I told him then he did the whole scan fingerprint palaver and waved me through.

I got outside, ordered for a Super Shuttle. It arrived 30 minutes later. I got in and landed at my sister's place.

Heading to Cambridge tomorrow. I'm dead tired....

Sorry about your bad experience with Qatar Airways. Your journey sounds so long comparing it to mine with Royal Air Maroc. It was 4hrs from Lagos to Casablanca and 7 hrs from Casablanca to NY, totaling 11 hours which equals the time for one leg of your journey. Congrats and please get some rest.

Fenix:
Hello. I am so sorry to hear about this. I can only imagine your disappointment.

From everything I have read online, getting a visa to attend a community College is not easy at all. Very few people appear to be granted a visa for a community college. I would advise you relax and try and get into a proper university.

Frankly I struggle to understand why anyone would even want to consider a community College. You can save the money you would spend on a CV towards a proper university degree.

Well one reason people go to community college is because it's comparatively affordable. I recently met a fellow doctoral guy who is from the state our school is located and he has been attending community colleges for this same reason I believe. Our school is the first proper university he is attending.

Hisvoice:
My Observation (Post 2)
Special thanks to everyone for their congratulatory messages. Overcoming the dour feeling experienced after the exam (where you put your head on a BRT/LAGBUS window) thinking of what you could've done right is enough to propel for success. On a lighter note, one of the good experience GRE brought is the urge to open this thread everyday and meeting virtual friends with similar ambition. Infact! I commend this guys/ladies - ponpon, time2smile, ecoleco,iekene, Scholastica et al - for the info and help you dish out here. Special thanks to Lagosismyhome (on the visa thread), who I never met even till now but paid 50k to register for me during the promo time. God bless you all.

I discovered few things about GRE exam, which is important to impending test takers - either 1st, 2nd or my category;

1. About 60-70% of 1st time takers re-write more than once in other to get a desired score. Probably, due to the fact that they were not familiar with the concept of the exam or not too prepared for what they met. Therefore, if you are a 1st time taker, try as much as possible to prepare very well to get your desired score. Ask questions from people who have experienced it.
2. Some of the available books are not adequate enough for the real GRE questions. Although some topics are more elaborated in few ones. Carefully select books for reading. Don't just read randomly.
3. Generally, it is easier to improve in Quant than Verbal. Most students, including chinese struggle with the Verbal questions partly because of the convoluted style of writing them. Believe me, if you get the concept, you can do well in it.
4. Low GRE score does not equate failure in securing admission if other aspect of the admission package is good. Funding! is probably difficult with low GRE but schools like (ETSU, TTU) still offer funding for low scorers. Do your assignment well and don't raise the bar too high.

Next post is for Verbal discussion. Feel free to ask questions.

Nice one. Success in all your endeavours!

Richiy:
Please what is wrong with the people here? I asked to know stuff about ETSU and I am termed unserious. I guess you guys did not understand where I was coming from. I just need to know someone that has passed through the process and can put me through. This is NOT my first admit, I have my TOEFL and GRE and I want to try again.

The essence of my question is to NOT make any mistake with application. Of course I know Google and their website but isn't the idea of this forum to help each other succeed?

I have given out information before to people I don't even know just out of my need to make sure that as I am winning, others are winning with me.

So WTF is wrong with what I asked?

C.C ecoleco and TWoods

Even ETSU President would admit that he doesn't know everything about ETSU. Asking that you want to know everything about ETSU is no question at all. What exactly do you want to know?

Richiy:
I need to know EVERYTHING about ETSU.

Someone please let me know how to go about it.

Thank yall

This is really ridiculous. Are you serious? What happened to their website? This kind of statement/request is the reason why someone has said that only unserious people are left here. Please.

etiosa97:
I would like someone to tell me list of affordable schools for undergraduate programs in the US

Just put the bolded on Google

Labhii:
Did they demand for a return ticket because I was at Zenith and Stanbic at Oba Akran yesterday and I was declined mainly because of this.

Thanks.

GTBank demanded for mine. I told the lady on the counter that I want to talk to her supervisor. I talked with the supervisor and I had to argue that airlines can't have a flight schedule years ahead of time so as to book a return. I showed him my I-20 which showed my Program End Date. I got my PTA the next morning.

cmbagwu:
I have chosen to defer till Spring 2018 coz school (New Mexico Highlands University) resumes on the 15th and I don't want to start explaining and speaking English at the POE.. Let me give myself time.

You could use the window to find a better school for spring. I know it's not easy going through the admission process over again but you already have all the usual requirements together. Why not give it a shot.