IVYLEAP - Key Persons

Job Titles:

• Member of the Ivyleap Leadership Team
• Co - Founder and Premier College Admissions Counselor
• Guidance Counselor at Top US

Barbara is one of the leading independent university admissions counselors in the world. She is the co-founder of Ivyleap, a boutique educational consulting company with expertise in admissions counseling, test preparation and school research. Barbara has worked as a Guidance Counselor at top US and UK schools. She has also worked as an Admissions officer at various top US universities. She brings more than two decades of counseling experience to Ivyleap. During her career as an admissions officer, she has reviewed thousands of applications giving her an insider's perspective to the admissions process at highly selective colleges. She uses her expertise to provide in-depth and highly personalized college counseling services to high school students and their families. Barbara's extensive experience as an admissions officer, counselor and editor allows her to evoke and refine the qualities and strengths that make each applicant unique. Barbara graduated with honors from Yale with a BA in English and went on to obtain a Ph.D.in Comparative Literature from UC Berkeley. She is an unrivaled strategist, providing insight into the elements required for success in the highly selective college admissions process. She regularly visits campuses of top colleges across the country and throughout the world. Barbara co-founded Ivy Xelerate in California, a company which focused on getting students into Ivy Leagues and other top highly selective colleges. Prior to Ivy Xelerate, Barbara was the founder of Weltman College Consulting, a company which helped high school students in the college application process and provided tutoring for standardized tests. Barbara is a highly sought out speaker at various events and conferences on college admissions. She has been featured in various newspapers and publications in the US. She is a member of the Independent Educational Consultants Association (IECA).

Job Titles:

• Consultant
• Member of the Global Advisory Board

Erik is an educational consultant with more than 16 years of experience guiding students across the globe in the college application process. Previously, he was an admission officer at John Hopkins University where he managed the entire application review process. As an admissions officer, he also evaluated applications of international students. Erik has an undergraduate and graduate degree in writing from Columbia University. The college process, which had always seemed like an unsolvable puzzle, became clear to me after I enrolled into the Admissions Counseling Program at IvyLeap .In my university choices, I was given useful advice and liked the fact that I always had the final word. IvyLeap helped me not only with the application process but also with the essays, the resume and all the other details that go into the daunting task of applying and getting into college. Thanks to IvyLeap, I will be spending the next four yours of my life at UC Berkeley. I also got into most of my other choices, which are also really prestigious universities: Princeton University, UCLA and Columbia University.

Job Titles:

• Officer
• Co - Founder and College Counselor

Frank Baron brings more than fifteen years of admissions counseling experience to IvyLeap. He was the founder of IvyReach, one of the top college admissions counseling companies in the US. At IvyReach, he has counseled thousands of students and helped them to identify their strengths, create dynamic activities resume and write creative and effective admissions essays. He is among just a handful of consultants in the entire country to have the ability to help his students elevate their essays dramatically, irrespective of whether they are talented or not. Prior to this, Frank has served as an admission officer at various top universities. He has evaluated hundreds of applications for admissions and sat on college scholarship selection committees. In addition to reviewing applications from many parts of the US, Frank recruited and evaluated international students too. He has a deep understanding of the international and transfer applications in the undergraduate admissions process. A graduate from Princeton University, Frank's career in education has spanned the globe over the past three decades. I found myself struggling to put together a creative and persuasive personal statement. It was only thanks to Barbara's remarkable skills and her genuine desire to help students that I was able to organize my ideas, accentuate my achievements, and present a creative and articulate statement to the schools. Barbara and the entire team at Ivyleap were extremely helpful and made the process much less stressful.

Job Titles:

• Leader
• Member of the Global Advisory Board

Lisa is a results oriented leader who has over 20 years of experience in product management of educational technology products for K-12 segment. She is currently the Vice President at ACT Aspire, a joint venture between ACT (the leading college entrance assessment) and Pearson. Prior to this, she has worked with Kaplan's K12 Division and was involved in leadership roles for several major educational assessment organizations. Lisa holds an MS degree in Engineering from MIT

Job Titles:

• Member of the Global Advisory Board

Natasha has been conducting educational research for high school students and higher education for more than 15 years and is a recognized expert in efficacy research. She has served in leadership roles at major educational organizations including Pearson Evaluation Systems and Noverant. She has also served as an Admissions officer at various universities. Natasha holds an MBA from Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management.

Job Titles:

• Education Consultant
• Member of the Global Advisory Board

Scott is an Education Consultant and Career Expert with a Ph.D. in Educational Psychology from Stanford. He had helped thousands of students get admitted to the top colleges in US and UK. He has served on the admissions committees of several top colleges. He has extensive experience in training students for interviews. Previously he was the Vice President of SEG Measurement.

Job Titles:

• Member of the Ivyleap Leadership Team
• Co - Founder and College Counselor
• Co - Founder of Career Alphabet

Sukhdev provides college admissions counseling to students throughout the United States and world. He has extensive experience in admissions at highly selective institutions. He provides highly personalized and customized services to help students and families through the complete college admissions and financial aid process with a goal to helping each student find their dream college. Sukhdev is also an entrepreneur and business leader. He was the co-founder of a Silicon Valley startup that grew from a small team to a multi-million dollar company at the time of exit. He has been involved with the design and development of industry-leading online learning platforms for delivering complete graduate programs over the internet. He has designed and developed several components of Pearson's MyLab product suite. These are currently used by over 5 million students in several countries. Sukhdev is a graduate of Stanford University. He also holds a B.Tech. in Engineering from IIT Bombay. He has been active on the admissions committees of various top colleges which gives him an insider's perspective to college admissions. He has crafted a unique angle for assisting students in gaining admission to the most selective colleges. Sukhdev is also a co-founder of Career Alphabet (currently in the beta phase), the World's First Career and College Counseling Network. It is a cloud based platform that will bring together Students, Parents, Academia, Counselors, Professionals and Employers and will enable the stakeholders to connect and derive benefit from each other.