Anyone here in epfl? Did you take the admission exam route? Is it worth the hussle?
Math major at EPFL here, I did not do the CMS (the "exam" route) myself but I have two friends who did. They're now second year chem majors and they're doing quite well. What section do you want to get in OP? It really depends on what you want to get into. It's worth it though, the university is very good on multiple levels. Of course you will still get a few professors who obviously don't want to teach, but it's generally very good. If your plan is architecture, I suggest really thinking it through, because it's insanely hard.
>>8510976
I'm not completely sure myself. I was thinking either chem, CS or EE. Did you friends take a prep course? They seem pretty expensive(10k+) and not entirely necessary.
>>8510976
>architecture is insanely hard
more like extremely time consuming, those fags are always stuck in their workshops. But if you look at their actual courses, (like math courses for example) the difficulty is pretty fucking low compared to other sections.
pic related, it's the distribution of passing and failing student during the first year, yellow means "passed", dark grey means "failed exam", grey means "abandoned", light grey means "abandoned before failure" (i.e soon enough for it not to count as a failure) and black means "waiting".
AR isn't much worse than the other sections
AR = architecture, GC = civil engineering, SIE = environment engineering, IN = CS, SC = communications engineer, CGC = chemistry and chemistry engineering, MA = maths, PH = physics, EL = EE, GM = mechanical engineering, MT = microtechnologies, MX = material sciences, SV = life sciences
>>8510637
Math major here.
Yes. Yes. Yes. Do it faggot.
>>8512398
math proven to be the hardest section once again.
physics BTFO