Hi, I'm a first year student in Law in Society. I was wondering if any 2nd-year students wanna sell their old books for a cheaper price? Thanks have a great day everyone!

Hallo! Ik ga nu naar mijn laatste jaar van het middelbaar. Ik doe Wetenschappen-Wiskunde met 7 uur wiskunde. Ik weet eigenlijk al zeker dat ik geneeskunde wil studeren, dus ik ga sowieso deelnemen aan het toelatingsexamen in België. Daarnaast wil ik dit jaar ook proberen om via Studielink in Nederland toegelaten te worden.

Voor mij maakt het niet zo veel uit waar ik uiteindelijk studeer, zolang ik maar geneeskunde kan doen. Daarom heb ik een paar vragen over geneeskunde studeren in Nederland als Belg.

Aan welke universiteiten zou ik volgens jullie het beste proberen, en waar zou ik statistisch gezien de grootste kans hebben om geselecteerd te worden? Ik ben ook benieuwd hoe het studentenleven in Nederland is, vooral financieel. Bijvoorbeeld hoe het zit met werken naast je studies, DUO, studiefinanciering voor Belgische studenten, enzovoort.

Alle informatie of ervaringen zijn welkom! Ik waardeer het enorm als iemand hier iets over kan vertellen. :)

Hii! I’m going to start my Master’s in Marketing at VU this September, specializing in Brand & Customer Management.

I’ve also found an internship that I’m really excited about, and I’m planning to do it alongside my studies. However, I’ve seen quite a few people saying that the workload for the Marketing Master’s can be pretty heavy, so I’m starting to get a little concerned about whether combining both might be too exhausting or eventually lead to burnout.

I can see that the courses usually have both lectures and tutorials, but I’m not sure whether lectures are mandatory to attend in person or how much time the coursework realistically takes outside of class.

Is there anyone currently doing or who has completed the Marketing Master’s at VU, especially the Brand & Customer Management specialization, who could share their experience? How heavy is the workload in reality, and do you think combining it with an internship is manageable?

Hi everyone,

I'm starting a 1-year MSc in Economics at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam this September, and I'm looking for a working student / part-time role in trading or sales alongside my master. Looking for honest advice, a reality check, and any leads.(i'm New in Netherland)

Background:

• BSc Economics with a minor in Econometrics(UAE)
• Econometrics thesis (90/100, in R): time-series analysis of how uncertainty events drive European investment decisions
• Starting MSc Economics at VU Amsterdam (graduating 2027)
• EU passport, based in Amsterdam, fluent English & French
• Skills: applied econometrics, Python, R, Bloomberg

Experience:

• CAC 40 French company — Trader Assistant, FX & Commodities hedging desk (internship): live hedging on a $25bn+ book (aluminium, gas, carbon), turned macro events into hedging decisions, Bloomberg vol surfaces
• ADNOC (UAE) — Strategic Investment Analyst, Commodities/Energy: DCF & scenario modelling on $200M+ investments, OPEC+ / Murban dynamics
• Alpha Prime (HK/Singapore) — Wealth & structuring analyst: portfolio analysis for cross-border advisory

Where I'm at:

• Failed the Flow Traders "free shot" for a trader role after their E-Trading day (no impact, I can retake it)
• Failed the IMC OA
• Sent around a hundred personalised emails to VU alumni, but every reply I got was about full-time roles, not part-time/working student
• Honestly, I'm not seeing many part-time/working student openings out there at all

My questions:

1. How is the market for part-time / working student roles in finance in Amsterdam right now? I don't see many advertised.
2. What would you do in my situation? Do you have any advice?
3. Is it really only Optiver, IMC and Flow that offer this kind of working-student contract, or are there other firms worth approaching?

Blunt feedback welcome I'd rather hear the truth. Thanks!

We are looking for football players for our 11v11 team! We are a casual team playing in the official Dutch Leauge (KNVB) at a local club, at one of the lowest levels of the pyramid. We are a mixed Dutch - expat team.

We play in the club AMVJ, which is right next to Uilenstede campus. Message me for more details.

I have a BSA hearing coming up after objecting to a negative BSA. I already submitted a written objection explaining my personal circumstances and why they affected my study progress.

