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.
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.
Most counseling agencies work for the universities. We work for you.
Commission-driven agencies are paid by schools to fill seats. We take zero money from universities — you hire us, so our only loyalty is to your admission and your funding. That independence is what lets us be candid.
- ✕Paid by universities to fill seats
- ✕Counselors who never applied themselves
- ✕Form-filling and paperwork
- ✕Promises that quietly fall short
- ✓Paid only by you — zero commissions
- ✓Top-school alumni who’ve been admitted & funded
- ✓Strategy that wins admission and funding
- ✓The honest truth, even when it’s hard
Led by people who’ve sat in your seat.
Umer Ijaz
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
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.
Connect on LinkedInIt 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).
Real LinkedIn messages from students who reached out to our founders. Names and personal details are blurred to protect their privacy.
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