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2024-25
* Ivy+ refers to the eight Ivy League universities (Brown, Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth, Harvard, Princeton, Penn, and Yale) plus other highly selective U.S. institutions with comparable academic rigor, selectivity, and reputation (e.g., MIT, Stanford, UChicago).
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Today’s hyper-competitive universities seek authenticity and enthusiasm above all. At Athena, we help turn your quirky talents and passions into powerful college applications.
Preparing an application suited to elite university tastes requires craft. With the Athena masala, we teach you the recipe for success.
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Before I came to Athena, I could communicate to people in tech, but not to anyone outside it — which is most of the population. I couldn’t sell myself or present my work in a way that showed its impact. Athena taught me how to communicate what I’m thinking and what I work on daily to someone completely disconnected from the tech industry, and that’s been a huge change.
Caltech '29
Athena helped me so much. My research paper explored the impact of peer influences on women’s financial attitudes and behaviours in Kaithal, Haryana. It was a case study. I won many cool research awards for this paper. It was all because of Athena.
Stanford University '29
I wasn’t really sure how to bring it all together — how to say, ‘This is Farhan,’ and show both the personal side and everything I’d done. That’s where Athena really helped me step up my game. They showed me how to use every part of my application — the activities list, the essays, the supplements — to show I’m not just one-faceted, but someone with many different sides that are unique and interesting. That’s what really helped me get into Princeton.
Princeton University '28
Athena has been really fundamental in my journey. More than that, I think they gave me this belief in myself, and I think what has changed is that I’ve understood there’s a clear way to structure everything, with the proper timelines I had with my projects and with my essays and everything. I would not have been able to write such good essays without the mentorship I received.
Harvard University '29
Athena really helped me understand my college fit. The counselors would come up with this big chart of all my top college options, what they thought was good about each, the pros and cons, and then we’d sit together with my parents and really debate what would be the right fit for me.
Oxford University '29 (Full Scholarship)
Athena made me understand, at almost every step, how my projects aligned with the values I stand for and the vision I had for myself. They sculpted my heightened imagination into concrete steps that could put forth my true brand and eventually make my application seem impressive, yet genuine and personal.
Yale University ‘27
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