Our story
Eleven years in the making.
Kleos Admits is new. The people, the judgement and the conviction behind it are not.
Chapter i.
The study-abroad years
2015 – 2026
Our team began in study-abroad counselling in 2015 in New Delhi. The work was simple to describe and hard to do well: help a student understand where they could thrive, and help them get there.
Over eleven years we guided 500+ students to universities in the US, the UK, Canada, Europe and Australia, including University of Toronto · UCL · NYU · Purdue. We learned the rhythms of each admissions system, the difference between a good essay and an honest one, and how much a family needs someone who will tell them the truth.
This is our team's study-abroad record, earned before Kleos Admits. It is distinct from Kleos Admits' selective-admissions practice, which begins in October 2026.
- 2015
Our team begins study-abroad counselling in New Delhi.
- 500+
Students guided to universities abroad over eleven years.
- 12
Countries our students now study in, across 150+ universities.
- 2026
Kleos Admits opens in New Delhi, with a Founding Cohort of ten.
Chapter ii.
Why we are building Kleos Admits
The strongest students we met deserved more than a general practice could give. The most selective universities do not reward a polished application assembled in Grade 12. They reward years of genuine intellectual work, and that work needs a mentor who is there for all of it.
So we made a choice. Rather than grow the practice we had, we built a separate one, smaller and more intense, with its own standard and its own name.
“We did not want to do more of the same. We wanted to do one thing exceptionally.”
Chapter iii.
The ambition
To become the practice families trust for the Ivy League, Stanford, MIT, Caltech, UChicago, Oxford, Cambridge, LSE and Imperial. Not by volume, but by the depth of the students we help and the honesty of how we work.
We have not yet placed a student at an Ivy League university under the Kleos name. The Founding Cohort is where that begins.
Our lines
What we will never do.
Promise an admission
No one can honestly guarantee one. We promise the work instead.
Write for a student
Every essay and every idea stays the student's own.
Take more than we can serve
When our mentors are full, we close. We would rather wait-list than dilute.
Borrow a record
We will only ever claim what we, and our students, have actually done.
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