About MyUniCompass
Founder Mehul Bhargava has done admissions both ways: he started with a counselor on a computer-science track, COVID cancelled his IB exams in 2020, he pivoted to industrial design via a year at Arizona State online, then rebuilt his application as a transfer entirely on his own - and graduated from Pratt Institute in 2024 with Highest Honors. Having paid for premium guidance AND navigated the process solo, the lesson was clear: most of what counselors charge fortunes for is organization, honest data, and someone who has been there. That is what MyUniCompass delivers - for students whose plans change and families on a real budget.
What we believe
- Clarity over complexity — every screen answers one question.
- Student-first, always — we build for students, not institutions.
- Transparency by default — no hidden rankings, no pay-to-play; students see exactly what we see.
- Trust through accuracy — real data, real mentors, real deadlines. Nothing fabricated.
The problem we are actually solving
Private admissions consultants in India charge between three and fifteen lakh rupees for a single application cycle, and outside India between six and a half and twenty-five thousand dollars. Most families cannot spend that, and the ones who can are rarely told what they are buying. Strip away the reassurance and a great deal of it is organisation, honest data, and someone who has been through it before — three things that do not have to cost a year of school fees.
The families who need it most get the least. A student whose parents did not study abroad is navigating deadlines, testing policies, credential rules and visa conditions that nobody around them has ever seen, and the cost of getting it wrong is a year.
How we are different from a rankings site
We do not sell placement. No university pays to appear, to rank higher or to be recommended, and there is no sponsored result anywhere on the platform. Every figure shows where it came from and when it was last checked. Where we do not have verified data, we say so rather than estimating quietly.
Who it is for
Students in Grade 9 to Grade 12 applying to university abroad, wherever they are applying from and wherever they are applying to — and their parents, who get their own view of the same process rather than being told to trust that it is going fine.