Please review my document list for Exceptional Promise

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I hope you’re doing well. I’m currently preparing my Tech Nation application and have compiled a document list detailing my personal statement, accomplishments, and references. I’d be very grateful if you could review the list and provide any insights or suggestions on how to strengthen my submission.

I am confused about Mandotary & Optional 2 which is similar,
I am confused also optional 3 criteria, which document should I add for this to improve it?

Here’s a summary of the main components:

  1. Personal Statement: Outlining my motivation to come to the UK, my background in Data Science and NLP, and my future plans to build an AI-driven application that combines mapping and historical information.

  2. CV: A condensed 3-page document covering my career history and publications.

  3. Letters of Recommendation:
    LOR1: From my company CEO,
    LOR2: My Master’s professor from UNI in UK,
    LOR3: The Community leader (the community which I am doing mentorships, sessions → they are in youtube as well or I can add reference letter from CTO at my current company.

  4. Mandatory Criteria:

  • My work with one of the community which helps woman’s in Tech, (talks and mentoring sessions)
  • Nomination for the WomenTech Award.
  • Participation in the IEEE Global Engineering Education Conference, along with a web-based NLP application developed for educational purposes. ( add refererence from my Professor which is LOR2)
  • Contribution to the Employer Engagement Advisory Board at University (which I finished my master degree in UK), working to bridge the gap between education and graduate employment. (add reference letter about my partipitation from Professor Head of Department MSc Advanced Practice (Business, Computing & Cyber Security))
  1. Optional Criteria:
    *Optional 2:
    Contributions to the Community (talks, mentoring, blog posts), → which I used also in Mandotary criteria
    StackOverflow (over 600 Reputation), and GitHub activity (with 20 repositories and over 150 followers)

*Optional 3: My significant contributions to my current company’s (it is a startup company) growth, such as customer acquisition, and my involvement in a fraud prevention project using location data. (add reference from COO and CEO (which is LOR1).
I have a option grant.
Since I join the company we increased our customers and our values.
I worked a project that uses location data to predict merchant location which is helpful to prevent froud.

*Optional 4: Academic achievements,
→ A TÜBİTAK 1003 scholarship for a project ( The TÜBİTAK 1003 R&D Program is an initiative by Turkey’s Scientific and Technological Research Council (TÜBİTAK) to support large-scale, applied research and development projects across various scientific fields.) on statistical decision support systems. (I add reference letter from program lead)
→ a research paper in Biostatistics published by YÖK. (The article was accepted by the Higher Education Council of Turkey (YÖK) and published on platforms like ResearchGate. I completed my degree in Biostatistics with a GPA of 2.85/4, equivalent to an Upper Second-Class Honours (2:1) in the UK grading system.)
→ Research paper which is under review from ieee while I was doing my second master degree in London which I graduated with distinction. ( I add reference letter from my Professor which is also LOR2)

Could you please review this list and share any recommendations on structure, additional documentation, or areas where I might strengthen my application? I would appreciate any advice :slight_smile:

Thank you so much for your time and support!

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Hi @Busra_Ecem_Sakar you can only select two OCs out of the four options given.

Please go through the official TN guidelines thoroughly to check against accepted example of evidences Tech Nation Visa Guide - Tech Nation

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Hi @pahuja, thank you for your message.

I’m a bit confused about which option to choose between OC2 and OC3. That’s why I included both and am reaching out for any guidance or thoughts you might have.
At the end I will use one of them but not sure…

Thank you!

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From what I see, it looks like you have a lot of evidence in OC4; so it might be worth picking OC4 and OC2.
However, it looks like most of the papers were from your degrees. If they are not your thesis papers, then I think they are good to go (don’t mention them like it was related to your thesis if they are not). Thesis papers are not accepted.

If you choose OC4, you can move the other evidences around e.g

  1. Your significant contributions to the startup can go to MC (I think it’s perfect there because you also want to show technical contributions to a product-led company in MC)
  2. Your work with our community is already in OC2, you cannot use again for MC, unless you are talking about different things, but since I know your contributions so far, I advice you use only for OC2.
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Understood.

OC3 is about showing quantified impact. You will need more proofs apart from just the letter. plus you need atleast 2 strong evidences and not just 1.

Considering your OC3 has 1 story, I would say select OC2 and OC4 (till these are not part of thesis), move your OC3 story to MC and move 2 of your MC external contributions to OC2.

All evidence must be unique and cannot be repeated in two criterias.

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Hi

i dont think Nomination for the WomenTech Award is a strong evidence! Have you nominated yourself? or by other parties?

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Hi Maya,
They have different categories, and I applied for this award which is AI & Data Science Leader of the Year Award and nominated by the organisation.
Here is the details that I found from their website, do you think it is not strong?

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Thanks,

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Hi @Busra_Ecem_Sakar

I personally see nomination as entering a competition and to me this is just reflection of meeting the competition eligibility criteria. entering a competition not an evidence of recognition yet! however, the outcome of this nomination is a recognition as it shows you have exceptional potential. to be a leader in the tech sector and you were selected among all other participants.

This evidence would be strong if you got shortlisted and/ or receive an award following your nomination which is the ‘‘outcome of nomination’’.

Just meeting the eligibility criteria to me is weak!

That is my personal view and maybe other members in this forum have another view on this!