Guidance shaped around one student at a time
Five ways we work with families, each led by an experienced strategist.
Whether your son or daughter is fourteen and still deciding, or eighteen and three weeks from an interview, there is a place to begin.
Thank you for all of your help. You helped me showcase myself in the best way and achieve what I wanted.
Evelyn · Student, China
Offer — Global Affairs and Public Policy, Columbia
Most families come to us with the same question
Not which university, but what should we be doing now. The honest answer depends on your child’s age, their subject, and how much time is left before an application is due.
The five programmes below are the routes we take most often. If you are unsure which applies, a consultation costs nothing and usually settles it in half an hour.
Years 12–13
Oxbridge & UK University Admissions
End-to-end support for the whole UCAS application, from Oxford and Cambridge to Imperial, LSE, UCL, Durham and the rest of the competitive field. Course and university strategy, a personal statement built over successive drafts, admissions tests where they apply, and mock tutorials with people who have conducted the real thing.
- Course and university strategy grounded in real admissions data
- A five-course list built to work as a whole: ambition, match and insurance
- Personal statement coaching from first outline to submission
- ESAT, LNAT, TMUA, STEP and subject-test preparation
- Mock interviews with subject specialists, recorded and reviewed
Years 11–13
Ivy League & US College Admissions
The American process rewards a different kind of student — one whose interests hold together as a story. We build that story honestly through focused academic and extracurricular enrichment, then translate it across the Common Application and the supplements that actually decide the outcome.
- Common App essay and per-school supplemental strategy
- Activities list, testing decisions and early-round planning
- Guidance for families applying to the UK and US at once
Ages 12–16
Early Development
The programme for families who are not in a hurry. A mentor whose only interest is helping your child discover what genuinely fascinates them — and then follow it far enough that it becomes an academic profile rather than a hobby.
- Structured exploration across disciplines, not a fixed curriculum
- Wider reading and independent projects that compound over years
- A single mentor who stays with the child as their interests change
Years 10–13
A Level, IB & AP Tutoring
Subject-specialist tutoring for students who need the grades their offer depends on — whether that means closing a gap, consolidating a good position, or being pushed well past what the specification asks for.
- Matched to a tutor who read the subject at Oxford or Cambridge
- Exam technique and past-paper work under real conditions
- Termly written progress notes to parents, not vague reassurance
Masters & PhD
Graduate Admissions
Every university runs its own process. There is no UCAS, no five-choice limit, and no rule stopping you applying to Oxford and Cambridge at the same time, which is exactly why the list needs building deliberately rather than by instinct.
- Course and supervisor strategy across taught and research routes
- Statements of purpose and research proposals drafted with you
- Every deadline tracked, because each university sets its own
Every programme runs the same four stages
What changes between them is how long each stage takes and how much of it your child leads.
Diagnosis
Where the student genuinely stands — subject strength, reading depth, and the honest distance to where they want to be.
Matching
One advisor, chosen for the subject and the child — not a rota of tutors and not a call centre.
The work
Regular sessions with visible output: drafts, reading, projects, mock papers. Parents receive written progress notes.
The decision
Applications, interviews and results — then the conversation about what comes next.
Families who started where you are now
I promised I’d let you know: I received my conditional offer from Trinity College, Cambridge. Thank you so much for your tutoring and support. I truly appreciated every conversation.
I appreciate your help with my son’s A Level Physics. The improvement was clear and I should have found you sooner. I will absolutely recommend you to friends.
The interviews — you helped so much. It was scary, but thanks to our sessions I knew what to expect and felt more in control and less stressed.
Before you choose a programme
Usually you do not, and that is entirely normal. The consultation exists for this: we ask about your child’s year group, subjects, and what they are drawn to, and then tell you plainly which programme fits — including the answer that nothing does yet.
Frequently. A Year 12 student might take A Level tutoring in one subject alongside Oxbridge admissions support, and a Year 10 student on Early Development often moves into an admissions programme two years later with the same advisor.
Every Clavis Education consultant is a graduate of Oxford or Cambridge, sometimes both. They have supported students across Medicine, Engineering, Law, Natural Sciences, Economics and PPE, and each specialises in the subjects they know best.
We work with students across Asia, the Middle East, Europe and North America. All sessions run online via video call, scheduled around your son or daughter’s existing timetable rather than ours.
For admissions programmes, the year before the application year is comfortable; the application year itself is workable. For Early Development there is no such thing as too early — only too late.
Not sure which service is right for your son or daughter?
Book a free, no-obligation consultation and we will help you understand which programme best suits their needs and ambitions.