Ivy League Admissions Consulting
Get on the fast track to Ivy League Success with Expert Admissions Consulting
We guide the brightest minds towards promising futures at the most prestigious universities across the world. Our bespoke Ivy League admissions consulting services are designed to highlight your unique strengths and aspirations, helping you stand out in the competitive admissions process. Working with Apex’s unique Ivy League admissions process summarized as “Know Thyself”, you’ll learn more about who you are and what you’re seeking from your education and beyond, walking with clarity and certainty into life’s next step.
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Why Choose an Ivy League school?
The Ivy League represents the pinnacle of academic excellence, offering unparalleled opportunities for intellectual growth, personal networking, and career advancement. College admission to these elite institutions goes beyond academic achievements; it’s about presenting a compelling narrative that demonstrates your individual potential and highlights your accomplishments and the contributions you’ve already made to your community.
Our Approach
Apex’s approach is highly personalized, focusing on your individual goals and your personal strengths. Our aim is to craft a comprehensive application strategy that resonates with admissions committees at your target Ivy League school. This means understanding the types of candidates these schools are seeking and ensuring that your presentation aligns with their values. No one is best at everything; understanding how you fit in is key to the admissions process. Our process can be broken into these distinct phases:
School Selection & Professional Audit
- Initial Consultation: We discuss your academic and longer-term aspirations for your life, including getting into specifics about your personal and professional ambitions and your current strengths and weaknesses as a candidate.
- Program Suitability: Develop an idea of the programs that will suit you best while recommending those who actively seek candidates like you. While the Ivy League is a great starting point for any candidate seeking to go to college, many of the strongest programs in the US (like Stanford) are not part of the Ivy League.
- Directed Search: We will guide your search and school selection through our extensive knowledge of prestigious universities, advising on the best presentation of your candidacy for each school.
Narrative Development
- Personal Profile: Work collaboratively with us to bring your personal and professional profile to the forefront in a compelling narrative for each application. Understanding the person you are, and how you’d like to represent yourself to the world is vital to crafting an application that you’re proud of.
- Story Crafting: Create a sincere representation of who you are, articulating your unique personality and value to prospective programs. This is the framework that represents who you are up to this point, what you aspire to, and how you’ll make it happen collaboratively with the University to which you’re applying.
- Engagement: Actively engage in discussions about your future and craft a coherent personal statement with our support and advice.
Recommender Strategy
- Identification: Identify your strongest recommenders who can provide compelling endorsements. These are not always the most notable people, but those who know you best and can speak to your character.
- Strategy Development: Develop a strategy for approaching recommenders, securing their help, and providing them with tools to make your application shine.
- Anecdote Integration: Find anecdotes that dovetail with your narrative for strong recommendation letters. Providing your recommenders with guidance allows them to draft letters of recommendation that align with the theme of your narrative for each institution, ensuring consistency in your application.
Essay Crafting
- Strategic Guidance: Discuss the theme of each essay, using your narrative as a starting point. Many essay prompts are not as simple as they appear and contain significant subtext, permitting you to express your alignment with the values the college in question is seeking. We’ll develop an outline with you that allows your voice to be heard while addressing the underlying inquiry within the application.
- Drafting and Refinement: Provide strategic guidance through multiple drafts until your essays are powerful, focused, and clearly represent you and your candidacy. This, for many candidates, is the heart of our work together, molding an initial draft through editing and introspection into an essay that sings.
Interview Preparation
- Mock Interviews: Conduct mock interviews to prepare for common questions and to learn how to handle unexpected questions.
- Talking Points: We’ll develop talking points together and practice pivots and non-sequiturs to keep you focused on your narrative while keeping you cool and comfortable in the hot seat.
- Active Participation: To encourage active and lively participation in mock interviews, you’ll develop active listening and response techniques used by professionals that will stick with you well into your working life.
Ongoing Mentorship
- Continuous Guidance: We provide ongoing mentorship throughout the entire application process, addressing any concerns and keeping you on track. This includes developing effective study habits, time management skills, and other essential competencies for success at Ivy League schools. Our mentorship is holistic, focusing on both your academic and personal growth. We’re with you every step of the way, offering support, motivation, and practical advice to help you achieve your goals.
Online Audit
- Online Presence: Ensure a consistent public image across your social media, LinkedIn profile, and the narrative you’re presenting in your application. Understanding the power of social media and the impact it can have on your public image is essential in today’s world.
- Social Media Audit: We’ll review the entirety of your social media with an eye towards presenting you in the best light possible, while developing skills to ensure that your social media presence aligns with your current aspirations. This serves as a deeper conversation about being mindful of what you say and how you say it online and how that can shape other’s perceptions of you and the opportunities that come your way.
- Implementation: Guide you in drafting initial resume content, revising based on feedback, and implementing necessary changes to online profiles.
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Meet Our Expert Ivy League Admissions Consultants
Our team comprises seasoned professionals with extensive experience in Ivy League admissions.
Richard Major, PhD
Dr. Richard’s expertise extends to understanding the nuances of Ivy League admissions, having worked closely with admissions offices and committees at top-tier schools worldwide. He is a PhD graduate from Oxford, and he has a decades-long background in assisting students in preparing compelling applications, developing strategic narratives, and ensuring each student’s unique strengths are showcased effectively. Richard’s dynamic approach ignites students’ intellectual curiosity, helping them to cultivate their unique voice and strengths. His comprehensive mentorship ensures that every aspect of the application is meticulously planned and executed, from essays and recommendations to interviews and final submissions.
Iva Todorova
Iva Todorova is a dedicated admissions consultant with a keen focus on helping students gain admission to their dream schools. With over five years of experience in the field, she excels at crafting compelling narratives that highlight each student’s unique strengths and aspirations. Iva provides expert guidance on career planning, personal branding, interview preparation, and optimizing social media profiles. Her passion for mentoring and commitment to student success ensure that each application is meticulously crafted to stand out in the competitive admissions landscape.
Pricing Plans
At Apex, we understand that each Ivy League applicant’s journey is unique, and our pricing reflects our commitment to providing tailored expert guidance.
We offer a comprehensive admissions consulting package for $7,000, which covers all aspects of your Ivy League application. For those applying to multiple programs, an additional $2,000 is charged for each extra school.