How To Do A WES Evaluation: A Step-By-Step Guide

FOR HND CERTIFICATE HOLDERS: A step-by-step guide on how to do your WES evaluation to boost your scholarship chances

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1. Visit https://www.wes.org/ and start the credential evaluation process by clicking on the "get started" button on the home page.

2. Choose the country where your target universities are located.

3. Input your email address and hit "next."

4. Verify your email address by inputting the verification code, undergo the registration process by inputting your details, and hit "create account".

5. If they ask if you already have a WES reference number, choose "NO" as your response unless you already have one.

6. Next, you'll be asked, "What is the primary purpose of this evaluation?" Choose "Education" and select the level of education you're pursuing. If you're seeking master's or PhD admission select "Graduate Admissions."

7. Add credentials: Select your country, choose National Diploma and Higher National Diploma, (and other additional documents as the case may be), type the name of school that issued you the certificate(s), years attended, year awarded etc.

8. Details of your address where they'll mail your personal copy of your evaluation to. Also choose delivery option (Standard $12, International $81).

9. Would you like to order additional copies for yourself? If yes, they charge $7 per additional copy. They call it "additional copy" because it is in addition to the one they'll mail to the school(s) you're applying to.

??You can choose NO, and just download the free watermarked copy from your account after they complete the evaluation. If you choose YES, you get the exact clean copy they would send to your school(s) without any watermark on it. Whatever option you choose, know that you can use your free or paid copy to apply to as many schools as possible.

10. Recipient 2: Institution(s) receiving your evaluated copy. Note that you're "recipient 1." At this point, you can decide not to add the address of any school. Just submit the free or paid copy you have during the application process.

??You can later add the address of any school of your choice and WES will send them a copy of your evaluation if the said school requires that you must send your evaluated transcript straight from WES during the application process.

??Otherwise, most schools only ask you to instruct WES to send your evaluated transcript(s) directly to them only after you've been admitted and you've chosen to resume at their institution.

??Each institution you add will result in an additional fee of $33 plus shipping and handling.

11.?Choose evaluation type: WES ICAP ($225) or WES Basic ($176).

??Difference: ICAP stores your evaluated transcript so that if you need WES to send it to any school, they'll just retrieve and send. WES Basic doesn't save and when you need them to send to any school, they can't send what they don't have, so you might have to resubmit transcript for evaluation or pay an additional fee. I recommend WES ICAP course-by-course evaluation.

12. Confirm the information you supplied.

13.?Payment method: Choose Credit/Debit or Convera (Western Union).

14. Get your WES reference number: If you choose credit/debit card, you MUST make payment before getting your reference number (and if you don't get this reference number, you can't send your transcript to WES). However, if you choose Western Union (now known as Convera), they'll instantly show you your reference number.

??Now that you have your reference number, you can delay making WES payment and use the ref number to first of all process your transcript from the school where you graduated.

??You many not have money for WES payment at the moment. So, while you're processing your transcript to be sent to WES for evaluation, you're buying time to save up for WES evaluation fee.

??The interesting thing is, after your transcript gets to WES, they'll keep it and wait for your payment. Whenever you make the payment, WES will then commence the evaluation.

OTHER THINGS TO NOTE:

?Takes 7 days for transcript evaluation to be completed.

??Note that there are many schools that accept HND certificate without requiring a WES evaluation.

??However, WES evaluation gives you an advantage - your CGPA bumps up and the university you're applying to gets to understand your qualifications better because many of these Western universities don't recognize OND+HND as a university bachelor's degree equivalent.

??If you attended a Nigerian polytechnic and did OND and HND, WES attaches an explanation on your evaluated transcript that says your OND+HND are equivalent to a 4-year university bachelor's degree. If you evaluated additional documents like PDG, it’ll be added as well.

??Read up my Facebook post on why getting a WES transcript evaluation is highly important for HND holders: https://www.facebook.com/share/p/NHEhchvYnekqP48m/

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