Admissions and Counseling

Expert College Admissions Counseling for Top-Tier Universities

At Ivy Central, we empower students worldwide to achieve their dream admissions to the most prestigious universities in the U.S. and U.K. With personalized guidance, unmatched expertise, and a results-driven approach, we ensure every student stands out.

ABOUT

Our Team

With over thirty years of experience in this sector, Caroline has in-depth knowledge of the US, UK, Canadian & Australian college and university systems. Understanding the programs on offer and the unique personalities of each college and university helps her work with the families in matching the students to their ideal program, leading to enrollment and successful graduation. Caroline spends an incredible amount of time helping students develop ideas for their application essays and ensuring they are unique and compelling to give each student the best chance of winning their dream universities.

Jose has been working with Caroline for the past sixteen years. He brings an in-depth understanding of the college admissions process with an extraordinary ability to help high schoolers develop projects that will help them differentiate themselves from other high schoolers. Besides outstanding project ideas, Jose prepares all of our students for summer programs. He also helps them prepare for admission interviews to make every student not only stands out but win Top Tier Universities.

Caroline & Jose are two of the world’s most prolific guidance and college placement counselors. They have helped students gain admission into the 8 US Ivy Leagues (Harvard, UPenn, Yale, Princeton, Brown, Columbia, Dartmouth, and Cornell), the 20 UK Russell group universities (Oxford, Cambridge, Warwick, LSE, etc.), and of course universities like Stanford, MIT, Caltech, and every single top 50 US super-selective college.

Caroline & Jose help our students build compelling profiles and applications, giving them the best chance of getting into the most selective US and UK universities. We also work with university graduates to help them get into the world’s most competitive MBA, MSc, and MA programs.

Ivy Central Students outperform their peer group in college admissions every year. Start Your Children’s Journey to their dream universities by working with us.

Our Extraordinary Results

Over the past few years

Caroline and Jose have helped our students win some of the most competitive universities in the US and the UK. Working with only a small group of students each year, they ensure that most of their students get into the top-tier institutions on both sides of the Atlantic.

Ivy Central Students have won

163 Ivy League Wins | 453 UC Wins | Over 2500 US Top 50 Wins

The Ivy League

Brown University (23)
Cornell University (37)
Columbia University (42)
Dartmouth College (12)
Harvard University (4)
Princeton University (10)
University of Pennsylvania (24)
Yale University (11)

Top University Wins (United States)

California Institute of Technology (3)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (7)
Stanford University (22)
Carnegie Mellon University (31)
Duke University (8)
Georgia Institute of Technology (20)
Harvey Mudd College (7)
Johns Hopkins University (18)
New York University (33)
University of California – Berkeley (58)
University of California – Los Angeles (77)
University of California – Davis (92)
University of California – Santa Barbara (61)
University of California – San Diego (85)
University of California – Irvine (64)
University of Southern California (35)
University of Chicago (17)

Top University Wins (United Kingdom)

Oxford University (4)
University of Cambridge (2)
London School of Economics (6)
Imperial College London (8)
Durham University (6)
Kings College London (11)
Royal College of Surgeons – Ireland (1)
University of Bath (12)
University of Bristol (12)
University College London (15)
University of Leeds (6)
University of St. Andrews (5)
University of Warwick (27)

*Numbers in parenthesis are the total number of Ivy Central students who have been admitted to these institution during the years 2013 to 2025.

Our

Services

Ivy Central provides students worldwide with unparalleled college admissions counseling services with our unrivaled expertise and experience.

Our extraordinary results over the years have ensured that our students get accepted to the Top Tier universities in the United States and United Kingdom.

Caroline & Jose spend an incredible amount of time getting to know the student and guiding them throughout, which enables better matching based on a wealth of measures, including ambitions, interests, personality, preferred learning style, class size, and type of college community. For our Premier Program students, we set no time limits and guide each student as per their needs and requirements. We work with students at all levels of achievement and support their growth in many ways.

Every student opting for the Premier program benefits from our expertise. We work together to determine the best individualized course of action for every student.

We will also work closely with you regarding the application essays, offering comprehensive application essay guidance, support, and editing, thereby ensuring the outstanding nature of the application. The essays can make or break any application and form an essential element of the application process. Our program helps students become outstanding writers; this is done through brainstorming and individualized discussions about every essay the student drafts.

Besides the areas mentioned above, We will also work towards strategically using the common app components, a well-designed application, and our trade secrets to get the best possible chance for you to get successful placements.

Ivy Central’s success rate over the years has been outstanding at schools all over the world, including schools in India such as TISB, Indus, The British School, Doon, Mallya Aditi, Dhirubhai Ambani International, Oakridge International, National Public, and many others such as Trinity (US), Horace Mann (US), Stanford OHS (US), Harker (US), Foxcroft (US), Madeira (US), Bishop Vesey (UK), Sutton Girls (UK), Eton College (UK), United World College (Singapore) and many more.

We know how to help each student gain the best scholarships possible by wrapping the entire application around a unique theme for each student so that they not only stand out from the crowd but also stand out in the best possible ways. Our students regularly receive up to 50-100% merit-based scholarships. We have helped gain over 46 Million USD over the last ten years in merit-based scholarships for our families. Our students have also won the Breakthrough Junior Challenge, IRIS and ISEF multiple times.

We work with all our students to help them to plan their summers and their entire year efficiently. We help develop outstanding projects that will eventually make them exceptional differentiated candidates. We get our students into some of the most competitive summer programs: RSI, SSP, RISE, RMP, SUMAC, YYGS, etc.

Finally, We spend a tremendous amount of time preparing the students for their university interviews and guiding them on SATs, APs, IBs, and other curriculum decisions.

Our

Fee Structure

Premier Counseling Program

Gold Program

Adhoc Counseling

What Ivy Central

Alumni Say about us...

Jose and Caroline inspire students to become the best versions of themselves. Their dedication to their students is evident from the frequent check-ins, college-fit advice and interview prep meetings. They don’t just help students grow intellectually, they help students become well-rounded individuals who are equipped to face any hurdle they encounter along the way. Their competence as academic advisors is complemented by their faith in each of their students. It is this faith that they place in us students which allows us to truly spread our wings and fly.

They are the most experienced counselors you could ask for. Not only were they completely dedicated in helping me with the application process, but they were also so insightful in finding ways to showcase my talents, and really bring out the best in me. From giving me brilliant advice in choosing colleges, to really pushing me to strive for my best, and more importantly making the entire daunting college application process much less fearful, they have truly played a crucial role in getting me to where I am now: attending the college of my dreams!

“Before I enrolled in Ivy Central I thought I knew everything about college applications and what was best for me moving forward. Yet, with the help of Jose and Caroline as well as the rest of the Ivy Central staff I was able to realize that I had so much more to learn and more opportunities than I could imagine. With their detailed help with the application process and their long hours outside of our meetings helped me reach an amazing university which I did not even imagine I could be in one year ago. Thank you Ivy Central

What sets Caroline and Jose apart is that they never made me feel like just another name in their file; they took the time to get to know me and made me feel like we were in this together. They made this huge, stressful task of applying to college into smaller, digestible chunks that I could accomplish. They helped me identify my strengths, work on my weaknesses and showcase myself in the best light. But they also helped me deal with the anxiety and uncertainty of the whole process and guided me towards pushing myself, so ultimately they helped me not only to gain a place in a good university but to actually deserve that spot.