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Re: General U.s.a (student) Visa Enquiries-part 8 by MrMann1(m): 10:40am On Dec 04, 2015
newstudenthere:
Transcript..........
VO: what is your study plan for five years in USA?
ME: complete my pre-engineering program at cincy and then transfer to a four year college for my degree afterwards
VO: which college would you want to transfer to?
ME: university of Cincinnati
VO: why didn't you just head straight to university of Cincinnati?
ME: because I want to have a cost-effective start to my degree.
,VO: what do you plan to do after your education?
ME: head back to Nigeria and set up a software development center
VO:what's that?
ME: a place where softwares can be developed just like Microsoft, Ubuntu, Linux and I could work on android
VO:do you play video games
ME: umm sniper
VO: do you know anybody at Cincinnati?
ME: yeah my uncle
VO:what does he do
Me: he has a company
VO: will you stay at your uncle's place
ME: no he lives about 20miles away from the school
VO: do you have brothers?
ME: yeah two brothers, they are both graduates...
she just gave me the white pick up slip.......



Lovely... I thank God for your life... Congrats

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Re: General U.s.a (student) Visa Enquiries-part 8 by fregkay: 11:34am On Dec 04, 2015
Congratulations.......the lord is Good.
newstudenthere:
Transcript..........
VO: what is your study plan for five years in USA?
ME: complete my pre-engineering program at cincy and then transfer to a four year college for my degree afterwards
VO: which college would you want to transfer to?
ME: university of Cincinnati
VO: why didn't you just head straight to university of Cincinnati?
ME: because I want to have a cost-effective start to my degree.
,VO: what do you plan to do after your education?
ME: head back to Nigeria and set up a software development center
VO:what's that?
ME: a place where softwares can be developed just like Microsoft, Ubuntu, Linux and I could work on android
VO:do you play video games
ME: umm sniper
VO: do you know anybody at Cincinnati?
ME: yeah my uncle
VO:what does he do
Me: he has a company
VO: will you stay at your uncle's place
ME: no he lives about 20miles away from the school
VO: do you have brothers?
ME: yeah two brothers, they are both graduates...
she just gave me the white pick up slip.......


Re: General U.s.a (student) Visa Enquiries-part 8 by marshal02: 12:49pm On Dec 04, 2015
jaybiz007:
Good morning house, I am glad to be here finally, after five years of rigorous drilling in civil engineering. With the grace of God, I was able to graduate with a first class, and currently awaiting nysc mobilization for batch A 2016.
I intend taking GRE exams since I was told it will come in handy for my postgraduate application in U.S varsities. Now, my questions are:
(1) Should I write the exam next month? mind you I just started preparation, using the few materials I got from friends.
(2) Is TOEFL necessary for both American and Canadian universities?
(3) Since I intend studying on scholarship, how can I go about it? (Am sincerely clueless on this)
cc: bigfrancis, justwise and several dons in the house too numerous to mention, please help a brother out.

You are on a very good path to obtaining multiple scholarships /graduate assistantship. Here's what you do. Don't be in a hurry to write the GRE. You might be very sound, especially with ur first class degree. But with inadequate preparation, u might flunk GRE. So don't be in a hurry. Take ur time.(Maybe about 2months)Prepare well, Ace the bloody exam. You Nigerian CGPA should put you on 3.5 or 3.6 /4.0 American scale. While you are preparing for your GRE, look for schools, I would encourage at least 4 schools. You would want these schools with their GRE codes handy on the exam day, so you can send your scores at once to them. Take the TOEFL too.. It is quite an easy exam. So you should book ur appointment for both of them. 2weeks is too much to prepare for TOEFL self. But try that. Most Good American schools and some Canadian ones need TOEFL.. The US Embassy ask for standardized test result too. And it make them see you as serious, if you take both exams. In my case I didnt need to take TOEFL, but I did. Just for the embassy sake. Although I ended up not being asked the standardized test questions though. Bottom line. Don't rush. You have time to prepare for fall admission. You should have written both ur exams by let's say February.
If you went to a federal school. I think a good advice would be to start processing ur Transcript now. Cos those people are evil. Same trend in most federal universities. My 2cents.

