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Welcome to the last article of this series!! It was wonderful to write, and hope it has been of use to some of you. Of course, I will be back soon with other articles/series. If you would like to see something specific, or need to talk about MS and USA, do drop me an email, or bring it up on the forum. --- Ananda. anandamatthur (at) gmail.com

Here is an extremely good guide to how to go about the actual travel:

http://www.iit.edu/~isa/isa_students_new.htm

Health, Behaviour, Academics, in that order - three, and only three, things that a student needs to care about - my mother's motto

Hello there!! Securing a VISA is a must for all of us, if we want to go to USA!!!

Getting a Visa is hyped too much without reason - there is absolutely no need to break sweat over it. Just be yourself and have the correct documentation, and you most probably will have a VISA in your hands before you know it. Here are the steps you need to take for a VISA application:

Welcome back to MS Advice - let us discuss what happens once a university offers admission. Do not think you are done as soon as a university gives admission! Securing the admission is the beginning !!!

1. You usually will be expected to send a confirmation of you attending the university. This might incur a non-refundable fee.

2.
After you have made up your mind about which university you are
joining, visit and read their website (again) thoroughly. Especially
the section for international students.

Financial aid is one of the most important steps in your application
process. Studying in USA is getting cheaper and cheaper every year. So
if you do not come from a very sound financial background, you need not
worry!!! Here are a few options for aid.

You may find other sources as
well, these are the common ones:

1. You are rich enough and do not care enough for any kind of aid. You are the lucky one!!! Go and enjoy yourself.

Now for the actual application process !!! Let us discuss some of the important points to note while applying.

Applying early helps !!
The reason is that US univs get literally thousands of MS applications.
Some of them evaluate applications as apps arrive. So early apps may
help.

Make sure you have a fair idea of which universities
you want to apply

Do
not spend more than 2 weeks collecting the application documents.

Hi There!! Welcome to the third installment of MS Advice. Starting today, we present a succinct summary of one university with each installment of MS Advice - I like to call this feature 'University in focus'. Cheers!!

Let us make a list of documents you need to apply to U.S. universities, keeping it short and simple, like an uncluttered mind u need to succeed:

1. GRE and TOEFL official marks.

2. Application - online/paper. Most universities prefer online apps.

Hello and welcome to the second blog in the series. This is happening quicker than I thought :-)).

Ananda Matthur is currently persuing his MS in Computer Science at
Columbia University, New York. Previously he has worked for two years
as a software developer at Hewlett Packard, Bangalore. He enjoys
novels, cricket and Linux.

This is a series targeted towards providing vital info to Engineering students who want to persue MS in USA.

Hi everybody, and a special hello to all MS@US aspirants!!

I shall start off with an introduction today, and later on cover the different stages of application, some of which are: