I have no way of telling how the family side of this will go for you, but I can speak to the other half as someone who has just been through the application myself. CE prefer for as many people as possible to apply, and have confidence in their own ability to filter people out based on personal fit with the programme (which is, I must stress, different from whether you are ‘good enough’ for it). The first step of the application should take about 30 minutes and is a bunch of multiple-choices questions and short answers. IMO, this is the best way of answering your question about whether your chances are good.
Although the full application process is spread across a few months, the actual commitment is low and ramps up as you progress. So if you are chosen for the second stage, the take-home task should take a couple of hours, the third stage is a 45-minute asynchronous interview, the fourth stage should take a couple days, and it caps off with an hour-long interview. You have no chance of wasting your time here, because you’d be spending so little time on it.
I have no way of telling how the family side of this will go for you, but I can speak to the other half as someone who has just been through the application myself. CE prefer for as many people as possible to apply, and have confidence in their own ability to filter people out based on personal fit with the programme (which is, I must stress, different from whether you are ‘good enough’ for it). The first step of the application should take about 30 minutes and is a bunch of multiple-choices questions and short answers. IMO, this is the best way of answering your question about whether your chances are good.
Although the full application process is spread across a few months, the actual commitment is low and ramps up as you progress. So if you are chosen for the second stage, the take-home task should take a couple of hours, the third stage is a 45-minute asynchronous interview, the fourth stage should take a couple days, and it caps off with an hour-long interview. You have no chance of wasting your time here, because you’d be spending so little time on it.