k199192:
That's why I laid my troubles here brother... I need realistic solutions. It's the university of illinois Springfield.. them get craze..

First, you need to come off your high horse. The school no get craze, you're simply not putting yourself in their shoes. Computer Science is the most competitive course to get into right now, for obvious reasons. Your profile is weak, and you should be busy finding ways to compensate for your weakness.

You can't change your GPA, but you should re-take the GRE. 291 on your GRE makes your app look bad. The only conclusion the school can draw is that your undergrad school must be of poor standard, if you could get a 2/1 and then a 291 on the GRE.

Congratulations!

ChristianGrey2:
I am a silent reader of this thread and i really benefited from this thread. Praise be to Allah.I had my interview on friday
and it was approved. Visa issued Yesterday. This is what transpired between the consular officer and i.
ME- Good Morning
CO- Good Morning.
ME- How are you doing?
CO- Fine thanks.
ME- You welcome
CO- Pass your passport and i-20
ME- Sure
CO- Why are you going to the US.
ME- I am going to the US to undertake a course of studies in International business trade and commerce at Kalamazoo college
in Michigan
CO- How did you heard about this school?
ME- I made an intensive search online using academic websites such as usnews, Princeton reviews and Peterson and then i narrowed down my search based
on schools that offer experiential learning. Afterwards i consulted the schools website to gain information about their application process.
CO- Why did you choose this school?
me- I chose this school because they offer hands on learning components through excellent internships programs and summer study abroad programs. I believe
this will help me learn from expert and also widen my employability skills. Among the schools that accepted me this school offered me the most financial
aid package.
CO- How many schools did you consider?
ME- four. Bates college, Northeastern University, Kalamazoo and UMaine.
CO- Why did you pick Kalamazoo over northeastern
ME- I prefer to study at a liberal arts college because of small teacher to student ratio which allows for better interaction between faculty and students.
C0- Northeastern is a liberal arts college.
ME- Please madam northeastern university is not a liberal arts college. it is a research university offering masters and doctorate programs.
C0- How do you intend funding your education
ME- The school has offered me a scholarship and my parents will foot the remaining.
C0- She typed for a while and said i have approved your application.
ME- Thank you and have a great day.
CO- You too.

Chidinho10:



So Indians wey dey apply go 20 schools na mumu them be ba? Abeg chill, he has his plans. The best we can do is guide him.

God bless you for this, I chatted with one Indian guy yesterday and he told me that he applied to 12 schools. Luckily for him the first decision was an admit, the remaining 11 rejected him.

unalaoted:
Visa Approved this morning @Lagos C.
But guyz tell your frd to tell his frd that with Nairaland u can get anything done.

special thanks to the Almighty for this because trust me GOD 'S FAVOR DEY OOO..@all the guyz arguing abt prayers or not.. Rembr "heaven helps dos that help Demselves".

transcript is coming soon

Congratulations again bro. I'm happy the mock interview we had wasn't in vain. God bless your new journey

Good evening everyone...
I've been a silent follower of this thread for a while when I applied for a student visa...
My visa was approved today and here goes my transcript...
Vo: Good morning

Me: Good morning

Vo: Pass your passport

Me: Passed it

Vo: your I-20

Me: passed it

Vo: why did you pick the school?

Me: I visited the school during my last trip to the states and the educational facilities and conducive learning environment was pleasant and a friend who is an alumni recommended the school

Vo: What do you do?

Me: I work with my uncle as an executive assistant and he's the director of protocol to bleep

Vo: Are you married?

Me: no

Vo: do you have any children?

Me: no

Vo: who's sponsoring you?

Me: my father

Vo: what does he do?

Me: told him

Vo: what was your undergraduate degree?

Me: International law

Vo: what school?

Me: told him

Vo: your visa has been approved and he hands me two white papers and told me to pick up my passport


The importance of prayer cannot be overemphasized... Just do your best and leave the rest for God...

k199192:
I need advice as I dan taya for google.
I applied to a school twice for two different programs... Msc Computer Science and Msc Management and information tech. But I was declined twice too. All for this fall semester.
The reason they gave for the former was that I don't have some prerequisite courses on my transcript for the program and the reason for the latter was GPA.
I called the school to tell them that my GPA is quite competitive but the "sabi sabi" person that received the call said "WES inflates GPA for reasons best known to them".
I evaluated my GPA with WES and it turned out to be 3.28/4 (me sef surprise considering that my GPA was 3.54/5).
my GRE score is 291 and 3.5 in AW..
Abeg, gurus in the house prescribe school for D boy o. I dan taya for google.
I am interested in computer science or Management info tech.
Thank you in advance

I plan to apply for the spring term. Insha Allah

apply to MIT na

I noticed the confirmation number on my DS-160 is different from the confirmation number on my appointment letter. The system used the confirmation number from my previous DS-160. How do I rectify this?

