Testimonials
At UGrad Education, We understand that the journey to college is not just about academics—it's about the personal growth, the overcoming challenges, and the triumphs celebrated. Here, We are honored to present the heartfelt stories and experiences shared by our students and their parents!
Students' Stories
Jiya Sukhwani
Vanderbilt University
Working with Anu ma’am has been an incredible experience that made the overwhelming college application process manageable and, to my surprise, even enjoyable. The structured approach she provided to the journey kept me on track throughout the year – there were multiple workshops dedicated to different aspects of the application journey, from writing research papers and standardized testing to essay writing and filling out the CommonApp. Each of them provided clarity and broke down complex, daunting tasks into manageable steps.
Eshannika Mishra
University of Michigan
As a student completely foreign to what admission abroad entails, Anu Ma’am helped me and my parents through the process in every way. Through her guidance, I now have the luxury of selecting from among the top universities in the UK and USA. Some particular instances that her expertise shone through were:
Anu ma'am played a pivotal role in helping me achieve my academic goals. Thanks to her, I got accepted at several top colleges in the US like Princeton, Johns Hopkins, UIUC, and Georgia Tech. Committed to Princeton!
Divija Durga
Princeton University
Migul Jain
University of Illinois,
Urbana Champaign
In July 2023, when my father and I sought advice from Anu Ma'am, I harbored doubts about advancing my application in the limited time available. Yet, her guidance propelled me to secure admission to Computer Science at UIUC, the 5th-ranked CS university in the U.S.
Krisha Bansal
International Scholar Award
University of Sydney
Anu ma’am was more than a college counselor—she was a mentor and guide who made the application process clear and even exciting. Her strategic planning, early essay guidance, and support in selecting AP courses strengthened my academic profile and confidence. Beyond applications, she played a pivotal role in shaping my growth, ensuring a purposeful and stress-free journey.
Anu ma’am came as a blessing in disguise for me. In just 3 months’ time, she diametrically changed the way my profile looks. She knows in and out of the college admission system. She works with the eyes of an admission officer and the love of a mother.
Sarthak Jain
UC Berkeley
Uday Sapra
Stern School of Business, NYU
To explain how committed Anu ma’am is to her students, I’ll highlight one experience - 10 days before the ED deadline, I decided to change my ED university and my intended major (from economics to business) altogether. My indecisiveness meant that we would have to revamp my entire CV, essays, and profile to pivot it towards business - a task any counsellor would have refused to undertake given the deadline was in 10 days.
Rishika Jain
Rotman Commerce,
University of Toronto
Anu ma’am’s counselling has been a spectacular journey that went in learning and lessons.
She played an instrumental role in helping me secure admission to some of the world’s top business schools.
In August 2021, with 3 months to go for the application deadlines. I was contemplating taking a gap year since I did not have slightest idea of how I would be doing going through it all. I met Anu ma’am who assured me that I would be going to college with my peers without a gap year.
Prachi Sharma
Haas School of Business
Miss Anu's guidance has played a huge role in shaping my college application journey. The daily reminders to make sure everything is in place before the deadlines, discussion on the essays, and her tips about streamlining the profile and organizing information on Common app and other applications helped me get into my dream college! Thanks for all the support!
Aarnav Sethi
Rotman Commerce,
University of Toronto
Ms. Anu Arora is the epitome of a passionate and assiduous counsellor with whom I had the pleasure to work for my university applications in US and Canada. To call Anu ma’am anything less than a “dream maker” would not do justice to the result of all her work that she executed for my applications and countless others. An anecdote of my experience working under her guidance is a perfect reflection of her commitment and effort.
Ariyaan Raj Makhija
Wesleyan University
Exactly one year ago I was reading a recommendation for Anu Ma’am - similar to this one. I reached out to Anu Ma’am her and got working. I trusted the recommendation and went for it. I can confidently say Anu Ma’am is a gem and she played a crucial role in helping me secure admission to top universities like UIUC, U Washington and Wesleyan University.
Vasundhara Oswal
University of Warwick
Aside from Anu ma’ams vast experience and professionalism, she constantly motivated me to rise up to my true potential. I cannot express enough gratitude for all her help. With her guidance throughout my college application journey, I had so many wonderful acceptances. I would not have gotten into any of the universities without her assistance, insights and knowledge!
Parents' Stories
In the last few months during the craziness of my daughter’s college application process, I must have thanked Anu a hundred times for her help. And God a million times… for giving us Anu.
Sonal Kalra
We cherished a profound journey with Anu for both our children, Uday (2019-2021) who is at NYU Stern and Ishita (2022-2024) still selecting out of her top acceptances. We experienced:
Deepak Sapra
Apoorv Durga
I cannot recommend Anu enough as an overseas education counsellor!
Anu's knowledge, attention to detail, and dedication to her students truly set her apart. She works very hard to understand the child and makes sure their profile reflects the best version of themselves.
Anu is highly knowledgeable and well-experienced as an overseas educational counsellor. As my daughter's mentor, coach and guide her role in her college application journey was nothing less than brilliant.
Arushi Kathuria
Anu has been a guide and a mentor to my daughter in her college application journey. Her experience and knowledge in the field as an overseas educational counsellor is exceptional.
Manav Kathuria
Shally Kothari
Thanks Anu for being a promising guiding light! A persistent, passionate and extremely dedicated individual like u achieves success and in the process earns so much respect as you are very special . You have that spark which lightens lives of your students.