Annabell Bendiks Hansen came across an Instagram post offering free help getting into an architecture program. Now she and eight other participants have been admitted.

Architecture student wants to help others through the needle’s eye: »I was competing against people who had spent up to 100,000 on preparatory courses«

Annabell Bendiks Hansen was rejected last year when she applied to architecture programs. This year, she made it. She is one of 18 young people who took part in a new state-funded course.

It was quite a gut punch for Annabell Bendiks Hansen, 23, when she applied last year to the architecture programs in Copenhagen and Aarhus. She took the admissions test, which has two parts, but both schools rejected her after the initial take-home assignment.

»It really knocked the wind out of me. I honestly thought what I turned in was good. But I also heard that the people who get in are the ones who’ve taken a course«, she says.

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