Insights into the 🔹🔹🔹 application process
The competition for the 🔹🔹🔹 program is currently in progress. As a proud participant, I’ve written extensively about my experience (see the links at the end of the post). But I realized that one important piece of the puzzle was missing, so I decided to add that piece. In this post, I want to describe what happens before the program starts and give some recommendations on what to do along the way. Disclaimer: This post is based on my 🔹🔹🔹 experience (2015-16). I suspect the process is more or less the same every year, but please always check everything with official sources and program officers. Application So the competition has been announced. The deadline is on 1 June. It might look like plenty of time, but if there is one single most important tip I can give it is: start preparing now. The first step is writing essays. I wrote three: - Objectives and motivations (1274 words); - Sharing your culture (924 words); - Teaching language of nominatio...