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Thank you so much MDK. In the last couple of days I've also checked lots of fact of ETHZ... really it's a great university indeed.

But I think now I'm in trouble. Let me describe it more clearly

Students who receive a scholarship are also automatically entitled to waived tuition (currently CHF 1,160 per academic year).

---> Actually it's for Excellence Scholarship, not a normal scholarship. For excellence scholarship, one has to submit research proposal and some other supporting documents to apply for a excellence scholarship. Which I didn't, I applied for other scholarship, namely financial support.


In the last couple of days, I've contacted with them and came to know that maximum scholarship amount is 5'800 CHF whereas one has to show 21'000 CHF for getting visa and resident permit. That means, a student who receive a maximum scholarship need to raise up to two-thirds of their living costs through other means, which is around 15'200 CHF. Even a student cannot work outside in their first 6 months, and there are no TA/RA/GA positions for Masters students. So I have to pay it from my own pocket

Now, what should I do now???? Decline their offer?

Originally Posted by MDK

A PhD student at Gatech divided the universities in the world as following:
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For my applications, I also divided up the "rest", based primarily on the major US News list, so then it looks like this:

1. Top 4: CMU, MIT, Berkeley and Stanford
2. Top 13: GT and above (mostly as UTexas, UWash, Caltech, UIUC)
3. Top 26: moslty UCLA and UC San Diego
4. Top 40: mostly U of South California, Johns Hopkins, UC Irvine
5. Top non-US: mostly NUS (National University of Singapore) (yes, Singapore) and ETH, Zurich (yes, Switzerland)
6. And Budapest U (I had to dig hard for this link)

Some words about top non-US places: ETH Zurich is a world-class place, maybe on par with MIT etc. (the Top 4)
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