Become a mentor — guide students into top universities
Current university students and recent grads: mentor applicants through a process you've already cracked. Applications are open.
- Put it on your CV — structured mentoring experience with real students.
- Give back — help students like your younger self.
- Fully flexible — set your own availability.
- Founding Mentor status — the first fifty mentors keep a permanent badge on their profile and in the mentor list.
What a mentor actually does here
Two things, and you choose either or both. You can take paid one-to-one video sessions, half an hour at a time, with students who have read your profile and picked you deliberately. Or you can review essays and personal statements in writing, which suits anyone whose timetable will not hold a fixed call. Nothing is assigned to you: students book the hours you have opened, and you decline anything you do not want.
How you are paid
Every paid session is paid out in the first week of the following month: by UPI or bank transfer inside India, by PayPal elsewhere. You are an independent mentor, not an employee, and the Mentor Agreement sets that out in full along with your tax position.
If you cannot take payment — an F-1 visa, for instance, or any situation where earning would breach your own conditions — you are still welcome. You can donate your share to an education charity supporting schools in India instead. It is chosen on the application and never asks you for bank details.
Who we are looking for
Current undergraduates, postgraduates and recent graduates of universities students actually apply to — the Ivy League, Oxbridge, the wider Russell Group, the IITs and IIMs, NUS and NTU, the University of Toronto and UBC, the Group of Eight in Australia, and the research universities of the Netherlands, Germany and Ireland. What matters is that you made the application yourself, recently enough to remember it honestly.
Who you will be talking to
Mostly fifteen to eighteen year olds, many of them the first in their family to apply abroad, and often their parents too. That is why every mentor signs the Mentor Code of Conduct before taking a single booking, and why we take that document more seriously than any other part of joining.
How joining works
Fill in the application with your university, course and what you want to offer. If you are approved, we create your account and email you a link that signs you straight in — there is no second form to fill. You then sign the Mentor Agreement, add a photo and a short bio, and open some hours. Students can find and book you the moment those are in place.