About us

Built because the advice we got wasn't good enough

We kept watching capable students make irreversible decisions on bad information — coaching marketing, outdated advice, a consultant quietly paid by the college they recommended. Nobody was lying. They just had no incentive to be right. So we built the alternative.

How we work

Four commitments you can hold us to

These are testable claims, not values-page language. Each one can be checked, and you should check them.

01
We are paid by families, not colleges
No referral fees, no commissions, no arrangements with any institution. Ask any consultant to state this in writing — we do.
02
We explain the reasoning, not just the answer
Every recommendation comes with why, so you can challenge it and tell good advice from confident advice.
03
We will tell you when the answer is no
A poor college, an unneeded plan, a PhD that doesn’t serve your goals — saying so costs us money and buys your trust.
04
Parents are part of the conversation
The person funding a decision deserves the reasoning directly, not relayed. Most sessions end with a family agreeing on what they’d been arguing about.

Expert guidance

Meet our expert mentors

Mentors from IIT, NIT and industry — guiding your path with real experience and research-driven insight. Every credential below is one we can show you a document for.

Satyam Raj
Founder & Lead Mentor
Research Mentor & Academic Counsellor
- M.Tech (ISSE)NIT Jamshedpur
- B.TechBhagalpur College of Engineering
- Six-time GATE qualified
- UGC NET qualified
- Research published
Specialisations
- JEE & B.Tech Admission
- GATE
- M.Tech
- PhD & Research
- Career Counselling
More about Satyam
Satyam founded ConfirmYourCollege after watching the same pattern repeat through his own engineering education: capable students making irreversible academic decisions on rumour, coaching-centre marketing, and advice from people with a financial stake in the answer.

Having gone from Bhagalpur College of Engineering to an NIT through GATE — qualifying six times, and clearing UGC NET — he knows first-hand the route students are most often told is closed to them. He works primarily with students targeting GATE, M.Tech admissions and research pathways.

satyamraj.cyc@gmail.com
Megha Chandel
Technical Officer & Research Mentor
Research Scholar, IIT Mandi
- M.Tech Data ScienceNIT Mizoram
- B.Tech CSENIT Mizoram
- Built and maintains confirmyourcollege.com
- Former Assistant Professor — Dayananda Sagar University
- Former Full Stack Cloud Engineer — NexTurn
Specialisations
- Artificial Intelligence
- Machine Learning
- Computer Vision
- Research
- Publication Guidance
- Higher Studies
More about Megha
A research scholar at IIT Mandi working in artificial intelligence, computer vision and medical robotics — with time as an assistant professor and as a cloud engineer in industry before that.

She also designed and built this website, and keeps it running. Everything you fill in here is handled by systems she wrote.

That combination means the academic route and the industry one can both be spoken to from direct experience rather than impression. Mentors students considering research seriously: choosing a supervisor, narrowing an interest into a proposal that can actually be answered, and publishing without losing a year to the wrong venue.

meghachandel.cyc@gmail.com
Chandan Kumar
Careers & Government Jobs Mentor
Junior Executive (Electronics, CNS), Airports Authority of India
- M.TechIIT Kharagpur — Vision and Intelligent Systems
- B.TechBhagalpur College of Engineering — ECE
- Former Teaching Assistant
- Former Graduate Engineering Trainee
Specialisations
- Government Jobs
- AAI
- PSU Recruitment
- Higher Studies
- Technical Career Guidance
- M.Tech
More about Chandan
Chandan took the route many engineering students say they want and few get specific advice about: GATE into an IIT for his M.Tech, then into a public sector role through recruitment. He now works at the Airports Authority of India as a Junior Executive in Electronics and Communication Navigation Surveillance.

That makes him the person to ask whether the PSU route actually suits you — not the version in a coaching brochure, but the working reality of it, including the parts people find frustrating.

KrChandan.cyc@gmail.com
Ishan Razz
Head of Student Success
Mentor Allocation & Quality
- 5+ years in student counselling and operations
Specialisations
- Mentor Allocation
- Session Quality
- Student Follow-up
- Escalations
More about Ishan
Ishan decides which mentor a student is given, and then checks that the match was the right one.

That sounds like a small thing. It is the thing that decides whether counselling helps you. A GATE topper who has never filled a JoSAA choice list is the wrong person to sit with a Class 12 student, and a JEE specialist is the wrong person for a PhD funding question. Before a session is scheduled, Ishan reads what the student actually asked and assigns accordingly.

Afterwards he follows up: whether the session answered the question, whether the written summary went out, and whether anything needs a second conversation. If something is not working, it reaches him before it reaches you.

ishankumar.cyc@gmail.com

Want to see evidence for any qualification before you book? Ask us — that is a reasonable thing to want, and a consultant who resists it is telling you something.

Find us

Reach us directly

Our address and a number that a person answers, published in full. A counselling service you can only reach through a contact form is not one to trust with a decision this size — so ours is not one.

Office

Elite Homz, Gamma 1
Greater Noida, Uttar Pradesh 201310
India

Phone

+91 88487 57374

satyamraj.cyc@gmail.com

Hours

Mon–Sat, 10:00–19:00 IST

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