About

SHAHEEN Pakistan aims to make foreign higher education more accessible to students from developing countries by creating an online portal that provides free, comprehensive, reliable admission tips and scholarships.

The Problem: Unfortunately, many bright students fail to get admissions in quality programs, simply because their institutions or personal networks cannot guide them. This has led to an under-representation of under-resourced students in many higher-education and medical programs around the world, which is a long-term collective loss for the entire nation.

The Solution: We are a group of students and faculty affiliated with Harvard, MIT, Parsons, and other universities, who are collaborating with GEO Television Network to develop a free online portal that will make available country-specific and field-specific guidance on how to ensure a strong application.

There are two ways to contribute to this resource:

1. Contribute by improving content

If you have expertise in the application process of a particular field/country, one way you can contribute to this resource is by sharing this input with us (via email or through a phone call). By doing so, you will benefit because, you will be helping future applicants from under-resourced backgrounds, by enabling them to benefit from reliable application-tips. The short time spent in giving us input can save your time in the future – when students come to you for admissions-related advice, you will not need to spend time sharing the same tips with individual students. Instead, you can redirect them to the website (which will contain the text of your advice). Your input will be credited and acknowledged on the relevant tip sheet (note: you also have the option of remaining anonymous if you would like).

2. Donating to help sustain this non-profit project

Another way to contribute is by donating to help sustain this resource for future applicants. Shaheen is a non-profit organization and thus relies on such donations to cover recurring costs. If you are interested in donating to this cause, please click here.

Thank you for your willingness to help future applicants through Shaheen Pakistan!

Our hope is that SHAHEEN’s online portal will help overcome the current inadequacies in guidance and counseling available to bright students in developing countries, particularly in Pakistan. We strongly believe that better-educated individuals will be an asset to themselves, their families, and the entire nation in the long run.

Mariam Piracha – Lahore University of Management Sciences

Sanniah Jubeen – University of Chicago

GEO TV (We are particularly grateful to the following GEO Team Members for their technical expertise, time, and patience in creating the web-development infrastructure for this website: Hasan Faisal Saidi, Naumana Niazi, Faisal Sherjan, Asif Ansari, Mohsin Hassan.)