Bespoke college consulting from someone who just did it.
By Madhavendra Thakur, a Harvard student, Regeneron ISEF finalist, and published AI and policy researcher. Personalized guidance for families serious about getting it right.
Before our call, I'll ask you to fill out a short questionnaire so I arrive with a real point of view, not a generic sales pitch.
Skolara has an all-in-one dashboard for browsing colleges, tracking applications, and sharing meeting notes — all in one place.
Founder
I'm Madhavendra Thakur — a Harvard student, Regeneron ISEF finalist, and published researcher. During my own admissions cycle, I was accepted to Harvard, Stanford, Caltech, Columbia, CMU, Cornell, and Brown.
Prior to that, I was a student at Trinity School in New York City, one of the nation's leading independent schools. There, I led the robotics team to represent the United States at the world's largest robotics and AI competition.
My research — spanning AI, biology, policy, and linguistics — was conducted at Stanford, Columbia, and Memorial Sloan Kettering. I have been published at some of the most prestigious venues in science, and cited by researchers at Microsoft, Harvard, IBM, and Tsinghua.
I started Skolara because the families I'd been informally advising kept asking the same thing: how did you actually do it?
Services
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College Admissions Consulting
Personalized end-to-end guidance, calibrated to fit your needs: extracurricular advising, writing support, school list strategy, and application narrative. Deep familiarity with both American and British application systems.
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Research Mentorship
One-on-one guidance to develop original work in any field across humanities and the sciences. Guidance at every step, from problem identification to publication.
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SAT & ACT Tutoring
Effective test preparation for any timeframe.
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High School Admissions
Guidance for families navigating selective independent and boarding school admissions earlier in the journey.
Most consultants tell you what an application should look like.
I can tell you what it takes to build one. Skolara combines admissions-side perspective from conversations with officers at top universities with a firsthand understanding of how to assemble the kind of profile that gets in. No templates. No formulas. Real strategy, calibrated to the student in front of me.
Book a complimentary fifteen-minute consultation.
Schedule →Before our call, I'll ask you to fill out a short questionnaire so I arrive with a real point of view, not a generic sales pitch.