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Travel / Re: General U.s.a (student) Visa Enquiries-part 13 by EZEIGBO1OFIMO: 11:27am On Dec 30, 2017 |
Albertone:Ah!.. undergrad, The real cash cow for over paid university administrators . Unlike Nigeria, sir, there is no uniform cost for undergraduate education across the vastness of the american space , Tuition and Living conditions will vary according to the school type. 1) For Profit Private Universities charge Insanely High amount for tuition (>=$40,000 per semester). These universities aren't worth it in most cases due to their lax admission process and unworthiness of their certificate (Let no one deceive you, school matters in great ole murica) 2) Not So great Private Universities - These universities aren't really for profit , and a lot of people on this thread routinely apply to them. But, take heed, their tuition can also be insanely expensive(>=$30,000 per semester,) ,and the degree may not be worth much after you're done. This universities cater mainly to Inner city and not so middle class Americans who have public education out of their reach. These universities also have lax admission. process ( so this may save you from SAT, TOEFL etc wahala) 3) The good and semi-good Private universities - Now these Universities are great in the value they give, and they receive some sort of federal funding and have nice large endowment, hence , even though their tuition is on the high side (>=$20,000 per semester) , There are opportunity for tuition waivers and GPA based scholarships 4) PUBLIC UNIVERSITIES!!- Public Universities are the darlings of any right thinking immigrant. the opportunity for Low tuition, Great ranking ,Great social scene, and closeness to that sweet federal $$ , makes it just right for someone like you. Albeit the admission process is fierce and rigorous as you would be competing with people from literally everywhere (SAT scores ,TOEFL, Transcript, LOR etc would be compulsory). Tuition could range from ($8,000-$25,000) ....... ..... ...... .. Asides tuition, Living expenses really depend in where you are, a sleepy college town somewhere in the mid west would be a lot cheaper than a college In a Urban North Eastern City. . . . . BOTTOM LINE : Undergraduate studies in America is insanely expensive , and should not be undertaken by the financially handicapped ; Too many stories of out of status, and incessant transfers to community colleges have become the Norm. If possible, Go to a nice private school like Covenant University in Nigeria, get good grades and then come for Graduate studies, which is a whole lot pocket friendly. 5 Likes 1 Share |
Travel / Re: General U.s.a (student) Visa Enquiries-part 13 by EZEIGBO1OFIMO: 11:00am On Dec 30, 2017 |
Albertone:Undergrad or Post Grad 1 Like |
Travel / Re: General U.s.a (student) Visa Enquiries-part 13 by EZEIGBO1OFIMO: 11:35pm On Dec 29, 2017 |
Pearl93:woooah... some tinder sh*t goin' on 'round here 4 Likes |
Travel / Re: General U.s.a (student) Visa Enquiries-part 13 by EZEIGBO1OFIMO: 11:14pm On Dec 29, 2017 |
TWoods:Feel Good Psychology; Hero Bias ; Retrospective Bias; and most of all to proof of "FAVOUR". ... it would be very sad to conquer the great Walter carrington and not come out with stories of unWavering Bravery. Valiance, and extreme wisdom 7 Likes |
Travel / Re: General U.s.a (student) Visa Enquiries-part 13 by EZEIGBO1OFIMO: 2:41pm On Dec 29, 2017 |
decide:No No No.. at best, this GPA will get him a PhD admission at low tier schools where frustration will eat very deep into his soul, considering that he has no publications In high rated journals. He should remedy the GPA with an MSc, and then proceed for a doctorate. PS: I speak from the STEM perspective where PhD's are mostly funded , Non-funded Humanities can accept that GPA (But paying for a PhD na correct Gbese) |
Music/Radio / Re: Tiwa Savage – Sugarcane (Video) by EZEIGBO1OFIMO: 7:39pm On Dec 28, 2017 |
peacettw:why |
Travel / Re: General U.s.a (student) Visa Enquiries-part 13 by EZEIGBO1OFIMO: 7:34pm On Dec 28, 2017 |
Chidinho10:As a PhD holder cum researcher, when someone like Twoods mentions Graduate degree, he's automatically referring to a PhD. As a Doctoral student in the sciences, you work for the university (very intensively, and you're not allowed to do anything else), hence the research body must reward you with a small token of the research grant. the same expectations are not granted to MSc students, who may not want to tread the treacherous path of the frustrated academic 1 Like |
Travel / Re: General U.s.a (student) Visa Enquiries-part 13 by EZEIGBO1OFIMO: 7:22pm On Dec 28, 2017 |
