Oh thank God now I'm relieved. God bless you sir

femi312:
A little above your total cost for one year is fine.

LagosismyHome:


Her reaction is expected...... you expect her to play nice just because someone offered to pay half

No way...... she has to put herself first and her application deadline. Anybody that decides to do this freebie kudos to the person kind heart but to cancel transaction later due to one or two stuff that madness.

I am sorry but if someone cannot stick to their end of the offer then don't do it at all...... I don't care about reason.... Leave people alone to pay full price and let them plan like that. Don't dangle apples in front of them to go mess up their schedule later .... . If so the generous donor deserve more than horrible names

@bold. Have you ever thought for once that no one forced them to show interest to participate in the offer after reading the advert? because I wonder why you have the mindset and such thinking.

I am not saying she should not react but over reaction and impatience it ain’t the best in a situation where someone is telling you calm down and reason to calm down, we shouldn’t be thinking one way because life itself is not one way drive.

What majority haven’t realize about this funny world is that people can still be scammed in person (one on one) even blood and relations, closed friend and business partners does that.

Patience is life!

dan5loriel:

Oh thank God now I'm relieved. God bless you sir

pls can
I take my dads company financial statement to my interview? Pls

Walspring:


@bold. Have you ever thought for once that no one forced them to show interest to participate in the offer after reading the advert? because I wonder why you have the mindset and such thinking.

I am not saying she should not react but over reaction and impatience it ain’t the best in a situation where someone is telling you calm down and reason to calm down, we shouldn’t be thinking one way because life itself is not one way drive.

What majority haven’t realize about this funny world is that people can still be scammed in person (one on one) even blood and relations, closed friend and business partners does that.

Patience is life!

is scamming now a good thing or something to justify because i dont understand the second bold

life should be one way , honest and transparent .

If someone cannot support a charity then the person should not do it . Simple . Yes nobody was forced anybody to participate same way nobody forced the donor to do it . It like saying because you are my employer it gives you the right to treat me anyhow as nobody forced me to take the Job. No Sir , as an employee you can still be held to a standard of conduct

LagosismyHome:


your company should not decide your future but you should ............. Also there was no quality to that answer on why the school. you should have elaborated more on the good qualities that makes you want to go to that school and how it fit into your future goal

what school is this ? ......... if this was your response then really you were not prepared at all . go through past transcript and use that as a guide

Pls I want to talk to you via dm. Kindly reply me . Thanks a lot.

Good day everyone. I need sincere advice from people with more experience here.

I applied for PhD in Mechanical Engineering (Mechatronics option) at up to five (5) different schools for this Fall 2018 in US.
However none granted me admission except one with no funding. I declined the offer.

I have a first class degree in Mechanical Engineering.My GRE score is Verbal-151 Quantitative-160. Total 311.
My SOP should be ok in comparison to others.

The only shortcoming of my application that i know of is that most were submitted on the deadline dates due to some challenges I faced then. Could only this be the reason for not getting funding?

Also other factor that might have affected me is that most of them were top schools including: University of Southern California, University of Michigan Ann-Arbor and Texas A & M College Station.

I need your advice as I am planning to apply for Fall 2019. Also which likely schools have higher probability of admission and funding?

Thanks in advance.

Lol...Justwise said dark web...Sounds like something batman would say....

Well, these registration is crystal clean. It's simple and directly from ets. At least for the company I use in registering people, and even the so called companies y'all go to send their registration to be done by us.

I am not judging anybody but at any point complications can happen even when you pay stuff yourself online. If you don't want any hassles pay the 365*212. I know how many utilized the cheap fees to write more than once to enable them reach target scores. Who born who well to dey write 3 times with normal price

SMH atlanta didn't even change you. Akoka behavior still dey your body.. You still be axelord?

ProfOjah1234:

Na you be that Axe Lord guy wey dey torment ejanla back then for jaja?.. Now i don sabi you..

jagaban17:
So many dates in July at the moment for those wanting to schedule or Reschedule.

