Hugo Mentors not only provides outstanding mentors in your area of interest, we also provide the structure you need to get the most out of your experience and complete projects that stand out.
Your mentorship is completely individualized, purpose-driven and tailored to your goals.
Our evidence-based approach is based on the most current psychological and pedagogical research in combination with our team’s own experience overseeing hundreds of successful mentorships and thousands of hours researching and designing transformational trajectories for high school students.
We match students with a Hugo Mentor who is both an accomplished scholar and has a track record of guiding and teaching students to ensure an optimal individualized learning plan and experience.
We invest significant time throughout the application process designing the ideal trajectory and identifying the best-fit mentor to meet each student’s objectives.
Each student has an additional layer of scaffolding from their Program Coach, who is there to facilitate the mentorship, share Hugo’s proprietary resources, and provide support as needed during the course of the mentorship.
Students work with their mentor and Program Coach to develop and execute a plan unique to their interests, background, goals and learning style.
We design each mentorship to fit each student’s schedule. Meetings are 1:1 and remote, with start dates and meetings that are planned at mutually convenient times.
Mentorships culminate in final deliverables that are uniquely relevant to the student. Independent projects range in size, scope and execution, leveraging the many different ways research can be communicated.
Hugo’s bespoke approach is designed not just to help students build skills and accomplish their goals, but also to build their confidence and clarity and foster new connections.
Felt more comfortable
in their ability to succeed
in college
experienced an increase
in academic
self-confidence
Made gains in
readiness for
college-level work.
gained clarity
around academic
areas of interest
developed a better
idea of what they want
to study in college
gained clarity
around a
future career path
made large or very large
gains in accomplishing
a personal goal
made large or very
large gains around learning
to work independently
of students were
satisfied with
their mentorship
became more active
in activities in their
school or community
Read more about the benefits from our post mentorship surveys
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Our daughter's Hugo mentorship around Cryptocurrencies really tied together all her interests and experiences: her china tech startup internship, international experience, interest in economics, and STEM focus with business. Her mentor was extremely engaged, and supportive as they studied the topic from multiple angles and she worked to pull her learnings together into a research website to help those who were interested in cryptocurrencies but didn’t know much about them.
My son designed a research project with an NYU professor to align with the work he was doing during the summer on an environmental not for profit. The experience not only gave him a meaningful preview of college-level research methodology, but also enhanced his understanding of the not-for-profit’s mission and the real life application of academic work.