Student case study · Sweden
Sneha, from Bhaktapur to Uppsala
MSc Sustainable Development, August 2025 intake
Rejected on her own the first year for one missing document. Second round, with us, she got her first choice.
- Re-applied
- Environmental science
- After bachelor's
- Starting point
- BSc Environmental Science, CGPA 3.36
- English
- IELTS Academic 7.0
- Study gap
- 1 year after her bachelor's, working for an NGO
- Paid for by
- Parents' savings
- First call to visa
- 242 days
Where Sneha started
Sneha applied to Swedish master's programmes on her own in January 2024. Her application was marked incomplete and she wasn't considered for any of them. She spent the next year working for an environmental NGO in Bhaktapur.
What we found
We opened her old account on universityadmissions.se with her. Her degree certificate had been uploaded without the official transcript, and the programme's specific requirement (a course in statistics) wasn't documented.
Both were easy to fix: an official transcript, and a course description from her university showing the statistics module. Her NGO year went into her letter of intent and made it stronger than the first time.
Step by step, with dates
4 Oct 2024
First counselling. Old application reviewed; missing documents found the same day.
16 Oct 2024
Shortlist of 4 programmes, ranked, with tuition and scholarship options.
14 Jan 2025
Application submitted; documents uploaded and checked twice.
21 Mar 2025
Admitted to her first choice in Uppsala.
17 Apr 2025
NOC; first tuition instalment paid.
24 Apr 2025
Residence permit applied for, with living funds in her own account.
5 May 2025
Fingerprints and photo at the embassy.
3 Jun 2025
Residence permit granted, 242 days after the first call.
14 Aug 2025
Flies to Stockholm, then the train to Uppsala.
The result
Sneha is in the second year of her master's in Uppsala and wrote her first-year project on urban flooding in the Kathmandu valley.
In Sneha's words
I applied to Sweden on my own the first time and missed one document. Prasthan found what I had missed in a day. Second round, I got my first choice.
If your profile looks like this
- 1
Check every programme's specific requirements, not just the general ones. Missing a course description is a common reason for an incomplete application.
- 2
Upload official transcripts, not only the certificate. See the Sweden documents checklist.
- 3
A year of relevant work strengthens a master's application. Put it in your letter of intent.