[quote author=horlahsunbo225 post=92529308][/quote] this looks like a list for Graduate admission

Phenomenalopeye:
Pls I need 3 safeties for undergrad admission, esp schools that offer full ride scholarship to intl students, and does not need evaluation from WES.

also is University of Missouri safe?

you don't want to take the SAT, you don't want to evaluate.

In this journey, some commitments and sacrifices ought to be made. Cc: Drdoom3 can tell you that because this is his second year of application.

I think the SAT is still open this year, to have a shot at those big schools you mention or even smaller schools, please take the SAT. If you're planning to apply to HBCUs, you can target the ones that don't need evaluation but to be on the safest side, evaluate. Because you might find out that they issue full ride with 1100 SAT and 3.5 GPA. Someone with that stats will get it but you with 1500 and 3.9 unevaluated GPA won't get it.

Make some investments. You can't expect to have everything free and rely on luck. It might work but if you can increase your chances, please do.

RemarkableMind:

Wait, so you mean a student must write GRE to get visa?
Last year alone some students on this thread got approved their visa without GRE because their course did not require it.
Check transcripts from thread 14

Behave yourself responsibly so you don't get banned. Justwise can delete any useless post. he removed my posts too. Behave okay?

taking standardized tests increases your chances of getting a VISA against someone who didn't take. It proves to the V.O that you are at least a bit serious about studying in the US. But it is no determinant whether you'd get a VISA or not. I've also read transcripts here where V.O denied people because they've not taken any standardized tests so it's just good to be on the safer side.

adelawry:
Hello,

Pls if you got admitted into University of Louisiana at Lafayette for Fall 2020.

Kindly send a PM.

I got admitted with Funding and my supervisor who is also the graduate coordinator has just mailed to confirm my visa and flight status on or before 3rd August else my assistantship would be transferred to another student as class commences 17th August.

I’m nonplussed at the moment. I have mailed the office of international students of my school and they directed me to the guidelines for new students on their website where I read - I can keep my tuition waiver while outside the US but not my graduate assistantship. This made me relaxed a little until I got the mail from the coordinator this morning. The problem now is the RA I got came with tuition waiver.
I don’t know what to say to the coordinator and I have to respond. I’ve never been more confused.

I think what's best is that you should send passionate emails to your GC.

Beg them if there's a way they can offer you the assistanship in spring or fall 21, depending on when you're choosing. Tomorrow is August 3 so you have a lot of emailing/calling to do.

Good luck.

TheNoble007:


You also do not tell me not to quote you as I deem fit. By the way, I don't even know the moniker in person.The humble will not spurn correction. He who rejects correction, shall abide in the assembly of shadows. Goodluck on your US journey..... You will learn. Bye

It's not about rejecting correction or not. Some people have not spent much time on nairaland so they don't know lagosismyhome and in this case are more objective than me and you.

I joined NL in 2013. I have seen how much lagosismyhome has contributed greatly to this thread in wisdom, advice and cash. Even the other gurus are not as frequent here as she is here again. And because I know her, that's why I didn't attack her but try to understand where she's coming from.

The best persons that would tell things objectively are people that don't know her. This is a faceless forum, you can't assume everybody is below you or a nobody. In correcting him, why didn't you PM him like you suggested he should do to lagosismyhome? Because you probably felt he's not worth it or there's no way he'd be older than her or more respectable.

If anybody has anything against anybody's stance or opinion here, he or she should try to state it out (albeit refraining from insults unless when necessary). We don't go in the DM's with the rest people I don't see why she should be an exception, especially when these people don't know her.

Mrshape:


I have prepared students for this exam, I see no big deal in it. I am surprised at the way you guys glorify the exam here.
Normal ssce questions but you just need some tactics to save time.
That's all.

I was just asking if it is can enable someone work in the US , which someone has already given me an answer to it.

Passing the exam is no big deal,

If you have prepared students for this exam then that's as good as you preparing for it already.

The way you sounded before was like an overconfident newbie that believes solely in his wit and not adequate preparation.

Mrshape:


Don't use yourself to compare others.
you see that maths I won't fail a question and it won't take me up to 70% of the time allocated to it. , only the English aspect that might reduce my mark.
It was difficult for you does not mean it will be difficult for others.

