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Studera.nu - Aftermath
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Pre-offer Letters
This is something you might have or you might hear soon about.
As the phrase goes, pre-offer letters imply that during the admission process some students might receive letters of appreciation from a head of department, or an application reviewer.
This will not be anything fancy, but it will state that they have gone through your application and were delighted by your qualities and profile, and that they hope you will stay with them.
The pre-offer can also be just getting into the DA Selection Group.
The system is domino-like1 therefore even if you get accepted to all your alternatives, only the one with priority 1 will be available for you to accept or deny.
But even if online you will be admitted to one alternative and one only, if you got a pre-offer letter (or DA) then you can still choose to go elsewhere than there you got admitted online.
It might be hard to comprehend these pre-offer letters. But if you got a pre-offer from alternative 2, while you got admitted to alternative 1, and in the meantime you reckoned that alternative 2 is better than the first, you can contact the programme coordinator of alternative 2 and tell them that you are sticking with them. Your admission to alternative 1 will be deleted.
- the first alternative that accepts you will make the ones bellow void ↩
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Sam
April 16th, 2008 at 4:19 pm
May be im being a bit impatient, but does anybody have any idea, how MR works.. Some people say the higher it is, more are the chances for admission.
Also, can someone guess what is meant by “MAAU” (it shows in kth programs)
Gaia
April 16th, 2008 at 5:28 pm
Hi!
First and foremost, thanks for the info! It seems like you know a great deal about this cryptic admission process, and lost souls like me truly appreciate you sharing your insight!
I have applied to KTH’s Engineering and Management of Information Systems master’s program, and of course I have been frantically checking studera.nu several times a day. Today there was finally some news in there - namely, I got a SG and an MR. My SG is “Master alternativt utval” and my MR is… 52. From what I gathered from what you’d written, the MR numbers are really not very telling, although it DOES worry me a lot that everyone is talking about numbers like 900 and mine is …. 52. That might have something to do with the fact that I’m from Armenia - a non-EU country with a non-credit educational system. However, of course I DO have a bachelor’s degree, all honors, in Applied Math and Computer Science, and I’m working as a Java web developer and all that.
Question - my having an MR does at least mean that I have all the necessary qualifications, I hope? I sent all my documents via DHL and, of course, I have no idea whether they have received them, or whether they have some problems with my 3rd-world high school transcript…
Also, do you maybe have some insight about the “alternativt utval” SG? Alternative choice, right? Does that mean that I’m in some kind of a waiting-list group of people who MIGHT get a place if lots of people decide NOT to choose the given program? Thoughts?
Any kind of input would be greatly appreciated… No doubt I’m totally and completely worried, especially since I applied to only one program..
Thanks a LOT!
Gaia
Gaia
April 16th, 2008 at 5:30 pm
Sam: I got MAAU too… It’s “Master alternativt utval”.. meaning “Master alternativ choice”. Not sure what it means, but given my luck, I think it’s some kind of a semi-waitinglist thing…
Andrei Neculau
April 16th, 2008 at 6:59 pm
@Sam: What the hell did I just write here -
http://andreineculau.com/blog/2008/04/studeranu-aftermath/3/
which is simply the 3rd section of this article?
Andrei Neculau
April 16th, 2008 at 7:03 pm
@Gaia: So far, so good I would say. If you got an SG and MR, you are “in the game”.
Regarding MAAU, so far it is simply a selection group so far.
Discussions on this topic are supposed to take place on a Facebook page though.
nehal
April 17th, 2008 at 9:41 am
i got SG :GRP1 and MR 999 in a university .
what should i expect ??? form it
Sepideh
April 17th, 2008 at 2:46 pm
Hi guys,
I have just got MR 29 and SG MAAU from KTH.
