Apply Chance is a startup founded by two former UBC Ph.D. students, Mahyad Aghigh and Arash Nikzad, and a computer scientist, Bardia Lozumi, in early 2019. It is a registered venture in the e@UBC incubator program. Apply Chance is developing a platform to connect professors and departments with the best-suited graduate school applicants. Professors and departments will also be able to perform an efficient and effective review and assessment of applicants’ profiles to identify the most promising applicants early in the admission process and provide them with incentives such as scholarships to join their programs or research groups.

Our mission is to build a healthy ecosystem for the graduate admission process that is transparent and equitable. We are a network of successful graduate students in North American, European, and Australian universities, who are passionate about connecting talents with diversified backgrounds with professors to increase the efficiency and quality of research and postgraduate programs. In fact, we are here to save both applicants’ and professors’ time and increase the quality of research in graduate-level programs.

Students majoring in a STEM subject, who are planning to pursue their postgraduate studies in a world-class university or research team, can use our services to achieve their goals. We also provide an opportunity for university professors to efficiently find the best-suited postgraduate students to join their research teams.

For Students: A range of services is provided on our platform, including evaluation of the CV through AC-Score, assessing admission chances for different universities, mentoring services, and finding open positions posted on the website. For faculty members: The platform can help university professors to post their open positions and find relevant applicants.