Graduate School Admission Results

No ESOP

Non-EU European university, many extra-curriculars, 1 internship, 1 research experience w/o publication, employed full-time for the past year. I think the GPA and the university's reputation were the deciding factor.

9.1+/10 GPA; EU student; 1 exchange year at a top 15 university in the U.S.; 1 ongoing RA; 1 ongoing internship; 1 completed 6-month internship; 1 completed startup experience; no pub

1 robotics journal paper, 2 research projects in robotics, no work experience

Mechanical Engineering Degree from a top School in Asia. GPA of 4.01/4.30 and ranked 2nd in my department. Worked on several robotics/RL projects but no published papers.

9.6/10 GPA, 3 internships (1 in US, 1 in Switzerland, 1 in my country), top 3% in the generation

Dreams do come true!

from italian university, exchange program, some extracurriculars

MTEC admissions looks for a well-rounded profile. There is no interview but my guess is that they do care much more than other MSc. of ETH about extracurriculars and the motivation letter. I was top 20% with a 2.3 german grade (nothing that crazy) from a good German uni (mech. eng.), but I frankly had very good extracurriculars (lots of debate, social sciences engagement, formula student, small fintech internship and teaching assistant of 4 subjects, 4 languages). In terms of work experience, I tend to think that they look for potential rather than CV, since I know people with 1, 2 or 3 years of experience in consulting/engineering who got rejected. Ask yourself why this is the right program for you (and not a MiM at HEC Paris for example) and be able to explain it in a good motivation letter. Also, I believe that for masters there is hundreds of chinese and indian students who apply to European unis, which maybe plays against them all, because there is really not a way to differentiate between the top unis in Asia (moral of the story: try to get a well rounded profile rather than focusing your time during the bachelor in being top 1 of the class).

Major in Geophysics.

2.1 german gpa from a top university in Germany.

rank 1 in my department, no publication, one internship

From a top-tier university in Asia. GPA: 4.26/4.3.

Top 1%, Top ~400 uni (QS ranking), 1 semester abroad, received many scholarships/grants during my BSc, 1 year work experience, 1 conference paper and 1 manuscript in revision in a Q1 journal (both as 1st author), strong LoR and SoP, got interviewed for ESOP on February 28th (ESOP status: requested).