Chidinho10:Full Funding and stipend Mr.Twoods was talking about concerns a PhD. There's a warning everyone on academia stackexchange Gives " NEVER PAY FOR A SCIENCE PHD". 4 Likes |
Travel / Re: Getting A Green Card By Adjustment Of Status: My Yankee Experience by EZEIGBO1OFIMO: 10:47am On Dec 28, 2017 |
bboy07:, you're. of lying after all.. I've modified my post, let me cc Ymodulus. |
Travel / Re: Getting A Green Card By Adjustment Of Status: My Yankee Experience by EZEIGBO1OFIMO: 9:37am On Dec 28, 2017 |
bboy07:Dude, There is one lesson you obviously have not learned on your stay on this earth, and that is "THERE ARE WORSE TRAGEDIES THAN YOURS". EDIT: you're not lying. 1 Like |
Travel / Re: General U.s.a (student) Visa Enquiries-part 13 by EZEIGBO1OFIMO: 8:42am On Dec 28, 2017 |
TWoods:what of peeps who are yet to graduate |
Celebrities / Re: "Should Have Gotten A Bigger Venue" Davido Says As Eko Hotel Is Over Crowded by EZEIGBO1OFIMO: 8:29am On Dec 28, 2017 |
janellemonae:Mr man, Phyno filled an entire stadium with a little crowd outside the gate, so save your excuses. |
Travel / Re: General U.s.a (student) Visa Enquiries-part 13 by EZEIGBO1OFIMO: 8:05am On Dec 25, 2017 |
ecoleco:This place has gone on without your "genuine" tips and will definitely go on without your "genuine tips to genuine people" 2 Likes |
Family / Re: What Do Men Actually Want? by EZEIGBO1OFIMO: 5:35pm On Dec 24, 2017 |
The biggest problem is that this question assumed that all 2 Billion + men in the world want one thing |
Travel / Re: General U.s.a (student) Visa Enquiries-part 13 by EZEIGBO1OFIMO: 4:11am On Dec 24, 2017 |
Pbst0887:Northeastern is very nice school, and I'm pretty confused as to what the problem is here; but I highly suspect that it is your sponsors profile. The profile really doesn't match the financial weight of the school. did you apply yourself or was it done by an agent?. Forget about application for now and restart the whole process next year, ,and preferably visit EducationUSA, they have a consulting session at the embassy for intending students. |
Car Talk / Re: NIO Launches ES8 All-Electric SUV That Cost Half The Price Of Tesla's Model X by EZEIGBO1OFIMO: 7:40pm On Dec 23, 2017 |
Exciton: |
Car Talk / Re: NIO Launches ES8 All-Electric SUV That Cost Half The Price Of Tesla's Model X by EZEIGBO1OFIMO: 7:39pm On Dec 23, 2017 |
Exciton:they actually get trained my professors (some non-nigerian) at least 6 months before travel date ... I also tried .. but got cut off during qualifiers |
Car Talk / Re: NIO Launches ES8 All-Electric SUV That Cost Half The Price Of Tesla's Model X by EZEIGBO1OFIMO: 7:03pm On Dec 23, 2017 |
Exciton:a lot of biographies and pre-civil war writings shows that a lot of Nigerians drifted more towards the arts and humanities, the few in the sciences were almost all gone by the end of babangida's SAP. A simple example, that I want to give is the International Mathematics Olympiad; save for south Africa and North Africa that fields white contestants, No african country has won a single medal except for Nigeria's not so deserved bronze medal in '11(dude answered only one question, the easiest). These students are supposedly picked through rigorous competition and are given hard core math drills, yet for some reason they are never able to answer one single question at the IMO. The situation becomes worse in the international Physics Olympiad where all the African contestants routinely score zero. Same story in the ICho, The informatics Olympiad. The situation is aptly described in Feynman's memoir when he visited Brazil and complained that not a single person was learning science there even though they excelled in class. The average African, save for a few like you , have not and will never know the joys of science. it's somehow not just in most of us. |
Car Talk / Re: NIO Launches ES8 All-Electric SUV That Cost Half The Price Of Tesla's Model X by EZEIGBO1OFIMO: 6:18pm On Dec 23, 2017 |
Exciton:True, but I don't think survival mode has inhibited any curiosity; amongst out elite who have gone to schools I'm western societies, hardly do we see any who had science lab in their garages, rapid self development in tech (e.g palmer luckey et al), go on into the hard sciences and at least do one awesome thing with daddy's money; instead a large portion of them have become regular rehab Tennant's and prefer to wallow In self deceit in shyte like African leaders training etc. if those with the money, western exposure, and training in the best places in the world that have given us Nobel prize aficionados and Silicon valley giants, can't at least do something useful, then the problem is neither culture nor survival mode. |
