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lizzycreations:
Hello everyone, please I will like a sincere answer and whatever you say would be my final decision. I was processing a community college through a brother that happens to be an agent and due to some things have been reading on this thread regarding community college visa, I mean how hard it is to get, so I had to follow everything he asked me to do. Now I was asked to go to the American Embassy tomorrow for an international student tutorial but going there would be a lot of stress for me due to my work and again I'm not leaving anywhere close to Lagos. Now my question is, has anybody here been there before and how important is it?

Thank you.

if you're above 18 and have finished secondary school before 2016... then you're wasting your time with a community college or going to the embassy for the consultation..... if push comes to shove pick a university with 90+% acceptance rate and low tuition... at least make man go obodoyibo

the river sings- Enya

EyeowaDavid:
Good morning good people on this platform. I'm really happy to read of testimonies and i pray that everyone here we have a good testimony to share. Please i just started the process of getting admission for masters, I will like to know how convert GPA.

if you really read the thread like you claimed then you would realize that GPA conversion was just discussed three pages ago; I just don't understand all of you with the need to lie about reading the thread before asking questions.

nairanaira12:
For your information sir, you have a deranged idea/understanding about the Catholic Church. Everybody is free to manifest the gift of God in his life, be it preaching, praying, speaking in tongues or whatever the gift may be. As long as the gift is supported by the scriptures, then it is acceptable in the Catholic Church. I don't really know what you take the Church for; this your understanding is archaic and off-point.

And yes, people speak in tongues and miracles happen everytime in the Catholic Church. But we just don't broadcast these things

and the gifts include selling blessed water and branded recharge cards?. call a spade a spade and not a spoon factory error

Exciton:
I don't think such is possible in Naija. At best, you can supplement your child's learning with online lessons on topics like DIY electronics, politics, philosophy and history that his/her agemates in developed countries are expected to know.

and absolutely no religion

Exciton:
Hehehe. But compared to Eritrea, who no longer have a single fvcking university (according to Aljazeera), there's still hope.

The scary thing is that many don't see anything wrong with the quality of our basic education. Even 17th century European nations had far better education standards than we currently have. The only thing we are stuck on is how to read and write.

As for those extremely expensive fraudster "international" schools where they pay in dollars but employ teachers from the same pool that the average Naija school employs from, I'd rather homeschool my child.

I'm really considering homeschooling myself.

Jungleluv5:
ooooooh thunder ⚡ fire that your mouth �

is that your bible teaches.... ewu ara

Exciton:
I can't believe some people are trying to rationalize why not even a single fvcking state (including Abuja) in Nigeria can't provide quality primary and secondary education while the likes of Rwanda can achieve such feat nationwide. Simple pry/sec school that doesn't require million dollar equipment... just good teachers, a roof, and basic supplies -- I couldn't give a sh!t if they sat on floors, as long as they've got great teachers to develop their minds.

It's a coincidence that I read just this morning that qualified Finnish teachers must have completed a 5 year Masters education programme after their first degree to teach at their primary/secondary schools. The programme has a 10% acceptance rate... that's how much they value quality education.

The question is what will it cost us to put up institutes such as these? Very little compared to the amount they steal or use to build a useless rail line from Kano/Kaduna to some shit-hole village. The honest truth is that no one gives a fvck about providing quality education to the masses. If they did, they'd already be restructuring the entire education system that's piss poor.

It seems all African countries (except the likes of CAR, Zimbabwe, DRC and Eritrea... our mates ) will become developed long before Nigeria. We are utter failures.

haha, you still think this country is not doomed. Even the million naira schools are only teaching fake accents, I hear the teachers are paid terribly and the owners​ are tin gods.

Igweann979:
then you are a devil's reincarnate

for a 38 year old, you aRe not very smart

why has the Vatican or the catholic church done nothing to curtail this man's nonsense, if he wants to be a prosperity pentecostal preacher then he should denounce the catholic church and deceive his sheeple in peace.
PS: I AM NOT A CATHOLIC.