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Re: General U.s.a (student) Visa Enquiries-part 8 by Jchi9876: 3:22pm On Dec 04, 2015
iseyinoro:
I got to the embassy around 6am and we were told to form a queue by 6:30 am.Non immigration applicants and immigration applicants were on different queues. I was ushered in to where documents were checked around past seven and I was through less than 10 minutes. We were told to sit and we waited till 8AM before we were ushered in to the THEATRE OF DREAMS.
On getting there I saw the immigrants sitting comfortably while d non immigrants were standing. I did my biometrics and joined the queue to face the vo in window 9.He is the only one attending to the non immigrant applicants and he denied a lot of people.
He granted visa to the guy before me and I was praying for God's favor and mercy.
The transcript is below.
VO: Good morning
Me: Good Morning Sir
vo: pass me your documents(and I did) and place your hands on d machine(I complied).
vo: Why are you going to Cameron university?
Me: Cameron university is a public university with a rich history of academic excellence....(cuts me
Vo: rich history of what!
Me: rich history of academic excellence that offers over 50 degrees through two year,four year and graduate programs. The university has a 20:1 Faculty-student ratio and they offer non-resident tuition waiver to international students with strong GP after evaluation with WES.Also,Oklahoma's weather is suitable for quick adaptation of international students to their new environment as the weather is similar to that of Nigeria(he cuts me).
vo:Why would you choose a school because of its weather when there are other schools like Harvard.
me: the weather is one of the several factors I applied to Cameron but I told you about the non-resident tuition waiver which I got.
Vo: Oklahoma is just a state on its own in the united States and I wonder what attract you to Cameron. Do you have a relative,friend or family member there!
me: No sir.
vo: OK how did u get to know about the school?
Me: I work with an international education advisory company (I gave a profile of the company) and the company has a database of schools in the united States.
Vo: Did you take SAT.
ME:I'm a graduate applicant and I wrote GRE.
Vo:Can I see ur score report?
I passed it to him and he glancing at it.
Vo: whats your score in analytical writing?
me: it's 4
vo: what's your total score?
me:294
Vo: but I can't see your see your score(he was glancing both front and back of the report and I told him to pass it to me so that I'll show it to him and I showed it to him).
Vo: when did you write the GRE?
Me:January 23rd 2015(that's the day my landlady died and it coincided with the date I wrote the exam)
Vo: I would issue u the visa bla bla bla( I went blank instantly and was waiting for my form for collection of my documents).As I collected the form I was rushing out of the hall and he called me back;as I came back he glanced at his computer for some seconds and he said "you can go".
PS: Some F1 applicants dressed shabbily to the embassy wearing palm slippers with a Jean trouser and their shirt tucked out.
Again write standardized tests, they could be your saving grace and finally, pray,pray and pray.
I would want to use this medium to thank the gurus in the house for their corrections and contributions,God bless you all.


young man u got away with the oklahoma weather same as Nigeria BS.

You better prepare yourself OK has one of the weirdest and most dangerous weather profiles in the USA

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Re: General U.s.a (student) Visa Enquiries-part 8 by electronic(m): 6:05pm On Dec 04, 2015
My people, please any anybody with experience about Texas school system mostly for PHD/Msc in EE as regarding their funding scenario for international student. I want to add a school in Texas to my app list. but men they quite similar. not sure which school is GA/TA friendly am like 4.0/5 cgpa no GRE yet sha... any info would help...
Re: General U.s.a (student) Visa Enquiries-part 8 by Nobody: 7:48pm On Dec 04, 2015
Profojah, I have your Wes.
Re: General U.s.a (student) Visa Enquiries-part 8 by Nobody: 7:55pm On Dec 04, 2015
slimmy05:
Profojah, I have your Wes.
OK boss.. I'll get back to you on bbm
Re: General U.s.a (student) Visa Enquiries-part 8 by biikeys(m): 8:10pm On Dec 04, 2015
electronic:
My people, please any anybody with experience about Texas school system mostly for PHD/Msc in EE as regarding their funding scenario for international student. I want to add a school in Texas to my app list. but men they quite similar. not sure which school is GA/TA friendly am like 4.0/5 cgpa no GRE yet sha... any info would help...

