scholarship consultant with 6+ years of research and two fully funded international scholarships — a master's through HEC CSC in China and a PhD offer at the University of Hong Kong, ranked 33rd in the world. Both were self-directed. No mentor, no connections, no coaching program. Now I work with serious applicants on exactly what it takes — SOP writing, professor outreach, scholarship targeting, and CV strategy that converts. Everything I teach comes from building the process myself, from scratch, twice, against real competition.