Switzerland Exchange

I'm not in Switzerland yet because i still need to arrange a lot of stuff. I'm just starting this entry right now already because it's nice to know what's involved for people who maybe want to go here as well or just want to experience an exchange in general.
I'll be attending the Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts (HSLU). They have multiple buildings for certain majors. I study my Animation major at the Lucerne School of Design, Film and Art, a little outside the downtown area of Lucerne.

The stuff i already had done:
For the school's application:

portfolio

motivation letter

passport info

resume

relevant language certificate(s)

Learning Agreement (agreement from both schools to attend the school from abroad)

Transcript of Records (grades)

When i was accepted i had to declare consent to declare i will only study there and nowhere else.

Then i had to arrange an accomodation. Thank god the school offers some specific accomodations to students from specific majors. I'll be staying in this certain apartment building where it's recommended for art and music students to stay there.
The important thing is to mail their housing-mail that you want to reserve a room. Else it won't be shown that a room is free in your HSLU-account. Everything seemed full when i looked around for rooms on my account website before mailing them. After you mail them you'll get a message on your account that there will be a room free when you click on the 'accomodation' button. Much later when you booked a room you'll get the rest of the information such as payment.

Making sure you're insured for travel and overall health

The stuff i still need to arrange are:

Residence Permit

bank account information

making sure my country knows i'm studying elsewhere by sending them proof (i need both institutions to sign the paper form)

maybe an official language certificate (because the language certificate i handed in wasn't actually for official university applications, oops. They still approved it somehow?)

student grant

travel fee

Residence Permit: I need to hand in the following things for the Migration Office in Lucerne:

Application form 6 (school sends it to me)

Copy of passport: valid for at least 3 months beyond the intended date of departure

Confirmation of Enrolment (will be issued by your Student Services Coordinator or Exchange Program Coordinator)

Evidence of sufficient financial means through current statement of a bank account in your name with the required minimum amount of CHF 21.000 for a whole academic year, CHF 10.500 for one semester

or alternatively:

a declaration of financial guarantee of a solvent person with residence in Switzerland

For EU/EFTA passport holders: submit a letter from your parents confirming that they support you financially during your studies

The ones i crossed out are the things I have already laid out ready.

i send a form to both institutions to sign as proof that my country knows i'll be going abroad.It's at the same time a request for a travel fee. i need to wait now.

For my student grant there will be two workshops for more information about it. The first one will be held when i'm spending time in the US though but it'll be fine. The second one will be held in person somewhere at school.

Okay, i hope these tasks won't stack up even more. i'm praying i'm not forgetting something. But yeah, this is all the stuff that you need to arrange for an exchange which can be pretty tiring, but it's worth the work.

My greatest tip is to KEEP MAILING both education institutions contacts if you have questions. It still happens that things are overlooked. I didn't even know i had to send an entire form to my municipality instead of only marking and answering a few questions on their website. I found out because of the travel insurance subject my advisor told me, but unfortunately she didn't gave me any exact information about how to arrange that. Anyways, we're good now, i hope.

Also another tip is to READ THE FORMS REALLY WELL that you'll get per email by the institution abroad. I need a long time to read, idk why, most of the time 5 times even if it was in my native language. Sometimes i didn't read certain words which made me skip important things.
At the beginning, when i had to do the application form, i didn't read you only had to fill in your personal information first in order to get send to the main application website. After doing the first part i didn't read that it will take at least 3 workdays to get processed, oops. So i was stressed out because i handed it in 2 days before the deadline. I first thought to just wait till i got every document ready and then fill out everything all at once, but nu-uh. i mailed the institutions advisor and she send me right away to the website, thank god she's fast with replying.

Update: i got really confused why this other advisor from HSLU send me a mail WITH the document about visa requirements having name subject name of the mail being VISA and accomodation. I recently discovered don't need a long stay visa. It's called a Residence Permit. she sent me two different documents for both students who don't need visas and do. So i was confused which one i should follow. But now i know.