Reimagine your application experience.

Structured and Personalized Admission Support for Top Universities in US, UK, and Elsewhere

We beat the odds.

Since 2014, Essai has worked with hundreds of students with its end-to-end intensive counselling program.
In that time, our students have earned:

200+

Top 10* Offers

700+

Top 30* Offers

Why Essai?

We put you at the centre of your application.

Proven Success
Rate

With a 92% acceptance rate into Tier 1-3 universities globally, our personalized approach ensures you’re on the right path to your dream school.

Tailored Application
Strategy

We create customized application strategies that highlight your strengths, making your profile stand out to top universities.

Expert Guidance at Every Step

Our experienced mentors provide comprehensive support, from profile building to interview preparation, ensuring you are fully prepared for every stage of the application process.

Our students have earned 1000+ offers at top Universities!

What we do

At Essai, we specialise in end to end profile building and college application support for the best colleges and universities in the US and the UK.

Profile Building

At Essai, we guide and support standout profiles by understanding individual strengths, goals, and preferences. We ensure continuous academic progress, facilitate service delivery through a global network, and provide prompt, positive support. Our team is with you every step of the way throughout the entire process.

Application Support

Our Application Support program helps students create personal, memorable, and bold applications. We craft high-quality essays, manage 3+ application portals, offer rapid response to student and parent input, and ensure proactive deadline management. We provide end-to-end support for up to 25 applications or schools.

College Knowledge

Offering up to 20 personalized reports and plans. Students gain exclusive access to Ivy-correlated competitions, summer schools, and research opportunities. Additionally, we provide real successful Ivy League essays, Oxford, Cambridge, LSE, and Imperial College personal statements, and elite summer school application materials.

Nicholas Henderson

Our Director, Nicholas Henderson, graduated from Harvard in 2006. He has since taught at Shrewsbury School (UK), authored the Pearson’s Guide to the SAT (2010), and co-founded Essai Education in 2015. Nick splits his time between Delhi, London, and Washington DC.

Our hardworking, creative, and passionate team members are motivated by Essai’s ambition to transform the education experience.

Strategic Profile Building

At Essai, our aim is to guide, develop and support student efforts to help them create profiles that stand out. Using our proprietary resources and strategic partnerships, we are equipped to provide both advisory and operational support in relation to extracurricular activities, internships, academic research and social service leadership.

Explore and understand possible intended majors

Craft and engage with internships, summer schools, research projects, and more

Coordinate and manage the standardised testing requirements

Ideate and drive an impact-driven social initiative

Supervise and support scholastic progress

Comprehensive Application Support

Our Application Support program assists with every stage of the application process: developing a college list that suits your needs and interests, providing support and structure for your application essays, assisting in the effective completion of your application forms, and clarifying any doubts you might have along the way!

Longlist and shortlist optimal college list

Identify and engage school stakeholders

Synthesize and communicate key profile building elements

Ideate and develop creative application essays

Understand and manage portals and submit timely applications

We work with students all over the world.

Experience the Essai Difference

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In a truly compelling university application, something beautiful happens: your courses, internships, competitions, essays, and research projects all begin to reinforce one another perfectly.

The profile doesn't feel forced or checklist-driven. Instead, it feels entirely natural because every single component seems to inherently understand and elevate the others.

True strategic planning isn’t about endlessly hoarding more activities to look busy. It’s about recognizing your true intellectual direction early enough to shape every subsequent decision coherently.

Essai’s long-term advising model is built explicitly around this philosophy of cohesion. Stop adding clutter, and start building clarity.

🔗 Visit the link in our bio and sign up with Essai today.

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⚡ 5 Days To Go.

This is the moment where vague ideas sharpen, and your core arguments finally crystallize. It’s time to transition from drafting to the final polish.

Review your work with a critical eye. Step back and ensure that your unique insights are articulated with absolute precision and that your logical reasoning flows seamlessly from one point to the next. 

Don't let minor details hold back a great piece of writing. Double-check your citations, verify your formatting, and make sure this essay truly reflects your best intellectual effort.

We are incredibly excited to read your perspectives on these global challenges. Cross the finish line strong!

🚨 Final Deadline: June 15 at 11:59 PM IST. 🔗 Submit your masterpiece via the link in our bio.

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While external summer schools and global competitions are fantastic, you shouldn't overlook the immense power of your own school ecosystem.

