The Ivy Sanctum applies its admissions methodology directly to the application in front of you.
Engagements are organized around three forms of work: the evidentiary file, the written application, and continuous strategic counsel across the full admissions cycle.
Each engagement page sets out the scope of work, deliverables, process, available levels of support, and pricing.
A strategic read of the evidence already present across the application, followed by a plan for strengthening hierarchy, coherence, credibility, and placement.
Development of the substantive written application, from early ideation and governing argument through structure, revision, refinement, and final positioning.
Continuous strategic counsel across the full application, bringing file strategy, writing, sequencing, school decisions, recommendations, updates, and application development into one ongoing engagement.
The work begins by reading the evidence already present, identifying the argument the application can support, and assigning each component its role in that argument.
The Ivy Sanctum Library develops recommendation strategy, file coherence, activities, personal writing, school-specific strategy, and related methods into focused private editions.
The Ivy Sanctum is an independent admissions research and advisory practice. Its methodology draws on more than 30 years of combined experience across Harvard's schools, including firsthand experience reading files on a Harvard graduate admissions committee.
The work develops through direct advisory engagements, frameworks, instruments, publications, and a growing repository of admissions methods.
Admissions is where the work begins.
Office Hours provides a complimentary route for a focused question about the file, essays, recommendations, activities, school strategy, transfer planning, or another admissions decision currently under consideration.