How we got the Excellence Scholarship at ETH Zurich (ESOP)

The Excellence Scholarship and Opportunities Program (ESOP) is a prestigious grant awarded to a few ETH Zurich graduate students. A sneak peek (and shortened version) of this video can be found on the ETH website: https://ethz.ch/studierende/de/studiu...

A couple of years ago I was lucky enough to be awarded this scholarship, along with around 60 other students across all disciplines. In this video, 4 ESOP students (including myself) from Physics, Robotics, Biology and Computer Science answer your questions!

Timestamps:
0:00 | Introduction
0:32 | Bachelor's degree
1:40 | Research experience
3:03 | Work experience
4:47 | Recommendation letters
6:47 | Preproposal topic
10:31 | Preproposal follow-through
12:19 | Interview
17:06 | How did you stand out
19:15 | Best part of ESOP
22:23 | The ideal ESOP student
24:48 | Final tips
27:05 | Bloopers

Big thank you to Eric Soriano, Mikhail Terekov and Andrew Abi Younes for helping create this video!

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