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With personalised mentorship, expert guidance, and a proven track record, we help students craft strong, standout applications.\nIn the 2025 admissions cycle, our students secured 10+ Oxbridge offers and 15+ Ivy League offers, showcasing the strength of our strategies and the quality of our mentorship. From Oxford to Harvard, Cambridge to Columbia, we help ambitious students turn their aspirations into achievement.\nWith Rostrum, students benefit from a strategy that can increase their chances of admission up to 5 times, helping them turn their ambition into achievement and applications into success stories.\nPosition Overview:\nThe Research Associate is the operational backbone of Rostrum's research and capstone programme. You will keep students, parents, and mentors coordinated; keep every tracker, record, and document accurate and audit-ready; and make sure research, publication, and conference pipelines keep moving on schedule. 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