Your GRE score will obviously determine to a large extent what schools you can get into. But you can check the following out:

UT Austin-top
UT Dallas, UT Arlington-mid
Texas tech-safe

With a PhD application, you will most likely get funding in any of those. MSc will depend on faculty funding/Professor...
Re: General U.s.a (student) Visa Enquiries-part 8 by RuuDie(m): 11:17pm On Dec 04, 2015
What are the options (legal and quasi-legal) to get upgraded from student visa to permananet resident status in the US?
Re: General U.s.a (student) Visa Enquiries-part 8 by Nobody: 11:19pm On Dec 04, 2015
@slimmy 05...please would kindly need your help
Re: General U.s.a (student) Visa Enquiries-part 8 by bbdd: 12:04am On Dec 05, 2015
electronic:
My people, please any anybody with experience about Texas school system mostly for PHD/Msc in EE as regarding their funding scenario for international student. I want to add a school in Texas to my app list. but men they quite similar. not sure which school is GA/TA friendly am like 4.0/5 cgpa no GRE yet sha... any info would help...

You're going to have to wait till you take GRE, then you reevaluate.
UT Austin, you're going to need a score above 320. It's tough but doable if you're good.
Re: General U.s.a (student) Visa Enquiries-part 8 by Centrix: 6:06am On Dec 05, 2015
Been a while since I've been here. Hope everyone that started school this fall is doing well...
Re: General U.s.a (student) Visa Enquiries-part 8 by Centrix: 6:08am On Dec 05, 2015
Feel free to message me if you need additional GRE/Application processing tips. Peace
Re: General U.s.a (student) Visa Enquiries-part 8 by electronic(m): 8:46am On Dec 05, 2015
biikeys:


Your GRE score will obviously determine to a large extent what schools you can get into. But you can check the following out:

UT Austin-top
UT Dallas, UT Arlington-mid
Texas tech-safe

With a PhD application, you will most likely get funding in any of those. MSc will depend on faculty funding/Professor...

thanks Bro....Austin is Hot... I have to score like 330. lol
Re: General U.s.a (student) Visa Enquiries-part 8 by electronic(m): 8:48am On Dec 05, 2015
bbdd:


You're going to have to wait till you take GRE, then you reevaluate.
UT Austin, you're going to need a score above 320. It's tough but doable if you're good.

I feel u Man.. GRE. is no joke..but we good..
Re: General U.s.a (student) Visa Enquiries-part 8 by lobito007(m): 9:31am On Dec 05, 2015
iseyinoro:
I got to the embassy around 6am and we were told to form a queue by 6:30 am.Non immigration applicants and immigration applicants were on different queues. I was ushered in to where documents were checked around past seven and I was through less than 10 minutes. We were told to sit and we waited till 8AM before we were ushered in to the THEATRE OF DREAMS.
On getting there I saw the immigrants sitting comfortably while d non immigrants were standing. I did my biometrics and joined the queue to face the vo in window 9.He is the only one attending to the non immigrant applicants and he denied a lot of people.
He granted visa to the guy before me and I was praying for God's favor and mercy.
The transcript is below.
VO: Good morning
Me: Good Morning Sir
vo: pass me your documents(and I did) and place your hands on d machine(I complied).
vo: Why are you going to Cameron university?
Me: Cameron university is a public university with a rich history of academic excellence....(cuts me
Vo: rich history of what!
Me: rich history of academic excellence that offers over 50 degrees through two year,four year and graduate programs. The university has a 20:1 Faculty-student ratio and they offer non-resident tuition waiver to international students with strong GP after evaluation with WES.Also,Oklahoma's weather is suitable for quick adaptation of international students to their new environment as the weather is similar to that of Nigeria(he cuts me).
vo:Why would you choose a school because of its weather when there are other schools like Harvard.
me: the weather is one of the several factors I applied to Cameron but I told you about the non-resident tuition waiver which I got.
Vo: Oklahoma is just a state on its own in the united States and I wonder what attract you to Cameron. Do you have a relative,friend or family member there!
me: No sir.
vo: OK how did u get to know about the school?
Me: I work with an international education advisory company (I gave a profile of the company) and the company has a database of schools in the united States.
Vo: Did you take SAT.
ME:I'm a graduate applicant and I wrote GRE.
Vo:Can I see ur score report?
I passed it to him and he glancing at it.
Vo: whats your score in analytical writing?
me: it's 4
vo: what's your total score?
me:294
Vo: but I can't see your see your score(he was glancing both front and back of the report and I told him to pass it to me so that I'll show it to him and I showed it to him).
Vo: when did you write the GRE?
Me:January 23rd 2015(that's the day my landlady died and it coincided with the date I wrote the exam)
Vo: I would issue u the visa bla bla bla( I went blank instantly and was waiting for my form for collection of my documents).As I collected the form I was rushing out of the hall and he called me back;as I came back he glanced at his computer for some seconds and he said "you can go".
PS: Some F1 applicants dressed shabbily to the embassy wearing palm slippers with a Jean trouser and their shirt tucked out.
Again write standardized tests, they could be your saving grace and finally, pray,pray and pray.
I would want to use this medium to thank the gurus in the house for their corrections and contributions,God bless you all.
Congrats on your visa, bro. Please may I have the name of the international grad education advisor you used?