OluDare01:

Those acceptance rates you see are for undergrads.
And meeting the minimum admission requirements doesn't guarantee admission. I got 2 admits and 2 rejects and I met all the admission requirements. I just laugh at the guy thst said he has a competitive profile and got rejected. Those schools receive a lot of applications and they take their time to fish out the best

Yes boss, you're on point. I learnt about this the hard way.

joeluv:
I noticed the confirmation number on my DS-160 is different from the confirmation number on my appointment letter. The system used the confirmation number from my previous DS-160. How do I rectify this?

Go and update it on you visa appl profile and reprint.

Please explain better. Where do I do this update? DS-160?

texrem:


Go and update it on you visa appl profile and reprint.

k199192:
That's why I laid my troubles here brother... I need realistic solutions. It's the university of illinois Springfield.. them get craze..

31/80 in GRE can't get you CS. It's very competitive in any school. Rewrite GRE and get a better score, somewhere in the 50/80 range which is 310/340 range.. Then you have better chances.

Hi guys, I introduced a family friend turned sister to this thread and she got her visa approved so I had to persuade her to send her transcript so others can learn a thing or two. Please find transcript below.... quite long though.

Ok, well I'm just a silent person on this thread, joined exactly 2wks ago, and u guys have been amazing, I didn't do any mock interview persay, more like I kept on going over transcripts and asking myself questions.
Visa was approved yest 7am appointment, 12th June 2017. I saw all of u, green and white native, the guy that was interviewed after the guy that cried(chai I really felt for that guy, see as full grown man they weep). I also noticed the white pretty lady was giving blue papers, the oda 2 guys were giving white papers. I noticed that the chinese guy was drilling pple with quest . I was interviewed by the chinese guy.
Before I go on with my transcript, please note, Vo's are tayad of same old story from what I observed while on que. E.g xxxx recommended the skull to me, us news, Google.Com, Princeton review... " it perfectly fits my career goal or area of interest". I actually heard a vo say "that's what you all say, tell me summin else, it now looks like a rehersed line to them. Now they wanna hear summin diff and unique not the regular. There was a lady that was denied cos, her lines looked rehearsed, even if she answered all the questions correctly.
Well someone would say, so I was busy observing pple, yes I was and I observed carefully while on the que till it was my turn with the Chinese guy, after he just denied a family of 5( though the wife was going as a student F1 and the husband and children were going as F2. I heard the Chinese guy telling her, that she didn't write any online tests that why is she lying.(I wonder ow he found out) he just told her he doesn't belive her test results, and that it doesn't look like she has plans of returning to Nigeria. She is Nurse practioner.

Ok so after all my plenty aproko jist wey nobody send me, my transcript goes:


Vo: Gd morn
Me: Gd morn ow was nyt. Vo: Good, and urs
Me: Great(all smiles)
Vo: So why PVAMU?
Me:I chose pvamu, cos the course structure of the schools mba prog, perfectly fits my area of interest and it also aligns with my career path.
Vo: what do u mean by dat?
Me:I mean i chose the school cos d courses cuts across diff biz discipline, which is my area of interest.
Vo:oh pls tell me summn else, mba is a mgt course, and all schls mba prg cuts across diff biz discipline. ( at ds point I was nervous, i lost hope kinda, cos I felt the guy was not pleased with me at all, i ws thinkn God what else can I say make ds guy a little pleased with me.I was already saying I Don mess up)
Vo:So u said u were particular about the school because u like the course structure, so what are ds courses( for my mind I say thank God, I fit answer this one.
Me: I gave him like 6 courses.



