Location: Lagos Embassy
Date: 9 July 2019
Status: Approved
PhD Full funding
Everything was barely 3mins

V.O: Good morning
Me: Good morning ma’am

V.O: Pass me your passport
Me: (Passed my Passport, I20 and sevis receipt)

V.O: How did you get this assistantship?
Me: It was recommended by....cuts in

V.O: I mean what made you qualified for this assistantship?
Me: Oh, My GPA and my GRE score.

V.O: What’s your GPA and GRE score?
Me: 4.66 and 304

V.O: Did you apply to other schools?
Me: I applied to just two schools.

V.O: What’s the other school?
Me: Tamuk

V.O: So why Ncat?
Me: Because it’s a fully funded PhD program and........Cuts in

V.O: Didn’t you get scholarship from Tamuk?
Me: I only got an instate tuition waiver.

V.O: How much did you have to pay after the waiver?
Me: $21,000

V.O: Do you have a masters degree?
Me: No

V.O: Oh, It’s directly from Bsc
Me: Yes

V.O: When did you graduate?
Me: 2017

V.O: What have you been doing since then?
Me: I went for my compulsory National Youth service program from April 2018 to April 2019. After which I returned back home to prepare for my graduate school travels.

V.O: What do you want to do after your program?
Me: I want to be an industrial consultant and a lecturer.

V.O: Pick your passport at this location after 3 working days.
Me: Thank you (I was already in a trance at this point)

segunbolawole:
It's a lot to worry about o,

you should only worry if you plan on committing fraud. If that’s not the case it’s nothing to really fret about

LagosismyHome:


But is not today .... been on nairaland actively 2 years and have seen Vo here now and there. There was one who used to comment on post here

Exactly. LagosNIV and AbujaNIV I think

Tohajan:


Chai! This is serious!

In the past VOs use to read and comment on this thread helping with peoples queries. As long as you’re genuine, it’s nothing to worry about.

Congratulations Erhuns67 Shortcess Nehemiah77

Congratulations Dheee and Falodefunsho

Humble11:


Did he/she beg anyone to PM him or her. Ask your questions on this thread and leave their PM alone, anything that happens there is your business. You can't ask someone to give you names of schools when Google is there for you and nairaland is there. If you want him/her to do the work for you and he/she demands a fee, pay it if you want. It's their choice to do it for free. As far as they are contributing freely on this thread and helping in answering questions, it's good for the thread.

Alright. I’ll respond to this discussion after this. Before-then, to those billing people I must say there is a better reward in helping freely than those meagre amount you choose to collect. Those that have done that in the past can testify to that I can also testify to that.
To those sending PM’s for information you can easily get here, let’s cultivate the habit of doing our due diligence (research);After all we are all going to graduate school. Don’t underestimate this repository, it has a wealth of information. Just search for it.

Humble11:


Mentioning their names doesn't make them a thief. Those paying chose to pay. I don't know why we are taking it so serious. Though i am not in support of billing people. But if they have billed anyone, you went as far as going to their PM, if not, the person should have asked the question here. Some people don't play with their time and if you want that time, pay for it. Else ask your questions here.

Who called anyone a thief here? Why not direct people back to the thread instead of billing them when you know you can’t freely help. Why do we see every opportunity as a means to extort people instead of helping. This thread was created to freely guide people to do the right thing and not to source for client. If you want people to pay for your service you can get a shop or kiosk close to the embassy and start charging per hour since you don’t play with your time. People here freely helped us, why can’t we just do this same?

sharwama:

Hehehehe, I really love how this is going

I have the screenshot evidence from my source now. However, I will not mention his name for now as directed by my source.

