WHAT SETS US APART
Ivy Options employs a unique approach to help our students gain admission to the best universities all over the world.
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We limit our annual intake of clients so that we can provide in-depth individualized attention for each student.
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Most admissions consulting firms in Dubai are made up of advisors who have neither attended an elite American university nor worked in admissions at the university level. Mary Ellen Simoni, the Director and Founder of Ivy Options, remains personally involved in each family's road to university. Her extensive network in the university admissions community and expertise gained from working for nearly a decade in Stanford University's Office of Admissions ensures that our students receive the most reliable and creative advice.
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Ivy Options takes a truly international perspective; we advise students on how to get into the best universities — not only in the United States but all over the world. Rather than being committed to one national system, we are student-focused, helping each client to identify their best-choice universities for their academic studies and future employment prospects.
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Our mature, experienced advisors understand the perspective of both students and parents, while our past students frequently offer help and insider advice to current students during the application process.
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All our advisors give both students and parents highly individualized attention and guide them through the entire process – from navigating freshman year to seeking internships to choosing from among their university offers. Moreover, we help students to define their unique voice and to highlight their story in a way that will make them stand out from thousands of other applicants.
These features distinguish us from larger firms in Dubai and numerous online providers. Our success is evident in the universities where our students have gained admission over the past four years.
ACCEPTANCES 2016-2020
United States
American University
Arizona State University
Babson College
Bard College
Barnard College
Baylor Univeristy
Bennington College
Bentley University
Birmingham University
Boston College
Boston University
Bowdoin College
Brandeis University
Brown University
Bucknell University
California Institute of Technology
Carnegie Mellon University
Case Western Reserve University
Catholic University
Chapman University
Claremont McKenna
Colgate University
College of William and Mary
Columbia College Chicago
Columbia University
Cornell College
Cornell University
Dartmouth College
Drexel University
Emerson College
Emory University
Florida Atlantic University
Fordham University
Franklin and Marshall College
George Mason University
George Washington University
Georgetown University
Georgia Institute of Technology
Gettysburg College
Hamilton College
Harvey Mudd College
Hult University
Illinois Institute of Technology
Indiana University Bloomington
Ithaca College
Johns Hopkins University
Johnson and Wales University
Lehigh University
Loyola Marymount University
Loyola University of Chicago
Marymount Manhattan University
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
Middlebury College
New York University
New York University (Stern School of Business)
Northeastern University
Occidental College
Pace University
Parsons – The New School
Pepperdine University
Pitzer College
Rice University
Purdue University
Rollins College
Santa Clara University
School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Seattle University
Skidmore College
Stanford University
Suffolk University
Swarthmore College
Syracuse University
Temple University
Texas A&M University
Texas Tech University
The George Washington University
Trinity College
Trinity University
Tufts University
Tulane University
U.S. Naval Academy
University of California, Berkeley
University of California, Davis
University of California, Irvine
University of California, Los Angeles
University of California, Riverside
University of California, San Diego
University of California, Santa Barbara
University of California, Santa Cruz
University of Chicago
University of Colorado, Boulder
University of Denver
University of Georgia
University of Houston
University of Illinois - Urbana/Champaign
University of Massachusetts Amherst
University of Massachusetts Boston
University of Miami
University of Michigan
University of Mississippi (Ole Miss)
University of Nevada Las Vegas
University of New Hampshire
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
University of North Carolina Charlotte
University of Notre Dame
University of Pennsylvania-Wharton School
University of Rhode Island
University of Richmond
University of Rochester
University of San Francisco
University of South Florida
University of Southern California (USC)
University of Tampa
University of Texas Arlington
University of Texas Austin
University of Virginia
University of Wisconsin Madison
University of Chicago
University of Tennessee
Vanderbilt University
Vassar College
Villanova University
Virginia Tech
Wakeforest University
Washington University, St. Louis
Wesleyan University
Westmont College
United Kingdom
American University of Richmond
Cass Business School
City University of London
Durham University
Imperial College London
King’s College London
London School of Economics (LSE)
Loughborough University
Manchester Metropolitan University
Marangoni London
Nottingham Trent University
Oxford Brookes University
Queen Mary University of London
Regent's University London
Royal Holloway University of London
SOAS University of London
St. Mary's University
University of Arts London (UAL)
University of Bath
University of Brighton
University of Bristol
University of Cardiff
University of Cambridge
University College London (UCL)
University of Edinburgh
University of Essex
University of Exeter
University of Glasgow
University of Greenwich
University of Kent
University of Kingston
University of Law
University of Leeds
University of Manchester
University of Newcastle
University of Nottingham
University of Oxford
University of Reading
University of St. Andrews
University of Southampton
University of Surrey
University of Sussex
University of Warwick
Canada
Carleton University
Concordia University
McGill University
McMaster University
Queen’s University
Ryerson University
St. Francis Xavier
Western University
University of British Columbia
University of Toronto
University of Waterloo
University of Western Ontario
Vancouver Film School
Western University
York University
Other
American University of Beirut
Erasmus University Rotterdam
Ecole Hoteliere de Lausanne
Groningen University
Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
IE University
Maastricht University
New York University Abu Dhabi
New York University Shanghai
Parsons Paris – The New School
RCSI Bahrain
Tillburg University
University of Amsterdam
University College Dublin
University of Milan
USC-Bocconi World Bachelor of Business
University of Leiden
Utrecht University
Yale-NUS