discover how passion projects help students build stronger study abroad applications through curiosity, creativity, and sustained initiative.

by iris madeira, team madhavi desai, counselling students since 1986 and helping families navigate international university admissions for nearly four decades. every summer, i see students begin exciting projects with great enthusiasm. by the middle of the holidays, many of them have quietly stopped working on them. it usually isn't because the idea wasn't good. it's because no one showed them how to turn an idea into a project they could realistically complete. a well-execut