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It was through Skype - I wish I could afford a weekend trip to Munich! Questions were pretty much split into two major sections; firstly motivation and personal background. Second section was technical questions related to the area of the degree I applied to - very fundamental questions. Preparation and revision of the fundamentals will help, but the personal questions are nothing that you wouldn't expect.

Anything on TUMOnline? Good luck! I had my interview on Monday and interviewer said results will be given in a few weeks.

@princess My TUMOnline was just updated, and am moving forward to the interview round. Any news for you?

No word on ESOP as of yet for me. Nor have I received my admission letter in the mail yet. So much burning rage...

I will follow suit. At the time of writing, it has been 29 days (leap month) since receiving the acceptance email. Seeing people receive their acceptance letters by mail so quickly makes me feel extremely uneasy. The Australian postal system is horrid in every way imaginable, and it doesn't help that we're on the other side of the world. Program: Electrical Engineering and Information Technology M.Sc.Applied: November 1, 2015ESOP Interview: NoneAcceptance email: February 9, 2016Acceptance letter, by mail: ???ESOP Result: ???

Which continent (or if you wish to say, which country) do you live in?

To those who have received acceptance, have your letters arrived in the post yet? It's been 4 weeks for me and I haven't received mine yet. Considering the method I usually use to post documents overseas (the cheapest and slowest) takes around 2 weeks, which is pretty good by the horrible Australian standards, I'm feeling uneasy now.

I'm a big LaTeX enthusiast, and absolutely support and am happy to help with people who wish to learn it. It's been about 5 years since I started, and since then it's become my primary text editor (given up on Word). On my Mac, I use TeXShop as previously mentioned, but if you use your terminal, and have the MacTeX package installed, you can use the terminal to produce a pdf from a simple .tex file. Invoking it from the terminal allows for some easy automation tricks (such as when producing multiple files). For me, when I first started learning, it was just to make snippets of equations since they looked good, and slowly progressed to writing simple (math-based) homework exercises and assignments. This turned into course summaries, reports, a thesis and various other documents. My tip would be to start small, and grow your repertoire. I found that when I was stuck and didn't know how to do something, 90% of my issues could be found by simply Googling (as is the case for most problems in this era), and the remaining 10% from building on and/or modifying what I had already found before. It's a slow process, but just like with learning a new language (and relationships, ha...), as you integrate it into your life more and more you will begin to familiarise yourself and bulk up confidence. TL;DR: find excuses to use it. Then use it in some more places. Google if you don't know how to do something. Experiment further. LaTeX is beautiful, and so are you (for making the effort to learn it)!!

Waiting for EE as well.

Hi all, I was wondering if anyone could give me any tips on writing a Letter of Recommendation for a student for grad applications. I co-supervised this student for a project. What sort of key things are admissions panels looking for? Thanks!

Oh lucky you, cut-offs for the CE program are 95/100 and 40/55 respectively. Regardless, hopefully that interview goes well. My gut feeling is it will be more of an affirmation of what you said in your statement of purpose and your background.

I'm looking forward to leaving Australia for Germany. I guess man wants what he can't have.

If you can afford Zurich, you're doing better than me already

Does the Informatics program require an interview? For my program, the early bird deadline was 15 March, so I feel they might still be waiting until then before they commence assessing. Furthermore, there's also an interview, so that needs to be scheduled too.

My surname starts with D and I was notified 3 weeks ago. But as mine was for EE, not sure if it helps with your sample points. Congratulations on acceptance to those who were! @rehab-robotics I thought you were going to Stuttgart for the Summer? What's the plan?

Strategic location...it's as if you're off to war!! We're in the same boat then, hopefully we both get TUM - Viel Glück! . That being said, I reckon, it might be worth looking and/or applying at some other German uni's (i.e. the ones in TU9). Quite a few had no application fee (or something low like 50€), with the exception of posting your certified documents over (and possibly GRE).

I have A1 proficiency, so I'll be looking to continue from A2 over there. The programs I've applied to are definitely all English-taught. I recall Saarland had no English language option on their website, but they had English-taught degrees as you said, which confused me. Do you have German knowledge?

Acceptance email was sent when I was doing Karaoke, but only found out when I got home (~11pm) and could connect to internet. I then closed the doors and windows, and commenced howling. I don't know how people read these, but given all the adrenaline and nervousness of reading an email like this, I assume many are scanning for keywords such as "welcome", "pleasure" and "accept" for the good and "regret", "unfortunately" and "do not" for the bad. In my opinion, the place I received acceptance to (ETH Zurich) did not word it in the best way...: It is our pleasure to confirm that you will be offered a place in the ... MSc programme at ETH Zurich in the Autumn Semester 2016. The details (e.g. conditions and/or additional requirements) are set out in our official letter. This letter will also contain the registration form and instructions on how to accept your place. We regret to inform you that due to time constraints we will not be able to answer any enquiries before you have received our official letter. However, should our letter not reach you within six weeks, please let us know.

Now that you mention, I had a look, and my non-school activities item is gone - it was there when I submitted the online application. On my application checklist which I posted to them, I crossed it and said I will not be supplying these. Now that they've received all this, it's now gone. Yes, I have also that yellow exclamation Yes I did - I've followed some people's examples and listed them out in my signature (TUM, Stuttgart, RWTH, TU Hamburg). And yourself?

Actually now that you mention it, fair enough. Also saw this regarding to timeframe:

I suppose that means for us who haven't got the ESOP interview, the scholarship dream is gone then... But on the other hand, congratulations on your acceptance + scholarship prospective! Well done

Me too! I do have some accomodation info here, courtesy of my Swiss friend who studies there. Firstly there's the original information from the joint ETHZ/U of Z websites for accomodation: http://www.wohnen.ethz.ch/de.html Also, there are new apartments being built near one of the campuses, ready to commence in 2nd semester of 2016 (Autumn semester): http://studentvillage.ch

I sent my documents by post last week, and they arrived yesterday. We're in the same boat then, best of luck! Another thing - my TUMOnline status currently has green ticks for everything except the health insurance, which has a red cross, which leads to the applications overview page having a red cross too. I know that we don't need health insurance until enrolment, but that red cross makes me feel uneasy whenever I log in. Do you have the same thing?

Out of curiosity - which unis are you folks applying to in China?

Several EE programs of European uni's are still open (deadlines range from March - July).