Private Oxbridge Application Consultation

Alicia has been guiding applicants, parents and schools for over 12 years, specialising in English, Law, History, Modern Languages and Politics. She is particularly specialised in guiding our young applicants (coming in for Consultations aged 14 or 15) to prepare their long-term strategies. She holds a double first-class degree in English Literature from St Hilda’s College Oxford and also an MA in Shakespeare from Kings College, London. She regularly takes on her own Premier Service students each year as well as conducting the initial Private Consultations (of which she has now completed over 1000) in the London offices at Dukes House or around the globe. Alicia also travels to meet clients and schools in the United Arab Emirates, Italy, Hong Kong, Nigeria and Oman.

Alison has been working with students at Oxbridge Applications for more than a decade and has individually overseen hundreds of successful applications, as well as advising and presenting to thousands more candidates. Holding a degree in Maths and Philosophy from Pembroke College, Oxford, Alison specialises in guiding STEM applicants along their increasingly competitive pathway–applicant numbers for many of these Oxbridge courses have increased by 50% in the last decade.

Passionate about widening access to higher education and nurturing every student’s sense of their academic personality, Alison is proud to be guiding her 13th cohort of university applicants. Alison has led the teams at Oxbridge Applications and A-List Education and is now Director of Dukes Plus Consultancy. Alison’s personal academic interests span formal logic, the philosophy of mathematics, and abstract algebra. She also holds an MBA and serves as an Independent Governor at her former college.

Tom leads the Consultancy Team at Oxbridge Applications, and has worked privately with hundreds of families, advising on applications across the full spectrum of undergraduate courses offered by Oxford and Cambridge, as well as other G5 universities. After graduating from Downing College, Cambridge, Tom worked as an academic copy editor before joining the OA team. He's since delivered talks at dozens of schools to thousands of applicants and met and advised students from more than 30 countries.

Tom studied English at Cambridge and mentors applicants applying to English and English joint schools at both Oxford and Cambridge, as well as interviewing across a spectrum of humanities and social sciences courses. He has particular academic interests in John Milton, literary architecture, historicity, the epistolary novel, and late Victorian and early modernist poetry.

Ella graduated with a First in Experimental Psychology from the University of Oxford, where she was awarded the Styring scholarship in both her first and second years. Following her undergraduate studies, she trained as a teacher with Teach First,  achieving a Postgraduate Diploma in Education (PGDE) with Distinction and Qualified Teacher Status. Continuing her love for learning and psychology, she is currently studying in the evenings for a masters in Organizational Psychology at Birkbeck University.

Ella is the Head of Programmes and Learning at Oxbridge Applications, and she serves as a Study Director for a brilliant group of Premier Service students. She also tutors psychology, and has delivered numerous Private Consultations for prospective applicants across a range of courses. Ella applies her extensive knowledge of psychology and educational science to her work, enhancing student outcomes through evidence-based methods.