…trying not to become a man of success, but rather a man of value. (Albert E.)
Inside your studera.nu account, you have the ability to track the status of your application alternatives.
While, in theory this seems like a nice idea, it only makes things more prone to problems and much more stressful.
You must be wondering what SG and MR means for each of your alternatives, but let us leave that for now.
When the admission process will start per say (after the delivery deadline is over), the Office will scan each application package and upload them to a database.
You will be assigned an Admission Officer from the first university that you have chosen. This is why, if you have specific questions, you should send your enquiry to that university’s admission office. This Admission Officer will also need to go through your application and needs to put his accept on it, before it will reach all the universities you applied to.
When your documents will be uploaded your general status is supposed to change to Under assessment (at the top of the page, under the Messages box).
Once they are also accepted by the Admission Officer, your status for each application alternative should change. The normal case scenario says that it will change from Not processed to Application in process.
In the time to come, that status may change back and forth. We have seen cases of the status being changed to Unqualified or back to Not processed without a good reason for it - documents were simply being scanned or checked. If you feel that something is wrong, just go on and write an E-mail to your first university of choice, or contact the National Admissions Office.
Contacting the National Admissions Office can be problematic. Messaging them through the online contact form them could end up with just a template answer, or if you phone them you could be put in a long queue, which is not so nice when you make an international call.
Don’t forget that there’s also VoIP technology like Skype, and if you have a good Internet connection you can easily stay in a 30 minutes phone queue without worrying about the call costs.
Be aware of the opening hours and of the timezone as well. Usually the Office is opened Monday to Friday, from 9 AM to 4 PM (16:00).
Sweden has GTM+1 and follows Daylight Saving Time.
You may also notice that you have received messages. Due to system malfunctions, these messages might not be real messages, but just status changes. Therefore, if you notice a dot (bullet point) under an application alternative, and there is no text, most probably there was a change, either as a status change or just behind the scenes (internal action). So don’t worry about the fact that you cannot see the message itself.
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mudassar
April 18th, 2008 at 5:18 pm
hello,
i have applied through studera for master programme at Halmstad University and now i got rating which is SG: ÖS and MR : 999. what is meaning of that. me waiting
mudassar
April 18th, 2008 at 5:20 pm
hello,
i have applied through studera for master programme at Högskolan på Gotland and now i got rating which is SG: ÖS and MR : 999. what is meaning of that. me waiting.
thanks
nick
April 18th, 2008 at 5:56 pm
@xhaku
@mudassar
Please take a few minutes out of your precious time to skim through some simple & plain english language text on this website that informs you to disregard any acronyms for the time being.
(Or indirectly; Hold on to your pee until the 29th of April!)
Boy! I’d surely like to kick some asses through the cyber world if that were possible!
xhaku
April 18th, 2008 at 6:24 pm
any problem nick?
of course we may be a little anxious…thats why we are asking for help… anyway, what r u doing in this blog?
Jacopo Nicolò Longhi
April 18th, 2008 at 7:35 pm
Hello people, if u want to see what does it mean the merit rating u have to go in your page of studera and, before to write id and password, u have to add ?sv to the browser. It will appear the Swedish site and U have to enter and go in the page of “follow application” (It will be in Swedish so use the memory to reach it!!).
At the bottom of the page there will be the explanation of your the selection group and then u have only to translate it with an on-line dictionary ( http://lexin2.nada.kth.se/swe-eng.html ).
Good luck!!
Andrei Neculau
April 18th, 2008 at 7:48 pm
(un)fortunately, like nick wrote:
And don’t ever expect any interpretation of your specific SG&MR from me or anyone else.
PS: acronyms refer to the Selection Groups (SG)
Fraz
April 18th, 2008 at 10:46 pm
First of all i thank Andrei Neculau for potting up this informative and very helpful blog …
Secondly if MR is nothing to be concerned about then why studera
exposes such details to the applicants it only creates confusion … ?
peke
April 19th, 2008 at 12:32 am
Hi everyone! I have a problem because i really dont understand anything, please can anyone tell me why my status have changed?
i had SG GRP1 and MR 999 at Linköping during a week and suddenly (today) it has change to Application in process. Does this mean im out? what should i do? wait? call?
thanks all of u and good luck!
peke
April 19th, 2008 at 1:10 am
hi again, im sorry but im very worried about this, well, i guess i will have to wait……….TIL MAY THE 8th!!! have u seen it?? it has changed again! what was the telephone number??
patient…;)
xhaku
April 19th, 2008 at 9:51 am
thnx Jacopo!
Andrei Neculau
April 19th, 2008 at 11:22 am
Yes, the end of the Admission Round has been postponed to May 8.
If you were having this discussion on the Facebook page, like the rest of the people, you would have been easily notified about the change.
peke
April 19th, 2008 at 11:26 am
Thanks Andrei, but i have problems with my facebook page and i cannot logg in, that’s why i write here.
i still have the same question
can anyone tell me if this situation has happened before? and what does it mean? i had SG and MR and now i dont have it 
Andrei Neculau
April 19th, 2008 at 12:44 pm
@peke: I’m sorry, I didn’t see it before.
I have the same issue. Happened 2 days ago, then yesterday came back to the given SG and MR. Today it is back to Application in process.
All I can tell you is relax. Why? Not because studera is doing a great job, but because the universities keep track of their admission outside the centralized system.
I will soon put this information online. Thanks for reminding me.
PS: what problems are you facing with Facebook?
Fraz
April 19th, 2008 at 3:47 pm
Secondly if MR is nothing to be concerned about then why studera
exposes such details to the applicants it only creates confusion … ?
any one any ideas … ???
peke
April 19th, 2008 at 6:06 pm
@Andrei
Thank u very much, so it means nothing? anyway im much more relaxed now :wink:. this studera is getting me crazy, well, it is getting us…ive been studying in norway and i have swedish friends and it’s quite weird they have such a pointless and unuseful way to say we are accepted or not.. even more when studera.nu was designed to simplify everything…
anyway i guess they didn’t expect the huge amount of applicants we are.
let’s wait then, because i was going to call the university..i dont know
thanks again!!
and my facebook doesnt work because it doesnt appear the screen completely, i guess i have a virus or something…ive tried it a lot of times.
Sam
April 19th, 2008 at 10:13 pm
Everyone is saying that” they didnt expect the huge amount of applicants”.. I dont understand what changed in the world so badly this year that all the world decided to move to sweden..
how it can just increase ’so much’ just in an year?
Andrei Neculau
April 20th, 2008 at 12:46 am
@Sam: Thing is that this is the first year when they have the centralized system in place for international students as well.
And I think they got the math wrong. I mean it is so easy to add one more programme on a list than to create another package of documentation, if it wasn’t for the centralized system - which implied one package for each application.
Also, I think it was a word-to-word thing. Some people wanted to apply to Swedish universities. Then the application procedure became so easy. They spoke to friends. Friends applied also.
Andrei Neculau
April 20th, 2008 at 12:48 am
@Fraz: I think it is a left-over from the Swedish admission system.
Mohammad Munir Hossain
April 20th, 2008 at 9:58 am
Hi Everyone,
If anyone has SG like AUM or MA08, it means “meritvärde master or MasterH08″ in swedish. The English translation is “Qualified for master/MasterH08″. Good luck…….
Sam
April 20th, 2008 at 1:28 pm
@Munir: did the secret agency give you this report?
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