Topiipii:

I remember the 4.3/5 and also knew she got a distinction, but did not know the GPA. In fact, I have to start putting Aunty in front of her name whenever I want to address her.

Aunty ke? Abeg I be young sisi oh!

drhopeful:
Aunty ke? Abeg I be young sisi oh!

Iffa hear, I'm even considering changing it to 'mummy drhopeful'

I remember the 4.3/5 and also knew she got a distinction, but did not know the GPA. In fact, I have to start putting Aunty in front of her name whenever I want to address her.

Topiipii:

Iffa hear, I'm even considering changing it to 'mummy drhopeful'

I support! See g.p wey full basin!!!

This is my profile... If UofH could accept and gimme money, There is hope for everyone.

Applied for Industrial Eng Msc

Undergraduate: Mechanical Eng, 3.77/5.00. Naija degree.

Final year semesters where above 4.0 & very close to 5.0 for 1st and 2nd semesters respectively showing great improvement over the 2.9x 4th year 1st semester (dad was sick, my g.p nosedived and I explained it in my SOP).

GRE: 155V, 163Q, 4.0AWA. I had to re-write it, improved across board.
TOEFL: 106 – R28, L26, S26, W26

Internship: 6months highly related experience, Got 1 out of 2 available engineering positions. Up to 500 applicants.

No research experience

Work Experience: 12 months highly related internship exp, 3.5 years highly related work experience. I could easily relate my experiences to 2 different specializations I chose.

Recommendations: 1 academic, 2 professional I got away with this. The professional recommenders very likely did an excellent job.

Resume: Was more work inclined, several leadership roles at work and [s]ones I was forced to accept in school and nysc[/s].

No mention of funding in my SOP.

No contact with anyone in any of the schools, except mailing the grad schools for clarifications.

Finished my applications between 1st and 2nd week of January, most of the schools are still receiving applications till now. Got 3 acceptances all in February. All came with some sort of funding.

Scholastica16:


There is supposed to be a "send score" or an "order score" button on your TOEFL account home page. Just click on it and follow the prompt. Try to use an Access bank account as they provide auspicious rates for the endeavour.

Thank you, gotten it. I don't have access, how is the charge different using other banks like firstbank or zenith?

drhopeful:
Undergrad course and GPA: Petroleum Engineering, 4.3/5
MSc GPA: Materials Engineering, 4/4
GRE (Verbal and Quant scores): 157V, 164Q, 4AW
TOEFL scores: 107
Work Experience: 8 years
Papers Published: Nil
Date of application and decision date: Nov 10, 2016 / Feb 27, 2017

I would also like to mention that I had no contact whatsoever with anyone from the school. Not even for an interview. So you can imagine the shock.

congrats and I doff my cap ...................
Man of the Moment icool, twale!!!
Good-news to Fall17 applicants, let the good news keep rolling in, especially Funding

Walewummi:

Thank you, gotten it. I don't have access, how is the charge different using other banks like firstbank or zenith?

First off, I think card payments via those banks you mentioned was disabled by the CBN. Secondly, Access charges you N325 to $1 and TOEFL scores are sent at $20 per school. So Access will do it for you at N6500 per school as against N8500+ that those banks will charge you even if you used PayPal.

Topiipii:

I remember the 4.3/5 and also knew she got a distinction, but did not know the GPA. In fact, I have to start putting Aunty in front of her name whenever I want to address her.

On a different note, where is happyday ?

I forget the page but she did state 4/4. After I saw it, I understood why she was confident enough to apply to those biggies.

Even the relative minnows wey we apply to still dey do us shakara. I don chop 2 rejects already as I type this. I even went to make sure my GRE scores were what I reported because I am beginning to doubt it.

I don't know where HappyDay is o. Him and ChemEngr01.

Scholastica16:


I forget the page but she did state 4/4. After I saw it, I understood why she was confident enough to apply to those biggies.

Even the relative minnows wey we apply to still dey do us shakara. I don chop 2 rejects already as I type this. I even went to make sure my GRE scores were what I reported because I am beginning to doubt it.

I don't know where HappyDay is o. Him and ChemEngr01.

Which reject again oh? Thought it was just LSU....

drhopeful:
Which reject again oh? Thought it was just LSU....

University of New Mexico. Saw 2 attachments and thought one was my acceptance and the other my "funding" letter so I hurriedly opened it. You can imagine my shock when I saw "I regret" somewhere. I could have reported it but I came online and saw you celebrating PennState, so I went back to silently moan.

I guess it is -2/8 now for me.

Scholastica16:


University of New Mexico. Saw 2 attachments and thought one was my acceptance and the other my "funding" letter so I hurriedly opened it. You can imagine my shock when I saw "I regret" somewhere. I could have reported it but I came online and saw you celebrating PennState, so I went back to silently moan.

I guess it is -2/8 now for me.

Baba, just like drhopeful too, I am quite confident ur admission plus funding is somewhere within the pool of application. Just be patient baba. I believe it will come shortly

Scholastica16:


University of New Mexico. Saw 2 attachments and thought one was my acceptance and the other my "funding" letter so I hurriedly opened it. You can imagine my shock when I saw "I regret" somewhere. I could have reported it but I came online and saw you celebrating PennState, so I went back to silently moan.

I guess it is -2/8 now for me.

Hugs.... Your great news will come soon. Good that you still have 6 schools to hear back from. I understand how you feel. Please hang in there. We are here to support you.

Congrats Dr hopeful and iCool.
I am a silent and religious follower of this thread. I recently got a reject mail from Kansas state. The email stated that I was qualified but no grant funding.. no professor has funds... blah blah. They said they were sorry that not all qualified candidates are usually accepted because of their low acceptance rate.
I had previously contacted the grad coordinator before who said funds were available. I don't even understand but it is well.
I pray we all get into the best programs with full funding.

