I have placed students in a wide range of careers. In today’s ever-changing world, you will have to be very careful about the career you choose. Given extremely disruptive technological change, the question to ask is will I be able to stay in the career I choose for the rest of my life? Among the careers or courses you can choose are List them out

The most important aspect of my work is to create the right match keeping your cultural, psychological, financial, and academic background in mind. Will you be looking for a scholarship? What is the extent of funding that you can bring to the table? Is your career choice in accordance with our academic inclination? How are you culturally and psychologically attuned to the career or course you are looking for? Or can there be a better fit? This is where I can come in and help you out through an interactive process

This can be a tough choice. There can be dozens if not hundreds of courses you can choose, and from universities and colleges around the world. I have placed students in at least 75 different colleges and there are representatives from 350 universities from around the world that I know personally or have interacted with over the years. My real work is to navigate the country-specific, college centric requirements and identify the right fit for you in terms of courses and colleges, and then ensure, within your given constraints, that you go through and get an admission

Your marks will carry a lot of weight. Overwhelmingly so. Marks scored from Class IX to XI will be crucial, as also your predicted scores for Class XII and your SAT/ACT scores. We must sit down and go through these scores with a fine comb, identify your strengths and weaknesses and come up with mid-course corrections wherever needed.

Global universities are looking at a well-rounded young man, who is aware of the world around him, has healthy interests, and is an active and contributing member of the community. Developing a personality of your own, getting the all-important extracurricular experience, the right internships, and the correct recommendations are part of a process, and it takes to build this up. To think and write independently are enabling characteristics for a young college student. You need to have the extra edge that differentiates you from the others. And here is where I can help you, both as a trained psychologist as well as someone who has placed hundreds of raw young students just like you in the colleges of their choice. Here again, best fit extracurriculars and experience will be a prerequisite

All your scores, extracurriculars, and recommendations will have to be in consonance with the overall goal set out for you. And they must be immaculately put in place. At times, I can recommend an early admission application for reasons I will explain. We have to look at scholarship eligibility too. More importantly, the quality of the essays that you are going to submit will have to stand apart from the rest. We may have to go through multiple drafts to ensure the right fit to a given prompt..And every college admission will have its own requirement, its own set of online eligibility prompts, competency mapping and tailor-made essays.

Many top colleges will ask for an interview with the student. And preparing for the interview is a learning process as well, just as much as is the build-up to the online application submission. Possible interview questions and the best answers to them, mock interviews, a real time feedback loop to help you answer better, psychological strengthening, inner well-being and confidence building… are all part of this process

The final college selection process is a critical one. If you have a choice of colleges, you have to look at funding availability and the scholarship element. If not, the academic course is of utmost importance: which one, for example, provides a better career fit? Then comes parameters like teacher-student ratios and accommodations. Are you entitled to a hostel or do you have to live outside the campus in rented accommodation? Cultural attenuation, food preferences and location are extremely important: Is a rural, isolated location a better fit than a university in close proximity to a city? Many, for example, will choose Columbia University or New York University over other equally good or even better universities elsewhere in the US, because they are right in Manhattan, in New York City. You learn as much from living in what is arguably the greatest city in the world as you would from the two great universities the city is host to