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Good evening geniuses,
Please kindly help evaluate my chances for PhD Computer Science (with funding). My profile is:
B.Sc Statistics with Computer (4.54/5)
M.Sc Statistics (4.87/5)
GRE: 310 (Quant-160, Verbal-150), AWA-4.0
TOEFL: 97 (Reading 21; Listening 21; Speaking 25; Writing 30)
Research Experience: 8 publications (4 Lead authored and 4 co-authored)
Skills: Python, Cinema 4D, Java, R, Machine Learning, Data Mining and Web development (with PHP & MySQL)
I’m worried that my TOEFL didn’t aggregate to 100 and my GRE Verbal is too low. Please are there chances of landing a TA or any kind of financial assistantship? Do I retake any or both of the tests? Meanwhile I chose FSU, OSU and WMU but yet to submit any application. Just got my TOEFL results.
God bless you.

With a profile like yours, the GRE would not factor much and its good. You should shoot higher IMO only that you must have missed a lot of guaranteed review deadlines from the elite universities.

How did you come about your school selections?

Here's what I suggest you do, look for top schools that their deadlines are in January or late December, depending on how ready your supplementary materials are, and the graduate program officer, their email is usually on the program page. Send an email with your profile asking if it is within competitive range for ission for an international student. Attach your CV too (ensure it's less than 5MB to avoid it being spammed) I bet they'll all say yes, but you might get some interesting replies too like 'a couple of our professors are interested' etc You can then apply first, then the professors afterwards.

Getting late, but try with reach schools (no school is reaching with your GPA and research mettle)

Good luck!

**Don't forget to share your GRE experience and ission trails. Giving back makes the world a better place

NoelJunior:
Good evening geniuses,
Please kindly help evaluate my chances for PhD Computer Science (with funding). My profile is:
B.Sc Statistics with Computer (4.54/5)
M.Sc Statistics (4.87/5)
GRE: 310 (Quant-160, Verbal-150), AWA-4.0
TOEFL: 97 (Reading 21; Listening 21; Speaking 25; Writing 30)
Research Experience: 8 publications (4 Lead authored and 4 co-authored)
Skills: Python, Cinema 4D, Java, R, Machine Learning, Data Mining and Web development (with PHP & MySQL)
I’m worried that my TOEFL didn’t aggregate to 100 and my GRE Verbal is too low. Please are there chances of landing a TA or any kind of financial assistantship? Do I retake any or both of the tests? Meanwhile I chose FSU, OSU and WMU but yet to submit any application. Just got my TOEFL results.
God bless you.

gbos:
Good evening guys, please i need possible suggestions on the schools to apply to for phd mechanical engineering

Q 155
V 151
AWA 3.5
undergrad cgpa 4.54/5.00

i sent my scores to Iowa state university
University of central Florida
university of arkansas
university of chicago, illinois

Although the gre score was not my personal best , before i rewrite i want to try and apply first. Any possible suggestions?

Rewrote yesterday, But sadly I got 287 - Q 146 and V 141. Previous score 285 - Q 140 and V 145 and my toefl was 87. I am mentally drained and I am not writing again. I will have to raise money to pay the fees, I just have to work hard. CGPA 4.23/5.0. I am looking to study Geophysics. Please what are my chances. I sent my latest 287 scores to; texas a & m kingsville, Michigan Tech, Colorado state Uni, UT Dallas and I sent my first 285 scores I sent it to; Texas a & m Kingsville, Texas El Paso, Uni of Utah, Uni of Tulsa.

What are my chances. What do you think I should do. Please please I cannot rewrite again. Whats the way forward?

mrcodebreaker:
Rewrote yesterday, But sadly I got 287 - Q 146 and V 141. Previous score 285 - Q 140 and V 145 and my toefl was 87. I am mentally drained and I am not writing again. I will have to raise money to pay the fees, I just have to work hard. CGPA 4.23/5.0. I am looking to study Geophysics. Please what are my chances. I sent my latest 287 scores to; texas a & m kingsville, Michigan Tech, Colorado state Uni, UT Dallas and I sent my first 285 scores I sent it to; Texas a & m Kingsville, Texas El Paso, Uni of Utah, Uni of Tulsa.

