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In the bustling lanes of Tardeo in Mumbai, as people walk into Sardar Pav Bhaji Centre for a quick snack, a few starry-eyed students, dreaming of Harvard and Yale, with parents in tow, step into a rather unimpressive building nearby..
The 65-year-old Doshi has earned a name among education consultants, having enabled hundreds of students into universities such as Harvard, Yale and Brown over the years..
It has over 100 counsellors and charges between Rs 5.25 lakh and Rs 9 lakh, depending on the number of years the students need to be mentored and the services they requirefrom choosing subjects for XI and XII and building a profile to guiding in summer school applications and assisting in applying to various colleges..
More and more Indian families can pay for an international education, and this is a reason for the uptick in Indian student enrolments on undergraduate campuses, says Pria Chatterjee, former member of Harvards UK Schools Committee and senior consultant at Athena..
Sumeet Jain, cofounder of Yocket, a mid-tier consultant, says that while business families have been sending their children to well-known schools abroad, there is now a growing tendency among upper middle-class Indians and professionals to not expose their children to the intense competition and stress of engineering and medical entrance exams and the Common University Entrance Test (CUET)..
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