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Important DeadLines for Fall

The Applying Job.
Timelines.

Say, for a person applying for admission in the Fall semester of year 200x.The conventional timeline would be as follows.

Understandably the chronological order in which deadlines approach start with international applicants applying for fellowship/aid, followed by international applicanst who just apply to get in, and then the lucky domestic applicants need to apply.

Most big universities have different institutes for eg: The information networking Institute in Carnegie Mellon University, which offers a specialized course. Such institutes have different deadlines from the programs in the University and need to be checked sperately.

Most deadlines for fall are usually Mid-December, stretching till mid January. December 15th and January 15th being the most popular dates. Some Texas Universities like University of Texas at Dallas close as early as December 1st keeping in mind the heavy rush.

Timed Shot

To be Done

Before Jan 200(x-1)

Make a Valid Passport

Jan 200(x-1)

Start the prep, may involve early morning coaching classes, mugging words

Mar 200(x-1)

Mug more words,get in touch with seniors about universities that they are in and try to get inside info.

April 200(x-1)

Register for GRE in Aug 200(x-1) and Toefl in Sep 200(x-1)

May 200(x-1)

  • Start getting your certificates attested.
  • Copies of tenth and 12th marks memos.

 

July 200(x-1)

Give your sem 6 exams comfortably

Aug 200(x-1)

Give your GRE

Aug 200(x-1)

Prepare your shortlist to how many ever universities you want to apply

Sep 200(x-1)

Give the TOEFL

Sep 200(x-1)

Prepare 3 LOR’s and a SOP,

Sep 200(x-1)

Send the GRE ASR to 10 - 15 univ by phone as it is fast and Toefl asr by fax, since it takes at least a fortnight for ets people to process it

Oct 200(x-1)

Make a perfect packet, don’t worry we ‘ll help you with that.

Nov 200(x-1)

Send the packet via courier service, most universities specify that the packets be sent by courier.

Dec 200(x-1)

Get the acknowledgment from the univ people

Jan 200x

Start contacting the univ profs for aids, yeah I mean it

Feb 200x

Start preparing the VISA documents ,contact your CA’s, they know the drill.

Mar 200x

Receive I - 20’s from the universities(after a ridiculously long wait)

Apr 200x to May 200x

VISA-time.

June 200x

Time to beg the University profs for aid, book your flight tickets, they come cheap if you book early.

Aug 200x

America baby!!!