Quintessential Consultancy

A small team around one student.

For 13 years we've helped students in Singapore get into Oxford, Cambridge, the Ivy League, NUS Medicine and NUS Law. Each student works with five mentors who studied at the universities they're applying to, and who talk to each other.

150mentors
725students mentored
219Oxbridge offers
13years

One plan, five mentors

Most firms give you one consultant, with tutors queued up behind them. We put five mentors on each student. One leads and owns the plan. The others cover essays, tests, interviews and portfolio work, and they share notes. You won't explain your child's chemistry project four times.

Mentors who've sat where your child will sit

Our 150 mentors studied at Oxford, Cambridge, Harvard, Yale and other universities on your child's list. Someone who has been through an Oxford interview gives different advice from someone who has read about one.

We do turn some families away

If we can't see how we'd make a real difference, we'll say so on the first call. It saves you months.

Where are you aiming?

It starts with a conversation

We look at grades, subjects, activities and where your child wants to go. Then we tell you what's realistic and what we'd do first. Some families stop there. Most carry on.

Three students, three different routes

A student from ACS (Independent) got a Cambridge Law offer with 45 out of 45 in the IB. The work behind it was research on AI and law and a place in the finals of an international mooting competition.

A student from Dulwich College got into UC Berkeley with 44 out of 45. She ran a climate action campaign and did an NGO internship in Indonesia.

A student from Raffles Institution got into NUS Medicine with distinctions in H2 Chemistry and Biology. He did a hospital attachment and led a geriatric care service project.

Meet some of the mentors

A surgeon who sits on NUS and NTU interview boards. A Cambridge medicine graduate now working in a London hospital. An Oxford PPE graduate now at Harvard.

Tell us where your child is now.

We'll tell you, honestly, what we'd do next.