Do we have dates before 24th of July. I need a date date before my sevis fee will expire 24th of of July.

FA13:
Good day everyone. I need sincere advice from people with more experience here.

I applied for PhD in Mechanical Engineering (Mechatronics option) at up to five (5) different schools for this Fall 2018 in US.
However none granted me admission except one with no funding. I declined the offer.

I have a first class degree in Mechanical Engineering.My GRE score is Verbal-151 Quantitative-160. Total 311.
My SOP should be ok in comparison to others.

The only shortcoming of my application that i know of is that most were submitted on the deadline dates due to some challenges I faced then. Could only this be the reason for not getting funding?

Also other factor that might have affected me is that most of them were top schools including: University of Southern California, University of Michigan Ann-Arbor and Texas A & M College Station.

I need your advice as I am planning to apply for Fall 2019. Also which likely schools have higher probability of admission and funding?

Thanks in advance.

First don't be too hard on yourself, life happens. Do you have a masters degree? Do you have research experience? Did you have any contact with any faculty prior to applying? The sad truth is, even with a GRE score of 320, you can still be rejected from Top 10 schools if you apply to all. PhD admission is extremely competitive and I admire your ambition for choosing those schools but you need to have a good spread of schools up to top 60 in your field. However, you cant be applying for PhD a day to deadlines, you need to apply way before deadline preferably ending of Nov. Applying very early helps in some cases.

As regards your SOP, you need more than 'ok' SOP to stand a better chance, you should send your SOP to people to help you review. You need to have a great SOP coupled with great LOR.

For fall 2019, look at University of Kansas, Kansas state University, University of Maryland college park, University of Pittsburgh,Northwestern (There is a young Nigerian prof in the Mechanical department, you can talk to him) and others. By the way if you have the luxury of time and money, you can consider re-writing the GRE to get >320. However if not, just apply to schools between 20 - 60 in the mechanical engineering ranking (If you don't have the ranking, I can send it to you). You need to understand that some crazy Chinese and Indians are applying to those same top 10 schools with near perfect GRE scores, research papers and experience. Try to apply to at least 6 schools (2 Top 20, 3 between 20 and 60) and 1 in the last range and not just 3 schools). Do an extensive research on each school you decide to apply to, go on LinkedIn, connect with international students in the school and ask questions about funding and prospect of getting a direct PhD offer. Make the graduate coordinator your friend, ask questions and be explicit. Search Nairaland to see people who have gotten PhD admission with funding and look up such schools. Getting Phd admission and funding is like looking for a job, you have to give it all

femi312:
I didn't even expect to hear of this again, no matter how you spin this, the lady in question is not wrong. Every normal person that worked for his or her money will react the way she reacted. Our country is synonymous to scam and people are very sensitive when it comes to money matters. Just let it go

Truly you don’t need to expect that because you don’t seem to know and understand 95% what her reaction was all about. I don’t know if you can break an egg and still arrange it back and because we all worked for our money and we should destroy things without calming our reactions even when our eyes can see that but refused to exercise patience.

Patience is life no matter how your are tempted, tormented to lose patience

femi312:
Since some people said he has done payment for them and there was no issue, give him an element of doubt. There might be an explanation, However if no explanation, count your losses and move on, he will meet his waterloo

Wow! This is interesting, but after the explanation and the guy rectify it and since it takes few days to be rectify by Ets and before that can you advise this guy to keep on reacting Although it is the guy hard earn money. Because that’s exactly what the lady was doing and I have to be blunt when I can hold it to avoid issues.

Patience is life.


CC
Lagosismyhome

pcb2bad:
pls can
I take my dads company financial statement to my interview? Pls

Saw your pm notification but I cant acess that email. You can but personal statement is better. With a company account you will have to explain why the company is sponsoring you, of which most times its hard to explain even if true. This is because company have staff salaries to pay and other expenses which is what VOs consider.

