CRITICAL HURDLE

A critical hurdle that parents and students alike have to clear when deciding on an overseas tertiary education is to find an appropriate and affordable university, a complex combination to satisfy anywhere in the major educational destinations - be it in the USA, Europe or Australia.

You must be the change you wish to see in the world
                          Mahatma Gandhi   

COST

The cost of obtaining a university education in any of these countries increases with each passing year and results in parents having to get into considerable debt or exhaust savings of a lifetime to pay for tuition and other related expenses. On the other hand, if substantial financial aid is obtained, it can help remove most of your anxieties about a university education.

Priyanthi takes all these factors into consideration and works hard at actually decreasing the costs borne by students and parents by taking every effort to sign up a new partner each summer that can offer a lower overall cost than the previous year’s lowest.

AFFORDABLE

Finding an affordable educational institution usually means an extensive search for financial aid of some form or another. For the average Lankan student from a middle income background, finding an affordable college or university is particularly hard and is made even more difficult because of the very limited availability of financial aid in the form of outright grants, part-time and full-time work. Priyanthi helps her students in all of these areas along with quick admission decisions.

PRIYANTHI’S MISSION

• To make US higher education increasingly affordable enabling larger numbers of Lankan youth to enjoy its returns as never before.

• Attracting an increasing number of American universities to visit SL to convince them of the sensibility (and long term viability) of supporting the brilliant young Lankan academics to become global managers.

• Encouraging, initiating and facilitating linkages between US and Lankan higher education institutes thereby benefit all stake holders. PRIYANTHI’S SUCCESS STORY

Today, Priyanthi has the distinction of becoming Sri-Lanka’s foremost individual recruiter to Universities and Colleges in the United States, with one-hundred plus students to her credit since 2001. The institutions that Priyanthi works with offer the maximum possible financial aid package to students introduced by her.

As a result of Priyanthi’s untiring efforts, a College or University education is now within reach of students from middle income families with good GCE Ordinary Level results coupled with a score of 5.5 on the IELTS. The excellent rapport that Priyanthi has built up with the Admissions Directors at each of these Colleges also helps these students get admitted with the least delay. Her unique “resume based instant acceptance” has revolutionized the admission process where an applicant could know of his or her admissibility (and the size of the aid package) within hours (as against months).

She is probably the only Lankan recruiter to have visited each of her partnering university (at least once) before placing her first student. Her relationship with each head of admissions is close, warm and currant and their responses to her are instant. It is only matched by her closeness to each student where many remain in close contact (years after placement) reaching out every now & then for guidance or seeking help. It seems many remember the “bridge” or the “vessel” long after crossing.