sharwama:
TO WHOM IT MAY NEVER CONCERN
I'm crying and smiling right now and I don't know why. I hate being an empath. I have absorbed so much feelings tonight on this thread.
If you follow my posts, you'd realize I have always considered myself a Jon Snow on this thread, I know nothing. I often advised as an apprentice while waiting for the masters to give a better response.
I have never argued or fought with anyone on this thread. I have had to keep quiet over certain things that didn't please me. One of them has to do with demanding money for mock interview, transcript review and even writing of SOP (via pm of course)
I have reviewed over 80 transcripts in my mail, dem no dey gree me rest, na dem dey rush me ooo
But I have never charged anyone for that, I actually enjoy reading transcripts, e dey sweet me like Alomo bitters
I used to run away from conducting mock interviews because I thought I was neither good enough nor qualified. So I kept redirecting people on this platform to people I believed were more capable than myself.
Unfortunately, some persons would come back with "one person charged me a big sum of money, please just do the mock anyhow you can"
I didn't want to argue with them, I couldn't convince them to open up and be brave enough to reveal the name of anyone who charged them, I guess they knew once there's evidence, Sharwama must talk, she is so free. Sharwama is a drama queen, she will break this table. I guess they didn't like the spotlight
So I started doing "unprofessional" mock for our people As in mock interview that has no NAFDAC registration number
I bought a new sim card, created a WhatsApp account and I have dedicated and consecrated that sim card to NL until I travel to Tennessee( we will find a way)
I don't have much time but I do what I can for whoever I can, whenever I can and it gives me unquantifiable joy!
Some of you read my diary of gratitude, I wouldn't be where I am now if Texrem had asked me for money before helping me. What he did for me, what he is still doing for me, when I think about everything, I'm like " how did I get so lucky"
Let me make it clear tonight, the accused and persecuted "might" have actually charged "some' individuals who sought "his help" but I promise you, he is not the only one. Yes I wrote that. One down, some more to go!

You are right on this. I have a name sef. let me confirm from my source before I’ll let it out.

dreambound:

LOL..you guys should calm down small now..

Bro 80k for school with funding and 20k for mock interview and you say we should calm down. We must loud it so that people won’t fall prey. If that’s how selfless people like happyday, ojap, sirriddy, texrem, oludare, imperious, lagosismyhome, femi321 et al have been charging, how many of us will be where we are today ?

Drekales:



I'm his number one fan.

Let him that has no sin cast the first stone.

Don’t worry continue until the fire burn you before you will learn.

Auditmonkey:
First, thanks walspring for helping my friend pay his SEVIS fee.

My situation is kind of unique, and I'd appreciate any insight.

I was given an F1 VISA last spring for a masters in Finance at a 'not target' college. I have to admit, I wasn't aware of how competitive finance jobs were and how much focus was placed on target schools. I spent one semester in school, and decided to change school and course. It was too late for a transfer so I came back home.

Now, I have admission for a better school (UTDallas) for MS Accounting. Got the Dean's excellence scholarship and hoping to get the GA I applied for(which seems impossible at the moment).

My question is, do I need to apply for a new visa interview?

What is the procedure for a situation like mine?

Please share if you have any insight

Thanks

Please those that have experience on this she help her.

AgreatMan:



See old memories o. Our dear bureau de changer.

Deyemzy:
Hello Fam,

I am very sorry for just posting my approved visa transcript. I have been very busy.

Lagos Consulate. Visa approved by the Old man....17/06....6:30am

Me: Good morning sir
Vo: No response
Vo: Pass your documents.
Me: I obliged
Vo: (Started typing ooo then stood up to the next window)...when did you finish high school?
Me: (I was like "high school"? ).....2010
Vo: After then?
Me: Went to the University for my bachelors
Vo: in what?
Me: Mathematics and Statistics
Vo: ok...you finished when?
Me: 2015
Vo: what have you been doing?
Me: Went for my compulsory national service.
Vo: oh that's for one year.
Me: Yes
Vo: after then
Me: I was retained and I left there after 13months. Then I joined bleep company as a data analyst, left there in Dec 2018. After then I join Bleep company where I currently work as a data analyst.
Vo: Analyst....data analyst
Me: Yes...yes
Vo: How many schools did you apply to?
Me: 5
Vo: How many selected you?
Me: 4 and still on the Waitlist in the last school.
Vo: what does your father do?
Me: He's late
Vo: what does your mother do?
Me: I told him
Vo: (Then he perused my i20)...who is sponsoring your trip?
Me: My aunt...my father's younger sister and I also got a graduate assistantship.
Vo: what does she do?
Me: Head of Operations at Bleep plc Nigeria.
Vo: kept my passport and passed me white paper
Me: I picked and left.

School: Austin Peay State University.
Program: Computer Science and Quantitative methods.
GRE: 301, 161v, 140q, 3.0
CGPA: 3.12/4

Great thanks to Libber, Kashogi, Soliph, Allylic, Omofola93, Yusuf, Matti and everyone. God bless you all.

