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Ivy Options

Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates • 8 Employees
Higher Education

Admission to a top university is more difficult today than ever in history. Ivy Options helps students prepare for coveted admission to Ivy League and other competitive universities. Ivy Options is the only admissions advisory service in the Middle East with leadership who have worked in admissions for top 5 US universities. The company provides highly individualized academic and university application guidance as well as ACT and SAT preparation and American university tours. Ivy Options specializes in working with high-achieving international and American students abroad who face unique challenges and advantages when applying to universities in the U.S. and elsewhere in the world. Since inception, virtually all Ivy Options' students have been accepted by one or more of their top five university choices, including University of Pennsylvania, Columbia University, Cornell University, Georgetown University, University of Notre Dame, Stanford University, Rice University, Vanderbilt University, Emory University, UC Berkeley, UCLA, University of Cambridge, University of St. Andrews, University College London, McGill University, University of British Columbia, University of Toronto, University of Michigan, Barnard College, NYU Stern, and Duke University. Ivy Options was founded in 2012 by Mary Ellen Simoni, who graduated from Cornell University and has a well established international network in university admissions. Mary Ellen worked for over a decade in the Stanford University Admissions and Development Offices and as an international admissions consultant with a consortium of French business schools. The staff consists of professionals and former admissions officers from some of the most selective colleges and universities in the world.