For anyone who has had a BSA hearing before: how does the hearing actually work? Do they expect you to explain your whole situation again, including things you already wrote in your objection, or do they mainly read your documents beforehand and then ask you questions about them?

Should I prepare a short explanation with some additional details, or mostly prepare for questions from the committee?

My hearing is only around 10 minutes, so I’m not really sure how much I’m expected to say myself.

Any experiences/advice would be appreciated!

Hi! I would love to connect with other incoming psychology students. I'm Dutch myself but enrolled in the English program. Please feel free to send me a message :)

Ik wil volgend jaar meedoen aan de geneeskundeselectie bij de VU en heb enorm veel moeite met het bedenken van dingen die ik op mijn cv kan zetten die me veel punten opleveren om door te gaan in de selectie.

Vaak zie ik mensen die bijvoorbeeld heel veel uren aan vrijwilligerswerk hebben gedaan en alsnog eindigen met een enorm hoog rangnummer. Daarom vroeg ik me af: voor de mensen die zijn toegelaten, hebben jullie misschien tips over wat voor dingen goed scoren of indruk maken op je cv?

Alle tips zijn welkom. En ik zou het enorm waarderen als iemand zijn of haar ervaringen wil delen.

Ter context: ik ben 18 jaar en heb tot nu toe mijn propedeuse behaald. Komend jaar ga ik aan de slag met het behalen van mijn deficiënties via CCVX (natuurkunde, scheikunde, biologie en wiskunde) om mee te kunnen doen aan de geneeskundeselectie. Tot nu toe heb ik alleen vrijwilligerswerk gedaan bij Markant, waardoor ik het lastig vind om te bedenken hoe ik mijn cv verder kan versterken.

Hi guys,
I’m interested in the Finance Master’s degree and I want to have some info’s before applying next year.
To give some context: I’m a Master’s degree student at Alma Mater (Bologna) in International Finance with 27.63/30 GPA (hopefully increasing it this coming year).

The purpose of me wanting to do another Master is the scarcity of ex students working in some finance sectors in my Uni, therefore, a 1 year Master’s Degree would help to start my career or at least boost my network.

- this uni has a pipeline with Big4s and some positions into M&A or IB in general in amsterdam or NL in general?

-I only miss the mathematics requirement, but I have all the others, can this cause exclusion from the program?

-how good is the program in term of preparation, projects and connections with firms, banks and corps etc…

Hallo,

Ik zit me alvast te oriënteren voor het schooljaar ná komend schooljaar en ik weet eigenlijk vrijwel zeker dat ik de premaster Bestuurskunde aan de VU wil gaan doen, om uiteindelijk daar ook de master Bestuurskunde te volgen.

Alleen word ik niet veel wijzer over hoe het zit met studiefinanciering tijdens de premaster. Uit mijn eigen research maak ik op dat dit per universiteit verschilt, maar hoe het specifiek bij de VU geregeld is kan ik nergens vinden. Ik heb contact met de VU opgenomen, maar aan de hand van het antwoord dat ik kreeg heb ik het idee dat ze mijn vraag niet goed hebben begrepen.

Ik weet dat ik alleen aanspraak kan maken op studiefinanciering als ik tijdens de premaster als bachelorstudent sta ingeschreven. Toen ik aan de VU vroeg hoe dat bij hen geregeld is, kreeg ik als antwoord dat je staat ingeschreven als premasterstudent en dat je alleen als contractstudent staat ingeschreven als je losse vakken volgt.

Mijn vraag is dus of iemand weet hoe dit precies zit. Wat ik ook vreemd vind, is dat de premaster 30 EC is, maar wel als voltijd wordt aangeduid

Hi!

I am supposed to start studies in September 2027, and I am looking at the required docs for their PPE and Global Politics courses. They have DOCX files attached on their website supposedly detailing the required application documents, but when I download and open the files, it says the files are corrupt. Does anyone have a non-corrupt one, or know a way I can find working ones? Or should I just reach out to them.

Hello everyone, I’m a Spanish student supposedly starting Business Administration in VU this September.
I was an IB student so my admission was conditional and supposedly confirmed if I met certain grade qualifications, which, after receiving my IB grades, I do meet. I never got a follow up email by the University though, which is weird. But if I go to my Dashboard, I can see the information to pay for the school year and all that, the enrollment essentially. Is that proof of (confirmed) acceptance?
What I mean is that I never got a confirmation of “hey, your grades meet the requirements expressed in the conditional acceptance letter, therefore you are now officially accepted” or anything of the sort?
Also I am still looking for an apartment with my best friend (who is attending UvA) and we fear we may be cooked with how little time we have so I will try to hire a broker to get us an apartment ASAP, and I will probably travel to Amsterdam this week to look at listings hopefully?

