Few steps away from EPFL Summer Program

Saba Malik
2 min readNov 15, 2020

Apply, Apply Apply for international programs. Stop overthinking and open the link to apply https://summer.epfl.ch/apply.html

1- EPFL Scholarship is open for second year and above degree students of engineering and computing degrees from bachelors and masters program. PhD students are not allowed.

2- It’s global program and student participates every year from all around the world.

3- #EPFL is about three month commitment (May-Sep) that includes accommodation, stipend and airfare from and to home country. You will be working with a specific lab on their project with a specific team throughout the whole duration.

4- Deadline: November 29,2020 and you can apply through https://summer.epfl.ch/apply.html

5- Application writeup tips & tricks;

I- Start of your motivation letter must be compelling

II- Don’t dwell for negative things and highlight that, how you recovered out of it

III- Avoid victim story and display your enthusiasm to learn and excel

IV- Give necessary example to demonstrate your spirits of academic excellence. You can include your passion driven projects or incase you are generous to help your juniors to make them understand their assignments, or may be you are great at managing your team projects.

V- Include number or stats whenever it’s possible. That’s very useful technique to build a concrete essay

VI- Talk about compact experience to narrate your impact with relevant examples.

VII- Your application must be a comprehensive storyline based on facts and evidence.

6 - Your CV must include your work relevant to the programs that you choose;

I- Education must be listed in chronological order.

II- You must share your course projects to show your hands-on. Nothing beats gitHub links of your projects as it gives them a heads-up about your work beforehand.

III- While listing your project, use technical jargons to explain your projects which shows your exposure of the field.

IV- Mention all the tools, programming languages that you have listed in your projects as well.

V- Your CV must not exceed beyond one page, whatsoever.

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Saba Malik

Passionate Computing Teacher in #OxfordCity || Lead at #PWiC || #Techwomen fellow || #GHC Scholar ||#mentor || #ChangeMaker || #LearningScienceResearcher