U.S. Universities – College Admisison Process Flowchart
By HSB
U.S. Universities application process is different, but having an idea about what goes on after graduate school application is submitted will help students to know when to contact professors by email for admission.
In one of the previous article about how graduate school application is reviewed will give idea on what major factors is considered by U.S. Universities for admission. In this article, I happened to get a flow chart that describes in detail about graduate school application process flow from San Fransisco State University.
Even though the flow chat is from SFSU, it will apply to any U.S. Universities admission process and certainly will apply to all the departments.
U.S. Universities – Admission Process
As you can see when International student submits application, its first reaches Graduate School Admission office. As far I know only very few US Universities will ask students send the college application packet directly to the department as in SFSU.
Graduate School Review
If the student doesn’t have the minimum requirements, like GPA and GRE scores below required by the school, application will be denied by the graduate school. If all the documents were submitted, along with other requirements, then application will be forwarded to the department for review. If university doesn’t receive application fee, they will not process the application.
Department Review
Computer Science department in the university will evaluate the application. If they feel the student doesn’t have enough academic credentials, admission will be denied. In some cases for instance when student has bachelors degree in electrical engineering and have applied to computer science in M.S. then conditional admission will be given, where student have to take few pre-requisite courses, before taking graduate courses.
University Specific Admission process
Every universities in U.S will have different admission process, but the above flowchart give an idea of how student is admitted to the program. But, the factor universities use to give admission might vary, but the flow of documents will be almost the same.
Department – Grad School – International Office
Above chart doesn’t show what happens after department sends the acceptance form to graduate school. When the graduate school in the University receives the acceptance letter from department, bank statement from the student application and other details will be forwarded to the International Office. Then IO will issue new I-20 to the student.
Some schools will mail the acceptance letter and I-20 only through regular mail ( not fedex or dhl courier service), so it will take 2 to 4 weeks to reach different parts of the world.
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i have got gre 1210( 790 quants…420 verbal….awa–3.0)..
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Dear sir/madam,
i am pursuing B.E in electrical and electronics engg. studing in third year and i want to do master’s in electical engg. kindly give me necessary informations regarding GRE and TOFEL and how to do the preparation.
Dear Sir,
From many senior students I have come to know that, it’s better to apply for Fall semster rather than a Spring semester. This is so because of some good courses offered in Fall only, better financial aid chances etc.
Is this right saying?? Please provide me some guidance with suggestions on this issue.
Thanking you.
Dear Sir/Madam,
I have completed my graduation in Computer Science. My GPA is 2.9 but my GRE score is 1380 and tofel score is 110 . Is there any possibility of getting myself admitted into any US graduate school for a MS/Phd ??? I have some publications on my subject. I have a desire to get a Phd but is it possible with such a poor GPA?? I will be grateful to you if you inform me on this.
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Name : Mahi
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I would like to inform you that I have been nominated for the candidacy to receive a full educational scholarship for master degree in the field of engineering management from ministry of high education In Saudi Arabia. The scholarship will cover tuition fess for the ESL intensive study and the related study that I am going to be admitted in. In the same time, the scholarship will cover the books, medical insurance and living expenses which will be in monthly based payment. In this moment, the sponsor requires either full admission or conditional admission to finish the final processing of the scholarship. Upon this issue, I would like to have a conditional admission since I have to go to the English program to achieve the requirement of the TOFL score during my intensive English course. Please inform me about the possibility to have the conditional admission in this moment since the time is the main concern to me. Thank you very much and appreciate your help.
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@Essam albooq: You will have to apply to U.S. schools. There are schools that give admission without GRE score, but majority of the schools require GRE scores for admission. So, admission to U.S. University depends on where you apply.