Immediately I just continued talking, after listing the courses, that during my last visit to the Us in march, I had the opportunity of attendn a 2hr info session by the schl,(i did sha)for intending mba students and we were addressed by the asst Dean grad stud and the director college of biz.(I just needed him to hear this abeg, as him just dey strong face look me, so he cn be aware I hv travld bfr)
Vo: so what did dey say
Me: they said that the schools mba programme will bring great opportunities and equip us with......(I said plenty things here sha, at that point he was nodding his head, I said thank u Lord at least he is pleased with this answer)
Vo: so what do u do
Me: work with xx xx bank
Vo: so tell me about ur bank what do u do for them
Me: I work with the international trade finance unit, my major responsibilities are. .....(listed everything for him, im sure he was even tayad of my talk cos i do a lot were i work, it has a lot to do with international trade and business e.g imports, exports, i told him ow i talk with the comptroller of customs and ow i liaise with nafdac officials, and the FIRS team. ( nodding his head, he was kinda interested in my jist)
Vo: Oh Interesting!! So what are ur plans after mba
Me: I said after my mba, I would come back to my organisation, to work with d biz Dev team which has to do with emerging biz, were our focus is on the sme's, as we know in nig the sme's are major drivers of economic activities which is very critical to the growth of the economy, and also due to the recent circular released by cbn, were it was said that forex will be given to sme's dat intend to start import biz on a quarterly basis, there's gonna be an expansion for the sme's, so il be working on bringing innovative biz solutions to enable biz owners not only remain competitive in the market but also thrive to generate more revenue......(Na here I finish work, he was convinced at this point that this girl sabi her job function and would come back to implement her plans "story land", I just noticed he didn't cut me off, d way they cut pple off, he was feeling my jist)
Vo: so are u married
Me: yes
Vo: who is xxxxxx(looks at my ds form finally cos all this while he was looking at me)
Me: my hubby
Vo: any children yet
Me: not yet
Vo: how long u been married
Me: a year and half
Vo: tell me about ur hubby( I say which kain wahaala be dis one, cos truth is I was tayad of talking, make dis guy free me joor)
Me: he is xx yrs old and a director at xxxxx coy.
Vo: I will be approving ur visa. ....bla bla bla...what's ur coy email(then he was typing, i wonder y he asked though, maybe for verification).


So pple of NL, no test question( cos I had low scores for my Gmat and was very worried that they may not give me cos of that), no sponsor quest. Not everyone is asked same quest. Then pple with scholarship that did very well in school, they have started requesting for transcript maybe for verification.
Key point: speak intelligently and not some copied/rehearsed lines,(please know why u chose a school and why ur doing the course) They need to be convinced, that's the trick If the Chinese guy is interviewing get ready for drilling session, but he will give in the end...God bless us all, have a blessed day.

happyday:


First, you need to come off your high horse. The school no get craze, you're simply not putting yourself in their shoes. Computer Science is the most competitive course to get into right now, for obvious reasons. Your profile is weak, and you should be busy finding ways to compensate for your weakness.

You can't change your GPA, but you should re-take the GRE. 291 on your GRE makes your app look bad. The only conclusion the school can draw is that your uandergrad school must be of poor standard, if you could get a 2/1 and then a 291 on the GRE.

Can't you give out advice without making the receiver be "a bad guy"? I am not on any high horse. I am seeking admission. sirRiddy has told me everything I need to know.. noThanks.. And FYI not only 310 and above can get one admission into a good school... It was my first GRE (not an excuse though) and many people did worse on their first. See the way you rushed to judge my undergrad background. I taya for some people. once again.. noThanks...

Hello good evening my bosses..please i need an urgent response.

please the third party over there in USA that was meant to pay my SEVİS FEE said she tried paying through Western Union and she was told that my coupon number is invalid i wasn't able to make the payment..And now i checked my status the payment has reflected and she(third party)said she didn't give them the money since it was saying my coupon number was invalid
İ have my payment receipt printed out.please what do i do

Patovicy2k I replied your pm in the afternoon, kindly check the email connected to your NL profile

joeluv:
I noticed the confirmation number on my DS-160 is different from the confirmation number on my appointment letter. The system used the confirmation number from my previous DS-160. How do I rectify this?

Just send a mail to support-nigeria@ustraveldocs.com just type ds160 as the body and subject. You'll automatically get a response and you should be alright with the simple things it'll tell u to do

I think its just a system error from their end there and I believe they will give your sister a call or mail her that's if they have her details.

Or

Try inform your sister the new development so she can give the WU center a call on what's on ground.