And what is fresh about a secondary school brain??.
Make your point without dragging someone down.

you're very funny. Wit alone would not make you ace SAT. Only Adequate preparation would make you ace it. You have to be familiar with their pattern and you have to learn time management.

If you write the exam exactly the way you're saying now, you won't get up to 1200.

Abeg, who has ever gone through the process of getting an ITIN before?

Abeg I'd need your help

kastgeraldino:
Hence, new (incoming) students that are starting virtually this fall won't be eligible for OPT et al, unless if the rules change. If I remember you have to be physically present in the US for about 9 months or so before you can be eligible for OPT; this implies resuming in the fall.

this is a rule I believe would still be challenged. Whether the student will win or not is what I don't know. Because imagine those guys from first world countries paying $50k for tuition in different schools and you're saying they're not eligible for OPT for Corona that's entirely not their fault. This is a rule that can change anytime, more so with the hopeful change of power in November (God abeg)

Regardless, for Grad students. Deferring would be better if that option is available. Because as it stands that's the rule and that's what we should work with.


And for clarification abeg.. this OPT stuff, is it that the person would not be eligible for this coming Summer's internship opportunity or won't be eligible for post graduation work OPT?

RemarkableMind:

You can try ECE for your evaluation. Send all documents with it. ECE only need WAEC scratchcard and your details.

don't try ECE, they will suck your GPA. Unless you don't need a high GPA for the admission and or scholarship.

That was how I wasted 90K to do evaluation. WES gave me 3.1 using their calculator, ECE gave me 2.5.

The thing about ECE is just that it's fast, everything was done within a week.

If you don't really need the GPA and your WAEC grades are high. You can use it.

slimmy2005:
We don’t need to see who is the foolish one here. The Nigerian embassy can post whatever they want. The president decides what happens. Trump decides when the embassy opens and which one opens.

This is not democrat rule, this is Trump’s America. He doesn’t freaking care about you wimps.

The fact that you think you matter is laughable. Even citizens willing to bring their husbands to the country were suspended from such.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nytimes.com/2020/07/07/us/student-visas-coronavirus.amp.html

Trump doesn’t fucking care about you. If the school doesn’t go in-class, you are going to them embassy to receive your rejection letter.

Keep fanning your emotions. There is no US for you this 2020. I’ll be back to remind you. The earlier you accept it the better for your emotions.

if you were smart and had little modicum of sense in you, you will know that the USCIS has since started a phased resumption of embassy due to conditions in each countries and this has nothing to do with Trump. Trump's focus in winning re-election, not keeping tabs on the 196 countries to see which and which he'd stifle. Every country that has gotten this under control has opened embassy, even south Korea.

If your school doesn't go in-class, then there's not need going to the embassy. That's a known fact and has nothing to do with the incessant gobbledegook you constantly spew.

And how does citizens bringing their spouses affects F1 VISA that brings $41B. The two statements are unconnected, it's evident you're a hopeless troll.

It's more logical to say embassies might not open this year because cases in Nigeria might keep rising and not be kept under control, but to say they'd open and not attend to F-1 VISA is nothing but utter stupidity.

slimmy2005:
Nigeria wasn’t included in their publication.

They are not opening anytime soon and if they open, F-1 won’t be their priority. Not in this COVID period.

The present administration do not want you around. They had to fight for those that are already in here for them to be able to stay while taking classes online.

You are not coming to US this 2020, the earlier you realize this, the better for you.

the Nigerian embassy itself specifically made the announcement themselves. If embassy opens F-1 would be their priority and to say otherwise is dimwitted and baseless.

They don't want new F-1 students but embassy opened in other countries where COVID-19 has been controlled?. F-1 students bring $41Billion yearly to the US, so it sure is a top priority.

Quit this clownery. I have not seen you contribute any meaningful thing to this thread at all. You don't answer when people have questions. But when anyone talks about embassy opening that's when you'd come and say US has banned F1 VISA.

The stupidity.

slimmy2005:
Nobody wants Americans in their country at this moment. It’s a mess over here. Everyone is moving mad with so many conspiracy BS.

