In 2016, I first interacted with the Pakistani industry of educational consultancy while applying for my undergraduate studies to the U.S. as an A-level student from a private school in Lahore.
I was still in the throes of Pakistan’s fragmented and templated consulting system, working over-time at a job that required a barrage of fake activities to be drafted from scratch on the daily.
I was introduced to college counselling in A2. By this point I had upgraded schools, and my new school was full of incredibly smart, incredibly ambitious girls. It felt like everyone was applying to the Ivy Leagues. As a self-assured smart girl myself, I wondered, “Is this actually possible?”