College Applications. Designed. Differently.

Let’s craft your story.

Well-rounded applicants are out. Well-rounded classes are in. Competitive colleges and universities crave students who are specialists with great promise. To communicate a speciality is to communicate a story. At designedbydeven, I’ll help you craft compelling narratives and connect the dots for admissions readers, so they don’t have to.

What makes Deven different.

Skip the line. Wave saturated, corporate college admissions consulting goodbye. I keep my clientele small. Enjoy my undivided attention. It’s yours.

Deven Upadhyay is a seasoned admissions expert with over six years of providing dedicated and tailored guidance to high school and college students seeking first-year or transfer admission into the nation’s most competitive institutions.

Write like a lawyer.

Deven is a second-year law student at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, one of the top law schools in the United States. He is a merit scholarship recipient and serves on the editorial board of the North Carolina Law Review, the premier flagship legal academic journal of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, as a Contributing Editor. Prior to law school, Deven graduated with distinction from the University of Virginia with a Bachelor of Arts degree. Deven does not hesitate to infuse his critical thinking and precise writing skills from his legal education into his admissions consulting pedagogy.

But most importantly, he…

Gets Results.

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“Deven knows how to optimize outcomes. My test scores and grades were solid, but it comes down to writing your way in. At that, he’s a wizard. ”

— Student at Stanford University

“Some admissions experts are too old and don’t understand college admissions in 2023. Deven is a breath of fresh air in the college admissions space.”

— Student at University of Virginia

“I thought it was over for me as a test-optional applicant. With Deven’s help, I was able to get into a top ten university and several prestigious liberal arts colleges.”

— Student at Northwestern University

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