At last, the Decision Month!
Many of you are frantically checking your e-mail inbox these days for answers. Colleges and universities are wrapping up their responses and this month ahead will be joyous and nerve-wracking at the same time.
Our members and young people we advised should contact us immediately if there is any problem during this process. Please do not respond immediately and without thinking to e-mail messages you receive from colleges. That may end up as single biggest mistake of your application procedure. Our advice is free and unbiased – but there is also a chance to schedule a private consultation with adviser if you need strategic help. Even if you are not a member of the Center, our door is open. Call us or send us an e-mail at office@iacbg.org and we will try to assist you any way we can.
Students who are planning to apply later this year have all the opportunity to prepare with us and ask questions about their path to studying in the US. Preparation for SAT has started couple of weeks ago, TOEFL prep starts on March 3, GRE and GMAT started two weeks ago. If you are late for these prep courses, next three-month prep courses will start somewhere in May.
Undergraduate and graduate advising sessions will be organized twice this month, and the undergraduate open house will run virtually every Wednesday. Don’t forget to call ahead and schedule your presence at these events, as there may be limited space available. Check many of these events on our Calendar –
https://sites.google.com/a/iacbg.org/www/calendar. There is a small chance some of these events won’t be visible for a while as we are transferring to online application for these events. Stay tuned for more info and remember to give us your e-mail address when you call our office.
Testing will resume at somewhat regular rhythm this month. There will be two TOEFL iBT testing dates in the Center, while the GMAT testing will not be available last week of the month due to the international conference we will be attending.
Many of you have asked about March SAT – please read the collegeboard.com site carefully. This testing is in the US territory only – the very next one in Serbia is scheduled at May 1st. Deadline to register for this test is March 31.
Some of us will be travelling abroad for the Workshop for advisors in Prague, later in March. We will come back with more knowledge and more connections to assist you better and faster. There is no doubt that we will learn plenty, but others will be able to pick up some knowledge from us as we will be presenting, too.
Our external program members will be notified about more activities this month. Prepare your browsers as we would organize some webinars and similar events.
Speaking of webinars – you can follow announcements on our regular site, forum, Facebook or Twitter. Either way, read carefully what the webinar is about and inform us if you will attend it. We noticed that some of you just click without thinking and find themselves at the wrong webinar.
US Embassy should have its booth at the Education Fair in Belgrade and our organization is going to be there. If you couldn’t come to us any other time, now this would be the time to do it. You can learn a lot about studying in the US, become our member and possibly get something more. We will publish more information about this Fair soon. In the meantime, plan to come to the MBA Fair on March 10 and to the Education Fair from March 11 to March 13. Read more about the fair at this site –
www.edufair.rs.
I mentioned online application for our events earlier and I feel I need to clarify that a bit. People who are interested in our activities will be able to fill out questionnaires and forms and announce their presence at our events in the future. We are starting this project seriously in March and one by one activity will have this option. Our intention is also to decrease the number of phone calls and possible confusion that may cause with missed and returned calls. There is just way too many people to deal with, so we have to switch to easier solutions. Read your e-mail more frequently and you won’t miss a thing.
The previous announcement also goes with our increased effort to regulate many legal fields in our work. You may have noticed our Ethics principles and standards posted on the wall in the office, but there will also be some other legal documents at your disposal. Just like many other institutions abroad, we respect your right to privacy and do not give your information to third parties. We will not discuss some issues that we may consider private with anybody else but you, so try not to send your relatives to get sensitive information from us. Of course, you will learn more about this in the months to come.
All in all, a lot of work is in the store for us. Please, be patient as we are doing many things at the same time. So it would go like this – the best of luck to all of you who applied to colleges and universities, all the patience to you who are still in the process. Keep in touch!
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