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Hi how are you doing?I will be applying for fall 09 for ms in cs.The universities I will apply to have deadline of june or july,so can you please tell me weather there shud be any problem if I send my packets at the end of feb or beginning of march(as I have a backlog whose result will be out in Feb 1st week,so can apply before)?
University Deadlines
Majority of the colleges, universities have 2 deadlines. Early deadline for considering students for financial aid and regular deadline. If regular deadline is in June, early deadline should be sometime in Nov to Dec of previous year.
Also, each department might have different deadline than what graduate school has. So, make sure you check both the department and graduate school deadline. Applying early is always better. It save you time and get to know the results much faster, if schools have rolling admission.
Applying Early?
Its always better to submit applications as early as possible. So, it provides enough time for you to prepare the documents and ample time for the school to send I-20. You can avoid last minute wait to receive I-20.
Also, computer science department might have additional requirements than graduate school and some documents must be sent directly to department and some to graduate school. But, that’s varies from school to school. Make sure you read all the admission requirements and send all the documents. Sending few documents later, will delay your admission process.
For example if you miss one letter of recommendation, and send it 3 weeks later. Graduate school must first get that LOR to your file. Then they have to forward it to your department. They have to find your file and insert the LOR. If they misplace one LOR, then department will send message back to Graduate school for missing document, and they will inform you. So, in order to avoid all the confusion, send all the documents together.
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hi,i get 83 in toefl, now i m going to give gre,, which gre score is enough to get addm at good university,,
in philadelfia for ms which university is good and compatible.
Hi friend.. Pls do help me.. My gre score is 1080 (Quans-730 and Verbal- 350). I have 80% in BE and i planned to take toefl by the end of Nov 2009. My 10th and 12th marks are above 90%. I would like to apply for US Universities to take up my graduate degree in MS. I would like to apply for fall 2010. Can i apply by third week of Jan 2010. Can i get admissions at least in an average university? Also suggest me with a list of universities for which i can apply considering my gre score? I will be thankful to you if you can mail me.. Expecting your reply..
Hi HSB,
Its great blog, really there is lot of help. Thanks
One more doubt about the application process.
Lets say that Application deadline is in April and for considering for financial aid deadline ends in Feb (just an example). Now that I am awaiting my M.Tech last project viva, I have no idea when my viva will be scheduled (depends on external examiner), So I have to wait for those results because it will boost my Percentage significantly. But deadlines are fast approaching for application with financial Aid, now do you think its better to apply for university by paying application fee ( now in december)and then send all my documents in feb after I get the results in January.
1. Do they still consider for financial aid as I have already paid application fee within specified deadline for financial aid?
2. Will they consider expected percentage in application as I don’t have final sem results. I can mention M.Tech 3 semester results but I don’t want because final sem marks will increase my percentage?
Thanks,
Ajay R
plz forward details about gre and tofell
Hi
I will be applying for MS in March. Do you think there is any way that I can get the financial aid now as m already late?