What are my chances. What do you think I should do. Please please I cannot rewrite again. Whats the way forward?

Sorry about this, I got something similar in my first attempt too, but yet to rewrite, will give myself enough time to refire, and prepare harder.... ..

What is the time difference between your 1st and 2nd attempt, sadly the best advice still remains that u should rewrite, don't lose hope. Don't even think about saving that HUGE school fees because u don't want to rewrite again.

Sorry about that. I understand your frustration, given that you had a month in-between and had this score. Honestly, the GRE is one test that makes smart people feel stupid and should never be underestimated. Statistically, people only improve by a few points in such time.
You just have to try again, I think your score, especially with the recent quant would hurt your application more, given that Geophysics is math based. Your GPA is great but imagine adcoms viewing your transcripts and seeing As in advanced calculus and math courses in contrast with a 146 quants. Q152 was 46th percentile for me – last year it was 47th, meaning people are performing much better this year, or at least 3 months before I took mine. Q146 would be much lower, 24th percentile last year, could be 23rd for you ie. your score was only better than 24% of the takers within 3 months of your exam. Many would expect a 50% and above

Options:
1. If you have anything else going for you like research exp., relevant internships, work exp, or super strong references, ask for the GRE to be waived for you, give reasons like finances, no time because of work etc something, anything.
2. If not, move your ission plan to next spring or fall, to give you more time to prepare for the GRE. That's if you want to study in a decent university that would provide funding.

Someone gained a fully funded ission with similar scores into an R1 university but I won't raise your hopes, because the person was the best graduating student in her university and was in with a professor long before considering ission also had a research proposal and publication(s). Only took the GRE because she was advised to apply and also it's one of those programs where the GRE is gradually being phased out.
Most times, even after being recommended by a faculty member, one would still have to take meet GRE minimums if any; you would have to be somewhat of a God's gift to the field for a professor to argue your case against required scores.

You could take chances but always be upfront with your profile and scores with the graduate officer of your department before you apply. I wish I could tell you that it is likely that you would raise your score by 13 to 15 in a month, under pressure, but it's extremely difficult, exponentially so for a 23 to 25+ increase. If you think you can, by all means, again and go hard.

Good luck, and enjoy the season o. It's not all about GRE and grad issions

mrcodebreaker:
Rewrote yesterday, But sadly I got 287 - Q 146 and V 141. Previous score 285 - Q 140 and V 145 and my toefl was 87. I am mentally drained and I am not writing again. I will have to raise money to pay the fees, I just have to work hard. CGPA 4.23/5.0. I am looking to study Geophysics. Please what are my chances. I sent my latest 287 scores to; texas a & m kingsville, Michigan Tech, Colorado state Uni, UT Dallas and I sent my first 285 scores I sent it to; Texas a & m Kingsville, Texas El Paso, Uni of Utah, Uni of Tulsa.

What are my chances. What do you think I should do. Please please I cannot rewrite again. Whats the way forward?

mrcodebreaker:
Rewrote yesterday, But sadly I got 287 - Q 146 and V 141. Previous score 285 - Q 140 and V 145 and my toefl was 87. I am mentally drained and I am not writing again. I will have to raise money to pay the fees, I just have to work hard. CGPA 4.23/5.0. I am looking to study Geophysics. Please what are my chances. I sent my latest 287 scores to; texas a & m kingsville, Michigan Tech, Colorado state Uni, UT Dallas and I sent my first 285 scores I sent it to; Texas a & m Kingsville, Texas El Paso, Uni of Utah, Uni of Tulsa.

What are my chances. What do you think I should do. Please please I cannot rewrite again. Whats the way forward?

I'm so sorry about your result. I think I posted what I feel you should do earlier in this thread before you took your test. I was thinking you would reschedule the test. I can see you wrote the previous test on the 31st of October (If I'm correct) and you wrote the next a couple of hours ago. And given your range of scores, there could not have been much improvements. The prep time was just too short.