Please guys. I'm about to apply again. I hope the administrative processing won't affect me again. Is there anything I should do? Should I add more accounts or just move the whole money into new account

jandedfelloh:
Please guys. I'm about to apply again. I hope the administrative processing won't affect me again. Is there anything I should do? Should I add more accounts or just move the whole money into new account

Don't move mainly because you don't even know what the true issue is . And moving just raises eye brow .

If it me as long as the statement is legit , i go back and hope for the best

I wonder why some people enrolled in the university of impossibility with their wrong philosophy.

Chidinho10:


I feel you were too fast to condemn him. Una never talk and you don already make conclusions. You're not the only person he helped and it appears you are the only person that suffered this stuff. It would have been wise to hear his response first before calling him out on NL.

I understand emotional reasons made you take the decision but this is just incase of next time.

Your head is valid in profojah’s voice.

Walspring:


Yes i know of two people

Yes I was denied of visa on 19th of this month and I have reapplied yesterday being 21st ang got appointment on 31st july

LagosismyHome:


Don't move mainly because you don't even know what the true issue is . And moving just raises eye brow .

If it me as long as the statement is legit , i go back and hope for the best

If VO asks what changed. Do I have to mention that I was placed on administrative processing last time. but I have brought more supporting financial document. I'm planning to add his business account too with a letter from bank.

dan5loriel:
Please house!

The current balance on my dads account can only show prove of fund to cover both my tution and living expenses for one year only (34000usd) ATM. My question is, can it be used or I have to show proof of fund for the total duration of my 2yrs program

You are good to do with that since it covers your for a year and the believe is that before the end of the session you will get money for the second year.

Shaddy01:
Hello guys,
My interview is next month, when going for the interview, which bank statement should I go with? Is it the one i presented to the school or a more current one as at the interview date.
Thanks

Please someone who can should answer me

jandedfelloh:
I got an sms last night that my passport was ready for pickup. I have collected it this morning. they returned all my documents including my statement of account. they attached the 214b form. no other explanation. I don't even know how to approach this again cos I tried my best to make everything perfect the first time.

If you are not ban and you are sure of what you submitted are all legit then reapply.

Walspring:


Wow! This is interesting, but after the explanation and the guy rectify it and since it takes few days to be rectify by Ets and before that can you advise this guy to keep on reacting Although it is the guy hard earn money. Because that’s exactly what the lady was doing and I have to be blunt when I can hold it to avoid issues.

Patience is life.


CC
Lagosismyhome

I didn't want to dignify you with a response before because I thought its best to let it go but since you brought this here yourself and you keep mentioning me, I guess I will respond because sometimes silence is not always golden. Because you people are doing people favor does not mean they always have to play to your terms when it obviously doesn't favor them. For the record, I dont know the lady in question from anywhere.

I met her on Nairaland just like everyone that sends me pms. Nov 5,2017, she told me about her dealings with you about GRE promo, which she benefitted but she realized that the registration was cancelled few days to her exam. She made mentioned that she contacted you bla bla...the payment was made after she had taken the exam without being able to report her scores. She specifically said you and the donor said you will pay for reporting four score reports because the donor admitted it was his fault. From Nov 5, 2017 that she asked for my advice on the issue till Dec 1 2017, you guys didn't pay for any score reports. Infact you stopped picking her calls, few times that you picked there was no correlation between what she was asking and what you were saying. I specifically called you too just to resolve the issue but to no avail, it was as if I wasted about 2hrs of my life talking to you, I am saying A you will be saying B.

Because of the stress she was going through and application deadlines approaching, I paid for 2 GRE score reports for someone I don't even know facially till today because you guys were not straight forward and forth coming. Feb 23, 2018 you sent an email that you want to refund me and I said I don't need the money, give the lady in question the naira equivalent. In summary, from Nov 5, 2017 to Feb 23,2018 is about four months which is a long time to be patient. You want someone that put in the work to research for schools and studied for GRE to be patient on your own terms because of your fault. At least if you are not considerate be reasonable. Normal me would have just ignored this but I have to, to save incoming people from losing money and going through unnecessary stress due to one nonsense GRE promo.