Nuggets: Two things are very important; Confidence in self and Faith in God.
Don't feel discouraged because you don't have a ground breaking profile. This year, I saw people with lower class divisions ( < 3.0) and with GREs below 310, getting full fundings. Email profs, do your research well, reach out to people on this forum if something is not clear to you. Above all, if you believe in God, please pray ceaselessly. The sky will always be our starting point.

Thank you Nairaland!

congratulations

Oasishavenng:

Angelapinkytoes, that congirl. That her mum is filling Pr for but still want to go for masters before then even when it will be more expensive and her car spoilt in 3mb when going for an interview and has dollars for exchange.
That con

You know the full story my bro/Sis

dumbiri99:

Na mutual misunderstanding

Okay. Please do apologize to her.

Predstan:


I bet he doesn’t know that Monicker. He’s very new on this thread.

That lady started from dishing out advice like this... You can agree with me that this guy does not have any other business apart from this thread. He’s the first to respond to every question.

Exactly. He went as far as the GRE thread asking people to mention him for US and Canada visa queries. Typical visa agent format.

Predstan:
� lol he’s here asking me if I was a drop out. Talking like selling iPhone is for Poor people.

I just hope he isn’t another angelapinkytoes in disguise

dumbiri99:

Very rude post. If you cannot give advice, don't quote. I asked a simple question and you took it to another dimension. Not everyone is a crook dude. How will I take it without his permission when I don't live him, the tax clearance is in his house and I don't live with him. I stay in Lagos, he is rivers and I haven't been to his house since 2017, that was when I stumbled on it. He is my very close uncle but likes to keep the details of his finances private. I am asking here to know if I should bother to ask him for it.

Please don’t talk to Miss lagosismyhome anyhow oo. She’s the only old timer that still frequent this thread. Except if you want to keep getting advice from people that will mislead you. She’s a very down to earth person. She tells you things as it is and above all she’s never rude. Abeg take your word back.

Predstan:


Bro Calm down. Stop dishing out advice that you know nothing much about. Please stop misleading people. He/She came back home so he was never out of status. Let people that have deep knowledge about these things advice him/her properly.

To Fellow Nairalanders, please scrutinize people that you take advice from. Some people have not visited the embassy talkless of studying or applying for H1B. No experience whatsoever yet they come here to dish out advice to critical situations.

That was the reason why I attacked him the other time. Oftentimes he says what he knows nothing about. They have successfully pursued the old timers on this thread.

stripes16:
Hi, please I plan to travel second week in August and the earliest date I can see for Lagos is 23rd of August, school starts on the 12th.

Pick August 23rd then request for an expedited date.

May93:


Which school are you going to?

ncat

Brown2Green:


I did say funding is very rare for engineering.
PhD and MSC alike


It is very very competitive

Whats your profile like ?

360gospelvibes:
High School GPA and Test Scores. New freshman applicants should have a high school grade point average of 3.0 or higher on a 4.0 scale, and an ACT score of 20 or higher, or the SAT equivalent

Those should be requirements for undergraduates

Time2win:


Industrial Engineering is not an easily funded program though

True.

Oasishavenng:
Seems quite alot of us are going for industrial engineering this year. . All the best to us all

Which school are you going to ?

Time2win:



They do fund bro. Depends on program though. Just get good GRE score and toefl score. You will get funding

Alright then.

Brown2Green:



University of Memphis accepts as low as 2.5/4 for PhD.

Necessary not for industrial engineering.

The discussion so far has been about industrial engineering.

Time2win:


Yeah I get that but alot has 3.0 as bench mark. It depends on program too. Like university of Kentucky has 2.80 on 4.0 scale for civil engineering program

Now the question is how many of these 2.8 schools have funding to give ?

May93:


My profile meets up with their PhD requirements.
Which one do I stand a better chance to get funding MSc or PhD?

PhD are usually given priority in most if not all schools.

Time2win:


General school ranking

Anyway, that’s not the appropriate ranking to use for graduate school application. Based on what you said, the school I will be attending isn’t ranked among top 100 for general school rankings. However, it’s ranked top 100 in rankings by department(For industrial). Also in the past, my department requirement for direct PhD was 3.70 but it is 3.50 now.