Qualia Global Scholars is a selective academic enrichment program designed and led by Stanford undergraduate and graduate students for talented pre-college students from around the world. This program matches talented students with Stanford students who serve as mentors through an innovative approach incorporating human-centered AI and learnings from leading institutions.

The program has an ambitious mission of democratizing personalized mentorship, project-based experiential learning, and interdisciplinary research for outstanding high school and middle school students across the globe. The program empowers the students to become future global leaders through the mastery of both the STEM and the liberal arts way of thinking and problem-solving. Under the guidance of Stanford students who provide instructions across multiple disciplines such as AI, programming, design thinking, venture capital, social entrepreneurship, humanities, and the social sciences, students selected in the program gain access to the valuable skills necessary for leading the future.

The Stanford students leading the Qualia Global Scholars Program are incredibly well-accomplished and are passionate about empowering the next generation of global leaders. Students learn about valuable skills across multiple disciplines and receive highly individualized mentorship on college admissions, academics, extracurricular activities, and personal development. The mentors are able to empathize and connect with ambitious high school students since they recently went through the challenging journey of getting accepted to the top universities of the world, such as Yale, Harvard, Stanford, MIT, and Princeton. They have stellar academic and extracurricular achievements and are passionate about democratizing access to educational opportunities for students from all backgrounds.

Through need-based financial aid and highly personalized mentorship for students from diverse backgrounds, the program has demonstrated a strong commitment to promoting diversity, equity, and inclusion in higher education and key areas such as STEM, research, innovation, and entrepreneurship. The Qualia Global Scholars Program also runs many social impact education projects around the world.