# IvyWise

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{{Infobox company
| name = IvyWise
| logo = File:IvyWise_logo.jpg
| type = 
| founded = 1998
| hq_location = [New York City](/source/New_York_City), United States
| industry = [Consulting](/source/Consulting)
| key_people = Katherine Cohen (founder and [CEO](/source/CEO))
| website = {{URL|http://www.ivywise.com}}
}}

'''IvyWise''' is a for-profit [educational consulting](/source/educational_consultant) firm headquartered in [New York, US](/source/New_York_City).{{Citation needed|date=February 2026}}

The firm was involved in the [Kaavya Viswanathan plagiarism controversy](/source/How_Opal_Mehta_Got_Kissed%2C_Got_Wild%2C_and_Got_a_Life) as the organization that referred Viswanathan to the [William Morris Agency](/source/William_Morris_Agency) and [17th Street Productions](/source/Alloy_Entertainment).<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/06/books/06opal.html |title=A 'How to Get Into College by Really, Really Trying' Novel |first=Dinitia |last=Smith |work=The New York Times |date=April 6, 2006 |access-date=September 9, 2022}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |last=Hulbert |first=Ann |date=2006-04-27 |title=How Kaavya Got Packaged and Got Into Trouble |url=http://www.slate.com/articles/life/sandbox/2006/04/how_kaavya_got_packaged_and_got_into_trouble.html |access-date=2017-06-21 |work=Slate |language=en-US |issn=1091-2339 |quote=Before the scandal hit, Viswanathan emphasized that her own route to Harvard was not as obsessively scripted as Opal’s [...] The project got its impetus from none other than Viswanathan’s professional college packager Katherine Cohen, a founder of IvyWise, a premier outfit that choreographs the college application process from ninth grade onward, and, crucially, helps produce essays that convey students’ “passions.”}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |last=Smith |first=Dinitia |date=2006-04-25 |title=Harvard Novelist Says Copying Was Unintentional |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/25/books/harvard-novelist-says-copying-was-unintentional.html |access-date=2017-06-21 |work=The New York Times |language=en-US |issn=0362-4331}}</ref>

==See also==
* [College admissions in the United States](/source/College_admissions_in_the_United_States)
* [Transfer admissions in the United States](/source/Transfer_admissions_in_the_United_States)

==References==
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==External links==
*{{official website|http://www.ivywise.com/}}

Category:University and college admissions in the United States

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