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aril:
oh ok! Thank you for the clarification

You are welcome bro.......... You owe me I carton of aloomo o.... lols

sureb0y:
Thanks to all who congratulated me... may God bless you... for those still expecting, God go do una own too o. I don't know what worked for me so I won't act like an expert on the matter but if anyone needs any advice on how "I" did "my" own, I'll be willing to help. For now, na to enter Eko go select better clothes, me no get money to dey go boutique buy shoe of 35k. Yaaaaaagggaaaaa!

Hehehe Sureb0y 1............. I go drink at least 5 Heineken for your head when u enter Helsinki o plus u go pay my bus money abi train money back to Tampere o.... hehehehee

sureb0y:
Breaking Ferking news!!!!! I have been granted a Ferking residence permit!!!!! This is the fastest ever!!!! Interview on Tuesday June 30, today dey just told me they've granted me the permit!!!! I'm so facking excited!!!!!!!!!!! Omoooo!!!!! Helsinki, here I come. 2 Ferking days!!!!!

Congrats!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

sureb0y:
Although I could be very wrong with this advice, I'm still gon' write it. These student housing offers are the best things to happen since girls decided to give great BJs. Bro, I think u should have contacted them to give u more time as @olabode89 suggested. Since you didn't, chairman try to pay the money and confirm the tenancy agreement ASAP!!! Non-student apartments are Madly expensive o. The prices are going to give u sleepless nights as a newcomer. Dunno sha. If u get 250 euros wey u fit spare, pay up and confirm the housing so u go get rest of mind. Na my own opinion be that.

Bro!... I was reasoning along the same line but the two peeps I know in Finland advised me to come down to FI, get an apartment and a room mate to split the cost at around 150 euros per person. I got an offer from TOAS for 290 euros per month (243 euros for the room and around 40 euros for facility fee). I didn't have the 300 euros wey TOAS say make I pay as deposit as a naija boy wey dey para I go use one mind enter Tampere go sort am out o.

adebasket97:
infact..but no choice o person must get am, against winter o.

Checkout loponline.com Confirmed authentic boots saw one for 24K... I wan sharply place my order o. The others are between 28,500 and 38,000 naira.

adebasket97:
my guy, I tire for those timbo,Na 35k dm call am here o. I be pllan to buy two before o.

Lol.... the thing weak me o

ooluseyipa:
U neva answer my question. Wen do u attend the interview

We attended on same date.... June 10 2015

@sirkezman and others prices of tickets don dey change o

I had to push my departure date by two days to get the flight specification that I wanted.

I booked Turkish airlines via Wakanow.com for 169,305 naira for August 12.

Specs
One stop at Istanbul
to leave naija Lagos by 22:00 and arrive Istanbul by 06:40
to leave Istanbul by08:35 and arrive Helsinki by 12:05

So u guys should do the needful ooooo

@Iceberg54 and @sirkezman any idea of how much an authentic 6-inch timberland boot will cost in Fi... the ones wey I dey see for naija na either ebu (fake) or around 30K+ for authe!.

sureb0y:
Thanks bro, I just didn't feel comfy with the whole stereotyped reasoning of Migri. All the money in my account... cash deposits by family members who share the same surname with me. They all paid in bits. Biggest being 320k and smallest 30k. I don't know at which point they class an amount as large. If no be say naija people don abuse the system, this kind madness for no happen. I'll just keep my fingers crossed. Can't be bothered anymore. I explained to them how it wasn't common for people to disclose their monthly income to anyone in this part of the world. Anyway, that's by d way. Que Sera Sera.

For those who are yet to apply/go for interview... make una restrategise sharp sharp. Look for 1 sponsor and get the job done. Dance to Migri's tune and smile in d end. I repeat: one sponsor!!! Or sponsor urself!!! It's the best (i'm not saying the only) way.

Sureb0y my man.... No worry yourself, They will request for supplementary information and specify the exact deposits or specify a period where u should explain the origin of deposits in your account. You can have more than one sponsor na to just provide adequate info to back up the funds.

adexbaba010:
What can i do on this matter?
I have been offered an accommodation and today is the deadline to pay the deposit (250e). However, I am still awaiting my application decision and can't deduct money yet from my account. I have very short time, my departure date is august 1. I am not sure i could do a new application for accommodation and get an offer again before the date. Way-out pls!

