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So it's all fine now then? My experience has been similar - my undergrad thesis supervisor (and whose LOR is my "principal" letter) is always busy, and has always left things to the last minute due to other more important things. But he's always submitted them, albeit through my non-stop, repeated, nagging (with lots of kindness and gentleness). I feel like professors generally can be quite reliable with these. As late as they may be, they tend to come through with reminding. (This was the case for me with 2 other professors, both known notoriously in my department for being disorganised.

I applied to the MSc Communications Engineering at TUM for 2016 Winter semester, so I'd like to listen in on this thread as well! Have you sent your documents through yet?

Ah yes, I was referring to plain admissions, as you said. And I am inclined to agree with you that scholarships are biased towards domestic students. However, I haven't done significant research into it, so I'm not too sure.

It brings tears of joy that someone here has explained the Queensland education system, which I went through. The OP is the overall grade (GPA equivalent) you get as your tertiary education-entering score. The test is called the QCS (Queensland Core Skills) test, and compares different schools with a state-wide standard. Then your raw marks from the final 2 years of classes in high school are scaled based on your school's performance (not your individual performance in the QCS test). This produces the OP. At the time I left school, primary education was down at 15~17. The OP is bell curved between 1 and 25, although it's almost impossible to score 24 or 25 (you'd have to purposely barely pass everything, and account for the school's overall performance scaling).

Not sure if it's too late, but I have two cases for UQ (firstly I'm Australian). Secondly, Prof. Ian Frazer (UQ) has world-class cancer research, including a vaccine for Cervical Cancer: https://www.tri.edu.au/staff/ian-hector-frazer

I should be able to help with anything.

I graduated from Australian uni, and our uni's international population is quite large (22% in a uni of 50,000 students). It is true that international student fees are about 4x that of domestic students (Compare $AUD 36k vs. $AUD 9k for Engineering). Combined with the super high living costs, yet there's still so much attraction for international students. Public uni's especially thrive on the funding from international students, so they'd want as many as possible. Hence, I don't believe that it'll be much harder for international students to get in.

Car Wash It's a case of lousy internet, courtesy of Australia - at the time I was replying, my response would have been fine. And now I have a -1 rep for it. The world is too harsh.

I can say mine looks like what @canas has uploaded. I've hit my attachment limit apparently O_O.

Yes me too. And yes back to Zurich. Show a screenshot? I just logged in to eApply and my Withdraw button is there still. I remember for a week in January (whilst the Stuttgart situation was happening), my ETHZ application was "withdrawn" in eApply, and I pretty much had a heart attack and a seizure simultaneously.

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One of my friends is in the same position as you. Met a German girl on exchange in Canada, and then they both went to Stuttgart. Oh yes I have called them, haha. The person who picked up said to contact his boss (the Course Director), by email (surprise surprise), with highest priority - who then forwarded it on to the people who I'd been emailing originally, and they sent me what I added in the second screenshot. So we've come to a circle. Long story short, although it's not my top preference, I still want (and every applicant deserves) a fair application.

Not at all too much information - it's all helpful! And congratulations to you both, I don't have anyone going with me. It seems like they've left it rather late. I suppose it's because Summer semester intake is not as high as Winter semester, there's probably less applications to process. I agree with you that it seems quite poorly written, but I have seen worse! Nevertheless, green ticks are always good. I've attached what mine looks like - this has not changed since I submitted, when the system was opened in November (keenness), and after so many back and forth emails, it's still quite ambiguous. Second screenshot shows the final email I got from them after months of un-replied emails. I sure hope that means it's no longer "lost".

Congratulations to you!! Were you notified by/are there green checkmarks in the C@MPUS system? My application was for Winter 2016. I had a lot of issues with the C@MPUS system - at one stage they couldn't find a submitted application. Did you have issues as well?

Surely Ms. gatekeeper is kind enough to arrange for that. I have a similar dilemma - usually I post my documents overseas with the cheapest Air Mail option (just like regular mailbox - postman - mailbox), but for added security I tried the Registered option, which includes Signature on delivery, for my latest application postage to Germany. Now I'm panicking that if the office of the destination uni is unstaffed, the signature won't occur and the delivery won't occur... Could anyone soothe my worries? Much xoxo and love!

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That's my current plan. Living costs is what makes ETHZ not my number 1 preference.

I usually say "To whom it may concern" if I don't know who I'm addressing

Thanks! Electrical Eng. + Information Tech. And yourself?

Hello! I received my admission by email yesterday (9th Feb). No word on ESOP as of yet though.