The Ivy Dean

Dee helped my grandson with his college prep. We didn’t have enough information to get this done . Dee took charge and guided David through everything that he needed to do to get into his dream college. We couldn’t have done this without her guidance . It is as worth every penny and some. David is now better at writing his essays and sticking to necessary content.. Even on the days when my grandson wasn’t producing the work , she took it upon herself to ensure that he understood what was expected of him and that he would follow through. We could not have asked for a better counselor especially when she treated him as if he was her only client. Read more >

If you would consider ivy dean as your college consultant, I would strongly recommend you to avoid it.

Drusilla Blackman who is the consultant representing the company provided absolutely nothing but harmful advice for my child for college consulting. Our mistake was paying her the full fee before she began working with us. Her attitude changed 180 degrees upon the receipt of the full payment. She spent a minimum of time talking to my child about writing the essays. I mean a minimum of 5 to 10 minutes. She only spoke to her about 5 times about the essay. She gave us the opposite guide of how to write essays from what we read on books and the internet. She could not remember which schools we were applying to and we had to remind her the names of the schools. That worried us but she already took the full payment and we naively decided to have faith in her strange... Read more >

There is a lot of chatter that the admissions process is a mystery and without rhyme or reason. Ms. Blackman though has an excellent understanding of what it takes to get an application to stand out and lead to a positive result. Read more >