Parent + Student Decision Call — Corporate Law, Investment Banking, Private Equity

Our flagship case study: a client who went from low A-levels and four consecutive years of rejection to a Training Contract at White & Case LLP — on a £175,000 NQ salary track. His mother called it "probably the best investment we've ever made."

Named outcomes (published with consent)

• Karam Kahlon, University of Exeter — HSBC Investment Banking internship (paid 1-to-1 client). Read his case study.

• Matei Tasnadi, Queen Mary University London — Akin Gump LLP vacation scheme offer; passed interviews at Jones Day and Clifford Chance. "PEAL-X and PEAL-3 helped me pass interviews at elite US law firms." Read his case study.

• Vivek E, UCL — BNP Paribas Global Markets Summer Internship (community member). "The structure of the Skool community was genuinely transformative for me." Read his case study.

• Vivek P, University of Warwick — Morgan Stanley off-cycle Global Capital Markets offer (free content). Read his case study.

Other documented outcomes include a Warwick undergraduate who converted a Jefferies Spring Week into a Summer Investment Banking internship offer (pathway to £110K analyst salary), and clients who have secured offers at Ropes & Gray, Sidley Austin, Baker McKenzie, and Schroders — all anonymised at their request.

The majority of our clients and their families prefer anonymity and are under NDA — which we respect fully. We hold a complete audit trail for every offer, including offer letters, portal screenshots, and email confirmations. Some clients, like those named above, are happy to be identified publicly and have provided documented consent. For serious prospective families considering a programme, we are able to share further audited evidence privately.

What happens on the call

• Reality check: how competitive your profile is for your exact target firms — including visa status, grades, university tier, and application timing

• Readiness score: where you sit across the six behaviours that elite firms select for at assessment centre and interview

• Stage diagnosis: are you failing at Stage 1 (not getting interviews), Stage 2 (not converting interviews), or Stage 3 (not converting assessment centres and vacation schemes into offers)

• Decision: if there is a mutual fit, we take a deposit and schedule Sessions 1–3 before the call ends

Our programmes

We offer structured 1-to-1 advisory programmes at three levels, each designed around the ECS Offer-Engineering System™:

• Foundation: single-cycle sprint — CV, motivation answers, and competency answers rebuilt to offer standard

• Accelerator: full-cycle support across multiple firms, interview rounds, and assessment centres

• Flagship (invite-only): white-glove, unlimited advisory until offer — for families who want total commitment to a single outcome

Investment levels are discussed on the call and reflect the scope of work, not a generic fee schedule. This is a serious commitment of time and resource on both sides.

Capacity

We accept a maximum of 30 families per year globally. This is not a marketing claim — it is a hard capacity constraint. Each programme requires significant direct advisory time from our senior team, and we will not dilute quality to increase volume. If places for your target cycle are full, we will tell you on the call rather than overcommit.

We unfortunately are unlikely to work with students who have achieved, or are predicted to achieve a 2.2 degree / <3.6 GPA (USA), undergraduate qualification.

Important

1-to-1 advisory is an investment option, not a requirement. The quality of our free content alone has produced documented offers at Clifford Chance, Herbert Smith Freehills, Sidley Austin, Citadel, and Morgan Stanley — with zero spend. Paid programmes compress time, quality-control every written and verbal output, and provide direct accountability through every stage of the process to offer.

Before you book

• Both the student and at least one parent or guardian must attend. We will not proceed without a parent present — this is a non-negotiable part of our admission process.

• Please have your CV, grades summary, and list of target firms with deadlines ready.

• See our track record

Compliance

Case studies are anonymised unless published with documented consent. Third-party firm names and marks are used for context only — no affiliation, sponsorship, or endorsement is implied. Historical outcomes; individual results vary; past performance does not guarantee future results. Harvard, MIT, and Yale references relate to invited MBA student club sessions; no university affiliation is implied.

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