Actually I don not know whether my number is a good merit rating or not,but as Andrie said it is good enough to know “I am in the game”
Good Luck
Jacopo Nicolò Longhi
April 17th, 2008 at 5:42 pm
This is my situation:
- MR: 999, that seems to mean that I’m good for them to make the master
- SG: DA, that in the Swedish site is “Direktantagning”… The translation in English is “direct admission”…
I’ m not sure of this!! Can everyone tell me what does it mean??? Am I admited?? I cannot belive it…
Andrei Neculau
April 17th, 2008 at 9:24 pm
Jacopo, congratulations! That indeed means your application was so nice that they accepted you already (special case)
For the others, and for you Jacopo
— I’m going to tell you the exact same thing I wrote above:
And also, may I please remind you that discussions on this topic are supposed to take place on a Facebook page though.
rizvee
April 17th, 2008 at 10:07 pm
thanks for having such good site. i appreciate you with the bottom of my heart.its really helpful
nick
April 17th, 2008 at 11:53 pm
I too, got some changes in the columns of SG and MR as MAAU and 32 respectively; for KTH…
..and after going through the long discussions (for almost over an hour) on several of these blog pages and facebook, iv decided not to give a little rat’s ass. The system is way to crappy and wierd for normal people to decipher.
I think the best option is to relax and wait for the 29th instead of going crazy trying to find meanings of these silly acronyms on studera!
Best of luck to all applicants. Godspeed
Andrei Neculau
April 18th, 2008 at 12:45 am
@nick: you’ve just had the “Holy Trinity” speaking through your mouth
Godspeed!
Sam
April 18th, 2008 at 3:14 am
@Andrea: I love way you reply
i have been to sweden for an year and didnt notice that swedish people have so nice sense of humar ..
btw, how many chances for my admission… haha
nick
April 18th, 2008 at 10:06 am
@ Sam: Not just sense of humour but tolerance, respect and good nature to name a few. Not to forget their excellent grasp over the english language that makes life so easy for foreingers!
Andrei Neculau
April 18th, 2008 at 10:39 am
I am not Swedish
Check the About page at the top!
nehal
April 18th, 2008 at 11:55 am
HeLLo
everyone agin this iz nehal .
there is some update of my status of studera 4 out of 7 rest of them application in progress..
KTH MAAU 8
Linköping University GRP1 999
Linköping University GRP1 999
University of Gävle AP 180
plz andrei dont angry for repreating. what do u think abt my status buddy & other buddies who r in discussion
Hope get rply soon.
Nehal
Sam
April 18th, 2008 at 12:16 pm
@nick, i agree
@andrei.. i just read your abot page.. but hey you didnt tell about my chances…
@nehal: wait for some time, andrei will tell your chances, hold on for a while.
xhaku
April 18th, 2008 at 4:32 pm
hi there…andrei thnx for ur blog…its really helpful…
ive got MR 999 SG DA from Uppsala University… Also, the master director in this University sent me an e-mail not in official way and told me that i was admited… i want to ask if is this the procedure?
thnx and good luck to all aplicants
Moodi
April 18th, 2008 at 5:05 pm
hello,
i have applied through studera for master programme at Halmstad University and now i got rating which is SG: UB and MR : 1200. what is meaning of that. me waiting
xhaku
April 18th, 2008 at 5:15 pm
please anyone can help me with this:
Orebro University:
MR 999
SG PG
thnx
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?
conf1208
April 20th, 2008 at 8:57 pm
Hi all,
Is there anyone receive pre-offer letter for master in finance and banking at Stockholm uni?
I am wondering that is it true when there r some receiving pre-offer letters which will mean others are rejected?
hic, i m so stressful
Florence C
April 20th, 2008 at 9:07 pm
Hi Andrei; Wow thank you so much for creating this blog. My inquary is as follows;
In 07 i applied to SLU directly to the university, I had not heard from them until two weeks before registration ended, I received a call from the programs coordinator asking me whether I was still coming - mind youI had not received an official admision letter yet! In fact they claimed that i was one of their towp candiddate and that another candidate had not responded - in fact this candidate had been awarded the scholarship - money that had to be returned back to SI. even if I had the funding I would not have beenable to obtain a student visa in a week and half. So with this disapiontment I was encouraged to apply again and this time through Studera.
Despite having received admission last year I am still very very nervous. My SG is AU Alternativt urval as I have come to interpret it as Alternatively selected also that I am on some sort of waiting list. But this upset me greatly because after the huge mistake from last year I do not beleive tht I should be on a waiting list.My MR is 1 - dont know what that means considering I completed my degree in the US.
I have decided that I will give a call to the program coordinator who I have been in touch since last year.
Do you have any advise or thoughts based on my situation ??
Vary nervously waitin- Florence
Andrei Neculau
April 20th, 2008 at 11:15 pm
@conf1208: Yes, there are people who are directly accepted (get pre-offer letters). That doesn’t mean at all that others get “rejected”. That logic doesn’t work.