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Re: General U.s.a (student) Visa Enquiries-part 8 by lobito007(m): 9:32am On Dec 05, 2015
Guys, anyone here knows about, or has had any experience with 'another spring'- a grad education advisor who helps with processing application and funding to US schools?
Re: General U.s.a (student) Visa Enquiries-part 8 by Nobody: 10:34am On Dec 05, 2015
iseyinoro:

Yeah I'm a full bred Iseyin man but born and raised in Lasgidi.
Cool. Congrats once again.
Re: General U.s.a (student) Visa Enquiries-part 8 by loomer: 11:01am On Dec 05, 2015
newstudenthere:
Transcript..........
VO: what is your study plan for five years in USA?
ME: complete my pre-engineering program at cincy and then transfer to a four year college for my degree afterwards
VO: which college would you want to transfer to?
ME: university of Cincinnati
VO: why didn't you just head straight to university of Cincinnati?
ME: because I want to have a cost-effective start to my degree.
,VO: what do you plan to do after your education?
ME: head back to Nigeria and set up a software development center
VO:what's that?
ME: a place where softwares can be developed just like Microsoft, Ubuntu, Linux and I could work on android
VO:do you play video games
ME: umm sniper
VO: do you know anybody at Cincinnati?
ME: yeah my uncle
VO:what does he do
Me: he has a company
VO: will you stay at your uncle's place
ME: no he lives about 20miles away from the school
VO: do you have brothers?
ME: yeah two brothers, they are both graduates...
she just gave me the white pick up slip.......



20miles from sch isn't that far.
Re: General U.s.a (student) Visa Enquiries-part 8 by Mystiqme: 11:47am On Dec 05, 2015
Profojah, we get gist.
Re: General U.s.a (student) Visa Enquiries-part 8 by Nobody: 12:27pm On Dec 05, 2015
Mystiqme:
Profojah, we get gist.
OK boss.. I will send you my pin/whatsapp number on Facebook..
Re: General U.s.a (student) Visa Enquiries-part 8 by Mikkyphaton: 12:48pm On Dec 05, 2015
visa Interview on Dec 17th. School resumes January 7th. Hope the interview is not too late.
Re: General U.s.a (student) Visa Enquiries-part 8 by Mikkyphaton: 12:48pm On Dec 05, 2015
visa Interview on Dec 17th. School resumes January 7th. Hope the interview is not too late so as not to affect my resumption.
Re: General U.s.a (student) Visa Enquiries-part 8 by iseyinoro(m): 2:57pm On Dec 05, 2015
lobito007:

Congrats on your visa, bro. Please may I have the name of the international grad education advisor you used?
Management Education and Training Limited.
Re: General U.s.a (student) Visa Enquiries-part 8 by Nobody: 3:53pm On Dec 05, 2015
Mikkyphaton:
visa Interview on Dec 17th. School resumes January 7th. Hope the interview is not too late so as not to affect my resumption.
Not at all.

Best of luck man.
Re: General U.s.a (student) Visa Enquiries-part 8 by warriboy21(m): 5:08pm On Dec 05, 2015
congrats to d new americanas...and pls enjoy all d sunny heat in 9ja as much as u can....e don de red for ere o ..(-2degrees) embarassed

pls carry enuf cash at hand..nuting is free in ere o..wen dem de bigfrancis n imperoux de talk am dat time.i no blive o..but na e don clear for my eye grin..(d only tin dat is free ere is d air u breath undecided)

and for guz pls buy all d clothes u will need esp ur size of jeans trouser n pens(big big foolish shapeless trouser 9 full ere undecided)..n make sure u silifit to ur taste because no tailor de run am ere o n i sure say e go de expensive if at al e de sef.,

and 1 more tin..hmm u better carry garri n ogbono n dos 9ja food stuf wen u like o because if u tink say u go like american food en smiley ..hmm brethren..hmm dont be deceived...american food only look yummy n tasty on tv o. everythin 9 dem de put sugar..chicken sugar..beef sugar..rice sugar..everytin sugar..even sugar sef dem go put sugar undecided grin. ok na..oya.chop d sugar food sef na ..sugar sef na rubbish..no taste at all..nonsense ..cancerious food..everyfood r preserved with chemicals even up to fresh tomatoes n pepper.again .. wetin.. cry....if not for d food stuff i brought for 9ja wen de substain me..i nor kn wetin for do 4 dis lyfe o.. smiley

