Practice 02
Counsel through the application process to the most considered institutions in the United Kingdom, the United States, Switzerland and the Gulf. Held to the standard of the universities themselves.
Admissions counsel begins long before an application is opened. It begins with the question of which institutions are right for this child, in the order they should be approached.
We do not write essays for students. We do not pretend a child is someone they are not. We do, with care, help a family understand the institutions on its list, the standards by which those institutions read, and the parts of the application that are theirs to shape.
Most engagements run for two to four academic years. We are most useful when we are introduced early.
The British public schools, the US boarding schools and the Swiss alpine schools each have their own way of reading a child. We know them. We have placed students at each of them.
Eton, Harrow, Winchester, Westminster, St Paul's, Wycombe Abbey, Cheltenham Ladies' College, Marlborough, Charterhouse, Stowe and the leading day schools of London.
Phillips Exeter, Phillips Andover, Choate Rosemary Hall, Deerfield, Lawrenceville, Hotchkiss, Groton and the senior eastern boarding schools.
Le Rosey, Aiglon College, Institut auf dem Rosenberg, Beau Soleil and the smaller alpine schools whose reputation is known by name only.
The senior international schools of Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Sharjah, Riyadh and Doha. Where a Gulf school is the right answer, we will say so plainly.
The most useful conversation a family can have is the one that names the school a child should not apply to.
We work across the major university systems. The advice is plainer than most families expect.
A first conversation about the child, the household and the long view. We name the universe of plausible institutions and the work that would make each of them realistic.
Subject choices, summer programmes, the architecture of the personal statement. Visits to a small number of campuses, by appointment.
Test preparation in earnest. Drafting and redrafting. Interview rehearsal where the institution requires it. The application itself.
Offer triage, financial planning where relevant, transition preparation. We hold the family's nerve, then hand them on.
Honest counsel. Test preparation by senior tutors. Editorial work on a student's own writing. Interview rehearsal. Liaison with admissions officers we are known to.
Ghost-write personal statements. Misrepresent a child's record. Promise an outcome we cannot underwrite. Trade on names that are not ours to trade on.
The list of universities and schools to which we have placed students appears, in part, on the home page. We are happy to speak to the rest in private.
Senior tutors placed with a single family at a time, in person at the family residence or online across time zones.
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