Exciton:
One local newspaper found that the national parliament was in the process of creating 25 new federal agencies. Among them was a National Council for Research and Development, a National Research and Innovation Foundation, a National Research and Innovation Council and Federal Entrepreneurship Centres across the country.

Damn! This made me boil!!

This shows directly that our Constitution is sh!t; that it has no proper checks and balances in place for the three arms of government. The center has too much power and they can do whatever they like.

It's why corruption and "godfatherism" is rampant. No wonder the guy called it a patronage system of government.

But the important question is how the hell do we ensure the right people get into positions of power to make the necessary changes to our system of government in a peaceful manner??

We can never be a developed nation with this form of highly inefficient system whereby agencies are duplicated to "settle guys" which just creates a large workforce with zero productivity.

The country is doomed,very doomed.
Even when Cambridge trained, MIT trained, Global technocrats come in, they are overwhelmed by the populace which they seek to improve, everything about our culture, language, and way of life has corruption and rent seeking as a way of life, The extended family, our most prized institution is the bedrock of corruption; whilst trying to placate 7 uncles, 40 under educated nephews and a horde of villagers who are supposedly your brothers, you find that you have to live above your means, and settle them, because apparently, they all "trained" you.
Moving beyond the extended family, We have a culture that is at best survivalist and has no futuristic theme;to illustrate, we used the grinding stone for more than a millennia, our forefathers. never bothered improving the grinding stone, they didn't envisage a future where the earth ran out c stone or where It would b necessary to grind large quantities, or that the time spent swinging with such vigor could be spent doing something else; insofar the grinding stone worked and was some kind of indicator of wealth, the African man was just satisfied with his grinding stone. Beyond the grinding stone in modern Africa, we have everyone here with useless survivalist dreams, Go to school, cram hard for the repeated past question exam, get a freeloader civil service job marry, give birth to more kids than you need, grow old collect pension,
and in between amass more money than your next door neighbor so can oppress him and chop life and flenjor.. Nobody gives a crap about pollution, institution, anthropology, the rule of law, science, technology, even things as trivial as a simple park for relaxation, so far one is driving a range rover through the pot hole ridden rode, and buying overpriced real estate where open drainage exist, they are living the "LIFE". it's not just corruption, or the right people or intellectuals, it is us as a people its our way of thinking, of living, of interacting and ultimately dying. Our people have no drive, no passion, no quest for enlightenment, no soul.

omohayek:
The problem with just waiting for things to keep getting worse until they hit rock bottom is that a lot of people will have to suffer and even die unnecessarily along the way; that is something I would find it difficult to turn my back on even if those affected were strangers halfway across the world, let alone people amongst whom I count many as either my own blood relatives or as close personal personal acquaintances.

I wish I could simply turn my back on Nigeria but that simply isn't a possibility, which is why I find the crushing stupidity of how so many things are done in the country so incredibly frustrating. While I recognize that there are a few people who understand what is wrong with the place and what needs to be done to fix it, I think it's also very clear from following this forum, or the Nigerian online newspapers, that most Nigerians really have no clue why their lives never improve year after year - otherwise they wouldn't be so quick to blame conspiracies by foreigners or people from other tribes for problems they themselves have had a hand in creating. My hope is that by discussing these things vigorously on forums like this one, at least a few Nigerians who aren't beyond redemption will wake up and start to think more critically about economic and political issues, and begin to demand more from politicians than that they share the same religion and place of origin with those who support they seek. Maybe then we could actually look beyond shallow identity politics to elect a leader who is neither an egomaniac, an invalid, a thief, or a sickly old ignoramus for once, someone with ideas for real reform and the energy to carry them out.