Send the housing association/agent an e-mail and explain to them that you have not received a decision for your RP.... tell them to give you 1-2 weeks grace. Although you should have done that earlier.

jub009:
Information about admissions in the field of Business and Economics (Bachelor's and Master's Programmes):
http://www.aalto.fi/en/studies/admissions/biz/bachelors_degree_mikkeli/

http://www.aalto.fi/en/studies/admissions/biz/masters_degree/

Thanks for the link....

the student first completes the Bachelor of Science in Economics and Business Administration degree at the Mikkeli Campus and
after graduating from Mikkeli, the student has an automatic study right to continue their studies in one of the Master’s Programs at the Helsinki Campus.

@aril the bolded was copied from the link provided by jub009... The BSc program will take about 3 years to complete and upon completion there is an automatic study right to continue studies for MSc. which will take another 2 years to complete. I think it must have been an oversight on ur path when u stated that the Bsc and Msc programs could be completed in 3 years. All the best in your studies.

Kiitos!!!!

aril:
I don't know if sharing this would help but I will share it anyway becoz pple on this thread have been fantastic.

For those who are intending to reside in finalnd after completing their studies. I will advice you go for degree courses even if you are through with your degree in Nigeria. Why? degree courses give you lengthy stay in Finland and you can automatically apply for masters program after completing your degree. This will give you more yrs to complete your studies and you can apply for citizenship.

They actually have ways by which they calculate your stay in Finland and you must have stay and contributed to their economy either directly or indirectly before such privileged could be given. Another important factor again is you must be good in speaking Finnish becoz those are the area they will look into. If you don't like their culture you won't go as far as putting your ear on ground to learn their language. They welcome you even more when you speak their language to them.

Other ways includes, paying tax, having a good record, never committed any offence or found wanting. Breaking laws like say yiu dey Nigeria. Like you need to put all your effort to get what you want. "Remember one bad egg smell will make you think twice before breaking or eating the second egg".

Oh there was a time one Nigerian guy use a fake wassce certificate and he was caught at Helsinki campus. Since then some school started paying special attention to Nigerian applicants. How much will it take to do wassce or GCE.

Some pple will be thinking applying is simple.. yes it was before but now you will need to lie about your address. I have about 12 friends there including my brothers. Back then they use their home address but after some while alot of nigeria were not give admissions without no reasons. But the idea is, you should not use your nigeria address if you want a better chance to be invited for extrance exam. So we take to using, Ghana, Togo, Cameroon, Gambia and Republic of Benin addresses. Remember nothing last forever.... And some Nigerians will ruin other pple ' opportunities to apply.

So for those who wanna apply..... Look into aalto school of business. You will have your degree and masters in 3 yrs which is fantastic. They don't ask for tofel but you will need to we do well in your SAT. If your SAT is score is good, leave the rest to them.

A close friend has been there since 2006/7 he is still living fine there with his family. ..

Thank you for reading and I apologies for my shotgun error above..

God bless nigeria, God bless us all... Amin

The bolded was what drew my attention to ur post.
I have no personal interest in the program and i don't need to do any yeye research.

adexbaba010:
Thanks bro @ooluseyipa, u are right, the mail stuff was the way out, thumb up!
And seriously i can't imagine there aptness to queries, it took less than 2 minutes to receive attention. They even said i should contact them as soon as it is done so they could help me confirm it from their system, and surely in less than one minutes they confirm my submission. I'm impressed. Na fasting and prayer i de now sha anyway........ baba lo n she un gbogbo!!!

Lols...........They will respond first thing tomorrow morning......

I go drink 6 bottles of Heineken for your head

aril:
Olabode89..... did you read the summary about aalto I posted above. Scroll up a bit and read it the you will understand how they're running the BScBA program. And.... No I did not sit for exam in Finland., I am right here in Nigeria.. All I did was SAT and no entrance exam. I thin that's just the difference in aalto and other schools.

Bros calm down no be fight o...... It is stated clearly above that it is a BSc program but you mentioned somewhere on this thread that the admission is for BSc and Msc..... I might have mistaken though... I only want to be sure.....

aril:
DEGREE:
Bachelor of Science in Economics and Business Administration

More information.
ECTS:
180 ECTS

FIELD OF STUDY:
Business and Economics

DURATION:
3 years, full-time

ELIGIBILITY:
Such secondary education which gives an applicant eligibility for university studies in an applicant´s own home country.

LANGUAGE OF INSTRUCTION:
English
More information.

ORGANISING SCHOOL/S:
School of Business

APPLICATION PERIOD:
2015-01-07 - 2015-01-27 ended*

ooh nice one!!

But from the information above the 3 years is for a BSc degree it does not state anything concerning Msc.

One more thing..... you sat for the entrance exam in Finland?


