Thanks. So far they have the exact research am interested in.

Scholastica16:


I don't know much about the school but their engineering programs are rated well. Also, you won't have any issues with funding if you are admitted. The acceptance rate online says 25-30% for grad programs but it could be whittled down to something relatable to you if you contacted the grad coordinator for this information.

As a rule of thumb, I check the reddit pages of my prospective schools and then I also calculate a rough estimate of the acceptance rate by counting the rejects and accepts for PhD programs on grad cafe.

You may want to search 'UCSD or UC San Diego Electrical Engineering' on the grad cafe search box and make sure the search runs for all times. You can even know the profiles of some accepted/rejected students if you click that red diamond icon by the side.

Please any one with an idea about UC San Diego PhD in ECE. I mean acceptance rate, funding and stuff

Please anyone with an idea about UC San Diego for PhD ECE. What I mean acceptance rate, funding and stuff

Congrats to Scholatica16 and DreManuel.

I just saw my TOEFL results
Speaking 24
Listening 27
Reading 29
Writing 25
Total 105.
Alhamdullilah am happy. Atleast I have 24 in the speaking section.

TheZed:
Good morning everyone, I want use this auspicious moment to appreciate GlitteringStars for the alms she just stretched towards me. May You never know no lack ma'am. May all your heart desires be granted on to you seamlessly.

I also want to use this opportunity to seek for more alms to complete the one I got from GlitteringStars, I don't mean to appear importune, I just don't want to give up yet.

please check the US Visa thread, there is a 50% discount offer going on. You need like 38k

check CSU, I just finished checking the website. but am not sure of MS funding.

jsleekysleeky:
I have been reading thru this thread for the past 1 hr and I am amazed to put it lightly. The amount of information about graduate education in US and Canada is breathtaking to say the least.

Please I need advice on how to secure funding for an MS Chemical engineering programme in any good US university(which school should I apply to and when to apply). My GRE test score is ; V:159, Q: 165, AWA: 4.0, TOEFL: 106, CGPA: 3.76 on a 5.0 scale (royally screwed it up in sch). My 4th and 5th year were shit, mans was just getting 3.2 till graduation. I somehow feel that has been the archilles hill of my application.

Note: I applied to West Virginia Uni, Louisiana State University and University of Wyoming for Fall 2017 but didn't get into any. Please any advice you provide will be greatly appreciate.

CC: Scholastica

Scholastica16:
Yildiz, you owe us your 2nd GRE experience.

Nastydamus, we see you lurking in the shadows.

Bless us with your experience thus far over there and any tips you can give to prospective testtakers and school applicants.

Well I didn't write yet. Am planning on writing on 5th Nov. So far I have read Manhattan 1-6. Practiced with Magoosh android app. Vocabulary builder, Nova math bible and of course ETS materials. I haven't done any full test so far

feran15:


and how much does a bag averagely cost?

It depends on the season. Currently it's about 32k per bag but can come as low as 18k

feran15:


so what do you expect to your return on investment after harvest?

Am expecting 10-15 bags per hectare

adescopy:
pls Op have you applied any fertilizer or insecticide so far

Fertilizer no. Insecticides twice

feran15:
If i might ask, why did you choose cowpea?

Maximizing investment.

ihebrooke:


View 2

What is the space requirement please

Munzy14:

impressive!.

Thanks

Week 5. Day 35 pics

Zzchampion:
.hhmmmm..op you are doing an impressive work o,more grease to your elbow,,.......please kindly enumerate cos from what uve listed are.....10k for farm leasing=80k for the 8 hectares.....,,,6k for ridging=48k for the 8 hectares.......,6300 for gramoxone and application labour per hectare=50400 for the 8 hectares.....,so altogether =80k+48k+50400=178400.....so please if yu wudnt mind,,,wt are the other expenses?.......Secondly,,, there is one type of seed thats being talked about called extra early maturing type,which was said to be ready for harvesting after just 40 days from planting, pls did u heard of and or try it before?if so please share your experience,,,,..... god blesss....

Hopefully I will give the analysis soon. Though am I new farmer but frankly I doubt if there is any variety of cowpea that takes just 40 days to harvest. Sorry for the delay

Ok. Its time for my experience writing TOEFL. I came to this thread searching for IELTS thread, then I became interested in studying in the US. I realized I need GRE and TOEFL. So I decided to start with TOEFL because I have an active GRE still.

I registered using BY Mafit, I was so scared but it was OK generally. My take on anyone going to register with them is to create account, fill all necessary details, select date and let them do the payment.

So I selected the nearest available date to enable me concentrate more on the GRE which was 26th August. I didnt have much time to prepare due to work. On Friday I took a sick leave and travelled to Abuja for the test. I stayed with a friend. On Saturday I arrived the venue at 9 am and funny enough more than 10 people are already in the venue. I signed attendance list, signed confidentiality form. My photo was capture and also my voice. I think few minutes to 10am the test started.

My first section was the reading section, I think it was 42 questions from 3 passages. Next was listening, which was 51 questions in 3 sub sections. After 10 mins break, then speaking section, as usual 6 questions. To be frank I was suprise of the first question. Though I can not remember the question but its an odd one considering what I thought it will be. The final section was the writing section, 2 questions as usual.

My aim is to score atleast a total of 110 with atleast 24 in speaking. Am not sure if I will achieve that but am prayerful.