#noSweat bro

dannyfrank:
Hello good evening my bosses..please i need an urgent response.

please the third party over there in USA that was meant to pay my SEVİS FEE said she tried paying through Western Union and she was told that my coupon number is invalid i wasn't able to make the payment..And now i checked my status the payment has reflected and she(third party)said she didn't give them the money since it was saying my coupon number was invalid
İ have my payment receipt printed out.please what do i do

Please, can anyone recommend good schools (5) for PhD in civil and environmental engineering?


In addition to above question, I will like to know if funding will cover relocation and accommodation.
GRE- 315, M.Eng GPA-4.49

sobastical:


Types of visa?
Like what do you really want? as this is a place for students who wants to study in the states and somme some are already there.

So are you going for study or what?

i'm currently in a fedral university (300l) here, i would like to know how i can futher, if possible i wont av to start again, how n when to apply and so on.
Thank you.

Walspring:


Go and read previous part of this thread and you will get answers to this and more knowledge as well

kindly breif na

shinebamo:

kindly breif na

If you are serious about it, you won't feel lazy reading from the previous..

benugo:
Please, can anyone recommend good schools (5) for PhD in civil and environmental engineering?


In addition to above question, I will like to know if funding will cover relocation and accommodation.
GRE- 315, M.Eng GPA-4.49

cc: femi321

benugo:
Please, can anyone recommend good schools (5) for PhD in civil and environmental engineering?


In addition to above question, I will like to know if funding will cover relocation and accommodation.
GRE- 315, M.Eng GPA-4.49

Texas Tech University
Oklahoma State University
TAMU, Kingsville
LSU, Baton Rouge
Kansas State University

Full funding, generally, pays your tuition, and then pay you some cash every month. You can do what you want with the money (rent, food). No, they won't pay for your relocation or travel. Expect your first salary at the end of the second month of arrival.

People got in with less GRE scores, so that's not the only determining factor. Having a high score is very good, doesnt mean you can't get into top schools with lower score.
Don't just turn away because of your score, if you feel it's not okay, check their requirement and see if they stressed on the GRE, and send them an email stating your profile and ask if its ok to apply.

Fatezee:


Thanks... Anything is possible

OGreene:
People got in with less GRE scores, so that's not the only determining factor. Having a high score is very good, doesnt mean you can't get into top schools with lower score.

Alright thanks...

ChristianGrey2:
I am a silent reader of this thread and i really benefited from this thread. Praise be to Allah.I had my interview on friday
and it was approved. Visa issued Yesterday.

Congratulations bro.. Welcome to trump land lol.

Chapecoense:

Congratulations bro.. Welcome to trump land lol.

Thanks man. Sent you a pm

cmbagwu:
Hi guys, I introduced a family friend turned sister to this thread and she got her visa approved so I had to persuade her to send her transcript so others can learn a thing or two. Please find transcript below.... quite long though.

Ok, well I'm just a silent person on this thread, joined exactly 2wks ago, and u guys have been amazing, I didn't do any mock interview persay, more like I kept on going over transcripts and asking myself questions.
Visa was approved yest 7am appointment, 12th June 2017. I saw all of u, green and white native, the guy that was interviewed after the guy that cried(chai I really felt for that guy, see as full grown man they weep). I also noticed the white pretty lady was giving blue papers, the oda 2 guys were giving white papers. I noticed that the chinese guy was drilling pple with quest . I was interviewed by the chinese guy.
Before I go on with my transcript, please note, Vo's are tayad of same old story from what I observed while on que. E.g xxxx recommended the skull to me, us news, Google.Com, Princeton review... " it perfectly fits my career goal or area of interest". I actually heard a vo say "that's what you all say, tell me summin else, it now looks like a rehersed line to them. Now they wanna hear summin diff and unique not the regular. There was a lady that was denied cos, her lines looked rehearsed, even if she answered all the questions correctly.
Well someone would say, so I was busy observing pple, yes I was and I observed carefully while on the que till it was my turn with the Chinese guy, after he just denied a family of 5( though the wife was going as a student F1 and the husband and children were going as F2. I heard the Chinese guy telling her, that she didn't write any online tests that why is she lying.(I wonder ow he found out) he just told her he doesn't belive her test results, and that it doesn't look like she has plans of returning to Nigeria. She is Nurse practioner.