To all of you looking for GRE promo, know the risk involved and be ready for the consequences. Its better to pay for GRE on the ets website yourself to have peace of mind. Have a good day.

aregbe247:
both of them are aaua gallant comrades and they are repping the school both nationally and internationally, if you know you know,and oga wale,abeg I still dey expect that GRE and TOEFL material na...@biodun2rule247@gmail.com.....and please are you a product of aaua because doz arena and street you mention na aaua proper fit grab am

Materials sent.

Walspring:


If you are not ban and you are sure of what you submitted are all legit then reapply.

No they just attached the 214b blue paper

femi312:
I didn't want to dignify you with a response before because I thought its best to let it go but since you brought this here yourself and you keep mentioning me, I guess I will respond because sometimes silence is not always golden. Because you people are doing people favor does not mean they always have to play to your terms when it obviously doesn't favor them. For the record, I dont know the lady in question from anywhere.

I met her on Nairaland just like everyone that sends me pms. Nov 5,2017, she told me about her dealings with you about GRE promo, which she benefitted but she realized that the registration was cancelled few days to her exam. She made mentioned that she contacted you bla bla...the payment was made after she had taken the exam without being able to report her scores. She specifically said you and the donor said you will pay for reporting 4 score reports because the donor admitted it was his fault. From Nov 5, 2017 that she asked for my advice on the issue till Dec 1 2017, you guys didn't pay for any score reports. Infact you stopped picking her calls, few times that you picked there was no correlation between what she is asking and what you are saying. I specifically called you too just to resolve the issue but to no avail, it was as if I wasted about 2hrs of my life talking to you, I am saying A you will be saying B.

Because of the stress she was going through and application deadlines approaching, I paid for 2 GRE score reports for someone I don't even know till today because you guys were not straight forward and forth coming. Feb 23, 2018 you sent an email that you want to refund me and I said I don't need the money, give the lady in question the naira equivalent. In summary, from Nov 5 2017 till Feb 23,2018, is about four months which is a long time to be patience. You want someone that put in the work to research for schools and study for GRE to be patient on your own terms because of your fault. At least if you are not considerate be reasonable. Normal me would have just ignored this but I have to, to save incoming people from losing money and going through unnecessary stress due to one nonsense GRE promo.

To all of you looking for GRE promo, know the risk involved and be ready for the consequences. Its better to pay for GRE on the ets website yourself to have peace of mind. Have a good day.

In summary, from Nov 5 2017 till Feb 23,2018, is about four months ....in an admission cycle who has 4 months . That is some pisstaking

Absolutely ridiculous.... what . 4 months and talking about patient. Justwise is best to ban let people plan with what they have

LagosismyHome:


In summary, from Nov 5 2017 till Feb 23,2018, is about four months ....

Absolutely ridiculous.... what . 4 months and some one talking about patient. Justwise is best to ban let people plan with what they have

Its more than ridiculous but that is life.

femi312:
I didn't want to dignify you with a response before because I thought its best to let it go but since you brought this here yourself and you keep mentioning me, I guess I will respond because sometimes silence is not always golden. Because you people are doing people favor does not mean they always have to play to your terms when it obviously doesn't favor them. For the record, I dont know the lady in question from anywhere.

I met her on Nairaland just like everyone that sends me pms. Nov 5,2017, she told me about her dealings with you about GRE promo, which she benefitted but she realized that the registration was cancelled few days to her exam. She made mentioned that she contacted you bla bla...the payment was made after she had taken the exam without being able to report her scores. She specifically said you and the donor said you will pay for reporting 4 score reports because the donor admitted it was his fault. From Nov 5, 2017 that she asked for my advice on the issue till Dec 1 2017, you guys didn't pay for any score reports. Infact you stopped picking her calls, few times that you picked there was no correlation between what she is asking and what you are saying. I specifically called you too just to resolve the issue but to no avail, it was as if I wasted about 2hrs of my life talking to you, I am saying A you will be saying B.

