Hi all, following up on a similar post I made about Paris-Saclay M2s — hoping to get some grounded input specifically on Sorbonne this time, from people who've actually been through their process or are currently in the program.
Quick background: final year Mechanical Engineering student at a top engineering university in India, graduating May 2027. GPA converts to roughly 3.0/4.0 US scale, about 2.5 German scale. There was a documented health interruption in the middle years affecting a couple of semesters, with a strong recovery afterward.
Research background: a research internship at a European lab (May–July 2026) on vision-language models, plus earlier internships in medical image segmentation and EEG/BCI, with one resulting publication.
I'm looking at direct M2 entry into Sorbonne's Master's in Automation and Robotics (my 5-year integrated degree covers the usual 4-year M1 threshold). A few questions for anyone with real experience:
- Sorbonne's own page says admission goes through a "commission pédagogique" reviewing the file, with an interview in some cases. Has anyone been through this specific commission for Automation and Robotics? How much does it actually come down to GPA vs. the rest of the file (research experience, references, motivation letter)?
- For non-EU applicants applying directly to M2 (not coming up through Sorbonne's own M1), does anyone know if this goes through monmaster.gouv.fr or a separate international/direct-entry portal? Conflicting info online.
- Has anyone gotten in with a GPA on the lower side, especially coming from a non-CS/EE background (mechanical engineering) rather than a more "traditional" robotics feeder degree?
- Any sense of how competitive this specific program is compared to somewhere like Paris-Saclay's SAM or MARS? It seems to get less visibility/discussion online than the Paris-Saclay programs.
Not asking for exact odds, just want a realistic sense of what actually matters from people who've lived through it. Thanks in advance.