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oluphy:
nope OAU

oh awesome... were u funded

oluphy:
Hello guys..... am a daily "reader" but hardly comment.... Got my visa approved on Monday... Thanks to monsier2016 and jenivah64 for the mock interviews... and also sirRiddy, fizzle and th other guys from the GRE thread... The beauty of this thread is it helps u streamline ur answers right from the application to the interview proper. Great job guys
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VO went straight to business, was her first applicant.
VO: How did u hear about texas a & M University, kingsville
Me: it was initially referred to me by a colleague whr I currently intern. I contacted the grad cord Dr Ali and inquired, also researched further on the faculty members and was impressed with thr high industrial experience
VO: How many schs did u apply to
Me: 3
VO: namely
Me: tamuk. LSU and purdue uni
VO: hw many admits
Me: 2, LSU and Tamuk
VO: so why did you choose TAMUK over LSU
Me: Had some1 that graduated from TAMUK, his referral made it easy
VO: took an test
Me: yes, GRE
VO: your score
Me: 307, 147v 160Q
VO: what was your UG?
Me: Chemical Engr
VO: Your masters will b in?
Me: Chemical Engineerins also
VO: when did you graduate?
Me: Feb 2015
VO: who's your sponsor?
Me: My uncle
VO: what does he do?
Me: He's a realtor, deal in the construction and selling of housing units and office complexes
VO: your visa ha been approved.
Was just numb, No expression, was d first to get approval on Monday, Be smart when answering and prepare well, give good short answers, Dont lie, cos the memory wldnt be thr, u will Bleep up. Rather build the real answers smartly. By the way, I wasn't this fluent, but I have ds belief " so far she no fit flog me, I go talk my own".... Thanks... Any other person heading to TAMUK?

sorry o, did finish from lautech?

donxab:
I just created a whatsapp group for our GRE "Filial generation" you can all indicate interested to be add to the whatsapp group!
Let's go there!
Thanks

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cutemorgan:
I know this is long overdue, But I guess it's better late than never. I believe everyone here is familiar with the process already, but you never can tell who will find this piece useful.
I graduated from University in 2012 with a cgpa of 4.55/5.00. I was practically a novice to the USA school application process then, cos I was all about government scholarships and all (Pressid, Singa etc). For the Pressid scholarship, one can apply to any of the top 20-30 schools in the world. I preferred a US school, and that was the reason I did my GRE in December, 2014 at JKK (that was before I knew about this thread).

My GRE prep and exam
I prepared for my GRE using few materials; the ets official guide, powerprep, Kaplan gre guide (and some other practice materials I downloaded online). I registered for my GRE exam in September, 2014 so I had about 3 months to prepare. I studied for about 2hrs daily using the few guides I could lay my hands on.
On the exam day, my exam was in the form; QVQVQ (quantitative was my experimental section).I did fairly well in the quantitative section but I wasn't too convenient with my performance on the verbal. I eventually had: Q157, V147 and AW 3.5.
I got to know about this thread when I gave rewriting the GRE a thought. I also joined a GRE whatsapp group I ran into on nairaland. In the whatsapp group, we shared challenging questions, fastest approach to solving a question and other hints (I guess the facebook group should suffice).
NB I think for me to have obtained a 304 GRE score using those materials, anyone here can readily get more than 320 using the materials outlined here (you guys here are bosses, i doff my hat), and of course there’s SirRiddy and Danjaninja to always run to for hints if one hits a gridlock.

School search
Another important aspect of grad school application is the school search. Boss SirRiddy and Oga DanjaNinja have done justice to this over and over and I feel there's nothing new for me to say. The only thing I just feel I should add is that we should endeavour to go through as many school websites as possible. Going through the general website is not enough; we should also go through individual departmental websites, check for departmental entry requirements (this sometimes defers from the graduate school requirements, as it could be more stringent). We should also go through faculty researches and mail faculties who have researches that suit our interest (I know Oga Riddy talks about this a lot).
My research interest is organic synthesis. I went through departmental websites of schools, noting their entry requirements, GPA (mostly 3.0 as I considered going in directly for my phd), GRE (one has to check this carefully as some schools will recommend the subject test, optional for some and not required by others), Statement of Purpose (I had to send this out to be reviewed by some of my friends and I also sent it to some people on NL to help critique it).

