Athena Education helps Indian students achieve their Ivy League goals
Athena Education, founded by two Princeton graduates, offers individualized mentoring programs to Class 7-12 students in order to ease entrance to colleges overseas. In the previous two years, Athena students have reported an admission rate of more over 95 percent. Poshak Agarwal and Rahul Subramaniam, Princeton grads and friends, returned to India in 2013 after traveling the world and found themselves tutoring the children of friends and acquaintances to make rent and pay expenses. Rahul says, "You're missing out on a massive opportunity because no one is looking into mentorship in a professional, process-driven, tailored way." Poshak and Rahul founded Athena Education in 2013 to assist students in applying to universities overseas, with a particular emphasis on Ivy League schools. They started with "meagre savings" from a room in their Delhi home. Rahul says, "We realized that there are many students in India who want expert assistance ...