Ok so after all my plenty aproko jist wey nobody send me, my transcript goes:


Vo: Gd morn
Me: Gd morn ow was nyt. Vo: Good, and urs
Me: Great(all smiles)
Vo: So why PVAMU?
Me:I chose pvamu, cos the course structure of the schools mba prog, perfectly fits my area of interest and it also aligns with my career path.
Vo: what do u mean by dat?
Me:I mean i chose the school cos d courses cuts across diff biz discipline, which is my area of interest.
Vo:oh pls tell me summn else, mba is a mgt course, and all schls mba prg cuts across diff biz discipline. ( at ds point I was nervous, i lost hope kinda, cos I felt the guy was not pleased with me at all, i ws thinkn God what else can I say make ds guy a little pleased with me.I was already saying I Don mess up)
Vo:So u said u were particular about the school because u like the course structure, so what are ds courses( for my mind I say thank God, I fit answer this one.
Me: I gave him like 6 courses.



Immediately I just continued talking, after listing the courses, that during my last visit to the Us in march, I had the opportunity of attendn a 2hr info session by the schl,(i did sha)for intending mba students and we were addressed by the asst Dean grad stud and the director college of biz.(I just needed him to hear this abeg, as him just dey strong face look me, so he cn be aware I hv travld bfr)
Vo: so what did dey say
Me: they said that the schools mba programme will bring great opportunities and equip us with......(I said plenty things here sha, at that point he was nodding his head, I said thank u Lord at least he is pleased with this answer)
Vo: so what do u do
Me: work with xx xx bank
Vo: so tell me about ur bank what do u do for them
Me: I work with the international trade finance unit, my major responsibilities are. .....(listed everything for him, im sure he was even tayad of my talk cos i do a lot were i work, it has a lot to do with international trade and business e.g imports, exports, i told him ow i talk with the comptroller of customs and ow i liaise with nafdac officials, and the FIRS team. ( nodding his head, he was kinda interested in my jist)
Vo: Oh Interesting!! So what are ur plans after mba
Me: I said after my mba, I would come back to my organisation, to work with d biz Dev team which has to do with emerging biz, were our focus is on the sme's, as we know in nig the sme's are major drivers of economic activities which is very critical to the growth of the economy, and also due to the recent circular released by cbn, were it was said that forex will be given to sme's dat intend to start import biz on a quarterly basis, there's gonna be an expansion for the sme's, so il be working on bringing innovative biz solutions to enable biz owners not only remain competitive in the market but also thrive to generate more revenue......(Na here I finish work, he was convinced at this point that this girl sabi her job function and would come back to implement her plans "story land", I just noticed he didn't cut me off, d way they cut pple off, he was feeling my jist)
Vo: so are u married
Me: yes
Vo: who is xxxxxx(looks at my ds form finally cos all this while he was looking at me)
Me: my hubby
Vo: any children yet
Me: not yet
Vo: how long u been married
Me: a year and half
Vo: tell me about ur hubby( I say which kain wahaala be dis one, cos truth is I was tayad of talking, make dis guy free me joor)
Me: he is xx yrs old and a director at xxxxx coy.
Vo: I will be approving ur visa. ....bla bla bla...what's ur coy email(then he was typing, i wonder y he asked though, maybe for verification).


So pple of NL, no test question( cos I had low scores for my Gmat and was very worried that they may not give me cos of that), no sponsor quest. Not everyone is asked same quest. Then pple with scholarship that did very well in school, they have started requesting for transcript maybe for verification.
Key point: speak intelligently and not some copied/rehearsed lines,(please know why u chose a school and why ur doing the course) They need to be convinced, that's the trick If the Chinese guy is interviewing get ready for drilling session, but he will give in the end...God bless us all, have a blessed day.

Interesting. Quite informative. Thank you for this. And congrats!

cmbagwu:
Not everyone is asked same quest. Then pple with scholarship that did very well in school, they have started requesting for transcript maybe for verification.

Interesting point noted above . Thanks for sharing

Congrats to your friend....

topdee:

Which schools accept HND for masters?

, after doing ur evaluation for both nd and HND , u re good for masters

Tunnyz:

Send me a pm

how do i pm someone here please ?

LagosismyHome:


Interesting point noted above . Thanks for sharing

Congrats to your friend....

I agree with the poster. I noticed some VOs now ask for transcripts lately. Some would even ask for statement of account... They must be tired of hearing all our same ol same story of research and professors we people don bamboozle dem with those things