Six tools, and a real counsellor when you want one.
Cubico does the research, matching, essay coaching and activity reviews that used to take a counsellor weeks. Six tools take a student from a short intake to a shortlist, coached essays and a polished activity list. Whenever you want a human view, bring in a real counsellor at any step.
How a student moves through Cubico. Jump to any tool.
A fit score that shows its working.
The matchmaker compares a student against real programmes, at universities worldwide, on the things that decide an application: grades against entry requirements, total cost against budget, and the post-study work window a visa allows. It ranks and tiers the result, and it explains itself in plain words.
- Built on data from 4,000+ universities and thousands of successful applications.
- Fit scored on real signals: academics, entry requirements, cost after financial aid, and visa / post-study work.
- Every match tiered reach · match · safety, so your matches are honest, never a wall of names.
- A plain-word reason for each score: the AI renders the words, deterministic Python owns the numbers.
- Verified, dated data at programme-and-round grain, with counsellor overrides winning over scraped facts.
- Local realities are scored too: what a degree actually costs a family in Pakistan, and how deadlines land against board exams.
The AI picks the words. Python picks the numbers.
The moment an LLM is allowed to invent a score, rankings drift between runs and trust collapses. So every number in Cubico (each fit signal, each tier) is computed by deterministic Python on verified data. The language model only turns those settled facts into a sentence a student and counsellor can read and challenge. Same match, same score, every time.
- 1How likely you are to get in
- 2Cost against your budget, after financial aid
- 3Your English test score against what the course needs
- 4Whether they accept your qualification, such as A-Levels, IB or FSc
- 5Your visa route and the right to work after you graduate
- 6How much work the application is, against the time you have
- 7What funding is open to you
- 8How well it matches what you said you wanted
Coaching on every supplemental. Your words, always.
Supplemental essays are where strong applicants pull ahead, and where most students get the least help. The Essay Coach works through each prompt with you: finding the angle only you can write, pressure testing your ideas, and giving sharp, specific feedback on every draft. It is highly personalised, drawing on your profile and the answers you gave in your intake. It coaches; it never writes for you.
- Personalised to your profile, your story and each university's prompt.
- Feedback on every draft: angle, structure, specificity and word count.
- Coaching for up to 20 universities on Cubico Plus; one or two supplementals free.
- Every word stays yours. Cubico never writes finished essays.
Every activity, rated and sharpened.
Admissions readers skim an activity list in seconds. Cubico rates each of your activities on impact and clarity, then suggests stronger phrasing using the STAR framework (Situation, Task, Action, Result), fitted to the character limits of the Common App and UCAS.
- A rating for every activity, with the reasoning shown.
- Recommended phrasing built on the STAR framework.
- Fitted to the Common App's 150 character limit.
- One demo review free; unlimited on Cubico Plus.
Your plan, drafted and kept up to date.
The AI Counsellor drafts the routine scaffolding of an application (a first shortlist, essay outlines, a working timeline) so you never start from a blank page. It runs on rails toward defined objectives and updates as your profile changes. You stay in control of every draft, and you can bring in a human counsellor to review any of it whenever you want.
- A first-draft shortlist, essay outlines, and a timeline, assembled in minutes rather than evenings.
- Outlines, never finished essays: the structure is suggested, the words stay yours.
- It works on rails toward set objectives and never submits anything on your behalf.
- Want a second opinion? Send any draft to a human counsellor for review.
Answers a student can trust, and the ones it won't give.
Ask Cubico is read-only and grounded: it answers from the real programme dataset and the student's own profile, and it shows what it drew on. Just as important is what it refuses. Visa and immigration questions are regulated advice; loan and financing questions carry real money risk. It declines both by design and points the student to official sources, or to a human counsellor if they want one.
- Read-only answers grounded in the real programme dataset and the student's own profile.
- It shows what it drew on (programme data, your profile) instead of asserting from nowhere.
- Hard-declines visa-legal and loan-financial questions by design, and says why.
- Suggests bringing in a human counsellor when a question needs personal judgement.
Your counsellor starts already briefed.
When you bring in a human counsellor, the Briefing Engine hands them everything Cubico knows about your application: your profile, your matches and why they fit, your essay drafts, your activity list and your deadlines. Your first session starts with real advice, not an hour of catch-up.
- Built from programme data, your profile and your drafts.
- Snapshot, fit rationale, tiered shortlist, deadlines and talking points, all in one place.
- Includes an evaluation of what Cubico has done, so your counsellor can check it and improve it.
- Only shared when you choose to bring in a counsellor.
A real counsellor, at any step you choose.
Cubico's tools work on their own, and the final decisions (where you apply and what your essays say) are always yours. Whenever you want a human view, bring in an experienced counsellor. They can evaluate what Cubico has produced, tell you honestly what is working and what isn't, and take on as much of your application as you want, from a single review to the whole process. Rates are agreed with you and depend on counsellor availability.
See it on your own matches.
Spend about 15 minutes on the intake and watch the six tools go to work, with a real counsellor one click away whenever you want one.