Politicians being too desperate to salvage the economy.

Forget about 2020. The embassy has a lot of backlogs. When they open, they might not even attend to any F-1 student till 2021.

Lol how can you say they would open and not attend to F-1 students? Time and Time again, they've stated repeatedly that they would prioritize F-1 students. In the countries that have opened, that's what they've done. F, M and J.

It's like you're intentionally trying to rile incoming students and that's unwarranted

greenskittles:
I don't even know why I'm still following this topic, that was how I joined a spin-off WhatsApp group chat from here and was laughed at when I said I wanted to go to Stanford. Today we had a meeting with the international center and they made us know that there's still a top level push by executives of a coalition of schools to ensure visa processing goes through. Nobody's stupid, people have made their own personal worst case scenario plans, but hoping for the best case scenario is always greeted with mockery here.
Fyi, they made us know that one of the responses they got was that a lot of staff left their posts when the crisis hit, so embassies are understaffed. The Schengen region has a ban on US citizens so there's no way they'll be sending officials there right now, and a lot of countries haven't opened their airspace. These were some of the things my school officials talked about today and I don't see the crime in hoping things work out even when I've prepared for alternative scenarios. I think I'm done with this thread, a lot of Nigerians are toxic people- don't know if it's the country that made them this way. A while back a lovely man dedicated to Nigerians' success was trying to promote academic excellence here, offering scholastic assistance and financial aid, and they derailed and basically almost tried to rubbish the noble work he was here to do, even saying that standardized test are meaningless and argued to the point that they were ready to die on that hill. Anyway I'm probably not getting the information I need from here and I've shared what I think I can, I hope my posts help people but I've had enough. Good luck to everyone.

P.s, if I'm mentioned here I'll probably not respond.

if you always take decisions based on how humans respond to you and not how you choose to take it, you would end up making bad life decisions.

You overlooked all the info you've gained on this thread, all the persons that had taken out time to help and all the remaining good on this thread. Instead you choose to focus on people that don't say what you want them to say and used it as a basis to decide to quit?. That's not cool bro.

Everybody has had one or two times where people have bashed them or insulted their opinions, nobody too vex, every body shake body move on.

And these other persons you're hating, in truth are just being practical. You're using emotions, they are using facts. Optimism is good and everyone should be optimistic. But ask yourself as it stands, out of a 100% , what's the percentage that embassy would open?

And if your school is making plans for you then why should you be angry instead of being happy? You even have more hope more than the rest of us. Why should what they say affect your optimism?

greenskittles:

Why exactly is this funny to you?

TBH, kinda funny tho

Kimzylove:
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Friedpotato, did you use any agency or you did this yourself?

no, I did it myself.

Mrshape:



thanks for the information.
Then I take advantage of the system by applying for a scholarship that will only be sufficient for my tuition but not feeding and accommodation
Then I can use the feeding and accommodation as a basics for applying to work outside campus.

As for the studies don't bother about it whether I read or not I will pass excellently.

I just need something to get out of this country legally, I believe that 40hour-Week job will even pay more than one of the most lucrative jobs in Nigeria.

Brother, you'd make much more from focusing on your studies than doing off-campus work when you don't really need it.

Do you know why Nigerians do better than Mexicans despite both being hustlers? According to what I read somewhere, don't know how genuine it is. It is because while a Mexican is comfortable working a job for 2 years, his Nigerian counterpart starting at the same time with him would be looking for certifications and extra skills to climb up the ladder and earn more.

My point is, if you can get a full ride, focus on the school, read and get a stellar GPA, apply for conferences and external scholarships to build yourself, take extra online courses, if you're going for biology or anything in STEM, try to know a bit of coding even if it's HTML and CSS. There might be on campus jobs for 20hrs/week, this in addition to your full ride is good money. Build yourself to be employable after college. If you do this, it's better than stressing yourself working off campus when you don't really need to do so.

Look at life after that 4 years in college. If you're getting a full ride, I don't see why you would so much want to still work ilegally or say it's full tuition you want and not a full ride.

wamiikechukwu:


She said I should find schools in the US and apply so that they will follow it up for me.

