The whole application, held for you
Five services that cover the distance from a first shortlist to the key to a room in a hall of residence.
- Level 4 to Level 8Foundation year to doctoral research
- End to endFirst consultation to final enrolment
- No cost to studentsThe universities pay us
graduate and go straight into work or further study
Getting somebody in is the easy half. The number that matters is how many are still there three years later, with the degree and something to do next.
Across the 2016 to 2022 intakes, counted at graduation.
What you get that you would not get alone
A UK application is not difficult so much as unforgiving. Every university asks for the same things in a slightly different form, on a different date, through a different portal, and nobody tells you when one of them has quietly changed.
We have done it enough times to know where it goes wrong. You get an adviser who has read your file, a plan with dates on it, and somebody to ring when the Home Office asks for a document you have never heard of.
Most of this job is knowing what goes wrong, and when.
Application week, in the Istanbul office
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A place you can actually take
An offer is only worth having if the grades, the money and the visa all line up behind it. We check all three before you apply.
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The English out of the way early
IELTS is the deadline most people miss. We put it first, with a target score and a date, rather than last.
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A degree that travels
British qualifications are read the same way in Ankara, Dubai and Toronto. That is most of why people come.
Choosing the United Kingdom is a decision, not a purchase
It asks for planning and for somebody who will say the unwelcome thing early. Two rules sit under everything on this page, and they are the reason students send us their friends.
Fit before prestige, every single time.
The best university on a table is not the best university for you. We read the department, the assessment pattern and the city, then put forward the handful where you would do well - undergraduate, master's or doctoral.
- Every application priced in full before you commit to it.
- A shortlist built around where you want to work afterwards.
- An honest reading of what your grades will and will not open.
Nothing goes in late, and nothing goes in half done.
Every document is checked against what the university and the Home Office ask for this year, not last year, and every application goes in with room to spare. You see each one go.
- One adviser from the first call through to the first lecture.
- Contact you do not have to chase during the visa decision.
- Support that carries on past the offer letter and into arrival.
Five services, one file
They are not a menu. Each one is a stage of the same piece of work, held by the same adviser, and the file moves from one to the next without you repeating yourself.
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Stage one
University and course selection
The stage that decides the other four. We read your transcript properly, work out what it will carry, and put forward the departments where you would be taught well and finish. Getting this right is the difference between three good years and a transfer application in the second term.
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Stage two
The application itself
A personal statement that sounds like you and answers what the department actually asks, and every document gathered before it is requested.
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Stage three
English, to the score you need
A study plan and mock papers built around the band your offer names, with the exam booked early enough to sit it twice if it comes to that.
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Stage four
The student visa
Financial evidence, the CAS, the health surcharge and the appointment, each checked against what the Home Office is asking for this year.
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Stage five
Somewhere to live
Halls or a private flat, arranged before you land rather than in your first week, with the contract read by somebody who has read one before.
Nothing, and here is why that is not a catch
British universities pay a recruitment fee for students who enrol and stay. That is how this business has worked for thirty years, and it is why we can take your file without asking you for anything.
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No fee to you, at any stage Not for the shortlist, not for the application, not for the visa work.
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The fee does not change your tuition You pay the university exactly what a student who walked in alone pays.
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We are paid when you stay, not when you sign Which is why nobody here will put you somewhere you will leave.
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Ask us which universities pay us We will tell you, and we will tell you when a better fit does not.