There is no single entrance exam; admission is based on your secondary school diploma. The Basisprüfung, or first-year exam, is the real gatekeeper at EPFL, especially in Computer Science. A significant portion do not pass—in my year, it felt like half the cohort vanished.
My own marks were mediocre, but I passed because my father, a teacher, had drilled into me a stubborn consistency—I treated every homework set like a final exam, while brilliant classmates who crammed for the tests sometimes fell. The system weeds out not for lack of brilliance, but often for a lack of that daily, patient *ngak* (perseverance).
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