Alison Rosenthal College Admissions Counselor Areas of expertise: Students interested in a wide range of schools, Jewish students; Under-represented minorities.
After graduating with a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology and a minor in Jewish Studies from Lehigh University (Bethlehem, PA) in May 1995, Ms. Rosenthal was accepted to the University of Pennsylvania Law School, where she earned her Juris Doctorate in May 1998. While at Penn, Ms. Rosenthal served as an orientation leader and taught a full-year course on legal writing, during which she worked with students individually on their composition skills. Following her career as a law student at Penn, Ms. Rosenthal relocated from Philadelphia to New York, where she practiced commercial litigation as an associate at the Hughes Hubbard & Reed law firm and later served as an executive in the lawyers' division of the UJA Federation of New York.
In 2002, Ms. Rosenthal moved to Boston to earn her Master's of Education in Counseling at Boston University, where she was invited for membership into the Pi Lamda Theta honor society. She earned her M.A. in May 2004 with a nearly perfect GPA. While working towards her Master's, Alison got experience as a tutor in the Boston public school system, where she conducted writing, math, and English composition tutoring seminars at the Media and Technology Charter High School. Later, she worked as an intern in the guidance counseling office of John D. O'Bryant High School in Roxbury, MA, where she managed a diversified caseload of approximately 40 high school sophomores and seniors and participated in weekly one-on-one counseling sessions with students. While at O'Bryant High School, she also developed a bi-weekly after-school workshop for seniors focusing on the college admissions process, counseled parents on the topic of college selection, and guided more than 50 seniors through all stages of the college application process.
Ms. Rosenthal currently lives in Manhattan and, in addition to working as an IvyWise counselor, serves as the director of college counseling for the Governor's Committee on Scholastic Achievement, working with students in many of the NYC public schools and assisting them with all aspects of the college application process. Ms. Rosenthal and her husband Stu welcomed their first child, a boy named Eli, into their lives in October 2005.
After graduating with a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology and a minor in Jewish Studies from Lehigh University (Bethlehem, PA) in May 1995, Ms. Rosenthal was accepted to the University of Pennsylvania Law School, where she earned her Juris Doctorate in May 1998. While at Penn, Ms. Rosenthal served as an orientation leader and taught a full-year course on legal writing, during which she worked with students individually on their composition skills. Following her career as a law student at Penn, Ms. Rosenthal relocated from Philadelphia to New York, where she practiced commercial litigation as an associate at the Hughes Hubbard & Reed law firm and later served as an executive in the lawyers' division of the UJA Federation of New York.