The IvyWise Roundtable
The IvyWise Roundtable simulates the real-world admissions committee evaluation process.
What Is the IvyWise Roundtable?
The IvyWise Roundtable is a unique experience that you can’t find at any other educational consultancy. As part of our team-based approach to counseling, students benefit from the entire team’s expertise in addition to one-on-one guidance with their dedicated admissions counselor.
During the application season, our entire team of counselors meets weekly to review students’ college lists and applications, including personal statements, supplements, and more, giving students invaluable feedback before submission.
What Makes the IvyWise Roundtable So Exceptional
The holistic admissions review process is complex, and our counselors, with their extensive experience at a diverse array of colleges and universities in the U.S., know what goes into making these difficult admissions decisions.
The IvyWise Roundtable gives students the opportunity to have all their application materials reviewed multiple times by this mock admissions committee, giving them valuable feedback that they can’t get anywhere else.
This allows students to receive an extra layer of support from the entire team of expert admissions counselors in addition to their personalized, one-on-one counseling.
This team-based approach, along with our holistic approach to admissions counseling, has yielded fantastic results — with IvyWise students 4x more likely to gain admission to top schools in the U.S. and abroad.
5-Year Acceptance Rates
The IvyWise Roundtable Experts
All of our counselors have at least three years of direct admissions experience, sitting in committee and making the admissions decisions in the rooms where it all happens. They use this experience to recreate the admissions committee review process, giving our students the benefit of a thorough profile and application review by the entire team well before they submit their materials to their top-choice schools. Meet some of our Roundtable counselors below.
Christine is a former Assistant Director of Undergraduate Admissions at both Yale University and Georgetown University.
Scott is a former Assistant Director of Admissions at Yale University.
Tiffany is a former Assistant Director of Admission at MIT and also worked in admissions at the University of Virginia and Colgate University.
Katie is a former Senior Assistant Director of Admissions at MIT.
How The IvyWise Roundtable Works
Once students have drafted their applications, they submit their materials to their counselor for the upcoming IvyWise Roundtable session. During the Roundtable, IvyWise counselors recreate the committee review process that is used at top universities around the US, going through every submitted application and associated materials and discussing students’ strengths, areas of improvement, and more. Feedback is provided by the entire team of expert counselors, which is then compiled by students’ individual counselors.
Students then meet separately with their counselors to review the Roundtable feedback and come up with a strategic plan to implement all suggestions, ensuring they are submitting the strongest applications possible.
All elements of the Roundtable review process, from submitting application materials to receiving feedback from the team, are facilitated through the myIvyWise portal, giving students a user-friendly and efficient means to receive and incorporate all of the group feedback.
Who Can Participate in the IvyWise Roundtable?
Students enrolled in comprehensive programs have unlimited access to the IvyWise Roundtable, so they get the most detailed feedback throughout the entire application process.
Benefits of IvyWise Roundtable
The IvyWise Roundtable provides a wide range of feedback on all aspects of the application, including, but not limited to, how personal statements could be received by admissions committees, what will stand out and what might fall flat in additional essays, how to adjust activity lists or resumes to better present a specialty, which schools on a balanced college list might actually be a higher reach than previously thought, and more.
This level of feedback can’t be found at any other educational consultancy. After receiving IvyWise Roundtable feedback, students will work one-on-one with their individual counselor to implement all changes needed to have the best chance of admission to their top-choice schools or programs.
Students can then resubmit their materials to the IvyWise Roundtable as many times as needed to ensure their applications are the best representation of who they are as a student and person before submission.
What Students and Parents Say About Their Roundtable Experience
"What I will remember the most about our work together is how you stood by me through the Roundtable process and never pushed me too hard beyond my capabilities. When we met in 8th grade, I never knew how ideal our relationship would turn out as my dream to go to Princeton became a reality."
– Student
Accepted Early Action to Princeton University
"Perhaps the best thing about IvyWise is the Roundtable which revises and makes suggestions for essay writing. The experienced college counselors and former admissions officers who look over application essays give just enough advice about topic, structure, and style to make one’s own words resonate perfectly with the strangers who will be reading that application. ...I benefited so much from this organization and recommend it to anyone seeking to be a competitive applicant in today’s world of cutthroat college admissions."
– Student
Accepted Early Action to Princeton University
"We do like the Roundtable feature of IvyWise, which provided various comments from different experienced consultants. Not every company can provide this level of support. ...The whole family appreciates IvyWise and [our counselor] for supporting our son to get this great success in his life! We highly recommend IvyWise to other parents."
– Parent
Son Accepted Early Decision to University of Pennsylvania
"I think the whole process was very thorough and well designed from the Initial Consultation, to the organizing of the school choices, to submitting the applications. ...Additionally, the Roundtable feature with other counselors was also a highlight for me because I thought it was a practical way of simulating the reactions of admission officers to my application material so it was really helpful. Overall, I owe a lot of my successes in receiving offers from schools to the help of [my counselor] and the whole IvyWise team."
– Student
Accepted to Georgetown University
"Roundtable was so incredibly helpful and my counselor was perfection. I could not have gotten such constructive, detailed, and helpful feedback at any other college counseling business. Because of IvyWise, I will be attending Pomona College, my dream school. At the start of this process, I was unsure I would get into any highly-selective college, let alone all of my top schools. ...I always knew I was capable of thriving in college; IvyWise showed me how to reach that success."
– Student
Accepted to Pomona College
"The Roundtable feedback was very, very helpful in this process. My essays were very well written because of all of [my counselor’s] personal feedback and the feedback that I received from Roundtable!"
– Student
Accepted to George Washington University
"The advice from the counselor was very strategic and constructive. We are also very impressed by the creative and effective approach IvyWise adopts to provide Roundtable feedback from multiple counselors on our daughter’s application. Their collective experience and insights really helped bring out the unique qualities and personalities of our daughter. ...While we are celebrating this successful milestone with our daughter, we are grateful for the counselor and the staff for their dedication and tireless efforts."
– Parent
Daughter Accepted to Early Action to Harvard University