Exclusively for Spring 2008 entrants, I have complied the following links for students in the different stages of their admission process. I will update this list regularly, for new contents, hot deals on laptops, visa application experience, visa document details, details on bank balance, how to answer tough visa interview questions, how to find cheap…
Getting a U.S. Student Visa (F1) will get you one step closer to attending a college/university in the United States. Every international student must go through the U.S. visa interview process. The F1 Visa interview tips in this article will help you understand what a Visa Officer (VO) expects from prospective students. Based on that,…
Which University: I happened to come across your Happy Schools website. I found the contents in it very informative and useful. I am stuck in a weird situation here. I got admits for UTD and Virginia Tech. I already had my visa stamping for UTD before my Virginia tech admit came in. I have two…
At this point, having a low GRE score or low TOEFL score doesn’t matter. Admission had been given to you and now it’s time to decide on your choice of universities. I’m getting lots of emails about selecting graduate schools from the list of universities they got admissions from. So I decided to give a…
Do you want to know how to make your graduate school application stand out among those of other applicants? Just follow the tips discussed in this article. After spending lots of time browsing for universities and talking to current/former students, friends from college, and in social communities online, you will have shortlisted some schools that…
Are you looking for a GPA Converter to convert your academic percentage to GPA in a 4.0 scale? I have received around 100 questions from readers about how to convert percentage grades to GPA and other related conversions into GPA. Here are some of the questions: How does one convert academic percentage (1 – 100) to…
I’m back after visiting New York and Boston. Last week was a very busy one at my work. Hopefully I would be able to write regularly again. In this article I’m answering one of the questions from my scrapbook. I have answered the same question before, but it was spread across several posts. Question My…
Almost every graduate school has an online application facility that works along with the traditional paper-based application system. Sometimes it takes a long time to fill out an entire online application and some terms and conventions followed in U.S. will look different for international students and it will take some time to get used to…
I’m responding to a comment about the article Secret of Getting Admission with Scholarship. I’d disagree with the part where you said, “Why would someone has to waste a few hundred dollars in college application fee and GRE and TOEFL score forwarding, application documents courier fee, when grad school admission is not sure.” -> You…
I received this question from one of our avid readers, regarding Student Loans: If I apply for a loan, let’s say for $20,000 for the full course, what will it include? How can I pay for my room rent, groceries, recharge, books, etc.? How much will these expenses come in a month? Before continuing with…