funny, i had this same argument with a friend of mine a week back, and i asked him a question "How do you explain quantum mechanics to a 50 year old village man, who has little to no education?", thing is no matter how good a teacher you are, it is an exercise in futility as the old man clearly has no foundation in physics, or any field at all, as is well past beyond the age where learning is a comfortable quick process. The old man in this scenario describes most Nigerians, no matter how much you debate these issues, explain them with utmost passion , or speak forth with great eloquence and conviction, you would be wasting useful energy; Our educational sector is all the more useless, with private (k-12) schools charging millions just to give kids fake accents ,and our public schools broken beyond repair. what i think we need is what some political scientists are referring to as "epistocracy".here's a link to the article http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/11/07/the-case-against-democracy

omohayek:
Hmm, looks like my cynicism about the limited intellect of the Nairaland hordes has been proven correct once again: one of the most respected international periodicals devotes an entire story to an issue which has seriously choked growth and thereby kept millions of Nigerians in poverty, and yet not a single Nairalander has anything worthwhile to say on the issue? Worse yet, the mods don't make any attempt to move it to the front page either!

This is the sort of thing I'm getting at when I say ordinary Nigerians should stop blaming "politicians", "elites" and so forth, and need to acknowledge that they are their own worst enemies - ignorant, mentally lazy, highly credulous, extremely superstitious, and tribalistic beyond belief.

a Lot of Nigerians want to talk about it like me, but the thing is that like me, many are tired of debating about these issues to no avail; everybody wants to "BLOW" in nigeria, "owo ni koko, "baba god pick my call", everybody wants a federal civil service job where they can do nothing, and everybody including even those even in the private sector is trying to be smarter than the next fellow. point is Nigeria is Banana republic headed for doom, and frankly there's no point debating any issue at all, let the country implode on itself; after all, the only way to go after hitting rock bottom is up.

TWoods:
Shepherd university in West Virginia. Lol if I say you're not a serious student now, all these post hunters will start talking. The poor VOs.

it's been around since 1871, I assume it's not a terrible school

etudiant:
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Thank you

Let me break it down now!

I explained to my Undergrad school I couldn't wait for September Intake. Undergrad school gave me an option to start from 2nd semester Feb 2014 provided I do my first semester during Summer which I did. So I did 3 semesters in 2014 (Feb 2014, Summer Semester and Sep 2014) , did two semesters in 2015 ( Feb 2015 and Sep 2015) Did my final semester in 2016 ( Feb 2016 [ Final Year 2nd Semester] )

Total of 6 semesters for 3years Program.

On my Transcript, it's stated 2013/2014 session

Year of Entry: 2013 (General Year of Entry for 2013/2014 session even if I didn't start 2013 Sep First semester and was in Nigeria at that time which the Embassy is fully aware)

QUESTION:
1. I understand the easy mixup.. what do I do?
School Year of Entry for all 2013/2014 students is 2013. I started 2014 and made up for first semester during Summer (which is used for students with Carry-overs and Late resumptions like me)

2.What else do you think might have been the problem looking at my transcript?

Thanks for reading through and helping.

truth is, Most American schools (the ok ones) require 4 year bachelor degrees(They are very strict with this rule) , that is why they always give a caveat about Indian school on their admissions page, since they award 3 year bachelor degrees. It would be very hard to convince anyone with a less than 4 year undergrad degree.

DreManuel:
It's my opinion tho. So you don't have to believe it. Keyword is ambitious schools. But it also depends on your definition of ambitious school. Anyway, if you have any counter-evidence please share, I would like to learn from it.

P.S.. I've not asked anybody not to apply to ambitious and extremely competitive schools for PhD with a Nigerian B.Sc. Nigerians have done that and will still do it. I know someone rounding off PhD at MIT and another classmate in UT Austin. That also means I know their records.

In the days of PRESSID with guaranteed funding, those schools would have been easier to go, too. We don't know what PTDF is doing now. The hustle is more real now. We all need a reality check.

peace be unto you brother, Has PTDF paid present beneficiaries up to date?, or is it NDDC that always owes?