I don't really know the procedures

Okay. If you're an A+ student you can try to apply to the Ivy leagues (havard, Yale, brown) and the likes.

If you're an A student, look at schools like Washington and Lee, Franklin and Marshall, Oberlin college , emory, north western and the likes.

if you're a B student, you can apply to honors college of mcneese state, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville, university of Arkansas little rock, Howard University and Morehouse college.

If you're a C student you can just look at HBCUs that give automatic Scholarships when you meet their criteria. Schools like Norfolk state, alcorn state, mississipi valley state, Alabama state, Shaw university etc, they're the easiest to get scholarships.

But if you're looking for just straight Admission without focus on scholarships, just apply to HBCUs in general, you'd get your decision in 2 weeks +.

Mrshape:
Please can I use a student visa to work in the US
maybe get a SAT score of 1500.
Get some funding.
But on arrival I will give little attention to school and more to hustle?

How possible it is?

working in the US on F1 VISA is illegal. It's only legal when you're doing internship in the summer and when you work on campus (20hrs/week) jobs.

Additionally, after your 1 year in college. If you can demonstrate financial hardship, prove to them that your sponsor is dead or can't provide you with funds again. You might be allowed to work off campus legally on F1 VISA for 40hrs/week.

But since you're looking for a full ride, you would not meet the last criteria because there would be no basis for "financial hardship".

And to keep your scholarship, focusing on your studies should be Paramount, not work.

wamiikechukwu:
Hello guys.

I want to apologize about the question I want to ask, I know if I do an intensive research I would get my answers but I just need to get responses quicker.

I have a family member in the US that has been asking me to find out about schools in the US and report back.

But I have been reluctant to since I have no knowledge about the schooling in US and visa related stuff.

So guys please what's the procedure to school in the US.

Note:

I want to go for BSc as I am having issues rounding up my BSc in Nigeria here.

what did he specifically tell you to find out about them?

Cassidyice:


Please I need an answer from anyone

alot of people here did BSc for undergraduate so that might be why you've not been answered. A lot of people have gone through this process in previous threads so you can try to search. You'd see a lot of references. From what I know, not all schools accepts HND and you would need WES evaluation.

You'd need to do a lot of searching, mostly on Nairaland, because I believe this is the best website to get answers to your situation.

Paragontek:
Please, who knows how someone who already has a visa can travel from other neighboring countries? Since international flight is still banned here.

there was someone that did it few threads back. Just check.

IrishCrown:
Hello
I want to confirmation on this. If I defer my admission, will my sevis ID on my 1-20 be the same as the former one? As I have paid the sevis fee based on the former sevis ID.

Please revert promptly. Thank you.

defer to when?

When I was issued my I-20 and paid the SEVIS fee. The new I-20 I was issued to include the "hybrid class" stuff, bore the same SEVIS ID. Even a previous one I was re-issued to indicate a change in resumption date, still bore the same SEVIS ID. If you're deferring to spring, I think the only thing that would change would be your program start date but I don't know about Fall 2021. Ultimately, I think you should just ask your school.

Oreoluwamipo:
Hi guys , I'm new here .. Please does is make sense to apply into a college after a Bsc degree over here ? I await your response (s) , thanks.

to better understand your stance. Provide answers to this.
1. Why do you want another bachelors degree?
2. What is your CGPA?
3. How old are you?
4. Are you anticipating a change in career?
5. When did you finish your first BSc degree?
6. Are you looking for funding or you have a sponsor?

Answer this first, it'll help make people give better suggestions.

Schrodinger1:
Good news guys!

The Lagos state Commissioner for Health, Prof. Akin Abayomi has disclosed that COVID-19 cases are likely to peak in the month of August.

He said; “Based on postulations, COVID-19 cases are like to peak next month; we are hoping it peaks soon and the curve eventually gets flattened.”

Lagos actually has about 70% of the cases and if this happens, then other states might follow soon.

lol, I don't trust Nigeria's statistics especially when they're not doing anything to curb it.

kastgeraldino:
No you can't. You apply for a visa from your home country. If he plans to travel, that means he already has a visa.

wait. So if as a student in the US I get selected for an exchange program in Spain.

