A college guru has figured out the tricks to get into some of the most prestigious Ivy League schools in the country - including Harvard.
Jamie Beaton, 29, a Rhodes scholar and entrepreneur from New Zealand, has a reputation for getting students, as young as 11, into their dream colleges.
Beaton, who founded Crimson Education, an education mentoring program, when he was just 17 years old, suggested that young people need to start figuring out their interests and skills before they get to high school.
He told The Wall Street Journal that students specifically need to focus on what they know they can excel in, while also finding ways to think outside of the box and stand out, like obtaining a scholarship or engaging in entrepreneurship.
Children have flown out from all over the country to get the best advice from Beaton in New York City, with two from Australia, one from the United Kingdom and another two from Switzerland.
Jamie Beaton, 29, (left) a Rhodes scholar and entrepreneur from New Zealand , has a reputation for knowing the secret to getting kids, as young as 11, into elite colleges, including Harvard
He said that children need to start figuring out their interests and skills before they get to high school in order to have the best shot at an Ivy League education. (pictured: Harvard University)
The CEO paid homage to the great education he had, adding that it transformed my life.
It can change yours too, Beaton, who attended Harvard, Stanford, Oxford, Tsinghua, UPenn and Yale, told the outlet.
He said that Ivy Leagues tend to focus on their tax-free status, and work to maintain that idea by rejecting as many potential students as they can.
If they are doing so much good for society then why don’t they increase the number of students who come in? Beaton questioned.
He has advised students to shoot for 10 activities related to one or two themes, with one of them having a focus on social justice.
Beaton specifically likes to start working with children as young as 11-years-old to really get them prepared prior to high school.
His impact has stretched so far that one of his students referred to him as the Steve Jobs of college counseling.
He noted that around 130 of Crimsons college counseling clients are on scholarships and get free services, with one program assisting more than 30 Maori - indigenous Polynesian people of New Zealand - get into elite schools inside and out of the U.S.
Since 2016, three years after Crimson was launched, 1,003 students in the program have received offers to Ivy Leagues.
The operator of a $554 million company has this year alone built a clientele list that has made up approximately two percent of students admitted to elite schools, including Harvard, Columbia, and Brown, among others.
His young clients include 24 that got into Yale, 34 accepted to Stanford and another 48 to Cornell.
The cost to get a hold of Beatons successful tips and knowledge stats at $30,000, with another $200,000 for a four to six year program.
The program includes tutoring in test-taking, academics, advice on how to build amazing teacher recommendations, and how to launch yourself into extracurricular activities, including publishing a research paper, launching a podcast, and writing a book.
Beaton, who has found a way to bridge the gap between ambition and action, according to Indonesia Expat, has a stellar portfolio of his own.
He obtained a Rhodes scholarship at Harvard, a Ph.D. in public policy from Oxford, two masters from Stanford, and a masters degree in education entrepreneurship from the University of Pennsylvania.
He also has a masters in finance from Princeton, a masters in global affairs from Chinas Tsinghua University, and a law degree from Yale.
Beatons notable success at Crimson has come from supply and demand, as elite colleges only take the best of the best, with few seats for the taking.
Alex Robertson, who runs Tiger Management, the high-profile hedge fund that Beaton worked at in college, and invested in Crimson, told the WSJ: I dont think that demand is going anywhere any time soon.
He has advised student to shoot for 10 activities related to one or two themes, with one of them having a focus on social justice
As recent as July, Beaton has excelled even more in his career by raising $75 million from venture funds, acquiring five counseling businesses that turned into an online high school, and has gone on to set up 26 offices in 21 countries.
Back when he was in high school, Beaton strived to be the most qualified, as he earned straight As, started two businesses, got into debating and engineering competitions, all while working a part-time job at a fast-food restaurant.
After high school, Beaton got accepted into a whopping 25 universities, including Harvard, Princeton, Stanford, Duke, Cambridge, and more.
It was during his senior year in college that he realized he can make a difference with his own success story, as he shared it with 230 people at a speaking event.
Though hes amounted to such success, Beaton believes that it doesnt take rocket science to crack the college admissions journey.
There’s a great history of institutions seeking to pretend that you cannot train for their processes. For example, at one point, people used to say you couldn’t train for the SAT, he said.
But in the same way you can train for sports and the same way you can improve your mathematics with high dosage tutoring, of course you can improve things that are important parts of your application.