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Disclaimer: Nowadays, applications are accepted online and need not be mailed to the university but its recommended to look for your institutions Methods & Priorities prior to application process. Please read the detailed information portrayed in the official website and follow as per the university requirements, the following information related in this post is to give a general idea about the admission procedure for aspiring engineering candidates in US Universities and may differ to the actual process. The following adaptation is based on institutes like Howard/Cambridge/Oxford/Stanford/NYU & MIT.Statement of PurposeA well written, one-to two-page statement explaining in detail about your choice to pursue a graduate study in a particular program and a particular University. Make use of this opportunity to introduce yourself and to inform the department about your goals, interests, and career plans and how well they relate with your intended academic pursuits. A copy of your most recent résumé or curriculum vitae may be uploaded to the online application if required by the institute.TranscriptsOfficial transcripts are required and must be received before a decision is released. To complete your application, official transcripts are required from all previously-attended post-secondary institutions, even if you were not a matriculated student and/or did not complete an academic program. Failure to submit all transcripts will delay the processing of your application, and failure to report all schools attended may result in admission rescission.If sending attested copies of your mark sheets, the attestation must be made by the informed authority (e.g. Controller of Examinations or Registrar) or as specified by the institution applied. For any transcript that is not issued in English by the institution, an English-language translation is required. (Dual-language transcripts issued by the institution are acceptable and do not require translation.) All translations must be:Complete and literal (word-for-word), replicating the original as precisely as possible with no attempts at interpretation or evaluationPrepared in the same format as the original documentTyped on organization or school letterhead/stationerySigned or stamped by an approved translatorOfficial translations may be provided by one of the following:The institution issuing the transcriptA consulate or embassy of the United States or of the institution’s countryA professional, certified and/or accredited translation agencyTranslations will not be accepted from:The applicant or members of his/her familyIndividuals not affiliated with any of the organizations listed above.GREGRE scores are valid for 5 years.The GRE must be taken again if your scores are older than 5 years.Applicants who are applying for full-time enrollment must submit official GRE scores.All courses in US require clearing your GRE with the standard set by the particular university for specific candidature and courses.If the GRE is required for your application, an official GRE score report must be sent electronically to the university and this can be done directly by reference with the institution code available in the University website.English LanguageCandidates are expected to show communication skills in reading, writing, speaking, and comprehension. hence, English Language Proficiency will be determined by the TOEFL (Test of English as a Foreign Language), IELTS (International English Language Testing System), CAE (Cambridge English: Advanced), or Pearson PTE Academic exams. At least one of these exams is required for:All International applicants (those who have or will request a visa)Applicants (including US citizens and US Permanent Residents) whose first language is not English and/or who have not completed a bachelor’s degree in the United States.In certain cases, international graduate students may be required to take an ESL (English as a Second Language) placement exam and, if necessary, attend an intensive English program upon enrollment.Letters of RecommendationYou are required to send two Letters of Recommendation. Recommendations should be provided by professors, employers, supervisors, or others who are able to comment on your academic achievements, research potential and your professional goals (Do avoid friends or relatives please, they are not expecting your slambook!).Financial DocumentationInternational students who will require a J-1 or F-1 visa to study at NYU will need to apply for a new I-20 or transfer by submitting financial documentation after admission.Do not submit financial documents (including bank statements and affidavits of support) with your application. Instructions for applying for a new I-20 or transfer will follow your letter of admission (if applicable).Once your application has been submitted and all required documents have been received, it will be reviewed by the department to which you applied. When a decision is reached, you will be notified and will be able to access the decision online or via the confirmation mail sent. If you are admitted, a notification will follow, and you will receive information about how to accept/decline your admission.

