<p>Not to scare you, but the lead time for my visa interview was a little more than 1 month. It might be a little longer for you considering that it’s nearer the fall registration dates.</p>
<p>The embassy can give you an urgent appointment date if you write to them via email explaining the circumstances. There’s a page mentioning this on the US embassy Singapore’s site.</p>
<p>I’d declare “no”, since your purpose of visit and your family’s are different. To be honest, I think they aren’t very strict on the paperwork - I wasn’t too sure which years I visited certain countries when I listed them on the application, for instance.</p>
<p>Oh, bugger. My work schedule made it as good as impossible to apply for my I-20 before I did… Is it usually a big problem getting an expedited appointment or are they quite okay with expedited appointments generally?</p>
<p>Sorry for asking so many specific questions but as you can imagine… I don’t want to arrive late!</p>
<p>Hey guys do I need to submit my JC common tests, promo and prelim results even though I’ve already got my A level results? Cos my jc’s website says i should submit but some us schools like nyu says o and a levels should suffice.</p>
<p>If your JC doesn’t require you to submit your promo/prelim results, then I think most US schools are going to be fine with you just submitting O and A-level results.</p>
<p>Hi guys, just looking at RJC/Hwachong admission results and really worry me…both seem to be the top feeder school whereas im a country boy come from a lower tier JC, slim chance right? sigh</p>
<p>^gt607: Np, I can totally understand. I don’t have any experience with expediting an appointment; you’ll have to try.</p>
<p>By the way, I’m flying to New York, reaching around 2pm NY time; then staying at a hotel for one night before travelling down to Boston by coach, where I’ll take a cab. Anyone else taking a similar route? I can’t decide on a hotel.</p>
<p>hey guys, im kinda confused about the application process here. for schools that accept the common app, is it enough for me to just do the essay(s) there? and how many essays are we supposed to write? and do the essay prompts change every year? sorry for asking so many questions and thanks in advance! :)</p>
<p>You have to complete the main common application and a supplement for each school you are planning to apply to. Each individual university may include more university-specific essays in the supplement in addition to the one in the main common application.</p>
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<p>You can, but there is no guarantee that it will be read or included in the decision making process. Universities do have to process tens of thousands of applications in a relatively short period of time.</p>
<p>why don’t you ask this question in the BU subforum ? i doubt anybody here can give you a proper response unless there happen to be BU graduates/undergrads here…</p>
<p>Emailed the US embassy and they said most visas are granted within two business days of the interview, so my interview (four working days before my departure date) should be early enough.</p>
<p>Is this generally true - two working days from interview to visa?</p>
<p>Hi thank you! (wrt to your reply on page 266)</p>
<p>But I’m kind of worried, because many people told me that most US universities expect higher results out from international students (esp when most students from my school - HCI- all score 2100 and above). So is it true that they actually expect more from international students and therefore your score needs to be higher than their 75th percentile? </p>
<p>In that case, I don’t think my chances of getting into UCB or NYU is very high, since most people from my school all scored 2100 and above, and very very high for math section, when I’ve only scored 2060 and with a 680 for math ):</p>
<p>And may I know what do you mean by a low reach?</p>
<p>I do get the impression that for Stern you need 2100 and a high math score to be competitive. </p>
<p>But NYU aside, yes - if I were you I would seriously try to put myself well above the 75% range. Realise that you’re not competing with the general admission pool but with other internationals and often, other Singaporeans. If you want to know what you’re really up against, just look at your schoolmates.</p>