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.

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About the
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

  1. 01 —

    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.

  2. 02 —

    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.

  3. 03 —

    SAT & ACT Tutoring

    Effective test preparation for any timeframe.

  4. 04 —

    High School Admissions

    Guidance for families navigating selective independent and boarding school admissions earlier in the journey.

The Approach

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.

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