Conduct Research With a Professor, Scholar, or Researcher From a Top U.S. University in Your Academic Area of Interest

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Through InGenius Prep’s Academic Mentorship program, students work with actual scholars and researchers from U.S. universities. These mentors—professors, lecturers, post-doctoral fellows, and Ph.D. candidates who teach courses at their universities—design unique research projects and courses for our students. With further support from Teaching Assistants, students will have the guidance they need to produce tangible research outcomes.

Gain a Competitive Edge in Admissions by Adding Research to Your Extracurriculars

Why Invest in InGenius Prep’s Academic Mentorships?

When evaluating applications, Admissions Officers at top-ranked universities look for stand-out students with impressive academics and extracurricular profiles. According to our expert team of Former Admissions Officers, one of the most impressive extracurricular activities a student can have on their profile is conducting research, but these opportunities are hard to find.

InGenius Prep’s Academic Mentorship program offers students one-of-a-kind opportunities that allow students to connect with researchers. In this program, students either dive into a new subject or advance in a familiar one; they either participate in an existing, team-based experience or create their own. With our unique network of scholars, students pursue their academic interests in ways they are otherwise unable to — with professional mentorship, intensity, and independence. With editing support from Teaching Assistants, students produce tangible outcomes, such as research papers and projects.

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What Students Gain From an Academic Mentorship

As the country’s Top College Admissions Consultants and the largest admissions team in the world, our Education Teams can help you prepare for the unique and rigorous application process for UK universities to earn your spot overseas.  InGenius students work with both subject-aligned application experts and university-level researchers to build their applications.

Examples of Academic Mentorship Programs

Popular
Fundamentals of Cancer Biology

With UC Davis Professor Dr. Sanchita Bhatnagar

Cancer is the second leading cause of death in the global world. According to a CDC report, in 2018, for every 100,000 people in the US, 436 new cancer cases were reported and 149 people died of cancer. This program will help students understand the fundamentals of cancer biology. Students will learn about the basics of cancer initiation, progression, and metastasis. These principles will be taught using a platform of breast cancer. Sessions will consist of interactive lectures that incorporate both classical and new research related to the topic of the week. 

Popular
Applied Mathematics, AI and Machine Learning: Theories and Applications

With Georgia Tech Professor Guillermo Goldsztein

The availability of computer power and massive amounts of data has led to the incredible, rapid growth of Machine Learning (ML) or Artificial Intelligence (AI) as a discipline. ML is now being applied to numerous fields. As a consequence, the demand for data scientists (practitioners of ML) is very high, and leading universities have created new Data Science degrees at both the undergraduate and graduate levels. In fact, becoming a data scientist is considered one of the most promising career choices (for the present and the future) by many experts. A distinguishing feature of this program is that students will not just learn to use the popular Python libraries to solve Machine Learning problems, they will also learn the Mathematics behind the methods.

Popular
Music as Medicine: The Connections Between Musical Sound and Science

With Former Yale Professor Dr. Roger Worthington

Students in this program will have the opportunity to develop special interests, perhaps centered around the instrument of their choice, exploring the nature and properties of sound, and/or how it impacts on human beings. Students will develop their research skills and draw on a variety of sources, both audio and written. There will also be scope for students to apply themselves both creatively and academically.

Popular
War and Peace: International Relations through the Ages

With Harvard University Researcher Dr. Vladimir Petrovic

In this course, we will examine their role in the formation of and relations between states in the past. Studying peacemaking in international relations is equally crucial for understanding our present and preparing for the future. Students are offered a comparative insight into waging war, peacemaking, and international relations. They will be guided through vast literature of this challenging field, and challenged to scrutinize primary and secondary materials related to this topic. Students will examine past conflicts in order to analyze those which currently surround us.

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A Deep Dive Into the Stock Market

With Dr. Rodolfo Oviedo from the Central Bank of Mexico 

In this program, students will learn the fundamentals of the stock market. What are stocks? What are indexes? How have stocks behaved during the last 70 years in the USA? Why do stock prices fluctuate? What are bull and bear markets? How does the Federal Reserve influence stock prices? By the end of this program, students will feel comfortable talking about the stock market and learn whether this is a topic they would like to explore further. They will also complete an individual research paper using what they learned to analyze topics that match their interest and skills.

