California Ivy Admissions Consultants
About Us
California Ivy is a boutique admissions consulting firm founded in Los Angeles. We are highly experienced in guiding clients through the admissions process for top US graduate programs. We are passionate about connecting international students with the high-quality education available in the US.
Our founders have a proven track record of helping applicants gain admission to top business and law schools, including Ivy League schools like Harvard, Yale, Columbia, Dartmouth, and Cornell. Our expertise is also derived from personal experience: both of our founders have been personally admitted to multiple graduate programs at top universities.
Whether you are just beginning your application journey or you are running out of time to meet deadlines, we are here to help make your academic dreams come true.
Meet The California Ivy Team
Brian O. Betancourt, JD, MA
Founder
Brian was admitted to multiple Ivy League law schools before ultimately deciding to pursue his JD at UC Berkeley. He has more than ten years of experience in elite graduate admissions. Brian’s clients have been admitted to graduate programs at universities like Harvard, Yale, Berkeley, Dartmouth, Cornell, and Duke. He has special expertise guiding clients into top law, business, and public policy graduate degree programs, Ivy League schools, top-ranked universities in California, and Top 10 UK universities. Brian was admitted to the following law schools: UC Berkeley, UPenn, Cornell, Duke, UVA, Georgetown, UCLA, USC, and Vanderbilt.
Joy Wang, MBA, MA
Director of Operations
Joy is a graduate of Washington University in St. Louis with degrees in Business Administration and East Asian Studies. Joy was also admitted to Duke University. She has over half a decade of experience counseling clients on how to receive offers of admission from top US and UK schools like Columbia, Northwestern, Cornell, UCLA, NYU, and LSE. She has a passion for high-quality English writing and enjoys sharing personal insights derived from her own journey pursuing higher education in the US.
Joy is fluent in English, Mandarin Chinese, and Japanese.