A student from Kazakhstan created a program that helps to enter the best American universities

17-year-old schoolboy from Astana Arsen Kylyshbek decided to ease the painful process of searching for a university for applicants. He developed an online platform where, together with his team, he collected information about universities in the USA and Europe, admission conditions, study features, etc. The accuracy of calculations of the chance of admission to a university is 96%, and the time to search for a university is reduced to a minimum from 2-3 months, reports NewTimes.kz.

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Platform Admitted.cc is intended for those who are going to apply to universities in Kazakhstan, and to universities in the USA and Europe, but have not yet decided on the choice of an alma mater.

“The goal of our platform is to help you find a suitable university. We have developed a machine learning algorithm that, based on thousands of data, gives the user, that is, the applicant, a ready-made list of universities. In this case, the wishes of the student are taken into account - the specialty he is interested in, the country where he wants to study, etc. We also provide online consultation services from students of top universities in the world, for example, we have consultants from Princeton University,” said Arsen Kylyshbek.

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The potential audience of the project is students in grades 7, 8, 9 and 11. In short, everyone who is already thinking about choosing a university.

“Our team members and I talked with future applicants. They admitted that they spent several months choosing a university - looking for all the necessary information, studying a huge number of sites. There is a lot of information and it is really difficult to make a choice. While working on the project, we qualified all the information, and now the process of choosing a university takes not 2-3 months, as before, but a few minutes. The system works like this: you enter your data and it gives you a list of universities where you could go, taking into account the results of language tests, etc.,” Arsen Kylyshbek shared the details.

Now the platform database contains information about almost 200 US universities and universities from 16 European countries. Universities of the USA, Germany and Italy are very popular among Kazakhstani applicants.

Arsen Kylyshbek notes that almost every student dreams of being in Harvard, Stanford and other well-known alma maters.

“On the website you can study the history of the university, a description of the university, its location, and the climate of the country. My team and I came up with this project primarily based on personal experience. Once, at a meeting with friends, we discussed which universities we would enroll in. Of course, almost every one of us wants to go to Stanford, but not everyone knows whether he has a chance of being accepted into this university. And we thought: this problem can be solved and we started developing the platform. We immediately attracted investments from a Kazakh company, which invested in us at the idea stage,” Arsen noted.

The creative team of the project plans to add other universities to the database, enter new markets and countries. While they are working with Kazakhstani applicants.

The Admitted.cc online platform was launched in April. During this time, more than 300 people have passed tests and found suitable universities. Now the guys have over 1,5 thousand pre-orders. In the future, they want to add such a service as choosing the most optimal path for entering a university.

“If an applicant sees that he does not have a very high chance of entering a certain university, our algorithm can build a whole plan for his admission to this educational institution. Let’s say, improve certain indicators, improve knowledge in specific disciplines,” the author of the project clarified.

Arsen Kylyshbek is a winner of Olympiads in physics and programming. He has been involved in startup projects since he was 14 years old, and has been studying programming since the 4th grade. Now he is focused on studying data science, the development of artificial intelligence, and machine learning. He shared how, as a schoolchild, he could turn his favorite hobby into a job and a profession with income.

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“When I entered the startup industry, I realized that my childhood was over: it was time to develop discipline, get up on time, strictly follow the daily routine, be responsible for my project, and learn to negotiate. My father made a great contribution to my development; he has extensive experience in running a business. Together with him, we developed a business plan for the implementation of startup projects. We remember that after the pandemic, large-scale digitalization began, the market for online services expanded, and many innovative solutions appeared. At that time, we studied at school online, and there was more time for self-development after classes,” recalls the Astana resident.

Arsen gave advice to guys who want to try their hand at startup projects.

“You have to be brave, no matter how old you are. If you have an idea, immediately start developing it without wasting time. Someone may not steal, but repeat this idea and they will take your market share. Start-up activities can be combined with studies,” he believes.

His team includes three co-founders of the project, his classmates are Arsen Raev, Asanali Kaliev, Danai Dikhanbaev.
“They are strong in design, marketing, finance. There are 9 of us in the team,” he added.

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