The Ivey Consulting Team

The Ivey Consulting Team

 

Anna Ivey

As the former Dean of Admissions at the University of Chicago Law School, Anna Ivey decided the fates of thousands of applicants. She saw over and over again what people had done right... and where they had gone off course. Inspired to help applicants navigate the application process, she founded Ivey Consulting and assembled a first-rate team of experts to coach college, law school, and business school applicants one-on-one.

Born and raised in Germany, Anna attended Phillips Academy Andover (in Massachusetts) for high school, earned her B.A. in History from Columbia University in New York, spent her Junior year at Cambridge University in the U.K., and earned her law degree at the University of Chicago. While at Cambridge, she won the Newnham Prize for exceptional undergraduate work in History. In law school, she served on the editorial board of The University of Chicago Law Review, worked as a research assistant to Larry Lessig with a focus on constitutional and cyberspace law, and took several classes at the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business. Natively bilingual in German and English, her language studies have also included French, Latin, Ancient Greek, Aramaic, and Mandarin Chinese.

Upon graduating from law school, she joined the Corporate Group at the Los Angeles law firm Irell & Manella, working with clients such as Disney, AOL Time Warner, Williams-Sonoma, Hewlett-Packard, CSFB, and Mattel in mergers and acquisitions, securities law, and public and private financings. She later joined the Entertainment Finance Group at Gipson Hoffman & Pancione, also in Los Angeles, where she worked on the financing of major motion pictures starring actors such as Paul Newman, Bruce Willis, and Renee Zellweger, before returning to the University of Chicago in her admissions role. Learn more about Anna's background and career in an interview with Vault.

Anna has been featured as an expert on CNN and Fox News Channel, and in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, Forbes, Fortune, and Smart Money. The author of The Ivey Guide to Law School Admissions, she is currently working on The Ivey Guide to College Admissions with colleague Alison Chisolm, and also serves as Contributing Editor for The Journal of Law and The Green Bag: An Entertaining Journal of Law. Anna is currently President of AIGAC, the Association of International Graduate School Admissions Consultants (view AIGAC's principles of good practice here).

Follow Anna on Twitter (@annaivey).

 

Rose Aluotto

Rose is our client relations associate. She is often the first point of contact for prospective clients, connects them with the appropriate educational consultants, and makes sure clients are well taken care of. Rose has bachelor's and master's degrees in diplomacy and international relations from Seton Hall University and has worked for the U.S. State Department in Rome as well as the United Nations.

 

 

Clear Admit



Ivey Consulting partners with the admissions consulting firm Clear Admit to provide comprehensive admissions information and one-on-one consulting services to business school applicants.

A leader in the field of MBA admissions consulting for nearly ten years, Clear Admit offers expert guidance to academic candidates as they navigate the complex process of applying to top MBA programs. The Clear Admit team includes graduates and former admissions officers of several of the world's leading business schools, including Columbia, Stanford, Tuck and Wharton, and has been featured in BusinessWeek Online, the Economist and the Wall Street Journal.

 

Alison Cooper Chisolm

Alison PictureAlison Cooper Chisolm has been an admissions insider at both the undergraduate and graduate levels, with experience ranging from front-line admissions reader to dean of admissions.  She started at Southern Methodist University, then went to the University of Chicago, and most recently, she was at Dartmouth College. 

Alison has determined the fate of thousands of hopeful applicants and she knows what it takes to get in.  She knows what makes a student go from a "like many others" applicant to a "clear stand out" applicant.  She's seen and evaluated every kind of applicant from home schooler to top of the class prep schooler.  She knows how students with disabilities are handled.  She knows what "flags" move students into the center of attention.  She knows what will make an applicant a "fast track deny." She even knows why and how an applicant with a criminal record might gain admission because she's read their files, interviewed them, and helped make admissions decisions on their applications.

There is probably no story she hasn't encountered, so she can help you - no matter what your circumstance - present yourself in the most convincing way possible.  She can also help you find the schools that are right for you - where you have the best chance of admission, where you'll prosper, where you will put yourself on the road to a bright future.  If you start working with Alison early in your high school career, she can help you get the most of that experience while at the same time shaping your experience to put you in the best possible position when it comes time to apply.

