The Ivy Journey is the most intensively structured program offered by The Ivy Key. The program provides each student with an Ivy-graduate role model in order to kindle intellectual appreciation, expose them to the city's cultural offerings with trips to the Metropolitan Museum of Art or the New York Philharmonic, and foster academic achievement. Students will be given weekly academic schedules to supplement their general school coursework. Ivy Journey students will be provided with in-depth tutoring on high school entrance exams and prolonged guidance for college admissions.

Students must apply for admission to this program, which demands high levels of commitment from each student.