This increase in applications . . . is a result of sustained efforts by both the federal government and graduate schools.

The federal government has made considerable progress in reducing delays in visa processing, and graduate institutions continue to improve their admissions systems and enhance efforts to attract international applicants.

Whatever the government says about improving infrastructure, building schools and other essential services the fact is it just simply doesn't have the money. Servicing public debt alone last year (interest and amortization) ate up 95 percent of total revenues.

Their schools are closed or destroyed, and there is no way at this time to obtain a transcript to verify their eligibility according to our rules.

We have been contacted by several member schools that already have enrolled students from Alabama, Louisiana and Mississippi displaced by the storm,

The show went really well and we got a lot of compliments from other schools on how great it was run.