How to get grad. application fee waiver in the USA
1) Attend graduate school fairs/seminars.
2) Fill a waiver form (if available on the website) & demonstrate need
3) Your prospective advisor, you could provide waiver with/without asking, especially if you’re really wanted
4) Contact & ask the program coordinator. Waivers may be available to students in a certain income bracket, particular demographic, or underrepresented group.
5) Early application within a stipulated time frame might attract waiver. Look out for such information on the
program/grad school’s website.
6) If you’ve participated in certain programs in the past, you might be eligible. E.g. AIMS grads. can get a waiver at Cornell University.
Overall, ensure you have the supporting documentations if requested.
Looking to get a publication under your belt to strengthen your portfolio for grad. school application?
Let’s go!
1) Contact your Bsc. Supervisor to see if the results of your thesis are worth publishing.
2) Contact & collaborate with junior/friendly lecturers in
your department.
3) Join a Prof’s group as a research assistant. Gain hands-on experience and publish in the process.
4) Contact colleagues who are neck deep into research as they already know how to go about publications.
If you have an idea, share with them and come up with publications. Check @VictorOyebanji_ TL to see how 2 publications came from collaborations with colleagues.
5) No access to a research lab.? Work on review articles and share your thoughts
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How to construct a cold email in 3 simple paragraphs
-Choose an appropriate subject
e.g. Prospective Graduate Student in Pipeline Corrosion Mitigation-Fall 2022
P1) Short intro, a brief mention of past experience(s), & relevant skills gained through them.
(some skills the prof. requires in a typical grad student), and why you are making the contact. If your research project has been published, include a short URL. If not, state it was your BSc. thesis and indicate in your CV under section "research projects".
P2) Academics enjoy talking about their research. Since they are experts in their field, there is a small subset of people they can discuss with. Once you give them a chance to discuss by asking the right questions, they would be itching for it.
Him: I really wanna study abroad with a scholarship in Data science/Software engineering based on my 3 years of relevant work experience. Although, I have a Bsc in an Animal science with a 4 pointer CGPA. How can I go about this.
Me: Very possible if you are not
looking for scholarships. But no serious admissions/scholarship committee would commit such funds on you seeing that academic background mismatch at the expense of others with relevant background. They would wanna see Data structures, Algorithms & Statistics in your transcript.
Him: So what do you suggest?
Me: You can apply to programs with a good fit for your background. You can audit computer related courses while doing your MSc. In fact, you can apply “Machine learning to model Animal diseases data” in your thesis. Hell yeah, you can even