Because of the stress she was going through and application deadlines approaching, I paid for 2 GRE score reports for someone I don't even know till today because you guys were not straight forward and forth coming. Feb 23, 2018 you sent an email that you want to refund me and I said I don't need the money, give the lady in question the naira equivalent. In summary, from Nov 5 2017 till Feb 23,2018, is about four months which is a long time to be patience. You want someone that put in the work to research for schools and study for GRE to be patient on your own terms because of your fault. At least if you are not considerate be reasonable. Normal me would have just ignored this but I have to, to save incoming people from losing money and going through unnecessary stress due to one nonsense GRE promo.

To all of you looking for GRE promo, know the risk involved and be ready for the consequences. Its better to pay for GRE on the ets website yourself to have peace of mind. Have a good day.

Wonderful write up and not all are correct here.

Like I said you don’t know 95% of all these but lemme talk about dribbling you it’s because you want an answer to question I can’t answer so that you can hold my words so I activated dribbling skills for you and I told you that if by the deadline he didn’t pay I will pay personally for the score report but unfortunately you don’t know what she did again for me to hold my peace and activated my dark side towards her.

My posts are not to justify us but if then I say to you and the lady that who you are asking for was reported to be lifeless because of something I don’t know much about but dropped a note for me via someone to follow up with me back then am sure you and the lady will think of scamming her or end up forget the money and moved on but thanks to God because the guy vision and mission to empower the orphanage i feel worked for him at that point if I am not wrong because I prayed that God don’t allow his vision and mission to the orphanage end like this. Other challenges I faced about his money because who he sent to me just wanted me to send money but I realize that’s not the way he do chat with me. I can’t be opening someone’s life here those who are aware that I seek advise from on this thread are still alive if am to use them as my witness but those who know go know.

Like I said patience is life and the lady not knowing how to talk because she was right makes me to activated my dark side for her by going blind on the issues before i activated it back.

I don’t know this guy facially but am sorry if you read what I am not suppose to post here about your life but when I see one day in person I have just 3 questions to ask you and one of it is why did you asked me to monitor this for you because up till now I don’t even know myself, I will keep the remaining two till we see.

femi312:
First don't be too hard on yourself, life happens. Do you have a masters degree? Do you have research experience? Did you have any contact with any faculty prior to applying? The sad truth is, even with a GRE score of 320, you can still be rejected from Top 10 schools if you apply to all. PhD admission is extremely competitive and I admire your ambition for choosing those schools but you need to have a good spread of schools up to top 60 in your field. However, you cant be applying for PhD a day to deadlines, you need to apply way before deadline preferably ending of Nov. Applying very early helps in some cases.

As regards your SOP, you need more than 'ok' SOP to stand a better chance, you should send your SOP to people to help you review. You need to have a great SOP coupled with great LOR.

For fall 2019, look at University of Kansas, Kansas state University, University of Maryland college park, University of Pittsburgh,Northwestern (There is a young Nigerian prof in the Mechanical department, you can talk to him) and others. By the way if you have the luxury of time and money, you can consider re-writing the GRE to get >320. However if not, just apply to schools between 20 - 60 in the mechanical engineering ranking (If you don't have the ranking, I can send it to you). You need to understand that some crazy Chinese and Indians are applying to those same top 10 schools with near perfect GRE scores, research papers and experience. Try to apply to at least 6 schools (2 Top 20, 3 between 20 and 60) and 1 in the last range and not just 3 schools). Do an extensive research on each school you decide to apply to, go on LinkedIn, connect with international students in the school and ask questions about funding and prospect of getting a direct PhD offer. Make the graduate coordinator your friend, ask questions and be explicit. Search Nairaland to see people who have gotten PhD admission with funding and look up such schools. Getting Phd admission and funding is like looking for a job, you have to give it all

Thanks for the response. I however do not have a Masters. I will look up the schools mentioned.

lasthero:


i graduated in 2010. the name "harrypotter" sound familiar, i think i remembered his advert for a student union election. i am not familiar with the second name.

Mandela was your SUG president then while harrypotter was the PRO