I’m not allowed to link to my own web page (which is closed for renovations anyway), so I’m going to attempt to copy my interview with Sarah Zearfoss, Dean of Admissions at U. Michigan Law School, here:[All fancy formatting is lost]Sarah C. Zearfoss, Assistant Dean and Director of AdmissionsThe University of Michigan Law School"How do you evaluate recommendations?"With so many stellar applicants, I've always thought that top law schools get literally thousands of recs saying a person walks on water. What I wanted to know was, how does a top law school judge degrees of perfection, like Mary Poppins ("Practically Perfect in Every Way")? Sarah C. Zearfoss, Assistant Dean and Director of Admissions at the University of Michigan Law School, set me straight (in a manner of speaking).Dean Zearfoss became the assistant dean and director of Admissions in March 2001. She received her A.B. cum laude in psychology from Bryn Mawr College and her J.D. magna cum laude from Michigan. At the Law School, Dean Zearfoss was the editor-in-chief of the Michigan Journal of International Law. She authored a note on women's rights for which she received the Eric Stein Award. While at the Law School, she was also a recipient of the Henry M. Bates Memorial Scholarship and of the Robert S. Feldman Labor Law Award, and was a member of the Order of the Coif.Among her many accomplishments since graduation, my favorite is that in 2004 she argued and won a First Amendment case in support of an 82-year-old farmer who was prosecuted for leaving messages containing swear words on the Michigan Department of Agriculture's complaint hotline.Dean Zearfoss, how do you evaluate the greatest among the great? Do you ignore the good and look for those that damn by faint praise? Do you try to read between the lines to see how well the author really knows the applicant?Actually, I don't think there is really a problem of an excessive number of water-walker letters because I think most letter-writers are understandably cautious about adjective inflation, and praising students too highly. After all, many letter-writers, particularly academics, are repeat letter-writers; they want admissions officers to evaluate their letters seriously, and they therefore husband their praise for the times when they really mean it.As a result, I think the bigger problem for evaluating recommendation letters is the difficulty in evaluating the meaning in a positive recommendation that isn't a rave review. Many letters are simply a 5 on a scale of 1 to 10, and just don't move an application either forward or backward; in fact, I would say that's the case for more than half. We don't hold such letters against a candidate, but they just aren't doing any affirmative work for the candidate. It would be nice for admissions officers if all recommendation letters illuminated all the mysteries of a candidate, but there are many aspects to an application file and we can glean helpful information from lots of places.It is worth it, though, for a would-be applicant to put work into developing positive relationships with potential recommenders, because those water-walker letters end up carrying a great deal of weight, given their relative rarity. To that end, I want to share a story. Literally the very first offer I ever made as a dean of admissions was to a candidate who had a quite modest LSAT and a respectable, but not stellar, undergraduate record — coupled with four letters of recommendation from lawyers at his employer (a very well-regarded public sector legal organization), and those letters were simply off-the-charts: long, detailed, rave recommendations. Even though I was new to being a dean of admissions, I had been a lawyer long enough to know that that sort of praise was extraordinary. I admitted him, and I still think it was one of the cleverest admissions decisions I ever made.Do you tend to read more or less into a letter based on how well you know the recommender?There are very few recommenders I know well enough for this to be the case — just a handful, in fact (mostly U of M professors). But yes, I do interpret letters from that handful with my knowledge of their letter style in mind.And do you ever choose to reject someone because of what a recommender says?Well, that's a tricky question. I have definitely received letters that were negative and that would, in and of themselves have been a reason to deny (or at least to waitlist, to suss out additional information). But in the cases I can think of, the letters were always corroborated by other information in the file, so that the letters didn't end up being -- as we say in the law -- the but-for cause for a denial.Thank you, Dean Zearfoss!

Most authorities agree that the full meaning/name should be written first followed by the acronym in parentheses. After the first instance, the writer can use the acronym without its full name.Unlike an abbreviation or initialization, an acronym is a word that can be pronounced. It is formed by using the first letter of each word in a title or name. Here are some examples:NATO for North Atlantic Treaty OrganizationUNICEF for United Nations International Children's Emergency FundHowever, there are times when exceptions can be made; for example, if an acronym is universally well-known, its full name doesn’t need to be written in the first instance.A few years ago one of my students introduced me to an acronym I had not been aware of: HOMES.HOMES refers to the five Great Lakes in the U.S.: Huron, Ontario, Michigan, Erie, and Superior.