Popular
The Business of Digital Media

With UMinnesota Professor and Yale Affiliate, Dr. Colin Agur

In this program, you will learn to analyze and evaluate the strategies of existing digital media enterprises in news, entertainment, social media, mobile, retail, and other sectors. You will also have the opportunity to assess their impacts on cultural and civic life for better and for worse. While this program is primarily a chance to study and think about existing media, it is also an opportunity to gain skills to develop your own ideas of media innovations. It will explore how emerging technologies will impact not only your own lives, but also the various journalism and communications crafts. It will emphasize the increasing globalization of media and the need for enterprises to serve increasingly diverse audiences.

Examples of Past Academic Mentorship Projects

These are actual student projects produced by students of InGenius Prep’s Academic Mentorships.

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Let’s K-Pop: Sharing Music with New Audiences

In collaboration with a Media and Communications Professor from the University of Minnesota, C.H. designed, built, and curated a multimedia blog that explores K-Pop groups, albums, songs, tours, quizzes, and communities. The aim of the project was to offer Western audiences an introduction to K-pop through the website C.H. built.

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The Art of War in Business: An Economist’s Perspective

Under the guidance of an NYU Economics Professor, Y.B. analyzed the teaching of Sun Tzu’s ‘Art of War’ in the context of business and management using economics principles. Contrasting these theories with other Eastern and Western philosophies, Y.B. produced an intensive research paper.

Past
Let’s Play: A Hands-on Introduction to Game Production and Animation

B.C. worked with a Microsoft software engineer to gain familiarity with the key tools and practices of game development, from foundational concepts to working in 3D space to advanced gameplay physics. Their work focused on Unity3D, Xamarin, and Maya, with support from C#, HTML, CSS, and Javascript. At the end of the mentorship, B.C. was able to develop racing and box-shooter gaming software.

Past
Creating a Greater Understanding of Business

N.S. worked with a Lecturer in Mechanical Engineering at Columbia. The goal of the mentorship was to develop an understanding of laser physics and its use in engineering. Further, the project provided insight into the applications of laser physics and engineering in translational medicine. N.S. conducted research on the use of laser physics in vision correction surgery and wrote a code guiding a laser to correct corneal irregularities.

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Mathematical Modeling: Water Distribution Systems

W.W. worked with a lecturer in Applied Mathematics from Georgia Institute of Technology. During the mentorship, he built a mathematical model using Matlab to explain how water distribution affects the growth of grass in Namibia.

Meet Some of Our Academic Mentors

Dr. Tom Hafen

  • Lecturer in Management, Yale University
  • Adjunct Professor of Marketing, Columbia Business School
  • MBA/PhD, University of Chicago
  • Vice President of Consumer Marketing, Marcus by Goldman Sachs at Goldman Sachs

Dr. Rodolfo Oviedo

  • Research Economist, Central Bank of Mexico
  • PhD, Economics, Washington University in St. Louis
  • MA, Economics, Washington University in St. Louis
  • BA, Economics, Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México

Dr. Frieda Ekotto

  • Lorna Goodison Collegiate Professor, University of Michigan
  • Director of Graduate Studies in Comparative Literature
  • John H. D’Arms Faculty for Distinguished Graduate Mentoring in the Humanities at
    the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
  • PhD, Comparative Literature and French Literature, University of Minnesota

Dr. Guillermo Goldsztein

  • Professor, School of Mathematics, Georgia Institute of Technology
  • Director of Undergraduate Studies, School of Mathematics, Georgia Institute of Technology
  • PhD, Mathematics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • Postdoctoral Scholar, Applied Mathematics, California Institute of Technology

Dr. Ganesh Mani

  • Distinguished Service Professor of Innovation Practice, Tepper School of Business,, Carnegie Mellon University
  • President, Global Innovation Center
  • PhD, Artificial Intelligence / Computer Science, University of Wisconsin-Madison
  • MBA, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Dr. S. Romi Mukherjee

  • Ph.D., History of Religions, University of Chicago
  • M.A., History of Culture, University of Chicago
  • M.S.S., Psychoanalytic Studies, The New School for Social Research
  • B.A., Philosophy, University of Chicago

10+ Years of Proven Success with Top Results

Our system works. With over a decade of demonstrated success, we have the results to prove it. In the latest 2022-2023 Admissions Cycle, InGenius Prep students were up to 10x more likely to be accepted to a top university.

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