Our services
Application strategy
Before choosing programmes, it helps to be precise about what you are trying to achieve. This service works through your academic background, your reasons for studying abroad, and the constraints you are actually operating under — timing, finances, language, and the subjects you are eligible for.
What that involves depends on the level. An undergraduate applicant is usually working from a school-leaving qualification, subject combinations and predicted grades, often against a national central application system with a single hard deadline. A Master's or doctoral applicant is working from a completed degree, a transcript and a research direction. We adjust accordingly.
The output is a plan: which application cycle to target, roughly how many applications make sense, in what order to approach them, and what you need to prepare before you start.
What's included
- Review of your academic record, qualifications and relevant experience
- Discussion of goals, subject direction and realistic scope
- An application timeline mapped to published deadlines
- Guidance on which requirements you need to resolve first
What's not included
- Any prediction or assurance of an admission outcome
- Contacting universities or academics on your behalf
- Immigration, visa or residence advice
- Financial, tax or investment advice
University & programme shortlisting
A useful shortlist is built from published facts, not reputation. We research programmes against their stated entry requirements, curriculum content, assessment structure, language of instruction and deadlines, then set those against your profile and priorities.
Every entry on your shortlist comes with a link to the university's own page for that programme, so you can confirm each detail at the source. Where something is our judgement rather than published fact, we say so explicitly.
What's included
- A researched shortlist with a source link for every programme
- Entry requirements, deadlines and language requirements compiled
- A clear separation of published fact from our own assessment
- Discussion of trade-offs between the options
What's not included
- Rankings, league tables or "best university" claims
- Recommendations influenced by any commercial arrangement
- Guarantees that requirements will not change — always re-check
- Scholarship application submission or funding guarantees
CV and motivation-letter guidance
University applications ask you to explain your academic direction in your own words — a personal statement at undergraduate level, a motivation letter or research proposal at Master's and doctoral level. That is difficult to do well, and it is the part applicants most often rush.
You write the drafts. We give you structured, specific feedback: where the argument is unclear, where evidence is missing, where the letter drifts from what the programme actually asks for, and where your CV buries something relevant. You then revise. We can work through several rounds.
We will not write your documents for you and we will not edit text into them. Beyond the ethical problem, admissions readers notice, and most universities treat submitted work that is not your own as grounds to reject or revoke an application.
What's included
- Detailed written or spoken feedback on drafts you have written
- Structural guidance on what a personal statement or motivation letter needs to cover
- CV formatting and content guidance for academic applications
- Help checking a draft against a programme's stated criteria
What's not included
- Writing, ghostwriting or rewriting your documents
- Supplying template letters to submit as your own
- Producing or supplying reference letters
- Certifying, translating or authenticating documents
General admissions counselling
Applications generate questions at awkward times — an unclear entry requirement, a referee who has gone quiet, an offer with conditions you do not understand, a decision between two programmes.
This is ongoing access to someone who knows your file and can help you think it through, either as scheduled sessions or as questions arise during a cycle.
What's included
- Sessions to work through questions during your application cycle
- Help interpreting published requirements and offer conditions
- Guidance on approaching potential supervisors and referees
- Interview preparation and practice for programmes that interview
What's not included
- Legal, immigration or visa advice of any kind
- Communicating with universities in your name
- Appealing or negotiating an admission decision on your behalf
- Accommodation, travel or relocation arrangements
See how these are packaged
These four areas can be taken as a package or one at a time. The packages page sets out what each one covers and how it works.