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College admissions consulting

Ivy-caliber guidance for standout applications.

IvyAdmits helps ambitious students turn strong grades, activities, essays, and goals into a focused application strategy for highly selective colleges.

Admitted schools

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What we help with

Build the profile before the application.

Olympiads, competitions, ventures, research, leadership, then the essays that bring it all into focus.

Plans

Choose the level of support that fits your timeline.

Start with a free consultation.

Best for seniors with specific needs.

Hourly admissions consulting

Targeted support for specific colleges, application questions, activity strategy, interview prep, or last-mile decisions when you need expert guidance fast.

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Best for students with drafts in progress.

Essay review and refinement

Detailed feedback on Common App essays, supplementals, activity descriptions, and final revisions so each piece sounds clear, personal, and strategically aligned.

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Best for rising seniors and younger students.

Long-term admissions planning

Ongoing mentorship across school selection, extracurricular development, leadership, research, competitions, summer plans, essays, and application strategy.

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Process

Build the storyline before the application.

  1. 01

    Ideateyour student's storyline

    Find the themes, strengths, and experiences that can become a compelling admissions narrative.

  2. 02

    Formyour student's storyline

    Turn that direction into a practical plan across activities, essays, school strategy, and deadlines.

  3. 03

    Displayyour student's storyline

    Refine every application piece so the final submission presents one clear, memorable student.

Our team

Tutors with admits across the most selective schools and programs.

Our mentor network includes students admitted to every Ivy League school, Stanford, Penn's M&T Program, Berkeley M.E.T., and other highly selective universities and honors programs.

Every Ivy League school

Across the team, mentors have earned admission to Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Columbia, Penn, Brown, Dartmouth, and Cornell.

Stanford, Duke, and top programs

Admits include Stanford, Duke, and other highly selective schools where essays, activities, and positioning carry real weight.

Penn M&T and Berkeley M.E.T.

Specialized program admits bring insight into business, engineering, entrepreneurship, and technical storytelling.

Mentor bios

Built by students with real admits, research, startups, national awards, and nonprofit impact.

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Arjun Rawal

Student at Stanford

Arjun brings experience across selective admissions, research, and startups. He has worked at RevisionDojo, a Y Combinator-funded company, is now building at Phia, founded a six-figure national tutoring business, published NeurIPS research, and became a Diamond Challenge international grand finalist through venture-building work.

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Sathvik Gorle

Student at Penn M&T

Sathvik combines entrepreneurship, research, and national competition experience. He founded Terrabite, received funding through Launch Chapel Hill and NSF I-Corps, won an FBLA national championship, researched economics and computer science at Duke, and interned at Rove, a Y Combinator-backed company.

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Hadi Abdul

Student at Harvard

Hadi is a USAPhO Silver Medalist and USAMO qualifier, placing him among the nation's top high school physics and math competitors. He researches at Duke's Dunn Lab and the WHO Innovation Hub, founded VoiceWorks to support 9,000+ non-verbal students and 60+ speech-language pathologists, and contributed to patented passive-cooling technology at Katrick Tech.

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Nikhil Vaddey

Student at Berkeley

Nikhil pairs business, technology, and service leadership. He served as an FBLA state officer and National Council board member, captained his varsity tennis team as a four-year letterman, interned in financial analysis at Citco, founded TechDreams4Kids to donate hundreds of laptops to Title I schools, and built NNR Technologies into a six-figure restaurant software business.

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Pulak Agarwalla

Student at Duke

Pulak brings direct insight into the modern application process through serving on the national Common App Student Advisory Board. He co-founded a chess nonprofit raising $150K+ and serving 400+ Title I students. He published math research at UNC, is the NC State K-12 Chess Co-Champion, and placed nationally in FBLA for financial math.

Free consultation

Tell us where you are in the process.

Choose a 15-minute time to talk through your goals, timeline, and where IvyAdmits can help.