Do you think I could loose my current scholarship and admission if I asked the school official?

BigIyanga:

Yes, do it. It will save you some $$

The link is not opening, how do we join. Should I PM my number?

It is opening. You can drop your number.

Sure or Whatsapp me 09035676542

edox15:

The link is not opening, how do we join. Should I PM my number?

Congratulations, your answered prayer point is my current prayer point, i don't even have a bank statement to use in obtaining an I-20,
please how were you able to get the proof of fund to evidence in your bamk statement?

Olawrites:


And my Graduate Assistantship finally came covering my tuition and some stipends. I said it!!! Thank you God.

Last week I went to Abuja embassy and was delayed, the VO rushed me and didn't allow me talk well. Just scrolling through my school email today and I found the good news of my assistantship.

If there are similar courses. You can send your transcript and ask if it is possible for you to get exempted from those courses and the credit units from Nigeria be considered as part of your graduation credit hours. In addition to your transcript, they may require your course syllabus.

There’s no harm in trying.


PS: a freshman does not necessarily mean you are totally new - it just means you have not upon the number of credit honors to move you from freshman to sophomore . Hence a transfer student can still be a freshman.

Blavkz:
Hello,
I got admitted as a Freshman into a U.S University and was offered a scholarship. I'm currently a student here in Nigeria and would like to know if it's' advisable to ask the U.S University if I can send my current transcript here to them so that I can be considered as a transfer student instead of a freshman or I should just resume as a Freshman.
Thanks.

Have you considered your total cost-
Are the living expenses similar?
Are they in the same states? Before you decide, calculate your total cost?

Is it 15k per year or 15k for the entire duration of your PhD?

Also, reach out to your PhD supervisor to find out if there’s an opportunity to get additional funding?Personally, I believe Phd should be fully funded.

Secondly, what’s your post educational goal in the US? Which one brings you closer to it?

You can go for the Master program then reapply for another fully funded PhD program when you are on ground. Remember that students can only work 20 hrs per week and you will have other expenses

All the very best with your decision.

Phenomenal101:
The ph.D assistantship I received from my dream school has a deficit of $15,000.
Can I renegotiate with my Supervisor to give me full funding if the offer letter he sent to you does not cover your full cost of attendance?

What is the best way to approach this.

Should I just settle for another school that offered an assistantship that covers most of the Cost of attendance for my Masters degree, with only a deficit of $3,500?

Blavkz:
Do you think I could loose my current scholarship and admission if I asked the school official?

Nope. You can get your transcript from your school as an evidence to be presented to your dept/admissions if need be. Note, most schools wont accept transcripts from you unless it comes from your school… but a copy forms the basis of your argument. Tell them that your school can send an official transcript.
You can take a placement test to be placed in a higher course . If you have taken Eng 101 in Naija, you can ask for a placement test.

Olawrites:


And my Graduate Assistantship finally came covering my tuition and some stipends. I said it!!! Thank you God.

Last week I went to Abuja embassy and was delayed, the VO rushed me and didn't allow me talk well. Just scrolling through my school email today and I found the good news of my assistantship.

Congratulations. I want to discuss an important stuff with you, please send me an email at ola4real707@yahoo.com

Blavkz:
Thank you for your response. I already got my Visa early this month.
Would I also loose my scholarship?(my current GPA is high though)

Oh!!. Congratulations. To me, just go and start you school.

Snakedoctor1:
Pls what is the passport validity period for F1 Visa.

How many months/years validity does the passport need to have before you can use it to apply for F1 visa?

.
Your passport should not be below 6 months to expire. Anything below sir month to the expire date

Congratulations Bro. Which of the schools you applied to offered you assistanship, if I may ask?

Olawrites:


And my Graduate Assistantship finally came covering my tuition and some stipends. I said it!!! Thank you God.

Last week I went to Abuja embassy and was delayed, the VO rushed me and didn't allow me talk well. Just scrolling through my school email today and I found the good news of my assistantship.

Congratulations

Lussamguru02:
Congratulations Bro. Which of the schools you applied to offered you assistanship, if I may ask?

Blegolicious:


A mail will be sent to you when your application is approved, then interview dates will show and you can book your appointment then

Okay thanks for this information 🙏🏽

June Dates (Lagos) are available right now 🚨

Yes but only for first timer people who have been previously refused are not seeing June dates

TEMIT0PE:
June Dates (Lagos) are available right now 🚨

Babbeeyy:
I’ve been a silent reader on this platform and a lot of transcripts here have helped me, so I’d also be sharing mine. I was the 5th person to be interviewed but the 1st one to be interviewed by the VO that attended to me.
She was a black American lady with small pink lips🥰
Immediately she opened her window she called me to come forward, which I did.