1 time wen 9ja food conji hold me en shocked ..i nearly dead o.. smiley d urge i had for 9ja food en hmm smiley ,im sure its dsame urge as a cocaine addict would have if ders no coke to sniff shocked shocked shocked
nigerians ere no de use eye c 9ja food o shocked shocked..d few party wen i don go..omo c fight for food.. shocked(dis na some big bros n sist dem wen get levels ere o o shocked)..well i folo dem rock d food sha..carry many food come house wen last me like 4days grin(we no de carry last)

last tin is dat u will learn to appreciate 9ja food wen u com over ere.. smiley smiley..safe journey ya all..n fly emirates wink

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Re: General U.s.a (student) Visa Enquiries-part 8 by bigfrancis21: 5:10pm On Dec 05, 2015
warriboy21:
congrats to d new americanas...and pls enjoy all d sunny heat in 9ja as much as u can....e don de red for ere o ..(-2degrees) embarassed

pls carry enuf cash at hand..nuting is free in ere o..wen dem de bigfrancis n imperoux de talk am dat time.i no blive o..but na e don clear for my eye grin..(d only tin dat is free ere is d air u breath undecided)

and for guz pls buy all d clothes u will need esp ur size of jeans trouser n pens(big big foolish shapeless trouser 9 full ere undecided)..n make sure u silifit to ur taste because no tailor de run am ere o n i sure say e go de expensive if at al e de sef.,

and 1 more tin..hmm u better carry garri n ogbono n dos 9ja food stuf wen u like o because if u tink say u go like american food en smiley ..hmm brethren..hmm dont be deceived...american food only look yummy n tasty on tv o. everythin 9 dem de put sugar..chicken sugar..beef sugar..rice sugar..everytin sugar..even sugar sef dem go put sugar undecided grin. ok na..oya.chop d sugar food sef na ..sugar sef na rubbish..no taste at all ..cancerious food..everyfood r preserved with chemicals even up to fresh tomatoes n pepper.again .. wetin.. cry....if not for d food stuff i brought for 9ja wen de substain me..i nor kn wetin for do 4 dis lyfe o.. smiley

1 time wen 9ja food conji hold me en shocked ..i nearly dead o.. smiley d urge i had for 9ja food en hmm smiley ,im sure its dsame urge as a cocaine addict would have if ders no coke to sniff shocked shocked shocked
nigerians ere no de use eye c 9ja food o shocked shocked..d few party wen i don go..omo c fight for food.. shocked(dis na some big bros n sist dem wen get levels ere o o shocked)..well i folo dem rock d food sha..carry many food come house wen last me like 4days grin(we no de carry last)

last tin is dat u will learn to appreciate 9ja food wen u com over ere.. smiley smiley..safe journey ya all..n fly emirates wink




Hilarious waffi gboi. grin

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Re: General U.s.a (student) Visa Enquiries-part 8 by warriboy21(m): 5:13pm On Dec 05, 2015
bigfrancis21:


Hilarious waffi gboi. grin

d boss i throway salute o smiley
Re: General U.s.a (student) Visa Enquiries-part 8 by fizzile(m): 5:18pm On Dec 05, 2015
Hey guys I need your humble input please. For those that registered for paper-based GRE, please how long did it take ETS to respond to you? I registered for the paper-based GRE at the centre at Aba, then the form was posted to Princeton. Please how long does it take for ETS to get back to candidates?
Re: General U.s.a (student) Visa Enquiries-part 8 by Mikkyphaton: 5:47pm On Dec 05, 2015
DeeTus:
Not at all.
Best of luck man.
thanks boss.
Re: General U.s.a (student) Visa Enquiries-part 8 by lobito007(m): 9:13pm On Dec 05, 2015
lobito007:
Guys, anyone here knows about, or has had any
experience with 'another spring'- a grad
education advisor who helps with processing
application and funding to US schools?
Someone, please...

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