✅✅✅✅APPROVED ✅✅✅✅ Abuja Embassy 2nd attempt Male VO in Abuja( Male VO in his mid-late 40s) School: University of Tennessee Knoxville, Haslam College of Business Deficit: $0 Scholarship: $60,416 COA: $55,776 Note: I met the same VO that denied me the first time, she greeted me, and I responded and then went on to inform her that she denied me the last time and that the law and protocol is that she can’t re-interview me so she agreed and told me to go back my seat and wait for the next available VO VO: Good morning ME: Good morning to you, too VO: Where are you going to ME: I’ll be attending the University of Tennessee, Haslam College of Business at Knoxville, for my Masters in Business Administration VO: Why have you chosen this program, and why now? ME: Yes I’m a Pharmacist but since I graduated I’ve been working in sales, I started as a Pharmaceutical sale representative in xxxxxx company and I continued in that line until when I became the retail expansion manager(North) this year for xxxxx telecommunications company and I also co-own xxxx pharmacy in Abuja with two branches, the pharmacies currently do over 12 million naira in revenue monthly and over 3.5 million in gross profit monthly , I decided to undertake this MBA now because I realised I had knowledge gaps that will not allow take up more senior roles in future and I also intend to acquire d knowledge in management to lead complex organizations, learn supply chain management, demand management, business analytics, competitive pricing methodologies etc so that upon return to Nigeria, I’ll apply all these to my personal endeavours and also take up d role of national sales manager at xxxx telecommunications company. VO: When did you graduate ? ME: I graduated in 2015 as a pharmacist and I proceeded to undertake my compulsory one year housemanship at NAFDAC, after that I continued to complete another one compulsory National Youth Service at the Defense Intelligence Agency after which I started my first job as a medical sales representative two months later. VO: You were here in August. What has changed? ME: Then I had $27k partial scholarship and I was going to cover the rest myself but now the Haslam college of business has generously offered me a full ride ( I proceeded to call out the amount, my tuition fee, living expense, health insurance and the excess amount left in figures). VO: Have you travelled outside Nigeria before? ME: No, I earned to traavel as the best sales representative for xxxxx pharmaceutical company in 2020 for a paid vacation by the company as reward for my performance in the previous year but the Covid-19 pandemic scuttled that. VO started smiling and commended me for coming for the visa interview on time, considering it was for fall 2024, then went ahead to congratulate me and hand me d white paper.