jamoyakz:
exactly my thoughts because the way consular officers are drilling applicants and delaying them is quite alarming compare to fall 2017. even the visas fee is a pure scam 160 dollars at 400 naira per dollars... even in the most remote black market it's not sold at that rate...

TWoods:


These questions should be addressed to your pro
spective school.

Gospelozy:


Mr. Folmus,no be small since last year oo . Had hiccups on the way.
CGPA 3.77, GRE 276. Analytical writings not yet out.

TimmyBee:
Good Day Great People, I am a newbie here and I need some enlightenment. I wish to apply for MSc Finance in the US, but I have a constraint, my BSc CGPA is low. I had 2.6/5. I wish to know if I stand a chance to get Admission provided I have a good GRE score. I believe I can do well in GRE if I prepare well for it.

Kindly help me with necessary information that I need, if this CGPA is good enough to get me Masters Admission or I should stay back for my masters here and go for PhD in the States.

Your expert opinions will be very much appreciated.

TimmyBee:
Good Day Great People, I am a newbie here and I need some enlightenment. I wish to apply for MSc Finance in the US, but I have a constraint, my BSc CGPA is low. I had 2.6/5. I wish to know if I stand a chance to get Admission provided I have a good GRE score. I believe I can do well in GRE if I prepare well for it.

Kindly help me with necessary information that I need, if this CGPA is good enough to get me Masters Admission or I should stay back for my masters here and go for PhD in the States.

Your expert opinions will be very much appreciated.

TWoods:


Did you send any? What was your question?

jamoyakz:
exactly my thoughts because the way consular officers are drilling applicants and delaying them is quite alarming compare to fall 2017. even the visas fee is a pure scam 160 dollars at 400 naira per dollars... even in the most remote black market it's not sold at that rate...

TWoods:


You're being unnecessarily alarmist. People should feel free to come here and study. The H1B visa has not changed and is not likely to change much... the difference is that the visa is now being applied more stringently. The H1B was meant to be for people with rare skills. Unfortunately it's been abused by mostly IT companies who have been using it to bring in low skilled cheap labor from India. There are two reasons the H1B appears to be getting more difficult:
1. Unlike before where renewals of H1Bs was almost a given, now each renewal is now treated as a fresh application.
2. they are now scrutinizing H1Bs to ensure that it is indeed going to the best and brightest - for example, does your job REALLY require an advanced skill? Are you being paid wages commensurate with your skill? The folks who are getting hit the hardest are Indian IT companies who now have to justify every single cheap labor H1B.

Don't forget also, there are literally thousands of H1B folks here. Considering that the feds have been in a hiring freeze for a while, it is getting more difficult to process each application/renewal in record time.

This goes back to a lot of the advice I've given here before that folks like to dismiss - apply and get in to top schools! Go for degrees that are in demand (not social work and criminal justice), degrees that guarantee you a skilled job that American employers are seeking to fill. If a top US employer is looking to hire you with top pay, there is no executive order that can stop you. If you attended a 1-building school to earn a masters in English... well sorry. You get what you get.

Also, there is only so much executive orders can do. The OPT and H1B are enshrined in law and only congress can make substantive changes to them. The president can tighten a few screws with executive orders here and there but there is a limit to his power. Left to Trump, the diversity visa lottery system would long have ended and you would no longer be able to petition for an immigrant visa for relatives... but again, this requires legislative change and there is nothing he can do to this. This is not the Buhari government.

jamoyakz:
exactly my thoughts because the way consular officers are drilling applicants and delaying them is quite alarming compare to fall 2017. even the visas fee is a pure scam 160 dollars at 400 naira per dollars... even in the most remote black market it's not sold at that rate...

biikeys:


And it's a okay to then violate a non-disclosure agreement in an email? Btw..I don't think anything relating to general school admissions should involve NDAs-these are infos you can easily look up and disclose!

Beautyaddy:


Nigerians applying for student visas are not that only ones experiencing the extra drilling and maybe denials lately. It is happening with most countries that have been recorded with high rates of abusing the student visas by either dropping out of school once they get to the US or end up not returning back to their country even after completing the degrees they were given the visas for.

Most if not all the student visas applicants have mentioned it to the visa officers that they planned to return back to their country after completion of their studies in the US and how many so far have done so? Very little to none.

lyrondee:


Sweden and USA aint relatives

Please follow the right thread

Klebsy:
Hello everyone
I am sorry this is coming very late. Better late than never. Thanks for all the transcripts posted here, they've been of good use to silent users like me. I had my interview on Friday, Dec 22. It was a quick one. My transcript goes thus:

