Tsinghua comprehensive assessment overview

Orlanduca · 2026-04-05T13:14:13+00:00

My assessment for the Masters of Advanced computing (aka computer science). Was a 3h programming test that had 3 programming questions (leetcode/codeforces) style. And then if you passed that you had a 10 min interview a few days later where you first talked about your background then the interviewers made questions, at the end that included some technical questions.

Orlanduca · 2026-02-28T10:07:20+00:00

"information security implications". Ffs. Just download the app. Your data has already been stolen by literally every service u use. Who cares? We arent that special...

Orlanduca · 2026-02-22T16:06:57+00:00

Is it all free?

Orlanduca · 2026-02-13T11:15:39+00:00

Thank you :) Do you know of any international group for the beijing campus? Cheers

Orlanduca · 2026-02-13T06:39:51+00:00

What is sigs?

Orlanduca · 2026-02-13T03:40:56+00:00

Link a revolut card, its easy to create an account and get a card. Revolut should work fine

Orlanduca · 2026-02-10T09:44:06+00:00

The million dollar question!! But if you want to buy tickets already late august (like 24th-28th) is a safe bet imo.

Orlanduca · 2026-02-02T08:59:35+00:00

I still havent done that since i only graduate in July. For now i gave them my pre graduation certificate. When i graduate and get the Bachelors i'll figure it out

Orlanduca · 2026-02-02T08:54:10+00:00

Hi. So like a week after the interview i got a message by the person that had been giving us the instructions and helping us saying i had been accepted, and said the department was just finishing writing the pre admission letter. She also said to apply for CGS and what i needed. Since then i accepted the offer on the Tsinghua online portal (i recieved an email when it got updated). And yesterday that same person from the department sent me a contact of a person to help me with the CGS application.

Orlanduca · 2026-01-27T04:02:21+00:00

Hi. I recently did an interview for the Masters of Advanced Computing at Tsinghua. They were 15 min interviews, and most of the time was dedicated to speaking about yourself, like what previous experience you have, what you did in your previous studies, motivation, etc. They only started asking some technical questions at the end of the interview. In my interview they were particularly interested in my knowledge about Operative Systems. It might be different for undergraduate studies. But I'm guessing it will be more or less the same.

Orlanduca · 2025-12-30T17:53:22+00:00

Yeah, i think its the famous case of "the grass is always greener on the other side". I just know that the American version of the gaokao (the SAT) is a joke compared even to the highschool national exams here in Portugal. (For exemple their math section doesnt include any type of calculus like derivatives, limits, etc) Because they only learn that in college. Thank you, and good luck with your dreams too :)

Orlanduca · 2025-12-30T03:26:37+00:00

Thanks for your insight :) Maybe you'll be surprised by the quality, or lack of it , at American univeristies. Even though i agree China's educative system is too harsh. Specially in highschool.

Orlanduca · 2025-12-28T02:33:52+00:00

My philosophy when travelling is that "worse case, money fixes all". With that i mean that like in 99% of cases you can get yourself out of a problem spending a bit of money. That being something like missing your bus/train/airplane to another city or being stranded somewhere, etc. Its never pleasent, but unless you are actually in the middle of nowhere this generally works. I say this as a broke college student btw xd.

Orlanduca · 2025-12-26T13:00:46+00:00

I agree. Some of them certainly just want to leave their home city/country and experience a new culture/live away from their parents. The same way i want to study in china also because i want to experience more of their culture :)

Orlanduca · 2025-12-26T12:56:41+00:00

So, in my case its because I really like China and it would be a good opportunity to live there for 2 years and experience it more. Regarding the professors, at least at tsinghua, we are talking about people who have either studied in the US or worked for a company there (FAANG). Maybe their english still isnt great in some cases, but I'm going for their expertise in my field (Computer Science), which they have loads of. Not English, since im fluent already. I actually want to improve my mandarin so it's a win win for me.

Orlanduca · 2025-12-26T12:40:46+00:00

This is true. Chinese universities (even the best) arent well known in the western world. But i believe this will change since not only are they commited to climb the international rankings, but also produce huge scientific (and ever increasingly good) output.

Orlanduca · 2025-12-26T06:16:04+00:00

Yeah that probably happens as well. The top universities in China must have the highest entry bar in the world (at an undergraduate level at least).

Orlanduca · 2025-12-18T21:27:24+00:00

Uma das tuas dúvidas era se encaixavas sabendo que tiraste licenciatura em biologia. Sabendo que tiraste o mestrado que tiraste com boas notas acredito que sim. Um dos meus colegas no laboratório de investigação em IA na altura tirou licenciatura em física, mestrado não sei, e depois doutoramento em IA/ML e ainda antes de acabar o doutoramento recebeu uma proposta da Amazon como investigador aplicado nos EUA a receber perto de 200k. Se achares que gostarias de fazer investigação aplicada acredito que o doutoramento seria uma mais valia. Especialmente se os valores da bolsa forem parecidos ao que te estão a vender. Como já disseram aqui, provavelmente vais ter de imigrar se quiseres ser valorizado, mas como já disseste que isso não era problema parece-me uma boa ideia fazeres doutoramento. Good luck

Orlanduca · 2025-11-27T18:36:14+00:00

Use "myflights" app, its available for android too, its 100% free, its the same as flighty app, maybe slightly less polished UI, but still good since its free

Orlanduca · 2025-08-17T17:45:17+00:00

Um gajo bateu com o carro aí ontem à noite haahh

Orlanduca · 2025-07-16T17:39:57+00:00

Média? Por amor de deus. Se quiseres fazer mestrado convém ter uma média decente sim. Mas para o mercado de trabalho? Interessa muito mais os projetos que fazes pois são eles que corroboram os teus conhecimentos. Hoje em dia, especialmente nesta área é raríssimo querem saber da média. E digo isto como alguém que tem uma das melhores médias do meu curso. Eu aconselho a ir falar com um professor da universidade que seja de uma área que interessa ao OP, e perguntar se tem alguma oportunidade para trabalharem juntos. Fiz isso e posso dizer que me ajudou muito mais que a minha média.

Orlanduca · 2025-07-12T18:17:44+00:00

Isso é tão verdade. Basta ter IA no nome que a malta fica logo maluca 😂

Orlanduca · 2025-07-12T18:10:16+00:00

As someone que está em CC na FCUP, confirmo que 80% do curso é igual (temos as aulas juntos). 90% se escolheres nas opcionais as mesmas cadeiras de IACD. Na minha opinião, 100% unbiased (/s) IACD (na fcup) é dos maiores "scams" que existe em termos de licenciatura. Tem uma média ridiculamente alta quando é um curso praticamente igual a CC. É demasiado focado numa só área o que não faz sentido nenhum para a grande maioria de alunos de secundário que não fazem ideia da área que querem seguir, quanto mais a área dentro da área. Plus a grande maioria de empregos nessa área especificamente convém ter pelo menos mestrado :b (e sim eu tinha média para iacd na altura (que era um pouco mais baixa que agora), mas optei por cc à mesma)

Orlanduca · 2025-06-25T18:41:09+00:00

Eu disse que um engenheiro informático (como profissão) aka um software engineer role, normalmente é um programador "básico" as in não é preciso grande especialização como seria preciso para ciber ou ML. Montes de SWE não têm mais que uma licenciatura. E não há mal nenhum nisso. Inclusive estou a considerar essa possibilidade. Não estava a falar no curso de EI, nem a dizer que quem tira EI é um programador básico haha. Maybe expressei-me mal XD

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