1/4 Just finished an interview with a scholarship candidate, and never been so emotional like that after an interview. The scholarship sponsor and I (the two Nigerians on the panel) struggled to fight back tears during the post-interview review.
2/4 A genius that is “wasting” away in a village. Such a candidate! 1st class graduate of a 1st generation university, with CGPA above 4.9/5. 2nd best graduating student in his school, best in his faculty, almost a perfect 5.0 CGPA if not for scoring D in an English course in100L
3/4 The sponsor, who also grew up in a village and now a US-based engineer with an IOC, fought back tears as he could relate to the story of this brilliant orphan. There are many brilliant young folks in this country whose missing link is just lack of right information/mentoring.
4/4 Product of public primary and secondary education. Brilliant young man that may never have been able to afford GRE/TOEFL.
My post-interview recommendation: “With proper mentoring, a world class star may be in our hands!”
My post-interview recommendation: “With proper mentoring, a world class star may be in our hands!”
Even after sending my scoring, I had to re-emphasize this to the GRE scholarship sponsor. 
Btw, here is the scholarship we are interviewing for
mtscholarships.org
mtscholarships.org
Almost 1 hour after the interview, my friend and the scholarship sponsor is still crying at what we saw, what we came about?!!!
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