They do not take the place of others, but take what their application deserves. Often this helps them to get a visa beforehand.
Andrei Neculau
April 20th, 2008 at 11:20 pm
@Florence C: Unfortunately I don’t have any advice, other than your decision - to give a call or write an e-mail to the coordinator.
I would say that you should have been notified already that “they are glad to have you back, and that they have a place for you reserved”. But that is totally pure supposition.
Ulises
April 20th, 2008 at 11:47 pm
Here we go again!
Please note that date for Notification of Admission has changed.
Notification of admission (www.studera.nu/Your pages): May 8
Mohammad Munir Hossain
April 21st, 2008 at 6:25 am
@Andrei: Surely it is a nice blog site. I am really impressed by your doings. Go ahead, man…………..
Mohammad Munir Hossain
April 21st, 2008 at 7:40 am
Sam, plz don’t mind. Essentially, I have reached at this decision collecting informations on my status of SG and MR provided by the universities. Look, I’ve applied in three universities among them two univs giving the SG like “AUM” and “MA08″. Both of these SG have the common elaboration i.e. “Meritvärde” and “master/MasterH08″. As you know “master and MasterH08″ merely explains the program name. Well, what the “Meritvärde” term means ? In English, it has the synonym like Qualification, Credit Value. Now, you see the below message in swedish provided by one of the university among the two universities I am telling now (the third university has the different result for me). “Du uppfyller de särskilda behörighetskraven helt eller delvis genom reell kompetens. Beslutet gäller denna utbildning, denna termin.” The English version of this message is like “You meet the special requirement entire or partial through real competence. The decision concerns this education, this semester”. So far as I can guess it means that I qualify for the program but the merit rate will play role here for the final selection. Now see the result of my third university. It gives the SG status “DA” which means “Direct Admission” in English and merit rate 999. If I count that the result is good for third university as it has the DA status. For the other two universities I am competing for my position. Outside these two phenomenons, there may have another status which indicates the “waiting list” probably. That’s why I congratulate everybody who has the SG “Meritvärde” (whatever the acronym is, if it has that elaboration). What’s your opinion? Am I wrong with my explanation?
kim
April 21st, 2008 at 9:14 am
Untill the 16th of april ,the status of my admission was “NOT processed” , recently, It changed to
SG-Unqualified
MR-specific requirements not fulfilled.
And, its been shown in all the 8 subjects
This is ridiculous , coz, there r other guyz , who has applied , in the same program , and have the same undergraduate level course work , with a lower CGPA than me ,moreover we all have sent the same set of documents .
But , they have got the postive results .
I am not understanding anything .
Please suggest something .
Andrei Neculau
April 21st, 2008 at 10:12 am
@kim: Suggestion: call/e-mail the university’s admissions office.
Hakan Yılmaz
April 21st, 2008 at 4:16 pm
first of all, andrei its such a nice blog, thanks for sharing your advices. I applied for 8 master programs thru studera, and I have MR-500 SG- MA08 for vaxjo university and MR-999 SG-MAÖS for Mid sweden university and UTL-777 for Jönköping University, since Munir Hossain indicates the meaning of the MA08, Im qualified for vaxjo but Im not sure about what MAÖS and UTL stands for?
Please suggest something…
Djellel
April 22nd, 2008 at 12:06 am
@Mounir, I like your theory but I think that the MAAU means the waiting list. look if you were admited in the first 2 progs then you will have a DA like for the 3rd. As your are in a waitin list and your accepted is the last one after not yet confirmed courses then you should wait for the second or third selection rounds. but having a DA somewhere you are most likely to be accepted Inchaleh.
Andrei Neculau
April 22nd, 2008 at 12:28 am
@Hakan Yılmaz: MAÖS and UTL are simply Selection Groups. As I’ve written here you should simply not worry about their meaning. Your letter of accept that you will receive or not is the only one that will mean something and we’ll make you relax.
@Djellel: MAAU so far is something that a nice majority of KTH applicants got. So, it is simply a selection group. Nothing “alternative” about it, even if the name states so. The only exception was DA (Direct Admission) for special “geniuses”.
Inf
April 22nd, 2008 at 1:23 am
Hello everybody,
Does anybody know, if it is possible to change now programmes priority? Ive chosen 6 programmes. The result of fourth university is DA, but i would like to put it on second place. Is it possible?
