GRE fee help

[everest14]

I am Kingsley Onuzurike, a recent mathematics/physics graduate of the University of Nigeria, Nsukka. I am in need of $205 to register for GRE, and will be very grateful if anyone can help. I will be applying for grad school in the US and is confident of being admitted considering my grades and possible recs. I need the GRE to complement my application. I hope someone is kind hearted enough to see me through this. I will happily answer any questions you might have. Thank you.

[fernandes]

Hi @everest14,

I don't like to be the bearer of the bad news, but the GRE fee is just a small amount of all the fees you might encounter during your application process. You might want to find a sponsor who can fund you and help you with all the necessary fees.

[Danger_Zone]

You might want to contact your university's financial aid/student loan office and see if they can help. The US has a GRE Fee Reduction Program, so maybe there is something similar in Nigeria. That being said, as @fernandes has mentioned the GRE test fee is a very small amount of money compared to grad school fees. Even if you get a funded offer, it's very expensive to be an international student and you are going to have to show that you have the financial means to support yourself.

[everest14]

yes I know. Application fees to universities are there. The issue is I need the GRE result to access some locally available source of funding.  If I get admitted to any grad school, I can access a government fund that will take care  of every other cost.

[everest14]

I do not even need to get a funded offer. There is a government fund that takes care of every cost from flight, tuition, living expenses etc. But to access it, you must have already been admitted to the grad school.

[Cheshire_Cat]

Just applying to grad school is expensive.  With the application fees and GMAT, I was probably out $500, and I'm a US citizen who only applied to 3 schools.  You need to find someone you personally know to help you through the process.

[everest14]

I will be applying to three schools and the total application fee is around $105. I can save this in 3-4 months. My only concern now is doing the GRE. I hope someone can really help me out with this.

[fernandes]

Are you considering that you also might need to take the TOEFL?

[ExponentialDecay]

Can't you ask one of those Nigerian Princes who will give you a million dollars if you help him get his money out of the country?

[fernandes]

I have an idea: www.gofund.me

[cwr]

I was going to make a snide remark about the "Nigerian Prince" scammers changing tactics given the economic downturn, thought better of it because this seems like a reasonably earnest young man trying to go to graduate school in the US, and then checked his Reddit post history and realized he's also seeking investors in an effort to open a casino in Nigeria. 

So, it's totally a scam. Hopefully the mods will lock/delete this thread.

Link to his Reddit post history: https://www.reddit.com/user/hulega. His posts in /r/education and /r/GradSchool exactly coincide (within an hour) with the time of this post.

And, in case he deletes the Reddit account, screenshots to tell the story: http://imgur.com/a/sfwEp. I would have just attached them here, but they exceed the size limit. 

[fernandes]

Wow, great catch!