Fee · GBP 350
Which version applies to you
The session is always the same shape: preparation, 45 minutes online, and a written document. What it is built around depends on the application in front of you, and this is named when the session is booked. The country is not fixed. Work covers the UK and Ireland most often, and other destinations where the route makes sense for the student.
| Version | Built around |
|---|---|
| Scholarship | One named scholarship. Route and eligibility, the return plan where required, programme choices as a set, which essay carries the case, an outline for each, and a dated schedule to the deadline |
| Undergraduate | Academic and subject direction, course and university strategy, application timing in the system that applies, whether UCAS, the CAO or a direct application, and funding direction for one student and one entry year |
| Medicine | Whether the current subjects and route support a medicine application, medical school selection for an international applicant, admissions test and application timing in the country concerned, such as the 15 October UCAS deadline in the UK, interviews, and the funding position. Dentistry and veterinary science are not included |
| Coordinated applications | Where a case runs across several specialists, for example a visa route with a solicitor and a media or profile strand with an agency. The session maps what each one needs, in what order, and by when. Legal advice on an immigration application rests with the solicitor |
The fee, the terms and everything below are the same across all three.
What it is
A Strategy Session is one paid engagement covering one scholarship or one application. It runs in three parts, and the call is the middle of the work rather than the whole of it.
| Before | You complete a short questionnaire and send your documents. I review them ahead of the call. |
| During | Forty-five minutes online. |
| After | One written document, delivered within three working days. |
What the document contains
- An assessment of where you stand, and your case stated in a single sentence
- A return plan, where the scholarship requires one
- Programme choices as a set rather than a list, with the reasoning
- Which essay carries the most weight, and why
- An outline for each essay
- A dated calendar working backwards from the deadline
What it is not
- A review of every funding route available to you
- PhD or research route advisory, which is separate work
- Reading or giving feedback on drafts
- Questions, emails or consultation after the document is delivered
- Writing the application
Where a case runs across several specialists
Some applications are not a single piece of work. A visa route may sit with an immigration solicitor while a media or profile strand sits with an agency, and each of them needs something from the other at a particular point. The part that is usually missing is the person holding the whole thing together.
That coordination is what I provide: keeping the file in one place, establishing what each specialist needs and when, briefing them consistently, and keeping the timeline honest so that one strand does not stall another.
Legal advice on an immigration application, and the application itself, rest with the regulated solicitor instructed by the client. I do not advise on the merits of an immigration application and I do not correspond with the Home Office.
When it ends
The engagement ends for both of us when the document is delivered. You are free to apply independently from that point and there is no further fee.
If you want continued involvement, that is a new engagement. The Strategy Session fee is credited against a full package taken within the same application cycle.
Timing
| Payment | Before the session is scheduled |
| Documents | At least two working days before the call |
| Rescheduling | One reschedule with 24 hours' notice |
| Missed session | A session missed without notice is not replaced |
| Document | Within three working days of the call |
Two things to know
No outcome is guaranteed. Selection decisions rest with the scholarship body or the institution, and no adviser can influence them.
Once a booking has been purchased, it is non-refundable. The pre-session review begins on payment, and the time comes out of the calendar; neither can be undone.
If this fits, tell me where you are
One scholarship or one application. I will confirm whether a Strategy Session is the right shape for it before anything is booked.
Scope questions are answered on this page. If something here does not fit your situation, say so before booking rather than after.