// alumni-led admissions consulting

Get into the world’s top and Ivy League universities.

Honest, alumni-led guidance for Undergraduate, Master’s, MBA, and PhD admissions — focused on securing offers with funding.

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students we’ve guided are headed to schools like
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guidance for every path

Admissions run on strategy. Passage Global shapes yours.

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// how we work

Three ways we turn ambition into an offer.

Strategy

Honest profile assessment, school shortlisting, and a written roadmap built around your odds.

Application

Essays, recommendations, and interviews — crafted with alumni who’ve sat on the other side of the table.

Funding

Scholarships, assistantships, and fellowships — we chase the money that makes the offer real.

the honest part

Most agencies process applications. We’ve been where you’re standing.

Umer and Ali navigated top-university admissions with no one to guide them — researching alone, guessing at every step. Now they make sure you don’t have to. Our guidance is the mentor we wish we’d had: honest, personal, and focused on your admission and your funding.

what you get
  • The mentorship we wish we’d had — honest and personal
  • Top-school alumni who’ve been admitted & funded
  • Strategy that wins admission and funding
  • The honest truth, even when it’s hard
the founders

Led by people who’ve sat in your seat.

Umer Ijaz

Umer Ijaz

Co-Founder · Kellogg MBA, Northwestern · MS, U. of Illinois

A Gold Medalist from Lahore who went on to earn a Master's at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and an MBA at Northwestern's Kellogg School of Management, Umer Ijaz has personally navigated the journey our clients dream of — from international applicant to a career built in the United States. After seven years as a product manager across fintech and AI at companies like Amount and Amazon, he co-founded Passage Global to give ambitious students the kind of guidance he wishes he'd had: expert, honest, and entirely on their side.

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Ali Azeem

Ali Azeem

Co-Founder · Vanderbilt Owen MBA (Merit Scholar) · LUMS

A LUMS graduate in Accounting and Finance who earned a merit scholarship to Vanderbilt's Owen School of Management, Ali Azeem navigated the US admissions process the hard way — without a guide. Now a senior leader at Amazon with nearly a decade of experience advising at the highest levels of one of the world's most demanding companies, he co-founded Passage Global to give Pakistani students what he didn't have: a trusted expert in their corner, someone who has made the journey and knows exactly how to help others make it too.

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// straight from our inbox

It started with messages like these.

For years, students found Umer and Ali on LinkedIn asking for honest admissions advice — so we built Passage Global to do it properly. These are a few of those real conversations (names blurred for privacy).

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Master’s · AdmittedAdmitted to Harvard — Master in Public Policy (MPP)
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Undergraduate · AdmittedAdmitted to Harvard — Ivy League bound
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Ivy League · AdmittedAdmitted to Columbia University — Fall 2026
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Undergraduate · AdmittedAdmitted to UPenn — Ivy League
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Canada · AdmittedAdmitted to the University of Toronto — Fall 2026
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Canada · AdmittedAdmitted to UBC — Computer Science
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Canada · AdmittedAdmitted to McGill University

Real LinkedIn messages from students who reached out to our founders. Names and personal details are blurred to protect their privacy.

// your path starts here

Ready to find your path?

Tell us about your goals and an alum will map out your path — honest advice, a real plan, no obligation.

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