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| Industry | Consulting |
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| Founded | 1998 |
| Headquarters | New York City, United States |
Key people | Katherine Cohen (founder and CEO) |
| Website | www |
IvyWise is a for-profit educational consulting firm headquartered in New York, US.[ citation needed ]
The firm was involved in the Kaavya Viswanathan plagiarism controversy as the organization that referred Viswanathan to the William Morris Agency and 17th Street Productions. [1] [2] [3]
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."