Admissions Consulting

Laetitia came to us with C, D, U in her A-Levels; and had expressed interest to become a lawyer – not any lawyer but one with a top university certificate. We identified various bridging programs for her and recommended her to pursue a quality Foundation Program. At the same time we enhanced her academic profile, engaged her in an enriching community service project, guided her through the drafting of personal statement, and prepared her for interviews. Laetitia later attended UCL for her undergraduate Management degree and we later supported her with postgraduate law conversion course and PCLL applications. We are so happy she is now pursuing her dream applying to become a Law Trainee at top law firms!

I have received my A levels results: Five A*! I have successfully met the offer to study Engineering at Cambridge! Thank you ARCH for all the assistance you have provided to me along the way. From Parent: Your support to my child has been the key to get condition offers from various schools. We are thankful for your support and advice during the application process. Thank you very much!

Thank you so much, ARCH, for making my UK application so smooth and easy. I would definitely recommend ARCH to my friends and relatives! From the very beginning, ARCH helped me to choose my 5 university choices by introducing me the variety of difference courses and institutions, allowing me to make an informed decision on which universities to go for. Even though I applied for 3 separate yet related courses, my counselor helped me to incorporate elements of all three! He also encouraged me to read widely around the subjects, and suggested books which I could look at! During our personal statement sessions, I was prompted to organize my ideas which helped to make experiences sound more reflective and impressive than in my initial drafts. I was guided through the structure as well as flow of the essay, and was supported by my counselor throughout the process.

In all the preparation experience was extremely helpful - I am certain that it would have gone a lot worse if I hadn’t been helped by Emma and Jennifer. The two most impactful parts were probably the personal statement preparation with Emma and Dr Slinn, and the mock interview with Jennifer. Emma helped me add a lot of external reading to the personal statement, gave it greater cohesiveness than I could ever hope to achieve and helped me tweak the language to a tone more suitable for a personal statement. Dr Slinn was also a great help in providing me with insight as to what the admission tutors would be looking for, and further tweaking the terminology. The mock interview session with Jennifer was particularly helpful because it provided me with much more concrete feedback that I could actually use. Jennifer was able to provide tips as to how I could actually deal with my flaws, and taught me a more regimented thought process to come up with a well thought out and structured response on the fly.

ARCH’s discipline specific tutor practiced biochemistry questions with me in preparation for my Oxford interview. In mock interview scenarios, I was asked a range of biology and chemistry questions. I genuinely felt like I was stretched by the challenging questions, and I benefited from practicing how to think aloud as I answered them, and also learnt useful strategies for approaching technical and scenario-based questions. The tutor even taught me some topics which I hadn’t covered at school yet, which allowed me to further extend my knowledge!