Fees of College Consultants

Originally Published on May 13, 2018: With more and more students turning to private college counselors, one might wonder about the typical cost of enlisting such services. “You can’t put a price tag on getting into your top college. Or maybe you can. With competition among college applicants as fierce … 

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Ivy Coach Celebrates 30 Year Anniversary

525,600 minutes,525,000 moments so dear.525,000 minutes –How do you measure,Measure a year?In application cycles, in essay revisions, in acceptances, in cups of coffee.In inches, in miles, in laughter, in post-acceptance celebrations.In 525,600 minutes –How do you measure a year in the life? Ivy Coach was founded in 1992. By our … 

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Students Should Not Advertise Working with Private College Consultants

We came across an article today about a private college consultancy that we thought was an April Fools’ Day joke. But then we checked the calendar and we realized it’s only January 27th. Hey, life’s not going by that quickly during this worldwide pandemic. In any case, the piece, up … 

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Scrutinizing a College Consultancy

USA Today recently published a juicy take-down piece of a college consulting company known as Crimson Education. The piece, penned by Chris Quintana and Kevin McCoy, is entitled “This Harvard grad has made millions on U.S. college admissions for international students” and boy is it gripping. The take-down piece focuses … 

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Shopping for a College Counselor

When you call a dentist’s office, chances are high the dentist is accepting new patients. When you go to Sports Authority, chances are high employees will seek to sell you sporting equipment. When you go to a restaurant, unless there are no available reservations, chances are high they’ll wish to … 

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Opportunity to Speak Directly to College Counselor

The first step to working with Ivy Coach is through the free consultation in which we answer questions about our service offerings. During this free initial consultation, prospective clients are paired with the counselor they’d be working with should they subsequently wish to sign up for our services (and should … 

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A Global Private College Consultancy

When over 26% of high-achieving high school students have acknowledged using private college counselors as they navigate the admissions process, you can bet the figure is actually a whole lot higher. After all, in our experience, most students and their parents don’t like to admit they had help earning admission … 

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Terrible College Admissions Advice

There is an editorial up on “The Huffington Post” by Melissa Chen, who works as a private college consultant in the San Francisco Bay Area. The piece is entitled “I’m a College Admissions Consultant, and I Tell My Students to Get Bs.” Our first thought, upon reading the title of … 

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College Consulting Service

Students and parents often approach us to inquire about our college consulting service. Sometimes they want to get to know how our services work and ask us questions about how we operate. That’s pretty normal and we back it! We always encourage students and parents to peruse the thousands of pages … 

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College Admissions Consultant

College admissions counselors don’t care what you did for a day! They want to see activities that weave a narrative throughout your young adulthood.
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