I would have given other suggestions, but the hard truth is funding may not be as feasible as when you have great GRE scores. Though other factors like your CGPA come into play. I know it's difficult to write again after two attempts, but if i were in your shoes, I'll write again but this time, I would do things very differently. I would still suggest you read my earlier reply and adhere to it. Also, if you can, at B.Y Mafit www.gregmattoeflnigeria.com/gretestdatesinnigeria and go for 10 weeks lectures straight. Also make use of the magoosh and Manhattan online prep they give. The Manhattan has lots of practice questions. All these resources are free. Also, while there, study groups and read arduosly. Then budget another 2-3 months for practice. I think there are some s here as well, though many of them would be outdated.

I know of a girl who scored just like what you scored, and took the steps I earlier suggested and had an upwards of 220.

Just as tCharlesVane said, the GRE turns the wise of this world to fools and gives great scores to a foolish underperforming person who knows what he's doing

If you can't rewrite, and it's an absolute no, then I may be able to point you in the direction of some schools that will likely give ission based on other factors with a low GRE score.

frostsc:


I'm so sorry about your result. I think I posted what I feel you should do earlier in this thread before you took your test. I was thinking you would reschedule the test. I can see you wrote the previous test on the 31st of October (If I'm correct) and you wrote the next a couple of hours ago. And given your range of scores, there could not have been much improvements. The prep time was just too short.

I would have given other suggestions, but the hard truth is funding may not be as feasible as when you have great GRE scores. Though other factors like your CGPA come into play. I know it's difficult to write again after two attempts, but if i were in your shoes, I'll write again but this time, I would do things very differently. I would still suggest you read my earlier reply and adhere to it. Also, if you can, at B.Y Mafit www.gregmattoeflnigeria.com/gretestdatesinnigeria and go for 10 weeks lectures straight. Also make use of the magoosh and Manhattan online prep they give. The Manhattan has lots of practice questions. All these resources are free. Also, while there, study groups and read arduosly. Then budget another 2-3 months for practice. I think there are some s here as well, though many of them would be outdated.

I know of a girl who scored just like what you scored, and took the steps I earlier suggested and had an upwards of 220.

Just as tCharlesVane said, the GRE turns the wise of this world to fools and gives great scores to a foolish underperforming person who knows what he's doing

If you can't rewrite, and it's an absolute no, then I may be able to point you in the direction of some schools that will likely give ission based on other factors with a low GRE score.

Hi frostsc your advice is laudable, also read your posts on how you read for your GRE 2016, pls what school did you finally get into if u don't mind sharing and were you given any type of funding?

NoelJunior:
Good evening geniuses,
Please kindly help evaluate my chances for PhD Computer Science (with funding). My profile is:
B.Sc Statistics with Computer (4.54/5)
M.Sc Statistics (4.87/5)
GRE: 310 (Quant-160, Verbal-150), AWA-4.0
TOEFL: 97 (Reading 21; Listening 21; Speaking 25; Writing 30)
Research Experience: 8 publications (4 Lead authored and 4 co-authored)
Skills: Python, Cinema 4D, Java, R, Machine Learning, Data Mining and Web development (with PHP & MySQL)
I’m worried that my TOEFL didn’t aggregate to 100 and my GRE Verbal is too low. Please are there chances of landing a TA or any kind of financial assistantship? Do I retake any or both of the tests? Meanwhile I chose FSU, OSU and WMU but yet to submit any application. Just got my TOEFL results.
God bless you.

LOL. Are you even kidding? Trust me man these schools are too low for you. You think it's just the GRE score that gets you in? My friend you got it all wrong. You should be somewhere chilling for your it, considering the schools you applied to. Unless your SOP and LOR's are not strong enough.

Instinct20:

LOL. Are you even kidding? Trust me man these schools are too low for you. You think it's just the GRE score that gets you in? My friend you got it all wrong. You should be somewhere chilling for your it, considering the schools you applied to. Unless your SOP and LOR's are not strong enough.

I thought I was the only one with this in mind. SEE EXPERIENCE FULL EVERYWHERE, DON'T DOWNGRADE YOURSELF. Enough high rank school will rush you like indomine noodles

Leoney:

There's a test prep I ed then, it's quite difficult sha oh. The name is galvanize, it has both Verbal and Quant. Manhattan also has an android app prep, but to subscribe to the full package is 7k. In all though most android apps are just for mastering GRE vocabs, apps like Magoosh.

