<p>FYI</p>
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<p>KARACHI</p>
<p>07/04/09 @ 05:00 to 07:00 pm @ Shalimar Hall PC Karachi</p>
<p>LAHORE</p>
<p>08/04/09 @ 05:00 to 07:00 pm @ PC Lahore</p>
<p>RAWALPINDI</p>
<p>09/04/09 @ 04:00 to 06:00 pm @ Conference Room # 1 - PC Rawalpindi</p>
<p>PESHAWAR</p>
<p>10/04/09 @ 03:00 to 05:00 pm @ PC Hotel Peshawar</p>
<p>I want to share that you do have a good opportunity to address and possibly pay down any loans before you would leave the US. It is called OPT (optional practical training). I can’t describe it all in the limited space here but essentially you can stay in the US for up to a year after you graduate working for a US company full time. Many students use this money to pay down any loans they have accumulated. If you plan to major in science, technology, engineering or mathematics, you could also qualify for an additional 17 months for a total of 29 months of work after you graduate. Again the key is planning ahead to get the job you need.</p>
<p>@theGame, this OPT thing is really interesting. Is there anything that we can do at this stage to prepare for it? Or is it something to keep in mind.?</p>
<p>secondly, i didnt necessarily mean the Pakistani job market. I’m talking on a global basis. Will a degree from a respectable college in the US have more value than one from an equally respectable university in Hong Kong. What do you think? I share the concern ‘free’ has about work permits for intls in the US. Please enlighten us.</p>
<p>P.S: WHERE IS EVERYONE ELSE?</p>
<p>Everyone else is just silently reading the posts. They don’t have much idea of the Visa process. :)</p>
<p>P.S. The Student Visa link is really helpful. I’m attending the USEFP - Student Visa Seminar on Saturday. I hope they share with us some secret of getting the visa! :D</p>
<p>Hey, its not wrong or illegal to accept multiple offers right? If I have a conditional offer and and uncondtional one,so can I accept both and apply for the visa to two different countries? If I meet the conditional offer I’ll go to one country and if not, than the other.</p>
<p>^You enjoy the liberty as long as they are not in the same country.</p>
<p>@khan91: Keep it in mind and discuss it with upperclassmen at your uni/coll and the international student advisers, if available.</p>
<p>IMO, job prospects for your three options factor like this:</p>
<p>Live & work in Pakistan: <em>LUMS</em>
Work in States only: Lafayette
Work in Asia excl. Pakistan: HKUST
Work anywhere in the world: HKUST</p>
<p>Assumption: You do a BSc and a BSc alone.</p>
<p>P.s. If you’re inclined to do a Master’s in USA, Lafayette will serve you better.</p>
<p>All you need to do to extend your stay in the US is to have a very good relationship with a professor. Professors from good colleges can usually get you anything. As far as the tips for getting a visa are…its usually easier if you have a visitor visa before that although thats not a guarantee nor the only way you can get one. My brothers friends got the visas for the first time without any problems. Just be confident during the interview</p>
<p>Hey Mindhunter, so what became of you? And Talha?</p>
<p>2 Harvard (1 LGS DHA + 1 LGS)
2 Princeton (2 LGS DHA)
5 Yale (2 KGS + 1 AC + 1 Roots + 1 BSS)
1 Columbia (St. Patrick’s-SSK 91)
2 Brown (1 LAS + 1 LGS)
5 Cornell (2 KGS + 1 St. Patrick’s + 1 LAS + 1 LGS DHA)
2 Penn/Wharton (2 KGS)
3 Dartmouth (1 Roots + 1 Elastine + 1 KGS)
1 Stanford [1 KAS (EA)]
2 Columbia (1 KAS + 1 Roots)
2 Gettysburg (1 theGame (full aid) + 1 Roots)
3 University of Rochester (1 greenboy - 10k scholarship + 1 Roots + 1 BSS - 18k scholarship)
3 WPI [3 Roots (incl. MindHunter - 42,000 scholarship)]
6 University of Richmond (5 Roots - without aid + 1 St. Patrick’s)
2 Villanova University [2 BSS (one with aid)]
3 Ohio Wesleyan (1 BSS - 36k merit scholarship + 1 AC - 30k aid + 1 Froebel’s - 38k Dean’s scholarship)
1 Wabash College [1 AVC (KrakenJack - 35k aid)]
1 Georgia Institute of Technology (1 BSS)
5 NYU (1 Roots + 1 AVC + 1 LAS + 1 LGS + 1 St. Patrick’s)
1 Case Western [1 The City School (super<em>leader)]
2 Colgate university [1 BSS (free) + 1 AC]
4 Northeastern [3 Froebel’s (waleed1 - no aid) + 1 Roots + 1 Choueifat]
2 USC [1 Froebel’s (waleed1 - no aid) + 1 LAS (determined8899 - scholarship)]
1 Furman University (1 Roots - no aid)
5 MIT (1 Head start, Islamabad + 1 BSS Margalla + 2 St. Patrick’s + 1 LGS)
1 Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (1 khan91)
2 U Illinois at Urbana-Champaign [1 Govt Delhi Karachi + 1 LGS DHA (whenwillitend)]
