Real stories of students who successfully got into foreign universities
I am Joaquín Pereyra, 19, from Villa Urquiza, Buenos Aires. I finished a technical secondary school (ETec) in programming and spent weekends building Telegram bots for my neighbourhood football league.
Університет: Technical University of Munich
Країна: DE
I am Valentina Sosa, 20, from Córdoba capital. Top of my class at a public school in Alberdi, two years volunteering at the Hospital de Urgencias triage desk, and a promedio of 9.8.
Університет: Heidelberg University
Країна: DE
I am Mateo Giordano, 19, from Rosario. I grew up three blocks from the Paraná river and watched the 2024 floods reach my grandmother's doorstep. My school project measured sediment in the barrancas.
Університет: Delft University of Technology
Країна: NL
I am Camila Bustos, 18, from Mendoza. My grandfather kept letters from his French great-uncle who emigrated to Argentina in 1889; transcribing them got me into archives and into the Alliance Française at thirteen.
Університет: Sorbonne University
Країна: FR
I am Facundo Ledesma, 19, from La Plata. At my technical school I built an EMG-controlled glove with Arduino for a classmate with limited hand mobility — held together with hot glue and stubbornness.
Університет: KU Leuven
Країна: BE
I am Sofía Kaplan, 18, from Caballito, Buenos Aires. My economics obsession started keeping a spreadsheet of the dólar blue, oficial and MEP for a school fair project on inflation expectations.
Університет: University of Amsterdam
Країна: NL
I am Milagros Guanca, 19, from Salta. For two years I helped a local NGO map deforestation in the Chaco salteño with free satellite imagery, cross-checking land-clearing permits against what the pixels showed.
Університет: Uppsala University
Країна: SE
I am Bruno Casale, 19, from Mar del Plata. My Italian great-grandparents built houses there in the 1950s, and I spent a year photographing and drawing the city's decaying seaside modernist villas before they disappear.
Університет: Politecnico di Milano
Країна: IT
I am Agustina Paz, 19, from San Miguel de Tucumán. My province grows most of the world's lemons for export, and my science fair project extracted limonene and tested it against common moulds.
Університет: Charles University
Країна: CZ
I am Tomás Weiss, 19, from San Carlos de Bariloche. Growing up next to the Centro Atómico and the Balseiro Institute, my heroes wore lab coats. I won the provincial physics olympiad twice.
Університет: KTH Royal Institute of Technology
Країна: SE