Crimson - college ranking based on cross admit yield data

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Anonymous wrote:Caltech is not in the top 25 despite having higher standardized scores than any other school prior to test optional.

Agree, that’s how you know it’s bs. How many would pick Michigan over Caltech, it’s not even close.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Caltech is not in the top 25 despite having higher standardized scores than any other school prior to test optional.

Agree, that’s how you know it’s bs. How many would pick Michigan over Caltech, it’s not even close.

Actually quite a few. Caltech is tiny and has a marginal commercial presence. It also has no business program and little in the way of non-STEM.

It attracts a very particular kind of student.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Caltech is not in the top 25 despite having higher standardized scores than any other school prior to test optional.

Agree, that’s how you know it’s bs. How many would pick Michigan over Caltech, it’s not even close.

Actually quite a few. Caltech is tiny and has a marginal commercial presence. It also has no business program and little in the way of non-STEM.

It attracts a very particular kind of student.

The student who applies to Caltech is looking for that type of environment. I would agree that between Michigan and Caltech acceptances, the latter would be much more preferable for this applicant.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Caltech is not in the top 25 despite having higher standardized scores than any other school prior to test optional.

Agree, that’s how you know it’s bs. How many would pick Michigan over Caltech, it’s not even close.

Actually quite a few. Caltech is tiny and has a marginal commercial presence. It also has no business program and little in the way of non-STEM.

It attracts a very particular kind of student.

The student who applies to Caltech is looking for that type of environment. I would agree that between Michigan and Caltech acceptances, the latter would be much more preferable for this applicant.

On Parchment, cross-admits go 80% Caltech, 20% Michigan on Parchment.

[Anonymous]

Crimson Education sold out to PE and relies on lots of part-time contractors to do the work, with lots of turnover. Why would you trust New Zealanders to guide you with US college admissions?

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Anonymous wrote:Where does the cross admit data come from? If it's Parchment then it's unreliable data...

What do you base that on? I've heard that the cross admit data is very accurate for schools with large applicant figures, but less so for smaller schools.

Think about it. Parchment gets data from HS transcripts sent. How would it know cross-admit data? Even the colleges don't know for sure - students are under no obligation to tell (although there's a short optional survey when you decline the admit). Similarly, the HS does not know unless students divulge.

I can see how Parchment would know were kids applied because they send transcripts and selected school because they would send final transcripts, but how would they get information on where the kid was admitted? They would need to get additional information from somewhere. High School or College Admissions offices?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Where does the cross admit data come from? If it's Parchment then it's unreliable data...

What do you base that on? I've heard that the cross admit data is very accurate for schools with large applicant figures, but less so for smaller schools.

Think about it. Parchment gets data from HS transcripts sent. How would it know cross-admit data? Even the colleges don't know for sure - students are under no obligation to tell (although there's a short optional survey when you decline the admit). Similarly, the HS does not know unless students divulge.

I can see how Parchment would know were kids applied because they send transcripts and selected school because they would send final transcripts, but how would they get information on where the kid was admitted? They would need to get additional information from somewhere. High School or College Admissions offices?

Parchment is widely known to be very unreliable

[Anonymous]

This looks more legit than Parchment..?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Always question the data. There is no way they could’ve gotten statistically significant data on cross yields. Therefore, this list is useless.

But it passes the straight face test better than US News…

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Crimson Education sold out to PE and relies on lots of part-time contractors to do the work, with lots of turnover. Why would you trust New Zealanders to guide you with US college admissions?

Jamie Beaton the founder spends more time collecting degrees than working with students and yes, it is way easier to get into Harvard when you are from New Zealand and full pay and very few apply to Ivies from that country.

As someone said, he sold out to PE and relies so much on contractors who are not as dedicated to the process.

Also is there a term for those who just collect degrees? It doesn't seem he has ever done anything but work for himself and go to school.

https://www.crimsonglobalacademy.school/us/blog/meet-cgas-co-founder-jamie-beaton/

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Crimson Education sold out to PE and relies on lots of part-time contractors to do the work, with lots of turnover. Why would you trust New Zealanders to guide you with US college admissions?

Jamie Beaton the founder spends more time collecting degrees than working with students and yes, it is way easier to get into Harvard when you are from New Zealand and full pay and very few apply to Ivies from that country.

As someone said, he sold out to PE and relies so much on contractors who are not as dedicated to the process.

Also is there a term for those who just collect degrees? It doesn't seem he has ever done anything but work for himself and go to school.

https://www.crimsonglobalacademy.school/us/blog/meet-cgas-co-founder-jamie-beaton/

+1 from another person who used Crimson briefly and had a horrible experience