45 McGill (1 BSS (nrmncpr) + 10 BSS + 15 LGS JT + 9 AC + 4 Roots + 5 Froebel’s + 1 St Patrick’s)
5 University of Cambridge (1 City PAF + 1 Roots + 2 KGS + 1 Froebel’s)
1 University of Oxford [1 Roots (MindHunter)]
12 LSE (alikarachi City PAF + nrmncpr BSS + 4 KGS + 3 St.Patrick’s + 1 Roots + 2 BSS)
5 Imperial College London (1 Roots + 1 BSS + 3 Froebel’s)
16 U of Toronto (3 AC + 2 Roots + 6 BSS + 5 Froebel’s)
1 Depauw University (1 Roots)
5 Lafayette College [1 khan91 (90% aid) + 1 AC + 1 Karpov (full aid) + 1 Roots + 1 BSS]
2 UCSD [1 BSS (nrmncpr) + 1 LAS]
2 Flordia Institute of Technology (1 Roots + 1 AC)
5 Syracuse (1 Froebel’s - no aid + 4 Roots - no aid)
1 Clarkson (1 Froebel’s - no aid)
2 UT Austin [1 Froebel’s + 1 AC (joiya550)]
4 Smith College (3 LGS DHA + 1 Froebel’s)
9 Cal Berkeley [4 BSS (incl. nrmncpr) + 2 LAS (incl. determined8899) + 2 KGS + 1 St. Patrick’s (SSK 91) + 1 LGS DHA(whenwillitend)]
6 UCLA [1 LAS + 1 AC (joiya550), + 1 BSS (nrmncpr) + 1 KAS, + 1 LAS (determined8899) + 1 LGS DHA (whenwillitend)]
2 Oberlin (1 Roots + 1 LAS)
2 Duke [1 LAS (determined8899) + 1 LGS DHA]
6 UWaterloo (3 St. Patrick’s + 2 BSS + 1 AC)
8 University of Western Ontario - Richard Ivy (1 BSS + 1 Choueifat + 6 Froebel’s)
1 Dickinson (1 Roots - no aid)
1 Lehigh University [1 St. Patrick’s (ED)]
5 University of British Columbia [2 Roots (incl. MindHunter) + 1 Choueifat + 2 Froebel’s]
3 University of Miami (3 Choueifat)
4 Babson College (3 LAS + 1 Choueifat)
4 Boston University (2 LAS + 1 Choueifat + 1 Froebel’s - Full tuition scholarship)
1 Penn State (1 Choueifat)
1 Drake (1 Roots)
1 Harvey Mudd (1 Roots)
1 F&M [1 AC (full aid)]
2 Mount Holyoke [2 Roots (53k aid)]
1 Manhattanville college (1 BSS - aid + scholarship)
1 University of Wisconsin-Madison [1 AC (joiya550 - no aid)]
3 University of Chicago [1 LAS (determined8899 - with aid) + 1 AC (with full aid) + 1 LGS DHA (whenwillitend)]
1 Washington University in St. Louis [1 LAS (determined8899, with aid)]
1 Rice University [1 LAS (determined8899 - with aid)]
5 University of Virginia [2 LAS + 1 AC (joiya550) + St. Patrick’s (SSK 91 - echol scholarship) + 1 alikarachi]
1 Grinnell College (1 AC)
6 Northwestern [1 LAS (determined8899) + 3 KGS + 2 AC]
1 BYU [1 Roots (talha</em>adnan)]
1 Claremont McKenna College (1 LAS)
1 University of Notre Dame [1 St. Patrick’s (SSK 91)]
1 Vanderbilt University [1 Froebel’s (waleed1)]
1 Denison University [1 Froebel’s]
1 Rhodes College [1 AVC (KrakenJack)]
2 Colgate [1 Free + 1 Roots (full aid met)]
1 Carleton (1 LGS DHA)
1 Barnard (1 LGS DHA)
1 Amherst (1 LGS DHA)
1 Tufts (1 Roots - 49k aid)
1 Cooper Union (St.Patrick’s-SSK 91)</p>
<p>Holy sh**
I don’t believe this.
You must be kidding me. No - you MUST be.</p>
<p>Edit: Forget the AHs. Congratulations!</p>
<p>For all those who don’t know what this acceptance means. And then some.</p>
<p>[Obama</a> laying the mat at Cooper Union](<a href=“http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cSuT5zN2SPI]Obama”>www.youtube.com/watch?v=cSuT5zN2SPI)</p>
<p>For all those who would like to bite the waiting list:</p>
<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/college-admissions/682659-waitlists-how-do-they-work.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/college-admissions/682659-waitlists-how-do-they-work.html</a></p>
<p>wow, I never thought about the work permit! But now you’ve got me tense about that too :P. Really is McGill a better option? And how hard is it to get work permits in Canada?</p>
<p>^I want to know that too…also, if i do my bachelors 4m colgate, it’ll be easier to get into a good US uni for masters, right? I don’t intend to start work right after ba/bsc, so colgate should serve me better than lums in that case. Right?
Thanks for the post about the waitlist…i have 4 to think about :@</p>
<p>And whats the difference between BSc Eco and BA eco? From da career development point ov view?</p>
<p>In the US, you get sponsorship for the H1B based on a lottery system… the OPT is valid for a year after you graduate (longer for engineering and science students). But there are better job prospects in the UAE.</p>
<p>Anyone helping khan make a decision should keep in mind…he is thinking of engineering, and engineering only!</p>
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<p>Compared to the States, it is much much easier.</p>
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<p>Right. Right.
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<p>None whatsoever. Infact, LACs in the USA offer you to choose one title from BSc and BA after you have completed your 4 full years.</p>