Would I have to come back to Nigeria to apply for a Spain Schengen visa or I can just go to the Spanish embassy in US.

mvem:
No one is disputing that. I am only highlighting the fact that death counts do have a discrepancy which have been disputed so many times...Like I said go research how deaths are counted and you will realize not all confirmed positive cases but also probable cases are counted as deaths by Covid

I'm not disputing this also. I've read personal accounts on it. Just that this "miscalculations" is not as much as it is being pushed by Trump supporters/right wing/anti-maskers. The agenda of pushing it is to try to discredit the efficacy of masks in combating Coronavirus, claiming it's not as worse as the media is painting it.

mvem:


Do you know probable deaths are added as actual covid deaths. This is no conspiracy. Go research how Covid deaths are counted. Probable deaths are added, that's those that never even tested positive but they felt they had Covid. Even someone dying of an unrelated thing but tested positive initially will be added as covid death.

Check these links on some discrepancies on counting

https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/499085-cdc-acknowledges-mixing-up-coronavirus-testing-data

https://www.beckershospitalreview.com/data-analytics/florida-covid-19-fatalities-data-included-man-who-died-in-motorcycle-accident.html

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-07-02/error-led-to-overcount-of-coronavirus-testing-in-orange-county%3f_amp=true

Check this link out below...its on UK

https://f7td5.app./d3eGpb

This is UK government officially saying they will have to investigate how deaths are counted after many discrepancies. I am no conspiracy theorist but many things dont add up if you check them well

how come about most ICU's of hospitals in Florida are full?

electromagnito:
Hi guys, just some contribution, although I have made up my mind to stick to my PhD here in France while I am yet to reject my PhD offer at University of Hawai'i, one of the reason I won't be going to the US is the Covid-19 brouhaha, I still talk to my supervisor and he is not sure if embassy will even open for spring 2021 talk more fall 2020, we still talked this morning and he was saying if it may need, he will need to talk to the funding society ACS to push my PhD to fall 2021 can you imagine, lol although I won't be going to the US anyway, I am not that desperate, so I will stick to my PhD here in France. So. What I want to conclude from this is that, try looking for something to keep you busy because the embassy is not going to open anytime soon not for Nigeria with the way our government is playing politics with Covid-19, EU ban Americans for now, while Americans did same, so I believe US will replicate same to African country if they manage to beat their curve down. Stay blessed guys

largely true. With the way our government is handling this COVID-19, the numbers are bound to keep skyrocketing though i doubt the efficacy of the testing kits.

On the brighter side. We're close to getting a vaccine is few months.

sheke01:


Point of correction. CDC never agreed to any mistake. Main stream Republicans have gone past "denial" stage with respect to Covid. Even Trump has accepted that Covid will get much much worse. So pay no attention to Deanna Lorraine and her stupid theories and useless tweets. Anybody with a smart phone and data will tweet. let her come and explain why ICU beds have maxed out in most parts of Florida.

We should learn to do more research and evaluate what we hear. Don't just accept anything you hear as the truth just because it aligns with your optimism

Lol. Anyone closely following the whole Coronavirus hullabaloo in the US would know never to trust Trump's personal people.

Picricchem:



You have said it right brother. God bless you.

But I don't think anyone needs to give majority of us any hope. If we can go through these up till now, I don't think we need anybody to give us any news from abroad or give us any false hope. Majority of us are not kids.

Like you said, the reality is glaringly the opposite of our hope for this Fall. But we are still hopeful and e get why.

I know how much I have spent on this hustle up to this point and I know what is at stake. So, I personally don't appreciate any words of discouragement or anyone telling me to throw my opinion away.

But then, you have to say your mind in a respectful manner.

Let us respect the opinion of those that are truly affected. If they hope, they have the right to hope. If it didn't happen, they've gat nothing to lose.

I understand that cautious advice is necessary for newbies e.g don't pay SEVIS FEES until you secure an appointment, but telling them they are deceiving themselves or they are selfish, is not a good advice now.

God will bless you my brother. Na everybody know wetin e don do to reach this point. I know how much I borrow for one process or the other to get what I want.

You can't just dismiss it as if it's not important because you're not in their shoes.

Let those that want to hope, hope.