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Admissions Arcade
Choose a game, test a strategy, and discover how selective college admissions really works—one challenge, decision, and surprise at a time.
Welcome to Pawvard.
Build a dog applicant, survive Dean Poodleton’s review, and discover how profile strength, context, personality, and institutional priorities shape a final class.
Discover the admissions process
Big challenges, surprising choices, and interactive ways to learn.
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Jump into the games currently open in the Admissions Arcade.
The Ivy Institute Collection
Admissions is not one score. It is a system.
Every game isolates a different part of the process—profile evaluation, class-building, institutional priorities, storytelling, fit, tradeoffs, and decision-making—so students can see how the pieces interact.
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