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Guiding Muslim Students Through the College Application Process with Expertise & Excellence

about us

Hidayah Services is a Muslim college counseling service that helps families navigate and master the college application process. Unfortunately, due to inequalities in college knowledge, access, and readiness, many students are misinformed and struggle through the process.

We offer free resources like the Muslim Student Profiles project, excellent workshops, and the Fatima al-Fihri Student Fellowship to enlighten families around the college application process. We offer a “pay what you can afford” model to help maximize our impact in reaching out to as many families as possible.

With over a decade of experience working within the admissions space, we have placed students at many of the nation’s top colleges including Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Stanford, and Columbia.

Our Services*

Muslim Student Profiles & College Essays
Muslim Student Profiles

We have compiled the profiles and college essays of real Muslim students who have been successful in the college application process.

Workshops
Workshops

We provide several workshops on the college application process, financial aid, and career readiness for schools, masjids, and community centers.

Fatima al-Fihri High School Student Fellowship​
Fatima al-Fihri Fellowship

We offer an exclusive fellowship for high-achieving, low-income high school Muslim students to master the college application process.

*For individualized student counseling, school professional development, and media inquiry requests, please use the form below to contact us. Please note we only work with a limited number of students every year.

Our Team

Harvard Ed Magazine February 2020
Salman Khan

Founder & Director
Salman launched Hidayah Services to help Muslim students master the college application process in 2011. He has worked as a College Counselor at two schools, an Admissions Reader at Stanford University for over five years, has conducted over 80 workshops on a broad range of college-related topics, and has worked with numerous schools to develop their college counseling programs. He earned a BA from Rutgers University, a College Counseling Certificate through UCLA Extension, an MA from Stanford University, and is currently a PhD Student at Harvard University. Salman is also the Co-Founder of Muslim Campus Life, a non-profit organization dedicated to advocating for Muslim student needs on college campuses.

Our Milestones

10+

School Partners

Brighter Horizons Academy (TX), Legacy International Online High School, Darul Arqam (NJ), and more.

80+

Workshops

ICNA, ISNA Education Forum, ISLA, MIST, YM National, Institute of Knowledge (CA), Crescent View Academy (CO), ILM Academy (GA), CPSA (IL), Al-Hamra Academy (MA), Islamic School of Greater Kansas City (MO), Noor-ul-Iman (NJ), and more.

100+

Students Served

Acceptances to Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Stanford, Columbia, Brown, University of Pennsylvania, Johns Hopkins, Dartmouth, Cornell, New York University, Duke, UC Berkeley, University of Michigan, University of Virginia, and more.

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