Empowering growth and excellence beyond college admissions

Why Us?
1. Personalised Mentorship
You’ll always know who you’re working with. Not just an illustrative “team” of mentors but an independent mentor who is invested in your growth and journey from Day 1.
2. Guaranteed Privacy
Your application is 100% yours. We celebrate your wins with you along the way but we would never share your information without your consent.
3. Ethical Support
We provide a clear strategy and transparent admissions guidance. No ghostwriting, no transcript fabrication, no bundled services to meet sales quotas.
4. Uncompromising Quality
We work only with a limited number of clients to ensure that we can deliver excellence for each and every one of you.
Services
We are primarily focused on US college and UK university admissions.
As part of the process, we cover a wide range of services which includes but are not limited to the targeted application strategy, academic and extracurricular planning, summer school applications, college essay brainstorming and editing, school selection, interview preparation.
Additional services such as boarding school applications and non-application essay review can be discussed on a case-by-case basis.
Consultant

Profile

Nicole graduated with First Class Honours from the University of Oxford.
In making her university choices, she had a hard time deciding between Duke University in the United States and the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom. Even though she was set on a liberal arts education in the United States, she ultimately chose Oxford for its tutorial system and close-knit college community.
Her own application journey taught her that a deep, holistic understanding of her own aspirations and a keen appreciation of what "college fit" meant were essential in defining her own success and happiness in the process.
A well-known college might not be equally great or good for each student. Each and every student has different academic goals, career aspirations and unique environmental preferences. The conditions for each student to thrive and live full, meaningful lives are different.
As such, she seeks to help students as they navigate their own journeys towards finding their success and happiness at a college they would be proud of calling their own.

Track Record

Nicole has mentored more than 200 students from US, UK, China, Taiwan, South Korea, Southeast Asia and Australasia.
Her students have won admission to selective US colleges such as Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Stanford, Penn, Chicago, Caltech, Duke, Northwestern, Dartmouth, Cornell and Georgetown. She has also supported students to win admissions at selective liberal arts colleges such as Williams, Amherst, Wellesley, Carleton, Colby, Smith and Bryn Mawr.
Her students who have applied to the UK have won admission to Oxford and Cambridge for a variety of subjects, including: Law, Politics, Philosophy and Economics (PPE), History and Politics, Natural Sciences and Engineering.
Testimonials
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"I kept changing what I wanted to major in. I’ve thought about Aerospace Engineering, Finance, Public Health and Biochemistry throughout my time in high school. My mentor listened to my aspirations and helped me figure out how to best position myself for college admissions while pursuing my personal interests.!"

- Stanford Admit

"With straight A*s for my IGCSE, a predicted 44 out of 45 for the IB and three school leadership positions, you may wonder why I still needed a consultant! Thing is, there were a handful of others in my school with a similar profile. I wanted to stand out. And I managed to do that with distinct academic and extracurricular projects that I hadn’t thought of earlier."

- Cambridge & Princeton Admit

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"It was not common for students to apply to Top US / UK universities from my school. I knew I had to get good grades and have good leadership positions, but I wasn’t sure which schools to apply to or how to start on essays. My mentor guided me to think deeply about what I cared about and about things that were important to me throughout the essay writing process."

- Oxford & Yale Admit

"I really enjoyed the thought-provoking interview preparation process. In fact, it made me fall in love more with the tutorial system and helped me pick Oxford over LSE in the end."

- Oxford Admit

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"We all get consultants to get into top / prestigious schools. That’s important to my parents and myself to some extent also. My mentor helped me figure out what was a best fit school for me, but more than that, she also gave me helpful career advice and taught me how to make the best out of my time in college."

- Duke Admit

"I would never have found out about my college if not for my mentor. I only knew about the big names like Brown University, UC Berkeley and New York University. But learning more about small liberal arts colleges made me fall in love with the system and I am so glad I chose this path."

- Wellesley Admit

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Contact
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