Toby

With over 15 years of university admissions experience, and teacher training from Oxford, Toby gets stellar results in guiding students towards fulfilling and impactful futures.

As a former admissions officer for the University of Oxford, and faculty member for a graduate-only college, Toby has selected countless applicants for placements on highly competitive courses. This experience has allowed him to help over one hundred students to make successful applications to graduate programmes at leading universities in the United Kingdom and elsewhere, and he remains up to date on the latest admissions trends via his network of close friends and companions throughout the university admissions industry.

Toby's experience as an academic supervisor for master’s and doctoral students at the University of Oxford, and as a private academic consultant for the past decade, has allowed him to provide in-depth expert support for all aspects of a postgraduate application, including CV writing, research proposal development (including initial research design), resource acquisition, supervisor shortlisting, programme recommendations, interviews, statements of purpose, and more. He combines his expertise in graduate university admissions and postgraduate programmes with his formal training as a teacher to support his students with an approach which is both comprehensive and pastoral, reflective of their individual life stories, professional experience, and future ambitions. He's therefore intimately familiar with the challenges of building a superb postgraduate application with rigorous university or professional environments, and helps all of his clients to overcome them.

Toby's methods provide superb and consistent results, with a more than 300% increase in admissions chances for his Oxford and Cambridge applicants in 2023 compared to the global average, and his expertise, professionalism, and confidence ensures a rock-solid, calm, and consistent source of inspiration and advice for students and parents alike throughout their time with Interface. This approach encapsulates his commitment to ensuring students are able to develop ideas and plans for their postgraduate study which reflects their unique ambitions and talents as fully-realised individuals, allowing them to leapfrog their peers and secure opportunities at world-leading institutions, and develop meaningful careers which impact countless others. 

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