Scholastica16:


University of New Mexico. Saw 2 attachments and thought one was my acceptance and the other my "funding" letter so I hurriedly opened it. You can imagine my shock when I saw "I regret" somewhere. I could have reported it but I came online and saw you celebrating PennState, so I went back to silently moan.

I guess it is -2/8 now for me.

Keep hope alive, I'm sure you'll smile at the end.

Scholastica16:


University of New Mexico. Saw 2 attachments and thought one was my acceptance and the other my "funding" letter so I hurriedly opened it. You can imagine my shock when I saw "I regret" somewhere. I could have reported it but I came online and saw you celebrating PennState, so I went back to silently moan.

I guess it is -2/8 now for me.

It is well with you Scholar. Those schools have lost a genius! I'm positive you'll have robust offers from your remaining applications.

Toakins:
Congrats Dr hopeful and iCool.
I am a silent and religious follower of this thread. I recently got a reject mail from Kansas state. The email stated that I was qualified but no grant funding.. no professor has funds... blah blah. They said they were sorry that not all qualified candidates are usually accepted because of their low acceptance rate.
I had previously contacted the grad coordinator before who said funds were available. I don't even understand but it is well.
I pray we all get into the best programs with full funding.

Please which program did you apply to? I sent you a prompt.

Toakins:
Congrats Dr hopeful and iCool.
I am a silent and religious follower of this thread. I recently got a reject mail from Kansas state. The email stated that I was qualified but no grant funding.. no professor has funds... blah blah. They said they were sorry that not all qualified candidates are usually accepted because of their low acceptance rate.
I had previously contacted the grad coordinator before who said funds were available. I don't even understand but it is well.
I pray we all get into the best programs with full funding.

Just keep believing, I am sure d good news is around d corner

Scholastica16:


University of New Mexico. Saw 2 attachments and thought one was my acceptance and the other my "funding" letter so I hurriedly opened it. You can imagine my shock when I saw "I regret" somewhere. I could have reported it but I came online and saw you celebrating PennState, so I went back to silently moan.

I guess it is -2/8 now for me.

It's well bro....
The very best package for u is around d corner. You will smile soonest.

Congrats again icool . Congrats to drhopeful and Topiipi as well. we're religiously following you guys from behind.

Scholastica16:


University of New Mexico. Saw 2 attachments and thought one was my acceptance and the other my "funding" letter so I hurriedly opened it. You can imagine my shock when I saw "I regret" somewhere. I could have reported it but I came online and saw you celebrating PennState, so I went back to silently moan.

I guess it is -2/8 now for me.

I'm sorry about this. Stay Strong! I'm overly optimistic you'd be inundated by a deluge of admits with fundings in the end. It's a good thing you applied to 8 schools.

iCool:
Thank hirschfelder, Topiipii, Ladunal, Okusi, Shayhune and andradaeze. Your decisions will be sweet too.

@Topiipii. Any new update concerning funding?

Amin baba

See inspiration i am really galvanize by this profiles they are out of this planet earth.Drhopeful's profile is just is a gangster india or Chinese profile i doff my fila(Cap) for you maa i think i need to start addressing you as mama mama(Grandmother).Scolar don't worry guy your admit is coming with the speed of light.Wishing you all the best in your endeavors.Thanks for sharing your profile with the house guys.

Bolisticbond026:
See inspiration i am really galvanize by this profiles they are out of this planet earth.Drhopeful's profile is just is a gangster india or Chinese profile i doff my fila(Cap) for you maa i think i need to start addressing you as mama mama(Grandmother).Scolar don't worry guy your admit is coming with the speed of light.Wishing you all the best in your endeavors.Thanks for sharing your profile with the house guys.

I go beat you oh! Lol. My profile is just a regular one. I no even get first class sef for BS. Thanks. Wishing everyone success!

drhopeful:
I go beat you oh! Lol. My profile is just a regular one. I no even get first class sef for BS. Thanks. Wishing everyone success!

Mama, there is nothing regular there o. The sooner you accept it the better o. lol
Once again congratulations. There's nothing better than the feeling that whatever happens you're gonna be in Trump land come August. Hope you don dey search for flight? Because the interview would be a walk in the park the moment you mention Penn state.

Second of four decisions received. (2nd admit)
Cleveland state university (super safe choice)
still no funding

fredoricko:


Mama, there is nothing regular there o. The sooner you accept it the better o. lol
Once again congratulations. There's nothing better than the feeling that whatever happens you're gonna be in Trump land come August. Hope you don dey search for flight? Because the interview would be a walk in the park the moment you mention Penn state.

Second of four decisions received. (2nd admit)
Cleveland state university (super safe choice)
still no funding :'(

Congratulations bro... Keep hope alive, and continue reaching out to grad coordinator n supervisors

@Time2smile @scholastica16
registered with erudite consult
I discovered that it was their mail they even used to register my GRE and as such, I wont have access to it so now am forced to still transact with them and even at a higher cost.

Cephas0009:


Congratulations bro... Keep hope alive, and continue reaching out to grad coordinator n supervisors

Thanks sir, I will. It is well

Congrats fredoricko, funding will still come

seeker88:
Congrats fredoricko, funding will still come

Amen. How's yours coming??

fredoricko:


Mama, there is nothing regular there o. The sooner you accept it the better o. lol
Once again congratulations. There's nothing better than the feeling that whatever happens you're gonna be in Trump land come August. Hope you don dey search for flight? Because the interview would be a walk in the park the moment you mention Penn state.

Second of four decisions received. (2nd admit)
Cleveland state university (super safe choice)
still no funding

Congrats man.

TooMuchSauce:

Congrats man.

Thanks