The IvyZen Access Fellowship
Full Ivy-caliber admissions consulting — strategy, essays, profile-building, and financial aid guidance
✦ IvyZen · Est. 2015
The IvyZen
Access Fellowship
Full Ivy-caliber admissions consulting — strategy, essays, profile-building, and financial aid guidance — provided at no cost to eight high-achieving students from low-income families each year.
50+
Fellowship alumni admitted to Ivy League schools
10
Years running the program
$12K+
Value of services provided per student
✦ The Vision
Why we created this?
After 25 years helping students gain admission to the most selective universities in the world, we’ve seen the same pattern repeat: a student with genuine brilliance and extraordinary potential gets rejected — not because of who they are, but because they never had access to the strategic guidance that private school students receive as a matter of course.
“She was spending five hours a week writing micro-fiction, poems, and short stories — keeping every piece to herself because she thought it wasn’t good enough. Within three months of working with us, she had two literary magazine publications and a regional award. Yale followed.”
The Access Fellowship is our answer to that inequity. It is not a token gesture. Fellows receive the same intensive, strategic consulting we provide to our paying clients — including a dedicated financial aid session with a professional consultant, because getting in is only half the battle.
✦ Reviews
Fellows in their own words
“I had no idea how to present who I actually was. The CAP session was the first time anyone had ever helped me see my own story clearly. I stopped writing what I thought admissions officers wanted and started writing the truth.”
“My school counselor had 400 students. IvyZen gave me more strategic guidance in one summer than I’d received in three years of high school. It genuinely changed what was possible.”
“I was terrified about the financial aid forms. The consultant session was incredibly clarifying — she helped me understand what we were actually eligible for. It made the whole decision real instead of theoretical.”
“I almost didn’t apply because I thought the program was for students who were already basically ready. Don’t make that mistake. They meet you where you are.”
— 2021 Fellow · Princeton