Advisory Services
The world’s enrollment and matching experts guide your process improvement.
Strategy
Evaluate current processes, recommend improvements, and chart a path forward.
Design
Outline the new process and student assignment mechanisms.
Support
Communicate and manage changes for smooth implementation and rollout.
Service Offerings
All of our engagements start with a free consultation and initial project planning. They are designed bespoke to your organization and needs, and will be staffed with Avela’s team of experts. We are delighted to help clients regardless of their software platform.
Strategy and Planning Services
Our matching experts will review and audit your past lottery results against your stated admissions policies and equity goals.
Student Assignment Lottery Audit
Enrollment Launch Planning
Our experts offer comprehensive enrollment services, including examples, goal-setting, readiness support, governance tips, stakeholder advice, and recommendations.
Single Best Offer Transition
We will model a "single best offer" lottery system tailored to your needs, simulating it with up to 3 years of historical data, and analyzing its impact on key metrics.
Design Services
Our experts will work with you to design and simulate a lottery to meet your community’s goals.
Lottery Design Consultation
Our consultants will work with you to design, implement, and provide recommendations on selective admissions that align with your school, district or community goals.
Selective Admissions Consultation
Our equity practitioners will help you design holistic evaluation criteria, reduce bias, and ensure diversity and equity in your admission criteria. We assess your enrollment process for equitable access.
Equitable Access Evaluation
Avela Suite Support
In addition to our standard implementation support (including configuration and training) for each of our products, we offer a range of services to supplement your administrative capacity. For example, for our Avela Explore (school/program navigator) product, we are able to help you collect, organize, and clean data to include on school/program profiles.
“Avela has consistently gone above and beyond to support us and meet the needs of NJCF and our schools. They are extremely responsive to new requests, flexible, and solutions oriented.”
—Kate Fletcher
Director, Newark Common App
New Jersey Children’s Foundation
Avela has an unrivaled team of experts who can plan, design, and implement best practices, and run your match for you. The Avela team will equitably assign students and teachers to schools and classrooms and manage dynamic waitlists for you using Nobel Prize algorithms. We will design and implement equitable enrollment policies and admission lotteries, fully run your simulations to forecast the effect of different policies and ensure equity, and then execute the final lottery.
Avela Match Service
Meet the Team
(A Nobel Prize Winner, Clark Medalist, former NYC DOE Enrollment Leader, Equity Consultant, and Founder of ApplyLA)
Joshua Angrist
Professor of Economics, MIT
Author, Econometrics Textbooks. Director, SEII.
Research Associate, NBER
BA, Economics, Oberlin; PhD, Economics, Princeton
🏆 Nobel Prize Winner (2021)
Parag Pathak
Professor of Economics, MIT
Director, SEII. Founder, NBER Market Design Group.
BA Applied Math & PhD, Economics, Harvard
🏅 John Bates Clark Medalist (2018)
Sonali Murarka Soi
Formerly Executive Director of Enrollment in Oakland (OUSD) and New York (DOE); Silicon Schools Fund.
MA, Applied Economics, UPenn Wharton. BA, Public Policy, Stanford.
Carla Pugliese
Former Facilitator and Equity Consultant, taproot ventures and Community Catalyst; Dean & Division Head, The Nueva School; Teacher, Menlo School.
MA-Ed, Teachers College; BA, History, Stanford
Josh Kinoshita
Former Head of ApplyLA, Great Public Schools Now (GPSN); IT Director, Ednovate Charter; IT Manager, KIPP:LA. Teacher, LAUSD, TFA.
BA, Political Science, UCLA