VO: Collects my I-20. What are you going to the US for?
Me: I am going for my Ms Food Science at the North Carolina A&T state University.
VO: What is your professional goal?
Me: (Takes a pause, this question was totally unexpected ). I would like to be a professional in food preservation in a bid to apply myself to tackling yhe rising food security issues in a developing country like Nigeria.
VO: Did you write any standardized test?
Me: I didn’t, as it was waived because of my gpa and statement of purpose.
VO: What courses will you be taking?
Me: Nutrition and disease, Food preservation, Hazard analysis and critical control points, Food quality control, etc
VO: How applicable are these courses to your professional goal?
Me: (Almost went dumb) Food preservation is central amongst other factors to achieving food security. The knowledge of Nutrition and quality control ensures nutrition is not compromised in a bid to achieving food preservation.
VO: Who will be sponsoring you?
Me: My dad
VO: What does he do for a living?
Me: (mentions my dad's profession)
VO: Do you have any proof to support his abilities to sponsor you?
Me: Passes my SOA
VO: This is not recent and it's for september
Me: I used this when I applied
VO: Has he ever travelled before?
Me: No, he has had no reason to.
I figured this might be the deciding factor and saw her typing away. I had an assistantship from the school which was not documented on my I-20. At that point, I had to scream at the top of my voice, ma'am! I have an assistantship from the school
VO: oh! This isn't stated on your I-20.
She collected my letter of assistantship and put me on administrative processing.
My start date was Jan 8 and it was a race against time. Visa was eventually approved on Jan 3 and was picked up Friday, Jan 5. I had to travel on Sunday just to enter the US on the 8th. I just spent the first week here in the US and I must confess it's been stressful.
Thanks to God and nairaland for making this a dream come true.

Ijebuboy525:
welcome on board, but I've never noticed that course on the school website.

bigfamo:

Can I pm you bros?

TimmyBee:
Good Day Great People, I am a newbie here and I need some enlightenment. I wish to apply for MSc Finance in the US, but I have a constraint, my BSc CGPA is low. I had 2.6/5. I wish to know if I stand a chance to get Admission provided I have a good GRE score. I believe I can do well in GRE if I prepare well for it.

Kindly help me with necessary information that I need, if this CGPA is good enough to get me Masters Admission or I should stay back for my masters here and go for PhD in the States.

Your expert opinions will be very much appreciated.

TWoods:


The experts you need are the admissions coordinators for the schools you intend to attend in the United States.

Please direct your questions to them.

tactmayor:
I have a CGPA of 3.73/4.00 and GRE-303. I have applied to 1 school, i want to apply to more schools. Please give suggestions on good schools with funding opportunities to apply to for Msc in Civil Engineering fall 2018 or 2019.

tactmayor:
I have a CGPA of 3.73/4.00 and GRE-303. I have applied to 1 school, i want to apply to more schools. Please give suggestions on good schools with funding opportunities to apply to for Msc in Civil Engineering fall 2018 or 2019.

TWoods:


the time you've spent spamming this thread with the intellectually lazy question above would have been better spent searching for a school yourself. Last I checked, you don't ask me to give you suggestions on what to eat for dinner.

Yours is a confused mishmash. You don't seem to have any goals other than "aspiring" to go to the US, using school as a fraudulent mechanism. It ought to be embarrassing to you that you cannot carry out the simplest task for yourself - searching for a school that offers the degree you are interested in. I typed this into bing just a few seconds ago (msc civil engineering USA) and I got a ton of results. Even the 1 school you're screeching that you've applied to was suggested to you by someone here. Another person paid your application fee for you. There is no structure to whatever you are doing, you seem to be bumbling blindly from one position to another... has it occurred to you that majority of the serious schools who would have funding opportunities already closed their applications period? Most serious students who will be granted funding turned in their applications months ago... you're still here asking questions you could have easily solved on google?

femi312:
Stop spamming this thread with this same post. No one can give you schools to apply to. You had a first class, you should be able to do proper research online using all the links that have been posted and reposted several times on this forum. I dont mean to sound harsh but sometimes one needs to hear the truth and not what you want to hear. By the way, if by now you are still looking for schools to apply to, you will end up applying to a mediocre school because most good schools close funding application as early as Dec 15 and some Jan 15. If you end up not getting admision for fall, just plan towards Spring 2019/Fall 2019 and look at the options of re-writing Gre to get a better score. Please dont go and waste that your GPA in one unranked school. I gave you a link to civil engineering schools ranking but you decided to ignore it and start looking for help where there is non. A serious person would have visited almost all the schools on that list to see their requirements and deadlines. I am not exaggerating, I visited all the schools on that list from 1 to 100 some years ago when I was at your stage.

tactmayor:
Bro tanx for the link you sent and I have checked them up to number 57. All i needed for asking the question was to get an experienced person's view because there are some things that will not be stated on the school's websites. You guys should not always assume that asking questions means one is not serious or just wants to run away. And 2019 has been part of my plans before.

Chidinho10:


Oga stop jumping from pillar to post and justifying your actions. No one here is entitled to search schools for you. You are expected to search schools and bring your schools here so that gurus can review them for you. Meanwhile, I would suggest you forget about searching for schools now and rewrite that GRE. There is no correlation between your GRE and your GPA. With your GPA and a 315+ GRE, you can comfortably get fully funded PhD offers from top 50 US universities in your field. No waste your GPA on a worthless school.

tactmayor:
Tanx bro

kenneth4000:
Which university in usa can accept 2.96/4 Gpa for master program in engineering

tactmayor:
Bro tanx for the link you sent and I have checked them up to number 57. All i needed for asking the question was to get an experienced person's view because there are some things that will not be stated on the school's websites. You guys should not always assume that asking questions means one is not serious or just wants to run away. And 2019 has been part of my plans before.