Joash Lee, chief executive and founder of college admissions consultancy Sedifly, said all the students his firm is guiding to US colleges are staying the course. About 70 per cent of its students apply to the US.

When people think of the Ivy League, they often imagine a straight path — elite schools, perfect grades, and early certainty. Our US Strategist, Jeremy Galang, took a very different route.

Sedifly’s Founder and CEO, Joash Lee, speaks to Nicole Lee on You Never Know Podcast about his journey from a polytechnic in Singapore to an Ivy League university and how others can do the same.