Advice Service
Advice Service
Your Top School Guide
Getting your young person into the best independent school will be life changing for them, and also for you as a parent(s). The ultimate goal is to maximise your young person’s academic and personal potential so they leave school clear about who they are, and confident about what they’re going to do next.
How you identify the best schools and navigate the myriad application processes is not always so straightforward. It’s all too easy to bark up wrong trees, take the wrong turn, and end up demotivated and deflated by the whole complicated and often competitive system.
That is where your Top School Guide can help.
We aim to add value in two main ways:
1. Identify the best schools
This can save you a colossal amount of time sifting through all the data and the heartfelt but indistinct “whole-person, care about the individual” school marketing spiel out there. We already know the schools so, once we know your young person and your family’s goals and ethos, we will know which schools to target.
We can:
- Listen and guide you to identify and prioritise your (and most importantly, your young person’s) academic and personal requirements.
- Recommend suitable schools and give you honest and unbiased appraisals of how each school matches your requirements.
- Arrange and guide you through school visits.
- Save you the money and stress involved by applying to or visiting the “wrong” schools.
- Play Devil’s Advocate until you are all completely satisfied you’ve left no stone unturned and have a place at your perfect school.
2. Support and manage your applications
Most schools have strict application deadlines and many are competitive to get into. Our knowledge, experience and connections allow us to manage the process on your behalf, strengthen your applications, and even open doors which might otherwise be shut.
We succeed by:
- Qualifying your young person’s academic level through school reports and standardised testing (where required.)
- Contacting appropriate schools to confirm suitability, availability of places, chances of success, and specific application process details.
- Helping students produce unique and specific-school-relevant applications.
- Providing level-appropriate sample entrance papers, and conducting mock interviews.
- Doing all the administrative heavy lifting for parents, managing your applications all in one place.
- Mentoring, motivating and encouraging students through an exciting and enjoyable process.
Why use Top School Guide's Application Services?
Our Expertise
As you can (hopefully!) see from our site, we understand the nuances of British independent and Swiss boarding schools. We want to use our knowledge, contacts and experience to support you.
Independent and unbiased
We do not have a range of “partner” schools. We can recommend and help you apply to any senior independent school in the UK or Switzerland. Our advice is independent, unbiased, and for the benefit of our students only.
Successful
We can save you time, money, stress, and will dramatically increase your chances of getting the best possible education.
Down to earth
Top School Guide aims to offer a friendly, clear, proactive and unpretentious service. We are here to listen, advise and do.
Let's Chat
Please get in touch for a friendly chat to see if Top School Guide can give you the school application support you are looking for.