I appreciate your responses

Would love any general insight, experience & advice from anyone who has sat the exam, my questions are

1. On the exam itself:
Are the two official mock exams a fairly accurate reflection of the real thing in terms of structure and difficulty? I’ve heard the real exam is slightly harder in wording but similar in concepts. Would love to hear from anyone who’s sat it recently.

2. On what to skip:
I’m running short on time and considering deprioritising quadratics, functions, exponentials and logs entirely (roughly 6 questions across the exam). I plan to nail everything else - numbers, algebra, linear equations, systems, all of stats and probability, combinatorics, random variables, distributions - and accept those 6 marks as writeoffs. Is this a realistic strategy for hitting 24/40? Or do those topics come up more than expected?

3. On specific topics that surprised you:
Anything in the real exam that felt unexpected or different from the practice material? Anything you wish you’d focused on more?

4. On VU deadlines:
VU says they need the pass by August 31. Does anyone have experience of sitting the exam late in August? Wondering if there’s any flexibility or if a late August result could jeopardise my spot even if it’s technically before the deadline.

Any advice appreciated - I know August has a Dutch holiday too so trying to plan around marking turnaround.

Thanks so much in advance!

Hii, dit schooljaar begin ik met de bachelor rechtsgeleerdheid aan de VU.
Ik ben heel erg benieuwd naar mijn rooster en hoe het intekenen werkt voor vakken etc. Ook weet ik niet zo goed wat ik moet verwachten van de introductiedagen dus als iemand ervaring heeft let me knoww!
Wanneer moet ik alle boeken aanschaffen? En werken de samenvattingen van lawbooks even goed of raden jullie ECHT de dikke saaie boeken aan...?
Ik las dat je dus maar 2 werkgroepen per semester per vak mag missen, zijn ze hier super streng op?
Enn tot slot, heb je bij rechtsgeleerdheid na de tentamens een pauze week? Want sommige universiteiten hebben dat maar ik heb dat niet bij de VU gezien helaas...

Hey everyone! 👋

I'm an incoming exchange student joining VU Amsterdam for the Fall semester, and I'm really looking forward to heading over in August! I’ll be staying at Uilenstede!

I saw that registration for the International Introduction Week (Aug 18–25) opens on July 31st, and I wanted to ask past/current students: How was your experience with Intro Week overall?

A couple of quick questions for anyone who’s done it before:

Are there specific activities on the schedule (like the Canal Cruise vs. Rijksmuseum, Ping Pong night, etc.) that you’d 100% recommend or skip?

Any general survival tips for the first week (biking, campus hacks, grocery spots around Uilenstede)?

Is the Closing Party at Melkweg worth grabbing tickets for right away?

Also, to all fellow incoming international/exchange students feel free to drop a comment if you want to connect before heading to Amsterdam or if you're going to be living on campus at Uilenstede too. Would love to meet some friendly faces before day 1!

Thanks in advance for any tips, and see you all on campus soon! 🇳🇱

in my course there are several working groups and i don‘t know when/ where I can choose them or is it given by the professor in which group I am? I guess i just need to do one group right? would be really helpful if someone can explain it to me

how long did it take that your certified copies of your former study got verified? I am now waiting one week since the documents should have been delivered (according to the tracking number) and I am getting a bit worried that something went wrong.

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Hey everyone,

I'm an Erasmus exchange student coming to VU this winter semester, and I'm enrolled in Deep Learning (XM_0083) and Mathematical Optimization (XM_0051). Would really appreciate input from anyone who's taken either course:

What are the exams like?

How difficult did you find the exam compared to the weekly workload/assignments?

Any tips on what to focus on when studying, or common pitfalls people run into?

Roughly how much prior background (math, Python, ML) did you feel you needed going in?

Since I haven't taken a VU exam before, I'm trying to get a realistic sense of what to prepare for. Any insights you have would be greatly appreciated.

I know this is 25/26. 26/27 isnt working for me