about us
Welcome to Freshman!
Freshman Academy prepares high school students for admission to the world’s top universities with partial or full scholarships.

Freshman Academy was founded in 2019 by a team of Yale-NUS students. Since then, Freshman’s graduates were admitted to Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Columbia, Stanford, Berkeley, Babson, and many more.
Our mission is not just to prepare you for IELTS and SAT or help you write a motivational essay. At Freshman, we are nurturing the next generation of world leaders in Politics, Economics, Humanities, Arts, and Sciences.

Welcome to Freshman!
— Valera Arakelyan, President of Freshman Academy
Freshman Team
Valera
President of Freshman Academy

Valera is recent graduate at Yale-NUS College, majoring in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics. He completed the Grand Strategy Program at Yale University. Over the last two years, Valera has helped his students get into top universities where they cumulatively received grants of over four million dollars.
Lyusyena
Head of Admissions

Dr. Lyusyena Kirakosyan serves as a Senior Project Associate at the Virginia Tech Institute for Policy and Governance. Also, as a college essay coach, she has helped students write effective, memorable essays for undergraduate college admissions to U.S., Canadian, and European universities.
Mishael
Yale-NUS College 2024

Mishael is a Yale-NUS graduate, majoring in Anthropology and Global Affairs. She is an alumna of Pembroke College, Cambridge, where she studied Human, Social, and Political Sciences. With a strong background in academic and literary writing, she helps students craft impactful personal statements and essays.
Alisher
Nazarbayev University Graduate

Alisher is pursuing his PhD at Nazarbayev University. His research focuses on monitoring micropollutants in the natural environment and assessing their risk to human health. Additionally, Alisher is studying the efficiency of the current treatment solutions.
Sega
Yale-NUS Senior

Sega is a Yale-NUS College senior majoring in History and minoring in Arts & Humanities. He has also succesfully graduated from a Harvard course on drawing comics and writing visual stories. Sega is the Head of the Freshman Consultations Department, advising dozens of students on their applications.
Valeriya
Teacher

Valeriya Nizhnikova is a passionate social innovator, educator, and aspiring neuroscientist dedicated to addressing challenges in Kazakhstan's public education system.
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Collaborations
We connect you with top instructors from around the world, providing a truly global learning environment
São Paulo, Brazil
New Haven, USA
Boston, USA
Samarqand, Uzbekistan
Astana, Kazakhstan
Tashkent, Uzbekistan
Singapore, Singapore
Kuala-Lumpur, Malasiya
Karaganda, Kazakhstan