Think Essay Prize 2025 Longlist Announced

The Think Student Essay Prize competition has been hugely popular this year. We received 755 student submissions.

Thank you to every single applicant. We greatly enjoyed reading all your essays. We also owe a big thank you to the very many schools with students who submitted essays – we very much appreciate your support.

Given the competition produced so many applicants, we sought the help of a number of additional judges who were involved in the first stage of selection. Our thanks to all of them for doing a very thorough and professional job.

The judging panel has selected the following publications for this year’s longlist:

• Qurat Ul-Aain, Bellerive FCJ Catholic College
• Aakriti Srivastava, Rani Laxmi Bai Memorial School
• Abigail Wen, Havergal College
• Anahita Daruwala, Dubai International Academy Al Barsha
• Abhishta Kodam, Colchester County High School for Girls
• Freddie Facer, Sherborne School
• Darrell Pui, Hwa Chong Institution
• Ho Ka Chun, Po Leung Kuk Choi Kai Yau School
• Eamon Lam, Charterhouse
• Leo Sakishige, City of London School
• Vaishnavi Mudumbi, Bergen County Academies
• Alessa Efridya Ningtyas, British School Jakarta
• Pati Bhargav, Raffles Institution
• Kan Zhang, BASIS International School Park Lane Harbour
• Teo Hui Sian, Raffles Institution
• Palak Thorat, Dougherty Valley High School
• Riva Mehta, Kanakia International School
• Boson Guo, King Edward VI Grammar School, Chelmsford
• Vanessa Lau, St. Paul’s Girls’ School
• Seher Verma, School Of The Art (SOTA)
• Labia Majeed, Delhi Public School Mathura Road
• Julian Zhang, The Hotchkiss School

Please note that the longlist does not include two applicants for privacy reasons.

Dr Stephen Law, Editor of Think and Chair of the Judging Panel, writes:

The longlist of candidates comprises 25 out of over 750 entrants, and so even making it into this list is a significant achievement. Every essay in the longlist is a first class piece of work. I have been particularly impressed with the clarity and precision of the entries. My congratulations to everyone that has made it this far – you can be justifiably proud.