This is sad, 25 years

kingxsamz:
When people fall sick they pray to be well, when people are hungry or poor, they pray for food and wealth, when people want to write an exam or go for an interview, they pray. When people have cancer, HIV, Coronavirus, they pray for it to disappear. But when someone looses his/her legs or hands in an accident, nobody prays for the hands or legs to grow back because they know that God cannot do that one.
Make una dey deceive una sef.

Pastor Chris Okafor healed bulgy arm that year now

Vader92:


Yeah I am, could I send you a dm?

Yes

Neeta02:
Mtn network is strong here oh. I’ve tried chrome on my system & safari on my iPhone all to no avail, even at midnight too. Dunno what to do again

This thing happened to me on Monday. I had to use office network on my laptop. Try and use another network like WiFi or LAN. Use laptop

Vader92:


Are youu going to UIUC?

Yes. What of you?

HoluwadareY:


Yes. What about you?

Yes. Which school group did you get that from?

HoluwadareY:
This is a transcript from one of my school groups from a guy in India. The lesson here, as people start their interviews next month, is to b as detailed as possible in their transcripts(just like this India guy). Please let us avoid the "i answered" response. Thanks

Visa Interview Experience
Location: Kolkata
Date: 30th September, 2020
Time Slot: 9:00 am
In Time: 8:55 am
Out Time: 9:05 am
Status: Approved

Visa officer: An American lady in her mid 30s
Me: Good Morning Officer

VO: Good Morning. Please use the sanitizer and place your right hand fingers on the Biometrics Scanner
( I did as I was asked)

VO: Please pass me your passport and I-20 ( She simultaneously asked me to remove my facemask for verification )

VO: Why this stream ? ( I am going for MS in Statistics )

Me: Officer I have been working as a Data Analyst for last 5.5 years. I feel like I lack foundational Skills in Statistics which is a core aspect of my job. I am bridging that gap by pursuing this course

VO: What all places have you worked at ?

Me: Officer I started my career as a decision scientist in Mu Sigma based out of Bangalore. After spending 3 years there I switched jobs and I am currently work for a Company named Epsilon registered as Conversant Softwares and Campaign management solutions ( I added the last part so that it might be easier for her to verify that bit of detail if she was doing so in the background )

VO: Very good. How many courses did you apply to?

Me: Officer I applied to 7 courses in total. I got admitted to 3 and rejected in 4

VO: What were your admits ?

Me: Officer I got admitted to the following: University Illinois Urbana Champaign, University of Texas at Dallas, Illinois Institute of Technology Chicago

VO: Great. How are you funding your education ?

Me: Officer I am self funding my education. I have an education loan of around xx USD from Prodigy Finance. I will be supplmenting it with my own saving worth xx USD and my father has agreed to pitch in xx USD ( total amount that I told was close to 1.5 time the amount mentioned in my I-20 )

VO: What are your plans after education ?

Me : Officer I plan to work as a Data Scientist in the Pharma Sector.

VO: Why Pharma Sector ?

Me: Officer with the current situation that is going on I feel that we need a lot of good people working in the Pharma Sector and try to reduce administrative load on our healthcare workers. Also there is a lot of work to be done in optimizing the global supply chain and manufacturing of medicinal drugs

VO: Great. What does your father do ?

Me: He works with the police department of Jharkhand State government

VO: Is he an IPS ?

Me: No officer. He is an Inspector

VO: what is his yearly income ?

Me: His gross salary ranges between xx-xx lakhs INR

VO: Did you show any collateral for the loan ?

Me: No officer I did not have to show any collateral for the loan

VO : Any additional savings that you have ?

Me: officer I have xx lakhs of non liquid assets in terms of Public Provident Fund and xx lakhs worth of immovable property located in my hometown ( I was not audible here, she double checked the number with me. So I had to repeat the second number again)

VO: Great. Will you be traveling anywhere in the next 15 days ?

Me: No officer

VO: Are you aware of the quarantine rules when you arrive in the US ?

Me: Yes officer. I know that I have to quarantine for 14 days on my arrival into the US

VO: Where will you be quarantined ?

Me: Officer I have a friend working in the US. I will be quarantining at his place (this was the same guy I had mentioned in my DS-160 as my POC in the US) .

VO : What does your friend do ?

Me: He is working as a Data Analyst in Capital One

VO: Okay. I am approving your visa. Have a good day

Me: Thanks. Have a good day ahead


(Things which help in F1 Visa Interview:

1) Being very objective and to the point in your answers
2) Know your financial numbers in and out
3) Have a coherent story
4) Do not lie
5) Be confident
6) Greet the officer when you come for the interview and greet him/her before leaving no matter what the result is
)

Are you going to UIUC?

kingxsamz:


How that one take concern me?
Find Visa na.
Even if you can't do paranormal stuff, you'll be paid $5k for bringing someone who can.
Don't miss this.

He/she can fly supernaturally to Los Angeles na, since JuJu is real

kingxsamz:


Are you not a Christian?
Don't you believe in miracles?
The question was meant for all of you.
So, why are you dodging and diverting?

Were you expecting an answer before?

abdullahi45:


Yeah, sex isn't illegal, but premarital or extramarital sex is. Let me quote your Bible for you.

My bible?

Sex isn't illegal

Fine girls dey there

Raise the dead

Did they ask you before the offer if you have finished nysc?

If they didn't, tell them you've not finished but you'll soon complete it by November. The main thing is that they make sure their staff have nysc certificates, which you'll soon have.

Don't ever submit a fake document

Queenlovely:
19 years ago, I drowned when our boat capsized. we were traveling from portharcourt to Bonny for train 2 project, my father just bought an oil block, we were going for inspection

God saved my life that day, now the finima airstrip is what I use

You drowned 19 years ago? Are you a ghost?