Sam
April 22nd, 2008 at 2:18 am
@Inf: No, there is no way that you can make any changes with priority now.
Andrei Neculau
April 22nd, 2008 at 9:37 am
@Inf: From what I know DA programmes will always be a choice for you, even if you get accepted to another programme with a higher priority.
Right now you can only delete programmes, but you cannot change your priority since that would mean adding the programmes and that is not possible since the deadline is passed.
AL
April 22nd, 2008 at 11:11 am
Why the hell they are extending and extending the the date,
Andrei Neculau
April 22nd, 2008 at 11:27 am
– UPDATE –
http://andreineculau.com/blog/2008/04/studeranu-aftermath/7/
Mohammad Munir Hossain
April 22nd, 2008 at 11:57 am
@Andrei: Actually, we all are beating around the bush with respect to SG and MR. We get some clue from somewhere, analyze it, translate it and want to reach at some satisfactory level of hope. At least, it helps us to be more optimistic.
Not bad.
Thanks a lot, Buddy, for this helpful blog for many.
Andrei Neculau
April 22nd, 2008 at 12:04 pm
@Mohammad Munir Hossain: I like your phrase “beating around the bush”. Sums up everything quite well!
Djellel
April 22nd, 2008 at 12:22 pm
Yet another big thanks to Andrei for his blog. I know that he would like us to write on Facebook, but here is a much wormer place for all of us
For my part I’m looking to join for the Software Engineering of Distributed Systems Study programme at KTH, having MAAU 17.
I hope all the best for all of us.
Shukhrat
April 22nd, 2008 at 12:30 pm
Now we should recall the following song:
“Relax, take it easy…” (c) Mika
Indeed we can only wait and nothing else…
nick
April 22nd, 2008 at 1:14 pm
Seems like the more I read, the more ‘nervy’ i get (even though im trying to stay cool!)
I’m assuming that one of the most common problems that applicants are facing relates to uncertianity, as applying for international univeristies is never an easy tasks. From applications, to ref. letters, personal statements, transcripts and above all visa issues.
Just a follow-up question; Does the statement ‘after each selection round’ means that the process can possibly stretch well beyond 8th may?
@ Djellel: I’m also a KTH applicant, with SG- MAAU
Djellel
April 22nd, 2008 at 1:23 pm
@nick Wellcome to MAAU … it’s a nice place to be … I hope.
Actually yes KTH announced 15th May for final result :s
Mohammad Munir Hossain
April 23rd, 2008 at 6:44 am
@Andrei:
Do you like this pessimistic phrase “beating around the bush” which means “Not discussing to the point (here SG and MR) rather insisting on some other things”?
Okay.
You do me a favour translating the following message in actual meaning. What I have got is a word to word meaning which may not be expressed in full. If you can, please collect the actual English meaning of the following message and let us understand the probability we have in this particular university.
“Engelska: Du uppfyller de särskilda behörighetskraven helt eller delvis genom reell kompetens. Beslutet gäller denna utbildning, denna termin.”
The English version I have got….
“English: You meet the special requirement entire or partial through real competence. The decision concerns this education, this semester”
Thanks.
Veronica
April 23rd, 2008 at 6:49 am
Im also a MAAU member and I don´t have a clue of what that means… everything is quite confusing right now, but it´s nice to see that some people are in the same situation!
Is anybody applying for the Sustainable Master Engineering in KTH????
Maria
April 23rd, 2008 at 10:11 am
@Jacopo Nicolò Longhi:
@ Jacopo
Hey, I just got the same thing, for Uppsala university! I can only hope what Andrei said here is true!
Jacopo - if you applied for Uppsala, would be nice to get in touch!
Greetingz
Selasi ( Ghana)
April 23rd, 2008 at 10:37 am
Hi,
I had MR and SG to 5 universities until Monday, now everything has reverted to ” Application in process”.
Is anybody in the same situation?
Andrei Neculau
April 23rd, 2008 at 11:11 am
@Mohammad Munir Hossain: No, your previous use of “beating around the bush” seemed more likely to say “We all want to know if we’re accepted or not before we get the admission letter, and that’s why we keep trying to find out about the SG&MR”
@Selasi ( Ghana): Read this http://andreineculau.com/blog/2008/04/studeranu-aftermath/4/
@Maria: Congrats!
