Admissions Arcade
Play your way through the college admissions process with games by The Ivy Institute. Explore applicant stories, make high-stakes decisions, race deadlines, and discover the strategy behind every choice.
Welcome to Pawvard.
Take your seat inside Dean Poodleton’s admissions office. Review dog applications, weigh academics, activities, context, character, and institutional needs—then decide who earns a place in the class.
Featured Games
Three original ways to experience the decisions, pressure, and strategy behind selective admissions.
Top curriculum, advanced math, research-ready preparation.
Water-quality project, robotics captain, community lab.
Built opportunities beyond the limits of a small school.
Strong fit. Fills two urgent institutional needs.
Need engineering, athletic teams, and access priorities before the class closes.
The Admissions Dean’s Desk
Become the dean. Review every remaining applicant, balance a changing class blueprint, make admit, waitlist, and deny decisions, then use the waitlist to finish the freshman class.
Application Rush
Race toward the deadline through three fast-moving lanes. Collect essays, recommendations, transcripts, activities, and school-fit research while dodging incomplete files, generic writing, burnout, and missed deadlines.
Discover Something New
Curated stories, quick challenges, and new ways to understand admissions.
Top Arcade Games
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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