Your school’s clubs, student councils, editorial publications, house systems, and student-led initiatives are vital. 

They fundamentally shape how your teachers and counselors perceive your impact internally. 

These spaces are where leadership opportunities are earned, institutional visibility is built, and the quality of your counselor recommendations is forged.

Many of the most successful college applicants build stunning profiles simply by being deeply, thoughtfully active within their local school hallways.

Essai’s strategic planning frameworks ensure you map out internal school-specific engagement alongside your broader external profile goals.

🔗 Learn how to maximize your current school opportunities via the link in our bio.

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There is a distinct, unmistakable hallmark of a student who reads extensively: they express their ideas entirely differently.

When you dive deep into books and academic papers, your writing naturally develops a richer texture. Your classroom engagement becomes far more nuanced, and the research questions you formulate become noticeably sharper.

At top-tier global institutions like Oxford, Yale, or Sciences Po, true intellectual maturity isn't just measured by grades. It reveals itself through the depth and structure of your language itself.

Essai’s reading programmes are custom-built to help younger students develop this profound intellectual depth gradually, through structured, thematic literary exploration.

🔗 Elevate your reading and communication style. Learn more at the link in our bio.

#ReadingHabits #IntellectualMaturity #OxfordAdmissions #Yale #SciencesPo #AcademicWriting #CriticalReading
The traditional walls of the high school classroom have completely dissolved. Today, academic enrichment happens on a truly global scale.

A student sitting in Delhi can easily participate in elite writing competitions hosted out of Canada, complete research programs based in the US, or collaborate with specialized mathematics communities originating deep in Europe. International Olympiads, prestigious essay contests, and localized summer programs create a massive global network for ambitious minds.

Navigating this landscape can be overwhelming. Through PIPPAMS and Essai’s integrated planning networks, we guide students seamlessly through the best global enrichment opportunities customized for their specific subjects and timelines.

🔗 Explore your global academic options by checking out the link in our bio.

#GlobalEducation #Olympiads #EssayCompetitions #STEM #AcademicEnrichment #PIPPAMS #EssaiGlobal
Admissions officers read thousands of applications a year. Because of this, they easily tell the difference between a project born from genuine engagement and one built purely for resume visibility.

The strongest, most impactful community or personal initiatives are almost always slow-cooked. They require you to spend real time deeply understanding a core problem, speaking face-to-face with impacted communities, refining your solutions along the way, and documenting your long-term impact with care.

Impact cannot be rushed.

Essai’s social project ecosystem supports you through every step of this journey, providing planning frameworks, vetted NGO partnerships, recognition pathways, and long-term execution assistance across issue areas ranging from education to climate sustainability.

🔗 Want to launch a social impact project with real substance? Tap the link in our bio.

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📝 One week into June, and only 9 days remain!

The Franklin Essay Prize wasn't designed for superficial answers, it was created for students who are willing to look past the surface and engage deeply with the world's most pressing dilemmas.

As you finalize your drafts, approach your chosen prompt with genuine curiosity and sharp analytical rigor.

The strongest, most impactful submissions will be those that advance a clear, compelling thesis, back it up with solid evidence, and structure the narrative with precision.

Every single paragraph should serve your central idea.

Take the time this week to cut the clutter, refine your arguments, and make your voice heard.

⏰ Applications close June 15 at 11:59 PM IST. 🔗 Head over to the link in our bio to finalize and upload your submission.

#EssayCompetition #StudentResearch #IntellectualCuriosity #WritingCommunity #Essai #ProfileBuilding #AcademicExcellence
High school internships are often misunderstood, but they occupy a highly unique space in the admissions landscape.

For a high school student, an internship functions as critical exposure. It is your very first encounter with how real-world professionals think, analyze, and problem-solve inside a specialized field.

A student aiming for law learns to observe how arguments are structured. A future finance major begins to notice market systems and risk parameters. A pre-med student encounters complex research cultures and clinical dynamics.

Essai approaches internship planning through the lens of strict intellectual relevance and strategic fit within your larger profile narrative.

🔗 Looking for meaningful professional exposure? Check out the link in our bio to see how we guide you.

#HighSchoolInternship #ProfessionalExposure #PreMed #PreLaw #FinanceStudents #CareerExploration #EssaiMentorship
Our team is looking talented, driven, bright, and entrepreneurial members to join us! 

Go through the JDs here, and email us at hr@essai.in to send in your applications! We're excited to hear from you!

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