DreManuel: And getting into PhD programs with Nigerian BSc in ambitious schools is equally very difficult except you can prove that there is an Einstein in you.

I don't believe this, not one bit, not one bit

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

Nothing at all your mathematical Highness!. I suggest LinkedIn, for better response to your questions

DreManuel:
My brother I don't know o...But that was the result sent to me and I did that twice to be double sure. I figured that while in school, two Es prevented one from translating from 4.39 to 4.5. Anyway, the way GPAs look like, and its funny, the higher your score, the less you feel the scaling up impact in the conversion.

Noted sir!

DreManuel:
You may not need the WES conversion but you can do that too. I did to know where I stood since one of the programs I applied to indicated on their site that students admitted to the program usually have a GPA of 3.7/4.00

There is free version on their site. You will only need to upload your courses and grades on the site and it will convert it for you.

how does Wes work Biko oga mi? 4.39 to 3.65 ... if so , then what will a 4.5 turn to ?... .. at least olodos like me can use Wes to upscale our odo.

Tico1:
Well I am just 30 years so I need to further my education ,how do I get admitted in one of the schools in abroad please ? I had HND in civil engineering and I want to study mechanical engineering

Is you HND&OND at least upper credit? , if yes then an MSC, or even direct PhD should be plausible. But first, read the general wisdom of this thread by femi312

There is this saying that says ''If we don't
fight we have failed, but if we fight we can either fail or succeed''. So forget the tuition part for now and put in some work. First, you need to decide on the course you want to study, To save you some stress start from this website http://graddecision.org/ to know the application process, So step 1) Decide on the course you want to study 2) Search for schools using a)
www.msinus.com (open this website with a laptop, you should see a list of school and ranking for some of the most common courses, you can start from there b)
www.gradschools.com c) www.google.com (you can just type 'msc in bla bla in the us in google' d) www.usnews.com e)
www.4icu.org . 3) check up the website of the schools you find, to see the requirements. most schools will require GRE and some will require both gre and toefl . 4) Register for standardize exam and take it. You can register for gre as soon as you are ready and prepared to take the exam. Its done online at www.ets.org. You can also get all the information you need about the exam on the website. You will get adequate materials to prepare for the exam in this dropbox I created https://www.dropbox.com/sh/t9ot6d07hp1lkm7/AADL_dTihjEvNBRCBsmAcoXja?dl=0
TOEFL is an English test required by some US universities. though, some schools waive due to the fact that Nigeria is an Anglophone country.
For toefl, all you need are the speaking noteful videos in the link below, the ets toefl guide is enough to ace the exam for other sections. Just download the toefl ETS Guide from there website and the simulation test.
https://www.dropbox.com/sh/45tvc3ifi8wh8sh/AACXR5j6l3nsWK8vZx5P28TVa?dl=0
As for the Tuition, if you have good results (GRE, GPA, Toefl), SOP and LOR; US schools do offer assistanship to graduate students. This can either be Research Assistant, Teaching Assistant or Administrative Assistant. Depending on the school, if you get an assistantship, your Tuition will be waived and you will also be paid a monthly stipend that can take care of your living expenses. One advice, once you shortlist schools, send emails to the grad cord of the schools and ask specific questions relating to that course and funding opportunities, be very explicit.
Lastly, there are basically 2 admission session in the US, Spring (Jan) and Fall (August). Schools admit more students in Fall, so Its advisable you plan towards Fall 2018. If you plan to resume in fall 2018, make sure you submit all your application documents before ending of Dec 2017. If you don't give it a trial, you will never know.My philosophy in life is to always do my part, with that I don't get to regret later. Above all, if you believe in God,pray to him..if not, good for you.
If you have any question, drop it here and you should get more than one good answer

Tico1:
Please what do I do to study in abroad ,I just registered in here .

what are your qualifications?.. are you rich?.. what's your age grade?..

