Our Expertise
Research That Puts You at the Very Top of the Admissions List.
Thousands of students apply to competitive schools each year for very limited seats. A good number of them will meet the GPA requirements.
Stand out with research and real-life impact.
Gaining Research Experience
Probably the most taken for granted aspect of most applicants’strategy for university admissions is the academic projects section.
Whether you are an undergraduate student seeking a master’s or PhD or a secondary school student wanting your first degree, showing that you can think, problem solve and conduct research with real life impact and outcomes sets you apart from the rest.
“We want to get a better idea of your specific experience. And we want to understand your specific contributions to a project. ”
– Mark, Yale Admissions Review Officer
How IBS Helps
We identify a member of our research team to support you. IBS connects your child with world-class faculty and PhD mentors, from top universities like Harvard, Stanford, and MIT, to guide them through the research process.
01.
Topic and Research Question
We help you go from a vague interest to a strong, original research question with a clear scope, timeline, and project outline you can actually finish.
02.
Methods and Skills Training
We teach you how to do research from scratch: how to find credible sources, build a literature map, choose the right methodology, and design a clean protocol that makes your work defensible.
03.
Execute, Analyze, Write
We guide your data collection or evidence building, help you organize results, and coach you through a real academic paper structure: abstract, introduction, methods, results, discussion, limitations, and references.
04.
Polish and Showcase
We turn your project into an admission-ready asset: final paper, one page summary, and optional poster or slide deck, plus coaching on how to present it in applications, job interviews, and competitions.
Successful Student Academic Research Projects
Algorithmic Fairness in Scholarship Selection: Testing Bias in Common Ranking Models
Published in Student Policy and Data Review
Accepted to Cornell University
Student
Zainab A.
Cornell Class of 2029
Outcome
Zainab demonstrated how small design choices in scoring models can quietly disadvantage low-income applicants and proposed a fairness first rubric that improved equity without lowering performance.
Low-Cost Water Filtration Using Biochar: Designing and Testing a Prototype for Household Use
Published in Undergraduate Engineering Research Digest
Accepted to Princeton University
Student
Kwame D.
Princeton Class of 2029
Outcome
Kwame developed a working filtration prototype, tested flow rate and clarity improvements, and produced a replication-ready methods section plus a practical deployment plan for Ghanaian households.
Climate Driven Migration and Conflict Risk: A Panel Data Study with Robustness and Causal Sensitivity Tests
Published in Global Policy Research Review
PhD Offer at University of Oxford
Student
Ravi P.
Incoming PhD Student
Outcome
Ravi quantified how climate shocks correlate with displacement and conflict risk across regions, validated findings with multiple robustness checks, and outlined a dissertation ready agenda with clear hypotheses and data sources.
Predicting Hospital Readmissions: A Machine Learning Model and Equity Audit Using Public Health Data in Mozambique
Published in Applied Data Science Working Papers
Accepted to Emory & Columbia (Public Health)
Student
Lirase O.
Incoming Masters Student
Outcome
Lirase built a baseline readmission prediction model, then ran an equity audit that revealed performance gaps across demographic groups and proposed mitigation steps to reduce biased outcomes in Mozambique.
Global Academic Awards
Owing to our obsession with detail and applications that show relevant academic projects and real-life impact and leadership, many Ivey Bridge clients win coveted scholarships and awards at top-tier schools and programs.
Forte Fellowship
Arguably one of the world’s top 10 most prestigious and difficult-to-land global awards for women pursuing MBAs. Each school awards them based on cohort sizes, from 2 awards in one cycle to about 30 in a cohort size of 285. For the last 4 years, one IBS client has won one each year.
Pardee Fellowship
This is a two-year research fellowship focused on advanced research methods and real-world applications at the University of Denver Korbel School’s Pardee Institute. This is extremely competitive as only 3 to 5 students are selected out of over 500 applicants each year.
Columbia’s Presidential Scholarship
This is an ultra-competitive internal academic award at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs. It is estimated that out of cohort sizes of 700 and more, only about 30 to 45 receive this award. Theresa Gyamfi, a client in 2025, was one of the recipients of this prestigious award.
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Grad Assistantship Support
Supervised research work and experiences are sometimes the defining factor in a successful application. Get supervision from our team of researchers on a real-life experiment of choice.
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Outside of end-to-end application packages, we also offer only essay and personal statement services you can book if only the essay part of your applications needs fine-tuning.