Over the past 17 years from working with students, we know that seniors can be particularly overwhelmed as they try to balance academics and extracurricular activities. Add to this mix the need to focus on the college application process, and you can have one stressed-out teenager. By participating in The Ivy Coach Admission Assurance Workshop, our students enter their senior year feeling confident, organized and prepared.

While other programs hire recent college graduates who have only had experience as admissions counselors at one college, Bev Taylor, The Ivy Coach, was a college counselor in a public high school for 12 years where she worked with 240 students, including 80 seniors every year, helping each student achieve success in the college admissions process. For the past 17 years, as an expert in college admissions, Bev Taylor has conducted seminars in the US and abroad, has attended regional and national conferences, and has been frequently quoted in the press.

Through her speaking engagements, she has developed relationships with college deans of admission, and has visited over 600 colleges and universities. The Ivy Coach's track record also sets us apart from other college counseling companies. In the past 17 years, 100% of The Ivy Coach's students have gained acceptance at their top three college choices, and 93% of our students have been accepted at their first choice.

At the end of two days, our students will have completed a powerful application and will have written two essays that highlight their strengths. For the Common Application, one essay will be the personal statement, and the other will be about a significant extracurricular activity. In addition, students will have written a comprehensive and detailed activity sheet highlighting their talents, interests, awards, and the quality of their involvements. They will know how to answer interview questions, and will be prepared with a list of questions to ask the interviewer. Students will have a logistical, strategic game plan and a timeline for the application process. This plan will include a list of appropriate colleges including a range of reach, possible and likely schools.

Prior to the beginning and again at the conclusion of the workshop, parents and their student will have the opportunity for a total of two hours of phone conferences with The Ivy Coach. The initial conference will focus on the student's interests and goals and together we will compile a list of appropriate colleges, a combination of reaches, possibles and likelies. At the completion of the workshop, the parents and their student will have another opportunity to have a conversation with The Ivy Coach. During this scheduled conference we will discuss the student's work. At this time, suggestions and recommendations will be made.

Each day of The Ivy Coach Admission Assurance Workshop will focus on particular aspects of the college application process. In groups and individually, we will help students brainstorm essays and refine activity sheets. Each day there are sessions where the student will be writing and revising essays, and we will be conducting mock interviews. We will also work with each student individually on every aspect of the application and admission process. We will meet daily from 9:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. and we will cater lunch, so that no time is lost. There will also be assignments due on the first and second day so that the students are prepared for the work that needs to be accomplished.

Throughout the workshop, your student will work directly with The Ivy Coach, Bev Taylor.

Our limit is three students per workshop.

The Ivy Coach can only be responsible for the students between the hours of 9:00 a.m. and 6:00 p.m., the period of our program each day. Students will have free time after 6:00 p.m., but a good deal of that time will be spent on completing assignments that are due the following day.

While we cannot guarantee acceptance to the college of your student's choice, for the past 17 years 100% of our students have been accepted at one of their top three choices, and 93% have been accepted at their first choice. However, because we know how successful our students are in the college admissions process, based on your child's transcript, standardized test scores and extracurricular involvements, we will guarantee acceptance to at least one college on your child's Admission Assurance list. If for any reason your child is not accepted to any of the suggested colleges to which he or she has applied, we will refund your Admission Assurance Workshop fee.

Below is a list of colleges to which The Ivy Coach's students have been admitted in the last five years:

Amherst College Babson College Barnard College Bentley University Boston College Boston University Bowdoin College Brandeis University Brown University Bryn Mawr College Bucknell University California Institute of Technology Carleton College Carnegie Mellon University Claremont McKenna College Colby College Colgate University Columbia University Connecticut College Cornell University Dartmouth College Davidson College Duke University Emory University Georgetown University Harvard University Haverford College Indiana University Johns Hopkins University Lawrence University Lehigh University Macalester College Manhattan School of Music Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Middlebury College Muhlenberg College New York University Northwestern University Pomona College Princeton University Reed College Rice University Stanford University Swarthmore College The George Washington University Trinity College Tufts University Tulane University Union College US Military Academy, West Point University of California - Berkeley University of California - Los Angeles University of Chicago University of Michigan University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill University of Pennsylvania University of Southern California University of Virginia Vassar College Vanderbilt University Villanova University Wake Forest University Washington University (St. Louis, MO) Wellesley College Wesleyan University Williams College Yale University