Admissions Coaching
Don't leave your university dreams to chance. With Icon, you'll be equipped to navigate the application process with clarity, confidence, and a compelling story that sets you apart.
Why Icon Education?
Our Promise
We get you into your dream school with as little stress as possible. Icon helps you navigate the complexities of the college application process while aligning your current academic and extra-curricular activities.
Our Process
- Ace your standardised tests
- Curate your application material
- Execute your plan
Our Commitment
We get you into your dream school with as little stress as possible. Icon helps you navigate the complexities of the college application process while aligning your current academic and extra-curricular activities.
Our Coaches
Meet the team behind Icon
Our coaches' qualifications are important but we place just as much emphasis, if not more, on their sound pedagogical approaches and investment in their clients.
Yi Lam
BSc (UOT); PhD (UC Berkeley)
Edwin Neo
BEng & MSc (NTU); JD (SMU)
Khush Saraf
BA (NUS); MSt (Oxford)
Sharon Ng
BA (SMU)
This is what we do best.
Whether you need interview preparation, essay editing, an end-to-end Common App essay overhaul, or help crafting strategic positioning narratives, our personalised college admissions consulting services will be able to assist you in every aspect of your application.
Application Strategy
• Take a strategic approach to the application process by matching your strengths, academic results and extracurricular activities to your universities of choice
• Explore courses and school options based on your interests, strengths, preferences and career goals
• Construct your own personalised application strategy, from school selection to personal branding, to get the best results
Application Planning
• Detailed timelines help you keep track of your tests and application deadlines.
• Regular check-ins and coaching sessions keep you accountable and ensure that you are consistently working toward your goals.
• Progress reports ensure that you keep to the game plan and help you course-correct if you slip up or miss your targets.
Documentation
• Work through your application requirements in an organised, mindful, intentional and timely manner.
• Collate and curate all components of your application to fit admission requirements and deadlines
Essay Writing
We work with you to enhance and refine your essay to reflect maturity of thought, deep interest, intellectual curiosity and other personal attributes that will help your application stand out.
Interview Prep
Plan B
What We Do Best.
Apply Smarter & Win Bigger with Our Proven Application Strategy.
Academic Pathway
Icon aims to not only get students into university, but also to help them thrive throughout their university career.
🇬🇧 UK Admission
Begin your journey with us. Getting to know you better will help us prepare and customise your roadmap to success.
Top Tip
If you are applying to Oxbridge, we will also provide you with targeted advice to tackle any additional assessments and interviews. Being able to demonstrate keen academic aptitude and passion for your course will be of paramount importance in your application, and our coaches will work with you to get there.
How We Can Help
Our coaches will provide guidance on every aspect of the application, clarifying your academic and non-academic goals to ensure that we compile an optimal university list.
Our Approach
We will take a meticulous approach in refining your personal statement so that it reflects your personal brand and is backed up by a well-rounded academic portfolio.
🇺🇸 US Admissions
Begin your journey with us. Getting to know you better will help us prepare and customise your roadmap to success.
Top Tip
If you are applying to the Ivy League (Brown University, Columbia University, Cornell University, Dartmouth College, Harvard University, Princeton University, University of Pennsylvania, Yale University) or any other highly competitive university (such as MIT, CalTech etc), you may choose to accelerate the application timeline by putting in an Early Action or Early Decision application.
How We Can Help
Our expert coaches will guide you on navigating the process—from coming up with a strategic school list to planning out your application timeline, and refining all parts of your application including your essays, activities list, academic portfolio and more.
Our Approach
The US admissions process is notoriously difficult to manage with multiple moving parts. While your grades and academic performance are important, colleges want to understand who you are as a person.
💉 Medicine
Begin your journey with us. Getting to know you better will help us prepare and customise your roadmap to success.
About
If you’re an aspiring doctor, you’ve probably heard how rigorous the admissions process can be. Acceptance rates usually fall between 10 and 20%, and can be even more selective if you are applying as an international student.
Our Track Record
We have helped students get into highly selective undergraduate and postgraduate programs globally, with longstanding success in Singapore, UK, Australia.
We have worked with many academically bright students (read: straight A’s) who seek help after getting a rejection letter.
83% of students we have worked with succeed on their first attempt.
How We Can Help
Our clients outperform standard acceptance rates by a huge margin, it’s so clear to us that they have a significantly better chance of getting an offer if they do it right the first time!
💼 Law
Begin your journey with us. Getting to know you better will help us prepare and customise your roadmap to success.
About
It can be quite daunting to decide to study a subject that’s typically not offered at the secondary level, but law remains a popular subject choice for many.
How We Can Help
Our coaches will work with you on a plan to secure an offer at your school of choice. We offer guidance on evaluating and leveraging your extracurricular activities to build a stellar academic portfolio, how to manage extra reading to learn more about the subject, how to tackle interviews and more.
🎓 MBA/Post-Graduate
Begin your journey with us. Getting to know you better will help us prepare and customise your roadmap to success.
About
Post-graduate education is becoming increasingly popular and the landscape has grown increasingly competitive in the past few years.
Top Tip
Investing into postgraduate education should be a well-thought out process: it is important to clearly articulate your goals and motivations as well as your value proposition. By understanding who you are and what you want, you will avoid unnecessary u-turns that cost you time and money.
How We Can Help
We offer comprehensive preparation from refining your statement of purpose, business school essays.
Our Approach
Wherever you are in your postgraduate application process, we will work together with you to come up with a detailed plan that fits your time, budget and goals.
Launch To Your Future
Would you like a headstart in preparing for university?
With university admissions becoming increasingly competitive, students are hard-pressed to start preparations earlier to position themselves strategically. That can be challenging because students do not always know what they want to do so far ahead of their high school graduation.
The Launch programme is structured to guide students aged 15 to 17 to identify their interests through a self-discovery profiling tool, figure out and embrace their authentic selves, set their goals and strategise how to achieve them.
Regular check-ins with coaches will support and keep students accountable and on task so that they gain clarity and confidence about their future paths. Upon completion of the programme, students will have a strong foundation to put their university applications together.
Testimonials
Over 80% of our clients were accepted to NUS & NTU-Imperial MBBS programmes
We love it when our students share their success stories with us so we can brag about it.
“I am a very satisfied with Icon - help was rendered from the beginning until the end. My consultant was very thorough when assisting me with my personal statement and made sure that I was well prepared for my University applications. Thank you!”
Min Han
- Admission Coaching