Mohammad Munir Hossain
April 23rd, 2008 at 11:37 am
@Andrei: k, now let’s finish our misunderstanding. Can u plz interpret this message in actual form for me? Thnx, buddy.
Selasi ( Ghana)
April 23rd, 2008 at 7:50 pm
Hi All,
Does anybody know anything about the Guest Scholarship programme and how scholarships are awarded ?
Shukhrat
April 24th, 2008 at 2:04 pm
Very good question. I also will be waiting for any response concerning guest scholarship coz I had also applied for it.
Shukhrat
April 24th, 2008 at 2:08 pm
Djellel
April 24th, 2008 at 3:23 pm
Is the guest scholar the same as the SI scholarship.
I think their response was first planned to be on May 5th
Mister E
April 24th, 2008 at 4:21 pm
The deadline extensions are becoming ridiculous. At some point they need to accept responsibility for the task at hand show some professionalism in administering the admissions process.
nick
April 24th, 2008 at 4:46 pm
Blame it on the online admin. system which was supposedly meant to streamline the admissions process, but it only put undue stress on the universities.
Previously seperate application packages were reqd. for each university (in case an applicant wanted to apply for degrees in diff. universities). Studera offered an all in one solution! Theoretically a person can apply to 8 diff. universities through this system, all in a single application package. Do the math and you get to know the complexity of the situiation.
Can’t really blame the universities for this obvious delay!
Hamimu Masudi
April 24th, 2008 at 6:51 pm
Yes Andrei Neculau,. am in the same process; I applied for 3 then, 2 appeared with msgs, then all over a sudden one reverted to Application in process.
Any one knows the meaning of this?
peke
April 24th, 2008 at 10:53 pm
@Hamimu
I’m in the same situation. Read what Andrei has written. anyway, the best we can do is just wait
Andrei Neculau
April 24th, 2008 at 11:31 pm
@Djellel: Guest scholarship is one type of the SI scholarships, but it often blends and they have the same meaning.
About how they are awarded.. They must have a system, but it all happens behind closed doors, so just wait for a YES or NO from them. Nothing much you can do.
You can think of the Swedish Institute as a businessman who can help you or others with money. In the end, the guy doesn’t need to defend his decision whatsoever. It is his interests at stake and that only.
Jacopo N. L.
April 25th, 2008 at 4:07 pm
@Maria:
Hey Maria! I’m happy for you but unluckily I have applied for another university, anyway we can wait the 8 of may more relaxed!
Have a nice day
Djellel
April 25th, 2008 at 5:59 pm
@Andrei, SI scholarship is awarded for students selected in the first selection round, I guess those with DA.
Andrei Neculau
April 25th, 2008 at 8:24 pm
@Djellel: No! DA is simply one of the possible Selection Groups!
DA is just “whatever the rankings are, this student is accepted anyway”. Others, within other Selection Groups, will simply go through the system and be accepted or not.
All of those accepted in the first round (meaning now, during May 8-15) will be taking their chance at a SI scholarship.
Florence C
April 27th, 2008 at 9:35 am
Hi Andrei;
You mean to tell me they have changed the dates AGAIN!!!
You know I am begining to consider univerities elsewhere- not just because I am nervous but to me the administration process is the first sense of what the ultimamte experience is goign to be with the school- if they can’t simply process applications with clear and susinct notifications..who’s to say just how organized their programs are depite it being free- or perhaps this is the very reason for the debacle.
dogukan
April 27th, 2008 at 10:27 am
anyone explain to me what ıs the mean MAAU please!
Andrei Neculau
April 27th, 2008 at 12:43 pm
@dogukan: Why should I, if you didn’t read http://andreineculau.com/blog/2008/04/studeranu-aftermath/3/ ?
@Florence C: Please remember that this is their first year of centralized admissions
Hamimu Masudi
April 28th, 2008 at 12:11 pm
Hey any one knows English meaning of MAÖS-ÖVRIGA SÖKANDE INT. MASTERS.
Florence C
April 28th, 2008 at 4:04 pm
Hi Andrei;
This is my last note; but i wanted to give a word of thanx- your blog has truly been my saving grace. I have decided not to go to Sweden- I have not even got my final decision- i will not wait around for their circus date changing ways. I am now deciding between 2 schools in the US and 4 in the UK. Might i just add;