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la easy:
House pls i am nu in the house n i will like yu guys to put me tru all wat i need to know abt travelling n studying abroad U.S.A TO BE SPECIFIC THANKS

cezeozue:
I wasn't under strict timelines at the time I sent them so I used post office for them all.

cezeozue:
About application fee payment, Visa from Zenith (both from the Cash Domiciliary account and Buxz) sufficed for most schools but for the schools on the Applyweb network (MIT, Stanford, Princeton, ETH Zurich etc), the Visa cards did not work. In fact, I had to transfer money to a cousin in the US (I paid $50 in charges for that) to help out with the Applyweb schools.

Another one that stressed me was TU Delft (I applied after November 1 and was required to pay the fees). Unfortunately, they required that I transfer the money to a bank account in the Netherlands, I tried bank transfer from GTB but they said they weren't transferring euros at the time. I then looked at a couple of online services (Xoom, Mukuru) and tried Mukuru. After wasting my time, Mukuru refused to effect the payment. They had issues with me using a prepaid card and refunded my money shortly after. Any more ideas anyone?

My friend had 800 in his GRE Quantitative and 780 in his GRE verbal. He also has a 2.1 (with a very high GPA) from UNN.

SCYLLA:
It was crazy as I missed my flight to abuja(thanks to pdp Convention) then had to take the one for the day I was writing my exam, I managed to reach there 30 mins to my exam time and heard the silly server  crashed and a workstation was converted to the server needless to say I did not start until 4 hours later and it was apparent I would miss my evening flight back out of Abuja and I spent the time trying to get Aero to rebook my flight, I was mentally physically and emotionally exhausted when I started the exam. So my advice to you, make sure you get to your exam center way way before the time and remain relaxed if you can.

Finally wrote my GRE and got 1220, 700Q and 520V. I hope this would be enough to get something good, but for now I am graduating from this thread to the schools and admission thread. I wish the rest of you luck.

Cheers.

Jarus:
This Akala is very dumb. How can he be associating Jonathan with JEGA. This is height of stupidity. I'm sure Jega and even GEJ himself will not be happy with this.
What a dumb statement from a governor. Where is INEC independence when you are abbreviating GEJ's name to mean Jega in an open campaign like this.
OMG, Akala is a fool

SEFAGO:
hmm

Most of my knowledge of schools is based on the Northeast and West Coast - remember the US is a huge country, but I know Oklahoma and Louisiana are great places for the oil industry so it would make sense that they would be great for petroleum engineering. However very few state schools offer TA or RA to international students. I havent heard of anyone getting into a doctoral program without funding and I would not encourage anyone to pay for a PhD but . . . if thats what you want to do then . . . but what are your other options?

Yeah true. Actually the most important factors has always been recommendations/ how prestigious your undergraduate is (prestige according to professors lol which tends to be weird) and research for people who did their undergrad in the US. For people who studied in the UK or Nigeria they would usually use your GPA/Class and GRE since research is not overly encouraged at the undergraduate level. Their assumption is that high aptitude equals to good research skills.

Brilliant and correct. Usually the best engineering schools have always been located in areas where there is significant engineering activity due to ties with industry. Areas like California have the best engineering schools in the world- USC, Caltech, Berkeley and Stanford. Texas has Austin, TAMU and Rice. Michigan which revolutionized the automobile industry has Umich which is great for mechanical.

@ kommentator

Why exactly do you want to do a masters in that subject- like whats your ultimate goal after having a degree in that field?

Consultant:
American schools will typically ask you for your GPA (our class of degree doesn't really mean much here). That being said, most will still require you to have a GPA of 3.0/4.0, which does translate into a 2.1. What you can do is aim for a very high score in your GRE. Then when you fill out your applications, make sure you use the extra space they provide for additional information to provide an expalnantion for why your GPA is not a true reflection of your academic ability. With good essays, and recommendations as well, admission to a good school is definitely possible with a 2.2.

Mysp200845:
Let assuming d list refused 2 release till d day UTME registration closed, I mean jan. 29th 2010. And few days later it pasted nd u find your name dere. And u are not reg 4 UTME, that means he/she av already loss admition. So am using dis opportunity to advice u to reg 4 it now b4 it late. Pls LITTLEY paste your mail here as so as to more connected. Thanx in advance.
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Guy, do you want to blow up Nairaland for us?? This is pathetic.

chrisical:
Keep the fingers apart coz it is not true

I thought as much