IvyWise

IvyWise

Industry	Education Consulting
Founded	1998
Headquarters	New York City, New York, United States
Key people	Katherine Cohen (founder and CEO)
Website	www.ivywise.com

IvyWise is a for-profit New York educational consulting firm, founded in 1998 by Katherine L. Cohen. ^[1] It is a member of the Independent Educational Consultants Association.^{[ citation needed ]}

As a private educational consulting firm IvyWise is often included in news stories about the controversy surrounding the use of private educational consultants and the issue of a level playing field for all students. ^[2] The firm was involved in the Kaavya Viswanathan plagiarism controversy as the organization that referred Viswanathan to the William Morris Agency and 17th Street Productions. ^{[3] [4] [5]}

See also

• College admissions in the United States
• Transfer admissions in the United States

References

1. "Entrepreneurs 101 - Dr Kat Cohen, IvyWise". theideamix.com.
2. Booth, Barbara (2014-11-12). "Is a college planner really worth it?". CNBC . Retrieved 2017-06-21.
3. Smith, Dinitia (April 6, 2006). "A 'How to Get Into College by Really, Really Trying' Novel". The New York Times. Retrieved September 9, 2022.
4. Hulbert, Ann (2006-04-27). "How Kaavya Got Packaged and Got Into Trouble". Slate. ISSN   1091-2339 . Retrieved 2017-06-21. Before the scandal hit, Viswanathan emphasized that her own route to Harvard was not as obsessively scripted as Opal's [...] The project got its impetus from none other than Viswanathan's professional college packager Katherine Cohen, a founder of IvyWise, a premier outfit that choreographs the college application process from ninth grade onward, and, crucially, helps produce essays that convey students' "passions."
5. Smith, Dinitia (2006-04-25). "Harvard Novelist Says Copying Was Unintentional". The New York Times. ISSN   0362-4331 . Retrieved 2017-06-21.

External links

• Official website