Alison attended Heritage Hall (in Oklahoma) for high school, where she was a nationally ranked extemporaneous speaker and debater.  She earned her B.A. at Yale University, and then earned her law degree at the University of Virginia.  After only a short, but intense, time practicing law as a commercial litigator (and being named as a finalist for the Outstanding Young Lawyer in Texas award after only 3 years of law practice), Alison determined that her true vocational passion was counseling, and so she shifted career tracks and became an admissions and career services professional.

Alison is a member and serves on the Ethics Committee of the Higher Education Consultants Association (HECA).

Alison works with college applicants and heads our college admissions coaching practice.

Follow Alison on Twitter (@IveyCollege).

 

Jeanine Dames

Jeanine Dames has worked at the Career Development Offices at Yale School of Management and Yale Law School. She is a graduate of Cornell University and Fordham Law School. Prior to her transition to career counseling, she was an associate in the real estate and environmental groups of LeBoeuf, Lamb, Greene & MacRae. Jeanine offers career coaching to people who are exploring or already pursuing business careers or joint JD/MBA degrees.

 

 

Vincent DeMore

Born and raised in the Boston area, Vincent graduated from Dickinson College, magna cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa, with a degree in Political Science. As part of his degree, Vincent attended the Nielson Center for European Studies at the University of Bologna in Bolgona, Italy. (While rusty, his Italian skills still extend beyond the menu of his favorite restaurant.) Upon the completion of his degree, Vincent became a paralegal at the law firm of Holland & Knight, LLP. He attended Boston University School of Law, where he served on the staff of the Journal of Science and Technology Law, a journal focused primarily on intellectual property law. While in law school, Vincent worked on project management and litigation issues for DCAM -- the Division of Capital Asset Management -- a state agency responsible for real estate acquisitions, dispositions, and vertical construction management for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Vincent currently works for the Suffolk County District Attorney's Office in Boston as an Assistant District Attorney.

Vincent also teaches Intermediate English to non-native speakers at a local community center, mostly to Spanish, Portuguese, Arabic, and French speakers.

Vincent works with law school applicants.

 

Gregory Henning

A native Bostonian, Greg attended Buckingham Browne & Nichols for high school and later graduated from Harvard College, cum laude, with a degree in Government. He next attended the University of Virginia School of Law, where he served on the editorial board of the Virginia Law Review and won the Virginia Trial Lawyers Association Trial Advocacy Award. After graduating from law school, he served as a law clerk for Judge R. Lanier Anderson of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit and then became an Assistant District Attorney in Boston, where he was a member of the Major Felony Bureau and served as the Chief of the Gun Prosecution Task Force. Greg has also taught writing and constitutional law at a charter school.

Greg works with law school applicants.

 

Janeille Zorina Matthews

Janeille is a New York qualified attorney-at-law who graduated from Harvard Law School and Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government.  Currently, she is completing her PhD in Criminal Justice Policy at the London School of Economics and Political Science, where she is the recipient of a Post-Graduate Research Scholarship.  Janeille has had a varied career, which includes time spent as an associate in the London office of Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP, a legal intern at the United Nations International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, and an international strategy consultant at PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP.

Janeille received her bachelor's degree in Political Science from Villanova University where she graduated magna cum laude and competed on the varsity Track & Field team.  Throughout her academic career she has taken opportunities to study abroad in locales as disparate as Cuba, Ghana and Barbados and was selected to take part in the inaugural class of Harvard Law School's study abroad program. Janeille has traveled to all seven continents and 62 countries and enjoys dividing her time between the Caribbean, New York, and London.

Janeille works with law school applicants as well as masters degree applicants (including MPP and MPA).

 

Nicole Vikan

Nicole grew up in Baltimore and graduated from Carleton College in Minnesota, where she earned a B.A. (magna cum laude) in American Studies, with a focus on African-American history. She spent trimesters in London and Paris. Immediately after college, Nicole attended NYU Law School. She was a summer associate at a large law firm after her first year, and she spent her second summer in the Homicide Investigation Unit at the Manhattan District Attorney's Office. She returned to the District Attorney's Office after graduation and spent five years as a criminal prosecutor, handling cases such as robbery and assault.

Nicole then joined Fordham Law School's Career Planning Center, where she advised students seeking employment in the private and public sectors. She is currently a career counselor at Georgetown Law Center's Office of Public Interest and Community Service.

Nicole offers career coaching to law school students and law school graduates with a particular focus on public interest careers.