Real stories of students who successfully got into foreign universities
My name is Artem, from Lviv, Ukraine. Finance and markets fascinated me from a young age — I was tracking stock prices at 13 and built a simple currency arbitrage bot at 16. I graduated with top marks from a Lviv mathematics lyceum and had been doing part-time remote freelance work in financial data analysis since I was 17.
Університет: London School of Economics
Країна: UK
I'm Simona from Prešov, Slovakia. Business was always in my DNA — my family has run a small manufacturing company for 20 years and I spent summers helping with everything from inventory to client meetings. I graduated top of my class from a business-focused high school and had already passed the Cambridge Business English Certificate Higher.
Університет: ESADE Business School
Країна: ES
My name is Piotr, I'm from Kraków, Poland. I was the typical kid who fixed everyone's computers, but over time I discovered my real passion: programming language theory and compilers. I had a 5.8/6.0 GPA in my final year and won a bronze medal at the Polish Computer Science Olympiad — that result opened a lot of doors.
Університет: Carnegie Mellon University
Країна: USA
I'm Darya from Dnipro, Ukraine. I'm obsessed with data — I taught myself Python and R at 15 and was building machine learning models before finishing high school. I graduated with honours and had a small portfolio of Kaggle competition results and a GitHub with 40+ starred repositories.
Університет: University of British Columbia
Країна: CA
My name is Martin, I'm from Košice, Slovakia. I attended a specialised biology and chemistry high school and graduated with top marks. Both my parents are doctors, so medicine was always in my blood. UK medical programs are among the most prestigious in the world, and KCL was always my top choice.
Університет: Kings College London
Країна: UK
My name is Katarzyna, from Warsaw, Poland. I studied law at the University of Warsaw for two years before doing an Erasmus semester at Universidad Complutense de Madrid. Something clicked — I fell in love with Spanish legal tradition, the language, and the city. I decided to apply as a full-degree transfer student.
Університет: Universidad Complutense de Madrid
Країна: ES
My name is Oleksiy, I'm from Kharkiv, Ukraine. When the full-scale invasion started in February 2022, I was finishing my second year of economics at Karazin University. Our faculty was partially destroyed. I decided that continuing my education abroad was not just a dream — it was a necessity.
Університет: New York University
Країна: USA
I'm Zuzana from Bratislava, Slovakia. I graduated from a bilingual Slovak-English gymnasium with straight As, especially in economics and statistics. I was always fascinated by how markets work and spent my free time reading finance news and analyzing Slovak housing price trends for fun.
Університет: University of Toronto
Країна: CA
My name is Michał, I'm from Wrocław, Poland. I was always into competitive programming — won the regional Olympiad twice and made it to the national finals. My Matura score was 98% in math and 94% in computer science, but I had no international exam experience whatsoever.
Університет: University College London
Країна: UK
I'm Anastasia from Kyiv, Ukraine. I graduated from an economics high school with a 5.0 GPA and had a passion for entrepreneurship since I started a small online store at 16. English was always my strongest subject — I scored 7.5 on IELTS — but I had no idea how to apply to universities abroad.
Університет: IE University
Країна: ES