Experience the Ivy Standard.
Fourteen boys basketball student-athletes. One week on the East Coast. Three to four elite camps run by Ivy League coaching staffs and heavily attended by Division III coaches — plus Division I and Division III campus tours from Boston to New York, walked with the coaches themselves.
Why It Works
Highlight tapes get watched.
Players in the gym get recruited.
Ivy League and high-academic staffs recruit differently. They evaluate in person, they read the transcript before the tape, and — with no athletic scholarships to hand out — they want to know a player fits the campus before they commit a roster spot.
Almost none of that happens over email. It happens at their camps, and it happens on their campus. For a family outside the Northeast, doing that alone means flights, hotels, rental cars and four states in seven days, with nobody on the ground who knows which coach to shake hands with. This is that trip, organized.
The Camps
Three to four Ivy League camps.
Each tour is built around three to four elite camps run by Ivy League programs — full days of skill work, drill blocks and live play, evaluated by those staffs directly, not by a third party writing a report afterwards. Over the years past schedules have included all eight Ivy League programs — Harvard, Yale, Dartmouth, Brown, Penn, Columbia, Princeton and Cornell.
The camps are run by the Ivy League staffs themselves — and they are heavily attended by Division III coaches, who come to these gyms precisely because this is where academically qualified players are. One camp day puts an athlete in front of an Ivy staff and a room full of high-academic Division III programs at the same time. For most players on this tour, that second group is where the offer comes from.
- HarvardCambridge, MA
- YaleNew Haven, CT
- DartmouthHanover, NH
- BrownProvidence, RI
- PennPhiladelphia, PA
- ColumbiaNew York, NY
- PrincetonPrinceton, NJ
- CornellIthaca, NY
Every Ivy League program has hosted the tour at some point. Camp dates are set by the universities and shift each summer, so any single year runs three to four of these — the confirmed list goes to registered families as soon as the calendars are published.
Boston to New York, on foot.
Between camp days the group walks the campuses, the cities and the places that make an eighteen-year-old actually want to live there for four years. Times Square, the Massachusetts State House, and the quiet part of a campus at nine at night.
Campus Tours
Not every stop is an Ivy campus.
The camps are the Ivy part. The rest of the week is spent touring Division I and Division III programs across Boston and New York — arenas, weight rooms, academic buildings, dorms and dining halls, walked with the basketball staff, with time to talk roster needs, recruiting timelines and admissions. For a lot of athletes that is where the honest fit turns out to be. These are photographs from previous tours.
The Fee
One number. Airfare included.
Per athlete — airfare, hotels, ground transport and chaperones
- Deposit — reserves your spot
- $1,500 Balance of $4,000 due June 1
- Or pay in full now
- $5,000 $500 off — nothing owed later
Spots are assigned as deposits clear. 14 remain.
This year's tour is full — the waitlist is open on the sign-up page.
- Round-trip airfare from the athlete's own local airport
- Airport pick-up on arrival and return transfer on departure
- All hotel lodging for the week
- Every ground transfer between cities, campuses and camps
- All camp registrations on the itinerary
- Full-time chaperones with the group, 24 hours a day
- Every campus tour and staff-hosted session
Meals are not included — athletes carry their own spending money for food. Everything else on the itinerary is covered. Full list →