PS - I will be resuming at Tampere University of Technology MSc things by August.... ..... But I need this info for peeps i know that can save cash instead of sending their children to the US and Uk.

aril:
I can't agree more with your comment. Aalto just lunched the BScBA program not long ago and I was given admission just of recent with my bro. I wasn't aware of this program too not until someone like a brother return Finland and hint use about it. So I am sure about it or wait o... maybe na fast the hammer my eyes... I will double check again and let you know..

Please confirm that duration of the Direct BSc/MSc admission offer that you got from Aalto.

Thanks

sureb0y:
Good morning everyone. My interview was yesterday. These finland people no get sense. A monologue doesn't give the applicant any fair chance to explain and clarify most things. First Bleep up, they questioned and withheld my insurance certificate and said they want to investigate it for fraud/fake doc. Secondly, they asked to explain the nature, reason and purpose of/for any large funds to or from the account. The term "Large funds" is crazy without any explanation of the scope. The biggest inflow was 320k, didn't know the point at which an amount is classed as "large". In addition, they expected me to state the name/job/monthly income of ALL the family members who deposited money in my account. I explained to the guy he said I HAD to write at the back everyone's job, etc. Rubbish. In the event that they're not satisfied with the explanation, it's a monologue... no second chance for an applicant to explain whatever the confusion is. Idiots!

For those who are yet to go for the interview/apply for the residence permit. Your best chance is to get just 1 person and identify that person as the sponsor. Know and provide as much information about that person. Where he works, how much he earns, and also his bank statement which should be healthy. Or u identify urself as d sponsor and provide similar information. U need to see the stupid questionnaire sef and u would realize they only expect a fixed pattern! U either sponsor urself or have one sponsor. Mad people.

Out of about 8 people who made the depositsn, I only talked about 5 and stated that I didn't know anyone's monthly income for certain since that's classified information in this part of the world. I also explained that I wasn't really sure of the exact place of work of some of dem but was sure of their jobs (engineer, manager, etc). I made dem know I didn't know the bench mark for "large funds" so I only talked about the biggest deposit of 300k. Toh shikenan!

I'm going back to Lagos today. Finally got this interview madness off my agenda. The stupid prejudiced way of reasoning by this crazy Migri.

Hehehehe.... Sureboy my nigga.... nor worry jare. If they need more information about large deposits they will requested for supplementary information/documents.
They only want to understand the source of every deposit in your account no biggie.... Ensure that you remember the details of the information you dropped concerning the 300K as they might request for it to be explained as part of the supplementary information request.

anthochie:
Lol....boys don take refresh....kill enterfinland app....the thing just dey crash....even after the recent upgrade....


Make una no mind me ohhh....I needed to lighten my mood and that of others that have refused to leave the refresh button alone.....

Lmao.... funny u...

You don't need to do that.... An email notification will be sent to you once a change occurs to your application.

ooluseyipa:
Which airline and date is dt?

Turkish Airline.... Around first week of August.

You can also check on wakanow.com.... I saw Aug 10 for 159K

aril:
I don't know if sharing this would help but I will share it anyway becoz pple on this thread have been fantastic.

For those who are intending to reside in finalnd after completing their studies. I will advice you go for degree courses even if you are through with your degree in Nigeria. Why? degree courses give you lengthy stay in Finland and you can automatically apply for masters program after completing your degree. This will give you more yrs to complete your studies and you can apply for citizenship.

They actually have ways by which they calculate your stay in Finland and you must have stay and contributed to their economy either directly or indirectly before such privileged could be given. Another important factor again is you must be good in speaking Finnish becoz those are the area they will look into. If you don't like their culture you won't go as far as putting your ear on ground to learn their language. They welcome you even more when you speak their language to them.

Other ways includes, paying tax, having a good record, never committed any offence or found wanting. Breaking laws like say yiu dey Nigeria. Like you need to put all your effort to get what you want. "Remember one bad egg smell will make you think twice before breaking or eating the second egg".

Oh there was a time one Nigerian guy use a fake wassce certificate and he was caught at Helsinki campus. Since then some school started paying special attention to Nigerian applicants. How much will it take to do wassce or GCE.

Some pple will be thinking applying is simple.. yes it was before but now you will need to lie about your address. I have about 12 friends there including my brothers. Back then they use their home address but after some while alot of nigeria were not give admissions without no reasons. But the idea is, you should not use your nigeria address if you want a better chance to be invited for extrance exam. So we take to using, Ghana, Togo, Cameroon, Gambia and Republic of Benin addresses. Remember nothing last forever.... And some Nigerians will ruin other pple ' opportunities to apply.

