For students from Afghanistan

Open the doorto your future

Mentors from top colleges around the world guide you through your application, and stay with you after.

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Around the world

Mentors at top colleges across the world

From the Ivy League to Oxford, Toronto and British Columbia. Move over a gold place, or tap it, to meet its colleges and mentors. Drag to move around the map.

  • Providence, Rhode Island: Brown University
  • New York City: Columbia University
  • Ithaca, New York: Cornell University
  • Hanover, New Hampshire: Dartmouth College
  • Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University
  • Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: University of Pennsylvania
  • Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University
  • New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University
  • Durham, North Carolina: Duke University
  • Poughkeepsie, New York: Vassar College
  • Oxford, England: University of Oxford
  • Toronto, Canada: University of Toronto
  • Vancouver, Canada: University of British Columbia
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Choose your schools

Pick the colleges you are applying to.

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Meet your mentor

We connect you with a student or recent graduate from those schools.

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Apply with confidence

Your mentor guides you through every part of your application, and keeps mentoring you after.

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People who have walked the path

Every open seat on this map is waiting for a student or recent graduate from these schools.

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At a glance

top colleges across the world

  • 13top colleges across the world
  • 1mentor who stays with you after
  • 4steps from sign up to applying

In our words

“Every student deserves someone who has walked the path before them.”
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“Your story is not something to hide. It is the heart of your application.”
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“You do not have to figure this out alone.”
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Costs we cover

A fee should never stop a student

Before a student hears back from a single college, tests, applications and documents can cost hundreds of dollars. We help pay them, so a fee never decides who gets to apply.

  • English testDuolingo is $70. TOEFL and IELTS often cost over $200.
  • College applications$75 to $85 for each college.
  • Financial aid formThe CSS Profile is $25, then $16 for each college.
  • Documents and moreTranslations, couriers, and internet for online tests.
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