A college guru has discovered the tricks to getting into some of the most prestigious Ivy League schools in the country, including Harvard.
Jamie Beaton, 29, a Rhodes scholar and businessman from New Zealand, is renowned for getting students as young as 11 into the universities of their dreams.
Beaton, who founded Crimson Education, an educational mentoring program, when he was just 17, suggested that young people should start discovering their interests and abilities before they reach high school.
he said The Wall Street Journal that students should focus specifically on what they know they can excel at, while also finding ways to think outside the box and stand out, such as getting a scholarship or entrepreneurship.
Children have traveled from all over the country to receive Beaton’s best advice in New York City, two from Australia, one from the United Kingdom and two from Switzerland.
Jamie Beaton, 29 (left), a Rhodes scholar and businessman from New Zealand, is reputed to know the secret to getting children as young as 11 into elite universities, including Harvard.
He said kids need to start discovering their interests and abilities before they reach high school to have the best chance at getting an Ivy League education. (pictured: Harvard University)
The chief executive paid tribute to the “great education” he received, 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 Ivy Leagues tend to focus on their tax-free status and work to maintain that idea by turning away as many potential students as they can.
‘If they are doing so much good for society, why don’t they increase the number of students who come?’ Beaton questioned.
He has advised students to do 10 activities related to one or two themes, with one of them focusing on social justice.
Beaton specifically likes to start working with kids as young as 11 to really prepare them for high school.
His impact has reached so far that one of his students referred to him as “the Steve Jobs of college counseling.”
He noted that about 130 of Crimson’s college counseling clients receive scholarships and receive free services, and one program helps more than 30 Maori (New Zealand’s indigenous Polynesian people) get into elite schools inside and outside the U.S. USA
Since 2016, three years after Crimson launched, 1,003 students in the program have received offers to Ivy Leagues.
This year alone, the operator of a $554 million company has built a client list that represents about two percent of students admitted to elite schools, including Harvard, Columbia and Brown, among others.
His young clients include 24 who got into Yale, 34 were accepted to Stanford and another 48 to Cornell.
The cost to obtain Beaton’s successful tips and knowledge statistics is $30,000, with another $200,000 for a four- to six-year program.
The program includes tutoring on test-taking, academics, tips on how to generate amazing recommendations for teachers, 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 “close the gap between ambition and action,” according to Indonesian expat, has a stellar portfolio of its own.
He earned a Rhodes Scholarship at Harvard, a Ph.D. in public policy from Oxford, two master’s degrees from Stanford, and a master’s degree in educational entrepreneurship from the University of Pennsylvania.
He also has a master’s degree in finance from Princeton, a master’s degree in global affairs from China’s Tsinghua University, and a law degree from Yale.
Beaton’s notable success at Crimson is due to “supply and demand,” as elite universities only accept the best of the best, with few spots available.
Alex Robertson, who runs Tiger Management, the high-profile hedge fund where Beaton worked in college and invested in Crimson, told the WSJ: “I don’t think the demand is going away anytime soon.”
He has advised students to do 10 activities related to one or two themes, one of them focused on social justice.
In July, Beaton further distinguished himself in his career by raising $75 million in venture funding, acquiring five advisory companies that became an online high school, and establishing 26 offices in 21 countries.
While in high school, Beaton strove to be “the most qualified” as he earned excellent grades, started two businesses, and participated in debate and engineering competitions, all while working part-time at a fast food restaurant.
After high school, Beaton was accepted to 25 universities, including Harvard, Princeton, Stanford, Duke, Cambridge, and more.
It was during his last year at university that he realized he could make a difference with his own success story, as he shared it with 230 people at a speaking event.
Although he has achieved so much success, Beaton believes it doesn’t take much science to advance the college admissions process.
‘There is a long history of institutions seeking to pretend that they cannot train for their processes. For example, at one point people said you couldn’t prepare for the SAT,” he said.
“But in the same way that you can train for sports and in the same way that you can improve your math with high doses of tutoring, you can of course improve things that are important parts of your application.”
