Advisory Services
The world’s enrollment and matching experts guide your process improvement.
Strategy
Evaluate current enrollment and matching processes and recommend improvements.
Design
Identify the optimal admission process, application flow, and enrollment timeline.
Rollout
Communicate and manage changes for smooth implementation.
Example 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. While we are very proud of Avela’s suite of tools, we recognize that it might not be right for every community, so we are delighted to help clients regardless of their software platform.
Match, Lottery, or Admission
Audit
Our retrospective service will review and audit your past match.
Verify accuracy
Investigate equity implications
Identify areas for improvement
Support or Advise
We’ll assist you to run your match or other lottery. This includes:
Collaborate on design criteria
Cleaning and verifying data
Simulate offers
Explore unified lotteries, such as Single Best Offer or Single Accept
Audit match results
Outsource
Our full service match allows you to completely outsource your match, whether a single site charter lottery or a complex urban district. Avela will work with you to:
Everything in Audit and Support, plus:
Design or import your existing criteria
Run simulations to finalize
Run your match
Verify, QA, and audit the results (full Audit package)
Export results to your tool of choice
Application and Enrollment Process
Common App or Unified Enrollment Launch
Regardless of where you’re at in the process, we’ll help you think through the launch of a unified enrollment system or common application.
Goal setting workshop
Best practices and implementation examples
Practitioner conversations
Community evaluations, interviews, and surveys
Strategic planning and roadmapping
Change management
Equity Evaluation
Our retrospective service will review and audit your past match.
Verify accuracy
Investigate equity implications
Identify areas for improvement
Selective Admissions
We can help you design holistic evaluation criteria, reduce bias, and ensure diversity and equity in your program admission criteria. This might include:
Admissions audit
Forecasting and scenario planning
Cohort analysis
Avela Suite Implementation
All of our products include implementation, configuration, and training. In addition, we offer a range of services to support rollout. Please speak with your Avela representative to learn more about the specific offerings for your products. For example, for our Avela Explore (school/program navigator), we are able to help you gather information to include in the platform.
Some of Our Team Members
(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