Transcript
It takes my school about a week or two to process transcript, after which they will notify one for pick-up. They don't give transcript to students, they will only release the transcript to a courier agent you must have negotiated with for the delivery (we have about 3 courier agents around and it takes about 3-5 days for the courier to deliver the transcript to the school). This process varies from school to school, so I will advise we all acquaint ourselves with the transcript collection process in our schools and the estimated time of completion so that we can factor that into our planning.
SirRiddy and DanjaNinja already did justice to everything else.
I will be heading to Louisiana State University this fall by the grace of God. Although I know next to nothing about the whole application process (Oga Riddy and DanjaNinja are the bosses), I will be delighted to help whenever I can.
Thanks for everything Oga Riddy, I really appreciate boss mi

hello cute morgan... how u dey sir? I wud like to be in touch with you as we share a school in common.. please do pass across any means of contact.. thanks.

Good afternoon well distinguished nairalanders, I am writing to beg you all to assist me in lauding GUNTHER BABA. He is someone of reputable character and a well deserved friend. GUNTHER I hail o

gunther6:
@purplesummer @profx4real Congratulations, enjoy Obamaland...

@Holudarey01 @dickoflife @cutemorgan @femoalofin @borie4u My phone, laptop, money was stolen around 3am while I slept soundly, my sim retrieval just went through but I lost your numbers... You can just flash or send texts. @don4ye I'm so sorry for trolling you yesterday, you serve a living God

Haaaaaaaaaa so sorry

Holudarey01:
congrats cashglue

congrats sir, do u think a gre score 300 is enough to get funding and get admitted for an engineering PhD programme Q= 152, V= 148. Thanks.

sirRiddy:
sure you can

congrats sir, do u think a gre score 300 is enough to get funding and get admitted for an engineering PhD programme Q= 152, V= 148. Thanks.

nkiruberyl:
Hello all,

Please I need your help on the best career decision to make. I am torn between studying gas,refining and petrochemicals AND petroleum geosciences as my. Msc degree.
Help me make decisions based on relevance of each course in the Nigeria. oil and gas industry TODAY(following the recent trend of fall in crude oil price and non-functional refineries in Nigeria)

ThankS

hi nkiruberyl...I am also interested in the ips programme and plan to apply.. I see you have more detailed info.. are you on WhatsApp?

gunther6:
So after 4 rejects I got into MA Applied Economics Illinois State and PhD Economics MTSU, I applied Mid-March after receiving barrage of rejects. I was not offered funding, I was told to apply for GA/TA/RA/AA at Illinois State and to check back by 18th April at MTSU should anyone reject funding or chose to go someplace else(basically waitlisted). Moral of the story is spread your risk and apply early, I applied to only top 50 schools in my field initially and got rejected by them all. I am looking forward to hearing back from the schools regarding funding and will post updates here.



SideBar : If you want to register TOEFL, I was supposed to write one to improve my speaking scores but I could not test due to network issues. I was issued a VOUCHER by ETS. I am not upto any exam at this point and the voucher is for sale at a very good deal for a forum member. PM me

Hello hi....how do I contact you, m interested

cutemorgan:
My profile is not that hot oo boss mi. I have a 4.55/5.00 cgpa, Gre score of 304(Q157, V147 and AW 3.5), didn't write toefl cos the school waives toefl for Nigerian applicants. Just normal apps; completed the online app, sent in my official transcript from my university of undergraduate study and also requested that an official Gre copy be sent from ets. All the best boss

Thanks a lot

cutemorgan:
I am also a prospective LSU grad student. I applied for a PhD in chemistry and I was offered full tuition waiver and graduate assistantship. I got an initial acceptance letter (by email) from the department of chemistry which also notified me of my assistantship offer before I got a mail from the graduate school notifying me of same. It still reads provisional admission though cos I have to present my original degree statement (B.Sc cert. can suffice) when I resume at LSU. It will be extremely cool to have you guys around there.

are u on WhatsApp? or bbm..

cutemorgan:
I am also a prospective LSU grad student. I applied for a PhD in chemistry and I was offered full tuition waiver and graduate assistantship. I got an initial acceptance letter (by email) from the department of chemistry which also notified me of my assistantship offer before I got a mail from the graduate school notifying me of same. It still reads provisional admission though cos I have to present my original degree statement (B.Sc cert. can suffice) when I resume at LSU. It will be extremely cool to have you guys around there.

please what was ur application profile like GPA, Gre, toefl nd d likes..how did u go about the application.. wud like to apply nxt yr...since u got admitted wit funding.. thanks.

emmadeking:
Can one write GRE and TOEFL @the same time. And what will it cost to write each of the exams?

if using gtbank with paypal....gre is 61+k naira and toefl is 58+k naira as dey charge $1 = 299 naira. so total is almost 120,000 naira. paid yesterday

Jumybecks:
June and I'll be writing d exam in August God's willing.

oh I mean I would be writing in may...amen

Jumybecks:
Bro when do you intend to reg for GRE and TOEFL. I'm planning on reg soon

may and you?