Where's Yoruba creation myth? Obatala, Orunmila and the chicken.

Predstan:


Not all schools are going for Hybrid. Some schools are going 100% online. Havard for example

I didn't say all.

And Havard isn't going 100% online. Some graduate colleges will still have in person option. Only the undergraduate students are 100% online.

Predstan:

So how do you intend to attend in-person classes.

HYBRID. You have choice between in person and online. More courses options for in person though

Predstan:


If schools does not offer any classes online. How do you intend to attend online classes?

Many schools are offering online classes.

Nicerazor:
...

This is serious. That means international students will find all ways to attend in person classes even if it's not safe

Friedpotato:

There are persons that were not serious/studious throughout their undergraduate years. But on deciding to go to graduate school prepared well and scored high in the GRE. They later went on to do well in graduate school.

This hardly ever happens

Persecution of night clubs, ashawo houses, bars, mosque, shrines etc

Admitwithschola:


I'm not surprised by your account, which can be correct. As is clear from my previous posts, engineering boys and medical boys do relatively better on this test. If you read my previous epistles, that should be clear to you - so there won't be a need to repeat same point. Your friends fall into the elite group of Nigerians, but you understandably can't use them as a reflection of the state of GRE (and GMAT) in Africa (Nigeria in this case).

I think it's better to provide solid data than give anecdotal evidence (i.e. my friends got this, your friend got that). So, instead of relying on anecdotal evidence of 4 or even 10 people, maybe I will put the stats here for all to see.

https://www.prepscholar.com/gre/blog/average-gre-scores/
https://www.ets.org/s/gre/pdf/snapshot_test_taker_data_2018.pdf

Do Ctrl+F + Nigeria, Ghana, etc, it's sad all round.

So, there is more evidence that, in general, 320+ is more unusual than otherwise. If you have a solid argument that shows counters this, I am happy to hear. Of course, averages do not tell all the story and if we control for fields, then the score may be much less unusual for engineering (and medical guys if they choose to do it) - as is clear from my previous posts. Still, we can only know this if we know how engineering boys/girls perform in aggregate.

And by the way, if you have friends who are writing in August and beyond, we are offering full GRE refund to anyone who scores 330+, half refund to someone who scores 325+. This is our little way to try to encourage the few people that we can and hopefully take Nigeria's average GRE score from the current embarrassing level to something more respectable. So since all the people you know are scoring at these levels, maybe you can have them reach out to us with scores from August and beyond - http://baumtenpers.com/

So, to summarize, while it is possible that a score of 320+ is less unusual for an engineering (and medical) grad in Nigeria, the data from ETS shows that a score of 320+ in Nigeria is not a usual score. If anyone disagrees, please debate with real data, not anecdotal evidence. Note, I am not trying to knock down your 'hozu', I am just trying to create awareness and urge those taking the tests to really put in hours and do their best and blast high scores. The situation is even much worse for GMAT, but that's an issue for another day.

I get your point.

But saying something is unusual isn't the same as average. In the report you posted, no country as an average of 320, even USA, China, India and UK average are all less than that. US has 150.2 in quantitative reasoning and 152.6 in verbal (even as native speakers). The average total score will be 302.8 you can't then say most people score 302 in the US.

Nigeria may have a low average score, but that doesn't mean high score is unusual. If you are in engineering as you said, 320+ won't be unusual. Except you want to apply to unknown schools for STEM.

Friedpotato:
abi o.

By the way, did all your friends get full funding too?

Only one didn't get. Another one didn't apply though.

Admitwithschola:


It is unusual (less so for engineering and medical guys/girls, but more unusual for others). I believe you smart enough, so I will be objective with you.


First, go through this whole thread. Tell us how many Nigerians have 320+ in GRE. If you say there is nothing unusual, then your answer should be around 10% or more.

Go and look at ETS GRE analysis, historical analysis of GRE scores by country. The mean and standard deviation will tell you something. Compare that to China and other countries, then throw away pride and come back here to report to those who seem to be ignorant of this.

To reiterate, based on past scores, it is unusual to see a Nigerian score 320+. Yes, we always want to claim we sabi, but this is a sad part that we need to acknowledge and improve on. By Nigerian, I mean Nigerian who did primary, secondary and university in Nigeria. I don't mean outside of Nigeria as I know several who did undergrad education in the US and have no problem smashing GRE.

320+ isn't unusual. It depends on your field and schools you're targeting. All my 4 friends that we wrote last year scored 320+. If you want to apply to a 2nd tier engineering school (Georgia tech, UIUC, Purdue etc), you need at least 320 to be in safe zone.

CodeTemplar:
Diseases without symptoms right? Professor of speculation.

I'm not speculating. It's science. That's why you always fill family history section in any hospital form you fill. It's to know earlier any form of disease a person can develop due to his/her family history. It's just that many African homes and hospitals don't keep record of these things. Some people's parents die "mysteriously", instead of investigating to know what happened, many blame it on evil spirit and village people and they quickly bury the dead.

Even disease with symptoms, some will still believe it's village people or generational curse.

Besides, in earlier centuries, many believe diseases like small pox, plagues, congenital diseases and the likes are from angry gods punishing them for their sins.

All these beliefs are what was imported from traditional Africa religion. If people are dying early in a family, do a proper diagnosis and investigation. Don't conclude hastily it's spiritual.

Joagbaje:


The price is paid , the ticket is bought. All should pick theirs

Which ticket? Did anybody pick ticket for Adam's sin?

Joagbaje:


Yes

Therefore, all men are saved. Everyone is going to heaven.

CodeTemplar:
Like people dying at certain age in families right? talk another one abeg.

Hereditary disease, people living in the same environment, or people doing the same work (e.g factory workers, miners etc ). Many things can cause family members dying at a certain age.

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