Happy Schools Blog
October 2007
The Archives
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10.30.07Happy Points Method to Select Graduate Schools
College Admission (0)I'm getting wonderful responses from the posts. I really appreciate your comments and thanks for visiting Happy Schools Blog. If you can spread the word about Happy Schools to your friends, college juniors, it will help them. I know there are so many students looking for information about U.S. Universities, Graduate School Admission and so many other finer details. I have good news to share in this post. 1) New Blog Layout and new .com site for Happy Schools will be launched soon. It will have more features and easy to access contents. 2) I'm creating Happy Point : Method students can ...
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10.28.075 Ways to Check Graduate School Admission Status
College Admission (1)Spring 2008 dates are rolling down fast and there are many students still waiting to hear from the universities about their graduate schools application status. If online admission status doesn't give much information or doesn't show updated information, this article lists few other ways that will help to find the admission status. Students who already have one or more universities admission have no worries, unless their dream college admission status is on hold. If you haven't got any graduate school admission and if your online application status still says "under process" or "under review" Continue Reading...
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10.27.07For Spring 2008 Students
College Admission, Travel (4)Exclusively for Spring 2008 students, I have complied the following links for students in different stages of admission process. I will update this list regularly, for new contents, hot deals on Laptops, Visa Experience, Visa Document details, details on bank balance, how to answer tough visa interview questions, how to find cheap air ticket. If you find these links helpful, please forward the links to your friends, book mark this link and visit regularly for details on Student Loan, Exchange Rates, How much students are paying for air ticket. If you need more details, write comments for this article, I will ...
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10.27.07F-1 Student Visa : Tips, No Tricks
F1 Visa (14)Previous post was on how to earn while studying without working part time in U.S. Its similar to what I do, write your experience on how you applied for graduate school, prepared for GRE, TOEFL, visa experience, travel details, universities with admission and small things like that will provide valuable information. Student like you visit your site, click the ads and you get paid. Then you will be making money. But, to get there, you need F-1 visa. There are so many things that has to go right to get Visa. Some of them are 1) Proper Documentation 2) How you present yourself ...
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10.26.07How to make $100 or more per month and pay for living expenses
Money (8)Majority of the visitors who come to this blog are students. Everyone one wants admission with scholarship ( GRE scores varying from 800 - 1500 ). But, not all students get admission to universities with scholarship. U.S. Universities have strict admission guidelines to give scholarship to students. Next option students attending different universities look for is part time jobs that would solve their monthly expenses. Even $50 to $100 extra income per month to a student is very helpful. I have been in that situation and I know what if you don't have scholarship and ...
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10.26.07Virginia Tech or UTD for Master’s Degree
FAQ's, Universities (0)Reader's Question: I happened to see your Happy Schools website. Found the contents in it very informative and useful. I am stuck in a weird situation here. I have got an admit for UTD and Virginia Tech. I had got my stamping for UTD before my Virginia tech admit came. I have two questions at this point of time. 1. What is the easiest and safest way to actually transfer my US visa from Dallas to Virginia. 2. Another important point to note is that I have got an admit into the National Capital Region (Northern Virginia Center) campus of Virginia Tech rather ...
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10.25.07Tips for New College Students - Building a Great GPA
General, Universities (0)Graduating from high school and entering college can undoubtedly bring about many changes in a student's life. Beginning college represents an allegorical first step toward independence for high school graduates, and gives many their first glimpse of the responsibilities that inevitably accompany such freedom. With the major lifestyle change and numerous constant distractions associated with the transition from high school to college, it can become almost too easy for new college students to neglect their academic responsibilities. However, even one or two poor grades can have a lasting negative impact on a student's grade point average (GPA). Earning and maintaining a ...
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10.23.07Spring 2008 students : Did you decide on universities?
Universities (9)At this point low GRE score or low TOEFL score doesn't matter. Admission is given to you and now its time to decide on universities. I'm getting lots of emails about selecting graduate schools from list of universities they got admission from. So, I decided to give a recap from my previous posts on how to shortlist universities. You can consider this post to be continuation of previous post on shortlisting schools and deciding on which graduate college to attend. By now most of the students should have admission status for Spring 2008 semester. Some who got only one graduate school ...
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10.22.07Low GRE Score Universities, F1 Visa tips, and more
Universities (5)I'm doing lot of research for the posts in coming weeks. But it's time consuming work. I'm sure that will benefit lots of students. Some of the topics I'm working are 1) Common Universities This will include the list of schools where majority of the students apply for safe admission. So, rethink before you apply there. Also, checkout how graduate school application in reviewed by graduate school admission committee in universities. 2) Low GRE score universities. This list would include universities that accept students with GRE score from 900 to 1100. I know this list would have helped many, if I had posted ...
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10.19.075 Tips to make your Graduate School application Stand Out
College Admission (6)After lots of time spend browsing for universities, talking to current students, friends from college, Orkut community friends, you will have shortlisted some schools that you strongly believe and of that some schools, might be little tough to get admission considering the academic credentials, GRE, TOEFL score and other credentials. Did you ever imagine every student will be almost doing the same process and some of the schools get large number of applications. So, there must be certainly something you can do to make your application stand out. Have you ever though about what additional information that can be sent along ...
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10.17.07GPA Converter : Percentage to GPA
College Admission (4)How to convert academic percentage (1 - 100%) and CGPA( 0 - 10) score to GPA (0 - 4.0). Every student when filling out the application will face the same problem. I was in the same situation and few years back O sent many email and messages in the groups, asking about how to convert to GPA ( Grade Point Average). I was not able to find the procedure to do the conversion, but today I know the answer. I got one email asking for profile evaluation and he said GPA of 4.0. So, I wrote back and asked him ...
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10.15.07Graduate School admission without scholarship: How to manage expenses
College Admission, FAQ's (0)I'm back after visiting New York and Boston. It was very busy last week at work. Hopefully I should write regularly.In this article I'm answering one of the questions from my scrapbook. I have answered the same question, but it was spread among several posts. Question: My GRE score1160 and many consultants are saying that it is difficult to get the TA/RA/Scholarship. I can manage fees for 2 semesters but can I pay the fees by doing job for 3rd and later semesters. Answer: You are not the only person who is facing this situation. 75% of the students who get admission are without ...
