Auctus Admissions Website Redesign

2025 - Archived

What

• There are a couple T20 consulting agencies in Bangladesh but they need to differentiate themselves from the pay-to-play agencies that send kids to the UK, Australia, Malaysia, etc

  • They usually charge a lot of money (justified but I can't afford it) and Auctus was the only one with a program where if you got accepted to their program they wouldn't charge you anything

• I did a complete visual and operational redesign of the Auctus Admission Consulting website, transitioning it from a generic WordPress-style site to a modern, value-driven interface.

• Built a custom Admissions Value Proposition framework to differentiate them from "pay-to-play" agencies in Bangladesh.

• They ended up price gouging me for free labour. Three months later they sent an email asking to meet and if I'd build their site. I replied within hours and the next day, even before giving me a meeting, they told me they moved on with another developer. Another month later, I saw the site they made and it was a copy of the draft I showed them. Plagiarised my work completely.

Why

• Built and delivered the full product before applying for their Feynman Fellowship to demonstrate initiative hoping they'd accept me.
• The founder confirmed the site was great, but rejected the application due to my BBBC grades (May 2024 session)
  • He said my ECs were impressive but there's no way I'd get a full ride because of my A2 grades. Said the call was a courtesy since I put so much effort into building something for them.
  • Also said they get 700+ applications for a cohort of 20 i.e Bangladesh is overpopulated and I solved a problem that didn't need solving
  • This failure directly catalysed my A* Predicted Grades in late 2025