Car Talk / Re: NIO Launches ES8 All-Electric SUV That Cost Half The Price Of Tesla's Model X by EZEIGBO1OFIMO: 5:44pm On Dec 23, 2017 |
Exciton:Yeah, just the writing style made me iffy. Honestly I still think even if they stayed up until the 21st century, nothing would have changed either. Our historical timeline obviously did not show any signs of cerebral or mental positive evolution. While the world went through the dark ages, Renaissance, enlightenment; somehow we were very content with the Grinding stone, which we used for a f*cking millennia. Our ancestors didn't question the status quo, they never wandered outside in curiosity, they were just content with eating, marrying and increasing the population faster than one another. |
Car Talk / Re: NIO Launches ES8 All-Electric SUV That Cost Half The Price Of Tesla's Model X by EZEIGBO1OFIMO: 5:23pm On Dec 23, 2017 |
Exciton:I didn't like the article also, but for the reason that the writer was just zig zagging round the whole issue without structure, the writer should spend a few weeks on the economist or WaPo and see how lengthy articles can be written in style. |
Travel / Re: General U.s.a (student) Visa Enquiries-part 13 by EZEIGBO1OFIMO: 4:48pm On Dec 21, 2017 |
Drocks:6*64000 == 384000 NGN == $1050.24. Unless you want your total visa fees to add up to a comprehensive health insurance plan, I would ask that you don't bother to apply anymore. Forget motivational talk, you have been marked with serious immigrant intent, or placed on a medium term ban. 64000 NGB is not beans in this economy. turn your sail elsewhere!!. 9 Likes |
Travel / Re: General U.s.a (student) Visa Enquiries-part 13 by EZEIGBO1OFIMO: 4:44pm On Dec 21, 2017 |
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Travel / Re: General U.s.a (student) Visa Enquiries-part 13 by EZEIGBO1OFIMO: 6:10am On Dec 21, 2017 |
ekiee:NYSC isn't an admission requirement anywhere in Trumpland hence the consular has no business with it, so no questions asked |
Travel / Re: General U.s.a (student) Visa Enquiries-part 13 by EZEIGBO1OFIMO: 7:14pm On Dec 20, 2017 |
oluwadamilare26:indeed o ye pharisee, after you lots come to NL and glean the forum of information, you start pandering WhatsApp group of foolishness. Shame on you!!!! 4 Likes |
Travel / Re: General U.s.a (student) Visa Enquiries-part 13 by EZEIGBO1OFIMO: 5:39pm On Dec 20, 2017 |
oluwadamilare26:justwise, please ban this ungrateful son of Beelzebub who thinks his snazzy WhatsApp group is better than the wealth of information he got here. 3 Likes |
Travel / Re: General U.s.a (student) Visa Enquiries-part 13 by EZEIGBO1OFIMO: 2:03pm On Dec 20, 2017 |
Mstrsheikh:Well, thank you for this disclaimer, because I get very iffy, when people suddenly become Visa experts after landing an F-1 5 Likes |
Travel / Re: General U.s.a (student) Visa Enquiries-part 13 by EZEIGBO1OFIMO: 11:51pm On Dec 18, 2017 |
morgandy:unfortunately; No sir. 1 Like |
Business / Re: Why Most Uneducated People Are More Successful In Business - Johnspeak Uwangue by EZEIGBO1OFIMO: 10:22pm On Dec 18, 2017 |
omohayek:if only NL had a give gold option like reddit, I would give you a billion of them. 5 Likes |
Celebrities / Re: Must See! Petience Ozokwo Blasted For Living A Double Lifestyle!! by EZEIGBO1OFIMO: 8:00pm On Dec 16, 2017 |
safarigirl:you haff develop bad mouth pinish |
Travel / Re: General U.s.a (student) Visa Enquiries-part 13 by EZEIGBO1OFIMO: 7:55pm On Dec 16, 2017 |
ekiee:This is why twoods hammers that you plan and not just waka go amelika 1. As an international Student, you're entitled to 20 hours per week of work, on Campus; Anything outside this is illegal, and may earn you persona non grata status by Department of Homeland Security. Most Jobs on campus are minimum wage. So, it is IMPOSSIBLE to save $3K a month from minimum wage campus jobs 2. FIU is a school whose total endowment is not enough to fund one Lab at MIT , so I highly doubt if they have scholarship packages. If you can get a Co-signer, there may be some loan packages you can obtain, but Federal Aid is off limits. The only available option Right Now, Is to resume and immediately transfer to a dirt cheap community college ( it is fully legal to do so) and transfer your i-20. If you had some Mad ass coding skills, all these advise wouldn't have been necessary; just 3-4 freelance jobs would fetch you $4K +. . The life of an undocumented immigrant is a hard one sir 9 Likes 1 Share |
Travel / Re: General U.s.a (student) Visa Enquiries-part 13 by EZEIGBO1OFIMO: 11:45am On Dec 15, 2017 |
k199192:Its Christmas, the season to be jolly |
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