Hey even I used this Galvanize test prep android app. I really love it. The questions in the app resembles the actual GRE exam. I recently took profile evaluation from these guys and this is quite helpful.
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Good morning house, I got my first it two days ago from Michigan Tech, though there's no funding at the moment, but I could reach out to faculty and they'll be offering funding letters around March/April. Funny enough, I got a reject from University of New Haven.

Hello House,

Please how do i select schools to send my scores? I am charged $20 for each school I choose.

Emeritusseun:
Hello House,

Please how do i select schools to send my scores? I am charged $20 for each school I choose.

Is this for GRE?

charliejose:
Good morning house, I got my first it two days ago from Michigan Tech, though there's no funding at the moment, but I could reach out to faculty and they'll be offering funding letters around March/April. Funny enough, I got a reject from University of New Haven.

Congrats bro. First it for #Fall2019 on this thread. More to come. I hope funding comes through. Goodluck

Congrats boss

charliejose:
Good morning house, I got my first it two days ago from Michigan Tech, though there's no funding at the moment, but I could reach out to faculty and they'll be offering funding letters around March/April. Funny enough, I got a reject from University of New Haven.

mfarad:


Is this for GRE?

TOEFL

charliejose:
Good morning house, I got my first it two days ago from Michigan Tech, though there's no funding at the moment, but I could reach out to faculty and they'll be offering funding letters around March/April. Funny enough, I got a reject from University of New Haven.

Congrats bro. Hopefully the funding comes through. Do you still me ?

Congratulations bro!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I pray for more good news for team fall 2019

charliejose:
Good morning house, I got my first it two days ago from Michigan Tech, though there's no funding at the moment, but I could reach out to faculty and they'll be offering funding letters around March/April. Funny enough, I got a reject from University of New Haven.

charliejose:
Good morning house, I got my first it two days ago from Michigan Tech, though there's no funding at the moment, but I could reach out to faculty and they'll be offering funding letters around March/April. Funny enough, I got a reject from University of New Haven.

Bros, we are in thesame shoe. I just got it from Michigan tech but without funding. Let's hope for the best. I'll PM you.

4gunners:
Bros, we are in thesame shoe. I just got it from Michigan tech but without funding. Let's hope for the best. I'll PM you.

Congratulations man, funding is on the way. However, I thought you said that this same Michigan Technological rejected at a particular point in time.

emmahoney:
Congratulations man, funding is on the way. However, I thought you said that this same Michigan Technological rejected at a particular point in time.

I reapplied for MSc

4gunners:
I reapplied for MSc

Ok, good luck man

I got an it two yesterday. Please do you know any Nigeria in MTU?

tCharlesVane:
What are you applying for?

PhD in Environmental Engineering

Michigan Technological University denied my friend ission today. However, my ission decision has not been taken by the same program.

MasterforceII:


Congrats bro. First it for #Fall2019 on this thread. More to come. I hope funding comes through. Goodluck

Amen! Thanks bro.

ponpon:
Congrats boss

Thanks a lot, bro.

TheZed:
Congrats bro. Hopefully the funding comes through. Do you still me ?

lol of course I still do. Thanks a lot.

4gunners:
Bros, we are in thesame shoe. I just got it from Michigan tech but without funding. Let's hope for the best. I'll PM you.

I've replied you.

frostsc:


Here you go: https://www.studential.com/university/applying/UCAS-application-guide/personal-statement-examples/subjects

But before you get too excited read my Caveat

Caveat: Chances are many schools already have a database of these essays and plagiarism is taken as a serious issue by schools. Not only can they deny you ission, they can give you an outright ban for lifting things off the internet. Many at times they have softwares that detect essays in part or whole gotten from the internet. So many people get denied ission and they keep asking why... Some think it's their step mother that is behind their case. . Not really. Google worked against you!

Pros: You can read through the plethora of essays there, to get inspiration and flow, in order to develop yours.

All the best!

I appreciate bro