Hello.. please I urgently need to how did u register for the toefl nd gre.. nd if u av an idea about their equivalent prices in naira? is it going to b cbn's rate or black market rate...? nd what if I use PayPal..?
thanks

Olomson:
Used a third party to register...TOEFL is $180 while GRE is $205....convert with current exchange rate to get Naira value.

thanks a lot, but dats wah I want to know... is it going to b cbn's rate or black market rate...? nd what if I use PayPal..?

Hello.. please how did u register for the toefl nd gre.. nd if u av an idea about their equivalent prices in naira? thanks

Olomson:
Wrote my GRE 29th February got a 310, TOEFL 106, great CGPA...chose Texas A&M college station, LSU, Uni of Oklahoma and U. Of Louisiana Lafayette plan to start mailing professors about RA/GA positions but then to spread my options because the schools I chose are competitive and my GRE score isn't much there...I need suggestions for good schools with great funding for M.sc General geology or petroleum Geoscience...Thanks.

Hello.. please how did u register for the toefl nd gre.. nd if u av an idea about their equivalent prices in naira? thanks

Dot1:
Hey guys. Is anybody attending the NSBE convention in Boston between 23rd and 27th March in Boston. Please message me so we can plan something. I have flight tickets , hotel boked and everything set already so no creeps

oga how va. I fit come? also interested in d nsbe convention..

cremeuc:
i know some schools will offer you Graduate Assistance and you would be funded through out your 2 years so far you have a 2:1 or first class. dont miss this opportunity

hello hi, please which schools offer them? thanks

viee2:
Yes. I got an invite via email today.

wow.. cool...wen is the scheduled date for it? maybe wud get mine tmrw

viee2:
Let's go Team Audit!!! @kunbit

did u get an AC invite for audit?

ProfTPE:
Hello chief, I'll just answer based on the knowledge I have. Texas A&M is a great school. Count it all joy if you get into the programme. University of Houston is pretty decent too but I'll respectfully tell you UH isn't in the same ranking with A&M. Ciao.

lol...therfore texas a&m shud b first choice then...tanx Prof

aadeyi:
Both are good choice bro but in academic ranking A&M has it more but as regards GA TA & RA, they are very very competitive because houston is known for its diverse culture thereby attracting all this book worm Asians and Indians to compete with. You must be very grounded to merit and of this funding in houston.

Nevertheless, don't be discouraged, hard work, determination and dedication can get you all you want. Best of Luck

nawa o...I go sha hustle am...tanx alot boss.

Abeg na make una answer me...I sincerely need ur advice, thanks. I plan to apply for a masters degree in subsea engineering in university of Houston or Texas A&m university... please wich is better, with respect to admission, fees, financial aid, GAs, RAs, TAs, career prospects and any other important infos.....hope to hear speedily from you guys... thanks

good evening all...I sincerely need ur advice, thanks. I plan to apply for a masters degree in subsea engineering in university of Houston or Texas A&m university... please wich is better, with respect to admission, fees, financial aid, GAs, RAs, TAs, career prospects and any other important infos.....hope to hear speedily from you guys... thanks

hello.. good evening all...I sincerely need ur advice, thanks. I plan to apply for a masters degree in subsea engineering in university of Houston or Texas A&m university... please wich is better, with respect to admission, fees, financial aid, GAs, RAs, TAs, career prospects and any other important infos.....hope to hear speedily from you guys... thanks

hello.. good evening all...I sincerely need ur advice, thanks. I plan to apply for a masters degree in subsea engineering in university of Houston or Texas A&m university... please wich is better, with respect to admission, fees, financial aid, GAs, RAs, TAs, career prospects and any other important infos.....hope to hear speedily from you guys... thanks

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