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Once you have prepared everything you are ready to send the applications. The fees must usually be paid by a check in US/Canadian dollars drawn on a US/Canadian bank. This can be easily done if you open an account in any bank in Egypt and ask the bank to give you a bank draft with the required amount. The bank draft is a check that your bank issues in the name of his corresponding bank abroad and the beneficient of the check is the admission office that you designate.

The choice of which bank to use is a little bit tricky since some of them take charges on each check you make regardless of its amount. Also the annual charges differ greatly. If you are (or your father is) a customer of a certain bank then you may have some privileges already. The advice is go for a tour in several banks to ask about the rates and about the currency transfer (pounds to dollars) rate and then decide. I cannot give you a decision here or I will be making publicity :-).

To actually send the application it is better to either use registered mail (khetab mosagal) or the Express Mail Service (EMS) from the post office. This is just to be sure that you will not loose all the certificates and letters that you have collected. Both ways will cost you a good amount of money since the envelop containing all this material is usually heavy (around 150 to 200 g.)
EMS is faster and for such a weight may cost you 50 pounds (winter 97 price). Registered mail is cheaper but slower (about 20 pounds, winter 97 price). Depending on the deadline you need to meet you will make your decision.


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