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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*Waitlist Wins!* 🏆

Congratulations to Essai students who got OFF the Waitlist and MADE IT to their Dream Schools! 👏
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We're pleased to unveil the prompts for this year's #FranklinEssayPrize !

If you have original ideas that you're keen to work on, and wish to hone your craft and your ability to think critically, this is the perfect opportunity to exercise your creative muscle!

Feel free to DM us or write to us essayprize@essai.in for any questions you have! 

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We welcome everyone enrolled in high school this academic year to apply! 

The prompts release soon, but here are the guidelines for you to prep!

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The Essai Education Franklin Essay Prize is about to go live! Here's what you need to know about the competition.

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Open for high school students between the ages of 13-18, The Franklin Essay Prize is an academic essay competition targeted towards
talented high school students. The aim of the challenge is to foster critical
scholarly inquiry, specifically among young learners, who are keen on exploring the multidisciplinary tenets of academic research and writing.

We're back for the 2025 edition of the contest. Stay tuned for more!
You don’t need a 1600 SAT or flawless grades. 

What you need is a story—your story. Own it, shape it, and let it show who you truly are. 

That’s what top universities really want.

Learn more: https://essai.in/

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Something's brewing, and we can't wait to share with you!

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Something's brewing, and we can't wait to share with you!

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Here are some book recommendations based on winners of the prestigious Booker Prize over the years! ⭐️📚

We hope that these books inspire you to look at your life and work with deeper imagination. ✨

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At Essai, we believe that informed students make empowered decisions. That’s why College Knowledge is a foundational part of our approach.

For more information, visit: https://essai.in/

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Essai's Hall of Fame 🥳 🥳🥳🥳🥳

Nayona's heading to @ucberkeleyofficial !
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Rhiditya is heading to @uchicago !!
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Vanshika Sangla is on her way to Johns Hopkins! ✈️
At Essai, our Application Support Service guides you through every step of the process—from selecting schools to crafting compelling essays and managing deadlines across multiple portals. 

Let us help you apply with confidence and clarity.

For more information, visit: https://essai.in/

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As we highlight Essai's Hall of Fame for the current academic year, we look back at one of our very special Ivy League success stories. 

At Essai, we always encourage you to be who you are. At Essai, you're always more than your score.

Learn more: https://essai.in/

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