Guiding ambitions

We start with the student, not the school. Until the direction is locked, no shortlist gets built. A documented framework — aptitudes, three-lens evaluation, alumni reality-check — turns career discovery from a guessing game into a deliberate decision the student can defend.

Once direction is locked, every extracurricular, project, and summer plan should align with it. We help students prune what doesn't fit and seed what does — building a profile that reads as a single coherent story when an admissions committee opens the file.

Five filters narrow thousands of universities to your shortlist: program quality, language realism, cost ceiling, post-study work rights, family fit. The output is a defensible memo of 8–10 institutions, tiered Reach / Match / Likely, with deadlines and total costs visible in one view.

We integrate test prep with the school's existing curriculum, so SAT/ACT prep doesn't fight the schedule. We also prepare students for country-specific entrance exams (Bocconi, Sciences Po, Italian medicine, Dutch numerus fixus) and school-specific tests (BMAT, LNAT). One sequence, one trajectory.

Voice, narrative arc, and program fit are upstream of any sentence. The student writes the first draft from a structured prompt; the consultant edits hard but never rewrites. Country-specific conventions — UK, US, NL, FR, DE, CH — applied where they matter.

Oxbridge tutorials, Bocconi panels, Dutch program admissions interviews — each format has its own rules. We run mock interviews matched to the real thing, debrief frame by frame, and keep iterating until the student walks in like they've done it before.