Quintessential Consultancy

Quintessential Consultancy(QC) is the leading university admissions specialist, offering comprehensive and professional start to end consulting services ranging from portfolio preparation to academic interview training. With expertise of over 50 Oxbridge and Ivy League mentors, QC consistently defines industry standards with our flagship Headstart, Personal Statement, and Academic Tests and Interview prep courses.

Last year alone, QC guided 23 applicants to Oxbridge colleges and 16 to Ivy League schools for competitive courses like Law, Medicine, Economics, Natural Sciences, and Computer Science. More than a bespoke source of consulting services, QC encompasses a highly regarded brand of education designed to promote lifelong success and character development.

Mentoring Programmes

Headstart Mentoring

Portfolio Preparation
Application Strategy
Writing Skills

Personal Statement

Course and College Selection
Admission Statistics Analysis
Personal Statement Edits

Entrance Test

Academic Content Reviews
Skills Assessments
Entrance Exams Preparations

Interview Preparation

Reading Lists & Progress Review
Stimulated Interviews
Body Language Correction

From portfolio preparation, acceptance statistics analysis, to appropriate character references, QC creates a winning framework for a successful application. Our mentees develop well-rounded portfolios with outstanding internships, academic achievements, external competitions and relevant projects.

Defining Industry Standards

QC pairs each applicant with 5 mentors. The team is headed by a Principal and Secondary Mentor, both of whom from the applicant’s target school, i.e. Oxford Law mentors will form up the team for an Oxford Law applicant.

QC’s industry defining framework provides comprehensive coverage on the entire applications, down to details like college choice statistics, and professors’ profiles.

QC is a one-stop service providing a wide range of tuition service to supplement the academic journey from age 12-18.

QC guides a diverse range of applicants each year, ranging from valedictorians to the less academically inclined.

What We Do

STEP 1: PRELIMINARY INTERVIEW & ANALYSIS OF STUDENT PROFILE

QC's Principal Consultant will interview the mentee to ascertain his/her interests and aptitude. Then a team of 5 master mentors will analyse the mentee's psychometric and portfolio, taking academic and non-academic strengths and weaknesses into account.

STEP 2: CONCEPTUALISATION OF APPLICATION STRATEGY

Our expert Consultant Mentors Team will actively mentor mentees with specific targets and steps to reach the academic and non-academic goals required with regular progress checkpoints.

STEP 3: CONSTRUCT COLLEGE LISTS

Consultants will construct College lists into 3 categories: “Dream”, “Reach” and “Safety”. This takes into account both academic difficulty level and mentee’s specific requirements, ensuring mentees have a safety net to fall back on.

STEP 5: INTERVIEW AND SPECIALISED TESTS MENTORING

Our expert Consultants team will uncompromisingly prepare mentees for demanding university interviews and academic entry tests.

STEP 6: COLLEGE ESSAYS EDITS AND BRAINSTORMING

Consultants will do rigorous essay brainstorming and edits till a perfect and riveting essay is achieved.

STEP 7: SUBMISSION FINAL CHECKS AND RESPONSE HELP

The Quintessential Consult Team will double check all documents for submission, assist in appeals (if needed) and help mentees respond to successful colleges!