What this costs, next to everyone else
Nine applications, managed end to end, for one fixed price. Here is what the agencies charge for less.
Every price below was checked on 29 August 2026 against the provider's own published page, linked at the bottom. Figures we could not verify are not printed, and sterling figures are left in sterling rather than converted at a rate that will have moved by the time you read this. Crimson Education, the best known name in this market, publishes no prices at all and quotes after a call, so there is nothing of theirs to put in a table.
The arithmetic on a full portfolio
The $990 portfolio is nine applications: your five UCAS choices on one statement, up to two Dutch numerus fixus applications, and two more European applications we manage for you: Danish Quota 2, Ireland, Sweden or Finland, whichever the strategy session says are worth making.
Baltic Council sells the same coverage as two separate products, and their price list is public, so the comparison is arithmetic rather than estimate.
| Getting those nine applications built | What it covers | What it costs |
|---|---|---|
| LimeAdmissions, full portfolio | 5 UCAS choices + 2 Dutch numerus fixus + 2 more in Europe, tracked to submission | $990 |
| Baltic Council, "Programme selection" | Where to apply. What our strategy session covers | $173 |
| Baltic Council, "Great Britain" plan | UCAS, 5 universities | $750 |
| Baltic Council, "European countries" plan | 3 universities, then $104 per extra | $865 |
| Baltic Council, covering the same nine $173 + $750 + $865 + $104 for the fourth European university |
The same nine applications, planning included | $1,892 |
That is their published list, not our estimate: the "European countries" plan states $104 per university beyond the third, and visa documentation is $115 on top of either plan. $990 against $1,892 for the same nine applications. Leave out their planning step and it is $1,719 still more than we charge with ours included. Ask them for a tenth and eleventh application and the gap widens by $104 each time; ours are already in the price.
What the agencies charge, and what they cover
Two different markets sell into this. British consultancies price by the hour or by the Oxbridge programme and stop at the Channel. German agencies price the European route, and the ones aimed at medicine charge a success fee: a percentage of your future, agreed before you know the number.
| Agency | Published price | What you get | What it leaves out |
|---|---|---|---|
| Baltic Council (Lithuania) | $173 programme selection $750 UK · $865 Europe $1,096 rest of world $1,962 "top universities" +$115 visa documents |
A personal manager who handles the process, plus visa documentation. | Nothing, but the UK and Europe are two separate products, Europe covers three universities before $104 each, and "top universities" is a third purchase again. |
| The Profs (UK) | From $162 per hour | One-to-one admissions tutoring: personal statement, admissions tests, interview practice. | A fixed price. Hours are open-ended, so what a full application costs is not knowable in advance. Nothing outside the UK. |
| Oxbridge Applications (UK) | $531 consultation (75 min) $665 statement review package $800 mock interview package $3,695 residential course $1,074–2,150/month premier |
UK specialists, Oxbridge focus, former admissions interviewers. | Everything outside the UK. No Studielink, no numerus fixus, no Danish Quota 2. Every application beyond your five UCAS choices. |
| UniAdmissions (UK) | $8,764 Lite-Blue $16,854 Half-Blue $24,944 Full-Blue $47,190 Fellows |
Oxbridge programmes: tutoring hours, admissions test preparation, interview practice. | Oxford and Cambridge only, one of your five UCAS choices. The other four, and all of Europe, are not in the programme at any of the four prices. |
| EDU-Institut (Germany) | $519 $115 deposit + $404; +$35 per extra quarter hour |
A 60-minute consultation and a written report of at least 30 pages. | The applications themselves. It is advice and a document; nobody writes, checks or submits anything for you afterwards. |
| Profiling Institut (Germany) | $1,615 in person $1,385 online $1,731 with careers advice |
A six-hour diagnostic day of tests, interviews and exercises, and a report of about 45 pages. | The applications themselves. Their own page calls the output a roadmap for applying. It tells you what to study, not how to get in. |
| futuredoctor (Germany) | $1,039 for three universities +$346 per extra university plus one year's tuition if you accept a place |
They run the application, translate and notarise documents, and prepare you for entrance tests. | Everything except medicine abroad, and the headline $1,039 is not the price. The success fee is one full year of tuition, $9,808 to $27,694 on their own published fee table, depending on the country. |
| StudiMed · MediStart (Germany) | One year's net tuition on a place $10,385–$32,713 a year on StudiMed's own 2026/27 fee table; MediStart adds $750 at some universities |
Placement at their partner universities, application handling, entrance test preparation, support on arrival. | Medicine only, partner universities only, and you cannot know the price until you know where you got in. Read the contract: on 5 June 2025 the Federal Court of Justice struck down a placement agency's clause charging the whole fee the moment a university makes an offer, rather than when you actually enrol (I ZR 160/24). |
Prices published in euros or pounds are shown in US dollars at the European Central Bank reference rates of 15 September 2026 (€1 = $1.15, £1 = $1.35), rounded to the dollar. Our own prices are set in dollars.
What $990 buys that none of them sell
One price, fixed before any work starts, covering both the UK and Europe, the two halves every firm above sells separately or not at all. Judgement about your particular list across systems that each work differently, and line-by-line work on the documents that actually need writing. By people who applied under this cycle's rules, in two systems at once.
Nobody here is paid by a university. The agencies charging a success fee are paid more the more expensive your place is, and the placement agencies are paid by their partner institutions. Our price is the same whichever university you choose.
On AI: a model will invent a deadline, a course requirement or a numerus fixus status and state it confidently, and UCAS treats a substantially AI-written statement as potential cheating. No AI writes your statement or your feedback here. The full policy.
Sources
All checked 29 August 2026, on each provider's own published page. Baltic Council price list · The Profs pricing · Oxbridge Applications fees · UniAdmissions fees · EDU-Institut costs · Profiling Institut · futuredoctor costs · StudiMed costs · MediStart costs · BGH judgment of 5 June 2025, I ZR 160/24. Prices change; if you find one of these out of date, tell us and we will correct it.
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