Bigzbabe:
U obviously dnt hv any positive input to this so stay off the thread!

.. cosade is nice compared to what Twoods of afonjaboston would have lambasted you... also you have no right to banish anyone off the thread

Pipsbasketings:
I tried it and was too bored, single pair trading is boring for me since I trade the dailies

old habits die hard... especially when they are profitable ... more pips to you sir

TWoods:
www.google.com and www.ETSU.edu

Twoods, haven't you learned yet?, when a Nigerian talks about learning everything, they mean, the other ogbonge Tori, that will involve some mende mende .

AfonjaBoston:
Like I commonly see here;

Throw another 65k in, refire ( WTF does that mean )
fold your arms and heaven will rain visa manna on You

bad Belle ... it is God that giveth and taketh visa

DeeTus:
Lols
I doubt if you know the difference between bribe and reward. And for the dude you talked about now, I have no problem with him at all because anyone can say anything out of anger or frustration!

Yeah, Reward , the great rewarder of all who do good!!.... don't complain Sha when our men in Black ask for reward on their roadblocks .. reward ko award ni

DeeTus:
Hahahahaha. Comparing me with these corrupt politicians is totally out of proportion. I am not corrupt but had done some favor for some politicians yet didn't ask for money. That is why they are still looking for me and had called me severally which I didn't pick their calls because they disrespected me for not calling me when they arrived in that state and met a top man and signed a contract worth a lot of money. A friend of mine here on Nairaland knew everything. I also couldn't sleep for over two weeks because I was heartbroken.

Second, the only think I could say I did which to me is not even bribe was when a friend of mine helped me with my passport. gave him something in return to show appreciation and tutored his friend who was refused visa before.

Not everyone in Nigeria is corrupt.

Yes, and madam diezani has been getting gifts from all her oil money friends bah? , Twoods was right, y'all are a bunch of hypocrites.

DeeTus:
Hahahaha. Dude, do you smoke weed sometimes?

Off point again, I asked a simple question , and the next thing you started yapping, was Nigerian politicians. Now tell me , have you ever bribed someone , say in public service for doing their job; have you ever bypassed the law because you know one oga somewhere , or you a related to some oga; do you pay that extra 50naira for keg at the filling station instead of paying whatever accumulates in the counter; did you get your passport, the normal procedure, or met with those immigration fools with uniform with extra cash?; can you bet your f*cking life ,that you have never benefited from the proceeds of corruption no matter how little?. We, including YOU, are the reason Nigeria is a sh*t hole, so next time, before you try to be the saintly leader of the Mob, who crucifies Nigerian politicians , Remember, YOU are no better. It is you little actions as well as everyone's that makes us a sh*tty third world country

DeeTus:
LOL! You have your way? Misbehave out there and see what will happen to you. Don't say I didn't warn you.

at this point, I have reason to believe your comprehension skills, match that of a 5th grader

omoluabiguy:
Young man, the purpose of this thread is to provide information related to student visas enquiries and not to be derailing the thread on irrelevant issues. I wouldn't even join issues with you. Some of us got jobs and studies to catch up with.

yeah yeah yeah, and leave us jobless ones alone with our folly, oh wise one. Na only una read book pass

AfonjaBoston:
Being cocky and blowing grammar will not give you visa.

The VO saw he clearly doesnt have "home ties" and he will "marry" to hurriedly "cheat" the system.

He does not hold a vital position in the industry he works at. (Accounts team, IT could have given him a better chance) The bank is saturated and anybody can do customer service.

He killed it when he.couldn't tell what this career path is

You cannot be paying millions of naira to go study that .

This one go enter street and the VO did his or her job

Bros, if I get better job, dey travel for work and jollificate, shey person go dey stand for 2minutes disgrace for Walter Carrington ?. 99% of F1 folks are seeking better lives, consular officers know that, data and statistics show that.