Every path here ends in published research.
The Fellowship builds the credential in 10 weeks. The Top 1% Profile maximizes the entire profile: multiple publications, a patent, a venture, and a full competition season. Both run on unlimited 1:1 PhD mentorship, and both carry support until the work is done.
Payment plans available on both. Need-based aid exists, so apply and tell us your situation rather than ruling yourself out.
Two programs. Both end in published research.
The Fellowship
One published paper, first author, with a competition season built on it.
Top 1% Profile
The complete Ivy League profile. Every piece, maximized.
Not sure which one? Apply to the Fellowship. If your child is a fit for the Top 1% Profile, we will tell you at interview, and applying costs nothing either way.
The Fellowship
10 weeks from now, your child is a published researcher
Not enrolled in something. Published, first author, in a venue their teachers have heard of. Most Fellows start with zero research experience.
The deliverable: a first-author manuscript submitted to a peer-reviewed venue, and a student who can defend every line of it in an interview.
Mentorship continues at no additional cost until the manuscript is published. The program has an end date. The support does not.
Applying is free and costs you nothing. Tuition is only settled once your child has been accepted and you have decided to go ahead.
First author, their name, their data, their defence. Every claim on the paper is one they can stand behind in an interview.
“We tried everything: summer programs, college counselors, tutoring. Nothing moved the needle until she joined YRI. She published in IEEE and got into Brown and Johns Hopkins.”
We know exactly what the Ivy League admits.
So we engineer all of it, piece by piece.
Admissions committees look for four proofs: original research, real invention, real leadership, and wins judged by strangers. The Top 1% Profile manufactures every one, publications, patent, venture, competition record, then engineers the entire application around them, one story from the first line to the last. YRI Fellows have gone on to Brown, Stanford, Cornell and Johns Hopkins.
The complete profile, built with you
Four to nine months, case by case. Published researcher, named inventor, founder, competitor: the entire profile, positioned as one story.
Most families start with the Fellowship: 10 weeks, one published credential, and a clear read on how far your child wants to go. The Top 1% Profile is for the 8 families a year who want the complete narrative built with us over four to nine months. Fellowship alumni can apply.
Admission is selective.
Applications are reviewed on a rolling basis and seats are limited. Tuition is $2,997, with a three-payment plan available. Mentorship continues at no cost until your paper is published.