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The secret of getting admission with scholarship

Have you ever wondered, how to get Graduate School Admission with scholarship?Each and every college student applying for graduate school admissions has one big dream i.e. to get admission with scholarship or some form of aid. It’s a very tough question to answer and it applies to specific student profile o individual basis. But, hang on, there is a sure way to get admission with scholarship.

When you are in Graduate School Universities shortlisting phase, take a good look at the minimum GRE, TOEFL and GPA requirements for each school. Some grad schools and colleges will have different requirements from the department requirements. Make sure to check out college admission requirements for both the department you apply and grad school.

Now, having collected the information, I have seen students classify the colleges into Ambitious, Moderate and Safe categories. I would like to relate the word Ambitious to Luck with less probability. Why would someone has to waste few hundred dollars in college application fee and GRE and TOEFL score forwarding, application documents courier fee, when grad school admission is not sure.

Example:

GRE Score : 1210;
Grad School Minimum Requirement : 1400
And other factors are less than minimum requirements

I really wouldn’t waste my time and money in applying to such college.

Instead I would spend more time in searching for universities and college, that suits my profile. Also, it’s better to find decent schools that had research funding and that has minimum requirements less than what your credentials are.

Example:

Your GRE Score : 1310;
Grad School Minimum Requirement : 1100
And other factors are more or equal to the minimum requirements

There are so many grad schools out there with lots of research and scholarship opportunities. But, it takes time to find such schools. ( Happy Point Method to find schools that match your profile )

To answer the question I asked, the secret to get admission is to apply for schools that have minimum requirements below your credentials ( GRE, TOEFL, ..). Don’t select schools that have very low minimum requirements. If your score is 1350, apply for school that has minimum of 1100, don’t go for schools that have 1000 as minimum requirements.

Having short listed such schools, I would suggest to read How to email professors for guaranteed admission. Have this magic worked? Yes, I know many who got admission by following this simple tactic.

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10 Responses to “The secret of getting admission with scholarship”

  1. sruthi on September 25th, 2007 10:58 am

    all ur examples deal with GRE scores lower than minimum requirement.
    wat happens for GRE score 1500, good recos , good projects, but gpa just abt 3??

  2. Homer Simpson on September 27th, 2007 6:06 am

    I’d disagree with the part where you said “Why would someone has to waste 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 haven’t at all factored in the case that a university where you will very easily get into (with the exception of some like USC), is simply not worth it?

    If you’re considering spending a sizeable portion of your savings on graduate school, why should it not be on some place where you’d be proud of attending?

    In the end, you will be going to just one university and abandoning the other admits, and hence, its only that one good admit that matters, instead of a dozen mediocre ones.

  3. Anonymous on September 30th, 2007 1:32 am

    Hi there,
    I have passed MBBS and im heading to MPH programme in next spring term. My gre score is 1050 n toefl one is 85. I would like to apply in some genetics or biostates related programme from good university. Can you any some useful link.

  4. Happy Schools on September 30th, 2007 10:41 am

    @ sruthi

    How did you calculate GPA from percentage?

  5. Thiyagarajan on October 3rd, 2007 9:45 am

    Hi friend, I had my gre..scored onli 980..690+290 is the split up..got a research paper and 4 other papers presented n National level symp..ALso have a gpa of 8.7 on a scale of 10.plz suggest me with unvis..can i get scholarship..Mail me at swamirajan86@yahoo.co.in.

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  9. GIRISH on November 6th, 2007 11:12 am

    I gave GRE yesterdy. I got 960 i.e 730 quant and 230 verbal. I don’t
    know what went wrong but I dumped in verbal. Now I need your extreme
    help. I am not going to give GRE again because of financial
    constrained. Now big question is what to do??
    Will any university accept 230 verbal score??
    Please give me the name of two universities according to my current
    situation so that I can apply only those universities,
    Apart from my worst verbal score, I am B.E mechanical 2005 passout
    with 60% aggregate from Pune university ,before that I did Diploma in
    Mechanical engineering. Cleared all the subject in first attempt .
    I am Working in Larcen & Toubro (L&T) since 19 month as design
    engineer. My boss is IIT+PH D. from Oklahama uni. and my office
    collogue is IIT I can get reco from them. I had undergone 3 month
    full time CAD/CAM training in IGTR from L&T also I have completed six
    month course from IISc, Bangalore.
    Please help please help in this situation….
    I am eagerly waiting for your reply..

  10. yogesh varal on August 23rd, 2008 6:46 am

    myself yogesh varal .iam TE(IT) student & i want to go for ms abroad after giving ger exam .I am sure about quantitative but as i studued freom marathi medium i am little bit afraid about verbal so i want guidance how to score in varbal?

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