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As for me, I think that MSP might have already been released(at least partially) . Or, if not, then I believe that we should hear about it by the mid of April. Living expenses is a real burden here. One option to save is to go as exchange student for one semester somewhere to cheaper place ..

Congrats to all accepted to ESOP. Chances of getting ESOP are quite slim in general. I have read in "ETH yearly report 2013" that 38 ESOPs were given out that year. So we have 38 ESOPs and approx. 2000 admissions, well the ratio is not optimistic at all.

Hi gst, Thank you. Yeah, I think in some cases admission can still be possible, depending on your background. If you have some work experience or something else related to Civil Engineering, these things may help to compensate what you are missing. At least in my case, I believe, it could have been like this. I had several relevant publications and several years of relevant work experience which played their role. I don't know which admission factors your department consider as important, but I believe, overall, you have a chance. EDITED: However, I want to add, I think that lacking more than 30 credits definitely places you application at disadvantage and you may become candidate for rejection immediately. I was not missing too much as well, around 30-35 credits, and nobody knows how they counted them, maybe they counted them "friendly" so that I fully satisfied their requirements. I think there is also some luck and it will highly depend on the person who will be evaluating your app. One person may like your app while another not. Hope this help.

To those who have received acceptance letter via regular mail, what is the content of the letter? Is there any information about additional requirements/subjects that you should pursue in addition to your master's program? As far as I am concerned, they can make you take up to 30 credits additionally.

Congrats to all accepted! I also got accepted today for MS in Computer Science. It took 2 weeks longer for them to issue the decision as far as majority of CS decisions were made in mid of February. I have almost lost my hopes when suddenly got the decision. Never lose your hope! After being accepted "Withdraw" button appeared again.

I would like to add fuel to the fire regarding Withdraw button I don't have it any more. But 3 days ago, when I logged to eApply system last time, it was present. So it disappeared recently. And yes, I also didn't get decision by now) So it is either under review or rejected.

Well, that is quite possible I suppose. At least your statement grabbed attention of this guy. It is definitely a positive sign. However, lets wait official results. Meanwhile, CS committee seems to be not very generous on decisions so far. Hopefully they will provide more decisions this week.

Yes please, it would be helpful. I am pleased to hear that you fulfill the requirements. As for me, depending on how they evaluate applications and how they sum credits up, I may be missing a bit more than 30 credits. However I have 3 years of industry experience as software developer and already hold another MS in Information Technology. Not sure if that can compensate several missing credits, but we will see. Also, now I am trying to find information about how to appeal against admission decision in ETH. I am prepared for the worst case anyway and ready to behave appropriately if it is possible.

By the way, does anybody know something about average acceptance rate at ETH? From the gradcafe results I see that there are 80% of accepts. If we take MIT for comparison, it has less than 20% of accepts.

Applied for Computer Science. The same, no news yet. From the results history on gradcafe, ETH usually announces results in the mid of February. Hopefully will work out well. My top choice, probably will go there even without scholarship.