Visa Transcript
May 26th, Abuja
Appointment time: 7:30am
Interview duration: 1 minutes( at most)
Status: Approved
COA : $61,000


Me: Good morning mam
VO: Good morning

VO: Have you traveled before?
Me: No, I haven’t

VO: Pass me your i20
Me: (passes it to her)

VO: What are your plans with this degree in this school?
Me: Studying sociology will help me in acquiring more knowledge in social theories, critical thinking and data analysis, this will help me in achieving my career goal which is to take up a job with *****. The current CEO of ***** is someone I met when I volunteered to work with **** in sensitizing women about the dangers and preventions of sexual exploitation. Upon the end of my voluntary work I was promised a position and I look forward to graduating in time and coming back to focus on that. It’s also one of my career goal to start up an NGO that would focus on the prohibition of human trafficking in women and young girls specifically, It is also very important for me to be close to my aging mom who isn’t getting any younger.

VO: Who is sponsoring you?
Me: I would be sponsored by a family friend whom I have known since childhood, when the need for me to school abroad came up he had a conversation with my mom and offered to sponsor me in honor of the relationship that both families share

VO: What does your sponsor do
Me: He’s a software engineer by profession and works with Microsoft, he also owns an Africa food store in the US

VO: What do you do?
Me: I am currently a student at the university of ***** but due to the incessant strike it became necessary for me to school in a more predictable academic environment, hence the need to school abroad.
(VO nods in approval to my ds 160)

VO: Where would you be staying?
Me: I will be staying with my sponsor until my on-campus accommodation is sorted out.

VO: When did you graduate high school?
Me: I graduated high school in 2018 and gained admission in 2019(VO nods again)

VO: When is your program start date?
Me: Uhhhmmm(I really did this, I thought about it for like two secs) August, August 20th to be precise.

VO: Do you have any friends or family in the US?
Me: No, just my sponsor.

VO: Do you have siblings?
Me: Yes, I have two siblings

VO: Older or younger?
Me: Older. I am the last

VO: Where are they?
Me: My brother is in Lagos and my sister is here in Abuja

VO: What do they do?
Me: My Sister works with **** and my brother works with ****
VO: Typing….. (and then proceeds to pass me my i20 without my passport but I didn’t notice she added the white paper to the i20) keeps typing..
Your visa has been approved( proceeds to tell me how I can collect it and saying something relating to the white paper but I didn’t hear.)
Me: Thank you mam, thank you( she smiles and then I walk away)

Note: From my experience, she didn’t ask for any documents or any proof, she seemed to be paying more tension to what I was saying and what I filled in my ds160. I noticed that whenever I said something corresponding to what I filled in my ds 160 she’d nod her head and with all these questions my interview still didn’t last up to 1min highest I’d say 45secs.
Thank you all for assisting me without even knowing it🙏🏾

Congratulations

Hello everyone how are you doing today what schools can someone with 3rd class go for masters in the US graduate of Economics any one with ideas will GRE support too as well

Please can anyone do a mock interview for me?🙏

Olawrites:


And my Graduate Assistantship finally came covering my tuition and some stipends. I said it!!! Thank you God.

Last week I went to Abuja embassy and was delayed, the VO rushed me and didn't allow me talk well. Just scrolling through my school email today and I found the good news of my assistantship.

Congratulations man, best wishes in your Yankee sojourn.

Hello House,

Please I will like to know, if anyone have gotten US visa approved before, using solely mpower loan as funding.

Ogundare26:
Please can anyone do a mock interview for me?🙏

Search for edutechmall and reach out

Is anyone going to SUNY Buffalo? How long did it take to get the form i20? It’s been a little over 2weeks since I applied for it.

Hello please does anyone have any visa date search group for Lagos embassy. I would love to join

ajayiolatunb:
Hello House,

Please I will like to know, if anyone have gotten US visa approved before, using solely mpower loan as funding.

Use bank statement for your I-20 collection and visa application. Then you use mpower when you get to US

Hello house pls I want to fill my F1 form I have wife and kids,pls am I clicking F1 and f2 on this page ,will I do it together or seperately

You have to fill a separate DS-160 for each applicant.

Iret1:
Hello house pls I want to fill my F1 form I have wife and kids,pls am I clicking F1 and f2 on this page ,will I do it together or seperately

Good evening everyone..

Please can someone add me to the lagos group I have an f1 interview next week.

08072660340

Thanks you

Good day everyone. It's been a really long time I visited nairaland. But of recent, the university I've been trying to apply to has rejected the two bank statements I submitted to them.

Anyone experiencing the same with schools they are trying to apply to in the US?

Thanks.

logoscope:
Good day everyone. It's been a really long time I visited nairaland. But of recent, the university I've been trying to apply to has rejected the two bank statements I submitted to them.

Anyone experiencing the same with schools they are trying to apply to in the US?

Thanks.

What was the reason for the rejection?

yinkhar:

What was the reason for the rejection?

I asked the same question, I wasn't given any reason. It's starting to become frustrating.

logoscope:
I asked the same question, I wasn't given any reason. It's starting to become frustrating.

Which school? I haven’t heard of this scenario before

logoscope:
I asked the same question, I wasn't given any reason. It's starting to become frustrating.

Are you dealing with an agent or doing the submission by yourself?