Hello house. Today I wrote the TOEFL exams in Abuja thanks to this group. I wrote the test in Abuja. I will update the house later.

Abdullahi4u7:
well done op. which pre-emergence herbicide did you use? I was thinking that atrazine would have affected your crops 'cos you planted cowpea which is a broadleaf plant.

Yes atrazine is not used in cowpea. I used butachlor instead

Emmysteve:
I can see you have already done the first weeding?

Yes. Around day 24

The maize is also 4 weeks

More pics

My cowpea is 4 weeks

Please house, University of illinois at Chicago seems a good and not too ambitious for PhD, any one with info regarding the school please.

Emmysteve:
Yet another abandoned thread.

Sorry update coming soon hopefully

Bebebella:

will you re pay for writing another GRE exam?

Yes

femi312:
You are good to start your application in October, some schools require you to input your result in the application portal while some dont. Either case you should be fine since they will still wait to receive your official GRE score until they review your application. You can start your application by october and chase your LOR providers during that time since LOR is one of the materials that delay completion of application.

Thanks

Please I have some questions.

I wish to apply for Fall 2018 and as you know deadline of most schools is in december but we are adviced to send ours applications as early as possible. My question is; I intend to re-write GRE by November, sans that can I apply as early as october, are GRE scores asked during application? or they just wait for the official results from ETS?

Scholastica16:


LOL. You should find out what UMich and UIUC have to say. You'd understand why I placed GTech at number 1 and filled the rest with those schools I listed.

GTech was listed for their generosity. You already have a strong profile. I think you should aggressively pursue POIs. If your 314 is not good enough (some usually only care about the Q) they will let you know. Which would not matter too as you are already planning to retake it.

I get it now. That's cool.

Georgia Tech biomedical engineering program coordinator just mailed me that their acceptance rate is less than 20%. I got to change tactics

Scholastica16:


Applying to many schools can help. Besides, you are still doing research on schools. LOL. You may end up not applying to some of the schools you are considering.

Well I was hoping am done with the research. Lol. I don't want to exceed 300k for application fees and standardized test

I will look at other schools but my problem is I dont want to apply to many schools (why, I cant say). Secondly, I dont mind going to other countries. I will try the free WES conversion

Scholastica16:


I recently discovered that Cleveland State Uni has a lot of funding for EE students. The sharing formular based on specific project interests is what I do not know.

Georgia Tech encourages PhDs with over-sufficient funding though my research was based on Chemical Engineering- my undergrad discipline.

The GRE takes about 5/7 days to get to the school from the time you hit "send" on the test day. It could also take a more extended time- say, 10-14 days incase of delays. That way, your AWA that becomes available to you only after 10 days would get to the school about the same time.

Nobody can determine your chance of getting admitted. I wager it takes a tinge of serendipity and submitting early (without relegating having a good profile or faith).

Someone else recommended adding more B+ and B- schools and he is right because presupposed safe schools are becoming precarious these days. Just based on NL, I would ask that you looked into University of Tennessee Knoxville, University of Texas, Dallas and maybe Drexel University.

Don't get caught in the hype of assuming meeting all the admission conditions of your prospective schools will automatically translate into an acceptance. It works that way more often than not in Master's applications but becomes unpredictable in PhD apps.

See for e.g, someone on here got admitted (and fully funded) into University of Virginia Charlottesville & Penn State Uni but same profile was rejected by UConn. Compatibility with POIs and timing could do the trick. I would only recommend you submitted your apps earlier than Dec or atleast before the stipulated deadline for early bird admisisons in your considered schools.

Thanks for your input. But why the WES conversion. Do I need it also?

DreManuel:


I gained admission to two of the aforementioned schools; University of Michigan (Ann Arbor) and University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign for Master's. My CGPA: B Sc., Mech Engr 4.39/5.00 (= 3.65/4.00 WES Conversion), GRE: 325 (Q 165, V 160). I wrote my GRE on the 14th of December. So I think you have no issue with the GRE being sent on time since you won't include it in your online application - ETS will send to school directly. Some schools even give some slack on the arrival of the GRE from the ETS.

Michigan has a lot of endowment, up to $10bn and Illinois should have up to $2bn. I got fellowship from Michigan but won't go too far since it's a very expensive school, same for Illinois. I'm still waiting on profs from the school for RA position. But, getting a free ride in tier 1 schools like Michigan and even Illinois is very difficult for US citizens and of-course would be extremely difficult for international students like you and me. That's why I'm hoping on PTDF for full ride while still networking with profs at the schools for GA. You should consider other funding options too, and since you are considering tier 2 schools too, your chances of funding may be higher provided such schools have a lot of grants. You may want to add more middle ranking schools cos it's only Kansas State Uni I can see in your list, in my opinion.

Apart from application fees and the ones you stated, I don't know of any other fees to be paid during the application. Meanwhile, both Michigan and Illinois waived IELTS/TOEFL for me so I didn't have to write language test. You talked about hard copy documents, why don't you send everything as soft copies? Including Transcripts and LORs. It is safer, cheaper and faster.

I think you have a good chance. PhD may be more competitive since many of them are fully funded. But it depends on how well you convince the admissions committee that you can cut the mustard based on your application materials.

I don't think there are stupid questions either.

Regards.