Meet the College Admissions Team!
Anna Ivey
Born and raised in Germany, Anna Ivey attended Phillips Academy Andover (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.
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. 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 Samuel L. Jackson, Paul Newman, Bruce Willis, Kevin Spacey, and Renee Zellweger.
She next returned to the University of Chicago Law School, where at age 27 she was promoted to Dean of Admissions. She decided who got in... and who didn't. She read thousands of applications, visited colleges nationwide, educated tens of thousands of applicants about the admissions process, and conducted hundreds of admissions interviews. As part of a larger community of admissions professionals, she also met regularly with law school, business school, and college admissions officers from top schools.
Today, she works one-on-one with high school students, college students, and twenty-somethings to help them reach their admissions, educational, and career goals. Anna has been featured as an expert on CNN and Fox News Channel, and in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Boston Business Journal, Fortune.com, Smart Money, and Marie Claire. Anna speaks at colleges and workplaces around the country and publishes ‘The Ivey Files,’ a blog for high school students and twenty-somethings navigating life, work, and school.
Natively biilingual in German and English, Anna's language studies have also included French, Polish, Latin, Greek, Aramaic, and Mandarin Chinese.
Christine Foster
As a former reporter for Forbes magazine in New York and Silicon Valley, Christine wrote articles on business and education-related issues, including privatization of school lunch programs and a cover story on school vouchers. She has also worked for newspapers in Syracuse, Virginia Beach, Philadelphia, and Wichita, as well for Stanford's alumni magazine, Stanford. One of her feature stories, on homeschoolers admitted to Stanford, continues to make the rounds on the internet seven years after publication.
A native of Manhattan Beach in Southern California, Christine was lured to Philadelphia to attend the University of Pennsylvania, where she spent the majority of her time working, first as a reporter, then as managing editor, for The Daily Pennsylvanian, Penn's award-winning newspaper. There she covered beats ranging from crime to the admissions office. In her spare time, she earned a bachelor of arts with honors in American History. Today, she lives in Silicon Valley with her husband and three children.
Marlena Corcoran
Marlena Corcoran studied for two years at the École normale supérieure in Paris and holds a Ph.D. in English from Brown University. She has held research appointments at Harvard, Princeton, and Brown Universities, and at Wolfson College, Oxford. She has many years' experience teaching and has also worked in the business world. In 2004, she published two novels designed to help non-native speakers improve their English. In 2003, she received an award from Brown for her work with the international community. Marlena speaks fluent German and French in addition to her native English.
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