Anonymous
05/20/2025 00:13
Subject: Crimson education college counseling
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:I read a WSJ article about the founder in the last year and they said what percent attended Ivy League schools and it wasn’t that impressive when you consider parents are shelling out a lot of money and kids already have many advantages. I’ll have to go back and find it. The young man who started it was very odd - attended Harvard and never went to the Harvard-Yale game once.
https://www.wsj.com/us-news/education/ivy-league-college-venture-capital-23dc95fa
To quote it, since most people don't have a subscription, "To start this fall, Crimson had 1,636 students apply to U.S. colleges. Beaton said 294 applications from Crimson students to Ivy League universities were accepted."
That doesn't take into account probably some students has multiple acceptances.
This. It’s notable that the unit of measure changes from students to applications. It’s not 300ish students out of 1600+ clients, it’s 300ish applications out of the probably more than 16,000 applications those clients submitted.
I agree. I'm not impressed.
Anonymous
05/19/2025 23:26
Subject: Crimson education college counseling
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:I read a WSJ article about the founder in the last year and they said what percent attended Ivy League schools and it wasn’t that impressive when you consider parents are shelling out a lot of money and kids already have many advantages. I’ll have to go back and find it. The young man who started it was very odd - attended Harvard and never went to the Harvard-Yale game once.
https://www.wsj.com/us-news/education/ivy-league-college-venture-capital-23dc95fa
To quote it, since most people don't have a subscription, "To start this fall, Crimson had 1,636 students apply to U.S. colleges. Beaton said 294 applications from Crimson students to Ivy League universities were accepted."
That doesn't take into account probably some students has multiple acceptances.
This. It’s notable that the unit of measure changes from students to applications. It’s not 300ish students out of 1600+ clients, it’s 300ish applications out of the probably more than 16,000 applications those clients submitted.
Anonymous
05/19/2025 23:23
Subject: Crimson education college counseling
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:I read a WSJ article about the founder in the last year and they said what percent attended Ivy League schools and it wasn’t that impressive when you consider parents are shelling out a lot of money and kids already have many advantages. I’ll have to go back and find it. The young man who started it was very odd - attended Harvard and never went to the Harvard-Yale game once.
https://www.wsj.com/us-news/education/ivy-league-college-venture-capital-23dc95fa
To quote it, since most people don't have a subscription, "To start this fall, Crimson had 1,636 students apply to U.S. colleges. Beaton said 294 applications from Crimson students to Ivy League universities were accepted."
That doesn't take into account probably some students has multiple acceptances.
Impossible to tell anything from that without also knowing of the 1636 total customers, how many applied to ivies? How many of that applied to ivies had a hook already?
Anonymous
05/19/2025 23:04
Subject: Crimson education college counseling
Anonymous wrote:I read a WSJ article about the founder in the last year and they said what percent attended Ivy League schools and it wasn’t that impressive when you consider parents are shelling out a lot of money and kids already have many advantages. I’ll have to go back and find it. The young man who started it was very odd - attended Harvard and never went to the Harvard-Yale game once.
https://www.wsj.com/us-news/education/ivy-league-college-venture-capital-23dc95fa
To quote it, since most people don't have a subscription, "To start this fall, Crimson had 1,636 students apply to U.S. colleges. Beaton said 294 applications from Crimson students to Ivy League universities were accepted."
That doesn't take into account probably some students has multiple acceptances.
Anonymous
05/19/2025 22:43
Subject: Re:Crimson education college counseling
Anonymous
05/19/2025 22:27
Subject: Crimson education college counseling
Anonymous wrote:I read a WSJ article about the founder in the last year and they said what percent attended Ivy League schools and it wasn’t that impressive when you consider parents are shelling out a lot of money and kids already have many advantages. I’ll have to go back and find it. The young man who started it was very odd - attended Harvard and never went to the Harvard-Yale game once.
If you're basing "oddness" based on not attending a sports game, then a LOT of people are odd in this world, including all my family and most of my friends
Anonymous
05/19/2025 22:14
Subject: Crimson education college counseling
I read a WSJ article about the founder in the last year and they said what percent attended Ivy League schools and it wasn’t that impressive when you consider parents are shelling out a lot of money and kids already have many advantages. I’ll have to go back and find it. The young man who started it was very odd - attended Harvard and never went to the Harvard-Yale game once.
Anonymous
05/19/2025 22:09
Subject: Crimson education college counseling
Anonymous wrote:If you have used this company, please share your experience. I had a 15-min introductory call with them and I am not sure what to think.
15 min intro call is just to talk at a high level. That will be followed by a 45 min call. You will receive pricing after that call.
They are good, knowledgeable but very expensive even for just college essays and no guarantee of Ivy.
Anonymous
05/19/2025 22:09
Subject: Crimson education college counseling
They are private equity owned and have a lot of turnover of advisors/counselors.
Anonymous
05/19/2025 22:00
Subject: Crimson education college counseling
been told that they allude that they can get a B student into Harvard to get a deposit, and it turns out to be b s.
Anonymous
05/19/2025 21:37
Subject: Crimson education college counseling
overhyped.
only suckers or saudi princes pay that ridiculous price.
talented kids don't need all this luxury coddling.
only suckers or saudi princes pay that ridiculous price.
talented kids don't need all this luxury coddling.
Anonymous
05/19/2025 21:34
Subject: Crimson education college counseling
OP. I do not know the cost yet. 200k is unbelievable and a no go for us.
Anonymous
05/19/2025 21:22
Subject: Crimson education college counseling
Only the $200,000 package gets you the real deal. Everything else you are getting their 2nd tier.
Anonymous
05/19/2025 17:53
Subject: Crimson education college counseling
Anonymous wrote:If you have used this company, please share your experience. I had a 15-min introductory call with them and I am not sure what to think.
Did they tell you the cost? It is insanely expensive. I have heard of one family who used them and were generally happy with the result.
Anonymous
05/19/2025 16:44
Subject: Crimson education college counseling
If you have used this company, please share your experience. I had a 15-min introductory call with them and I am not sure what to think.