So for those who wanna apply..... Look into aalto school of business. You will have your degree and masters in 3 yrs which is fantastic. They don't ask for tofel but you will need to we do well in your SAT. If your SAT is score is good, leave the rest to them.

A close friend has been there since 2006/7 he is still living fine there with his family. ..

Thank you for reading and I apologies for my shotgun error above..

God bless nigeria, God bless us all... Amin

Are you sure about the bolded

Because I know MSc requires about 180 ECTs which will require around 2years to complete.

Nice points u have raised though.

baldlarry:
thanks very much for the useful information. I have got an appointment for 29th of this month.

You meant 29 July (of next month), right??....lol.

All the best..............

baldlarry:
I can see people mentioning GTbank and First bank. Can someone paste a list of banks accepted by the Finnish Embassy here cuz i cant find it on their website. I already have my Fidelity bank statement printed out.
Grazie a tutti !

The Banks recommended by Embassy of Finland Abuja are

1. Guaranty Trust Bank (GTB)
2. Zenith Bank Plc.
3. First Bank of Nigeria
4. Access Bank Plc.
5. Skye Bank

baldlarry:
tnx brother,how do i file in my application for student residence permit. Can someone give the step by step procedures/ guidelines here?
Really need to hasten up the process because my return flight back to Italy is in a few weeks.
Thanks.

1. You need to get a health insurance.... in Nigeria u can get it from Aiico or Mutual benefit.

2. Print ur bank statement with d required 6720 euros

3. Acceptance letter. If u don't have d original print d scanned copt and attach d forwarding mail.

4. Include documents to provide details regarding the source of d funds in your bank account.

5. Passport.**

6. Book an appointment with d embassy.

7. Fill d online application..... u can print out a copy of the OLE .... form to include in ur application.

8. Pay d required RP fees ****

**Since u are going back to Italy soon y don't u applt from Italy and visit d Finnish embassy dere.

It takes approx 1month fromvd day u contact d embassy ro ur interview date.

baldlarry:
congrats to those who have received admission/acceptance letter from their schools. See you soon in Finland.

Cool

What City and School arw u heading to?

aril:
Hello guys, I just received this from aalto

"Congratulations on being admitted to study at the Aalto University School of Business, Mikkeli Campus
On behalf of the Dean Ingmar Björkman, we are happy to announce that you have been accepted in the spring 2015 Finnish joint application system to higher education to the following study programme:

Higher education institution: Aalto University School of Business
Study programme: Bachelor’s Programme in International Business (BScBA), Mikkeli (180 ECTS) and Master’s Programme in Economics and Business Administration, Helsinki (120 ECTS), 300 ECTS cr.

I will need to fill some attachment and scan it back to aalto. I hope to linkup with anyone with the same message here. I am happy!

Wow.....congrats.
I didn't know that BSC and MSc admissions could be received concurrently. Congrats once again.

Kippis!!

sirkezman:
turkish abi? i saw the same. chill till next month and check again. you should get a cheaper one

Yea.. Turkish

Really...........?? I been they reason am like our local flights wey if it is booked early it is usually cheaper. Na u b boss so I go follow your advice.
One more thing u go advise me to buy some clothes for Naija or chill and buy when I get to FI?

sirkezman:
yea.. with this u get stop over only at istanbul.. with iberia.. u go get for spain and germany i think..

I saw a flight from Lagos to Helsinki.... a stop over at Istanbul for Aug 10.... US$822 (164,000 naira)... what do you think? E make sense??

sirkezman:
yes o.. i have been refreshing her mail since yday, waiting for supplementary mail... only to be notified today that she has been granted.. im so happy mehn... cheap flight? you can either go with iberia or turkish. she will be going with turkish airline tho

Lagos to Helsinki abi... d more d stops d cheaper d flights, right?
I go check Turkish airline out.

sirkezman:
Hey guys, my sis got her decision today.. she has been granted her RP... No supplementary mail was sent i guess because she is on scholarship..

Wishing everyone expecting a good news!!

Congratz to your sister..... that was super fast...

On a lighter note.... direct your sis come here joor.

Any link with respect to flight info from Lagos to Helsinki? cheap flights oo

Moana:
dont a stranger after this. Please continue comimg here to share your experiences in Finland to motivate others

Okay Ma.... I will follow the footsteps of Sirkezman and iceberg54.........

anthochie:
@olabode89....
Apart from the decision reached..on Ur application status...did u get any mail of an approval...

I got a notification mail for every change in status of my application and also for request of support docs.

debris:
Can someone help me send links on post graduate diploma course in Finland on health courses.

check www.studyinfinland.fi