98% Acceptance Rate To Your Top College Choices
Crimson Education is the #1 US college consulting company, helping students get into the Ivy League and Top 15 schools at up to 7x the average rate. Let our experts guide you to success.
Our Services
We go beyond test prep, essays, and activities. Our holistic approach helps you discover your passions, build leadership skills, and craft a compelling narrative that showcases your unique talents.
University
Admissions Strategy
Crimson students work with a dedicated Strategist to: build a school list tailored to their goals and strengths, strategically choose application deadlines, and ensure their application is tied together by a stand out cohesive theme.
Extracurricular and
Leadership Mentoring
Our Extracurricular Mentors help students build a robust extracurricular profile, including a Leadership (Capstone) Project that serves as the most important and impactful item on their Activities List.
Essay Writing
Development
From ideation and outlining, through multiple rounds of revisions, to delivering polished final drafts, our Essay Mentors support students in crafting a personal essay, supplemental essays and short answer questions that shine.
Academic
Acceleration
Beyond helping students elevate their scores on the (Digital) SAT, ACT, and AP/IB exams, our academic tutors provide guidance on strategic course selection to ensure students meet the first admissions criteria for top colleges: academic excellence.
Research and
Work Experience
Our students have access to college level research programs that can lead to stand out publishable papers. Our internship opportunities further provide students access to work experience programs at leading companies such as Uber, Amazon, Ferrari, The Economist and more.
College Sport
Recruitment
Student athletes are guided by former Ivy League and Division 1 coaches and athletes through the complex college recruiting process, including athlete development, coach outreach, recruitment video support and more.
Our Results Are Top-Of-The-Class!
No other consulting company has an average Ivy League and Stanford acceptance rate that is 675% higher than the general applicant rate.
98%
98% of our students are admitted to at least one of their top 5 college choices.
Our Crimson students get into the Ivy league and other Top 15 colleges at over 6x the general applicant rate.
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Meet Our College Counselors
Crimson’s admissions counselors include an impressive lineup of Former Admissions Officers from the Ivy League and several other Top 20 universities including Stanford, Duke, Johns Hopkins, Northwestern and more.
Our students benefit from the first-hand knowledge of admissions decision makers who have reviewed thousands of applications and understand exactly what sets a student apart from the highly qualified competition.
Before submitting their applications, Crimson students can receive 1:1 feedback from Former Admissions Officers from the very schools they’re aiming for, as well as committee-style reviews in which FAOs evaluate their application anonymously in the same way an admissions committee will do.
Who You’ll Work With
Every Crimson student works with a team of admissions experts who support them in elevating and assembling every aspect of their top college application.
Counselor
Your Strategist will oversee your application process from start to finish, including identifying your strengths, helping select your best-fit universities, scoping out unique opportunities to build your candidacy, and creating a month-by-month game plan for you to follow!
Essay Mentor
Your Essay Mentor will assist in ideating, planning and editing all your application essays – ensuring you submit an application that goes beyond academics and achievements to make your personal qualities shine!
Former Admissions Officer
Former Admissions Officers from the Ivy League, Stanford, Duke, Johns Hopkins, Northwestern and more will review your application and give you insider tips on how to strengthen your candidacy and maximize your admissions odds.
Extracurricular and Leadership Mentor
Your Extracurricular and Leadership Mentor will guide you to build and scale a unique leadership project that demonstrates initiative and impact — qualities that admissions officers love to see! They’ll also help you strategically assemble your Activities List to ensure it resonates.
Student Success Manager
Your Student Success Manager will coordinate with each member of your team to map out your admissions journey with milestones, meetings and deadlines. They will also act as a direct point of contact for you and your family, helping answer any specific program or administrative questions you may have!
Read What Our Students And Parents Have to Say
Avery B.Accepted to
University of Pennsylvania
"I could never be happier that I chose Crimson, and I do not think that I could have made it to where I am today without all the help I received here. HUGE thank you to everyone who worked with me. I couldn’t do this without all of you.”
Pooja K.Accepted to
New York University
"Crimson has an organized structure to manage the college application process. The strategists assigned are very helpful and are experts in the field. If I were to do the process all over again, I would, without a doubt, choose to work with Crimson again."
Alex S.Accepted to
Cornell University
"I am happy my family and I chose Crimson. Their support to help you become the best applicant in a university's eyes and the overall passion their employees show in being just as committed to achieving your dreams are invaluable."
Mia I.Accepted to
University of Chicago
"Crimson greatly helped my admission into college, and I would definitely not be here if it were not for them. Crimson helped me frame myself in the best way possible to all of the competitive colleges."
Jackie C.Accepted to
University of Pennsylvania
"Crimson definitely contributed immensely to my success story. While the work may have been mine, the feedback and revision were thanks to Crimson’s team of mentors."
Cora P.Accepted to
Yale University
"The best thing about working with Crimson is that everything you need for your applications is in one place: essay drafting, application review, test prep, interview prep and more."
Zach P.Accepted to
Vanderbilt University
"Crimson’s process ensured that I was sending the best application I could possibly make to each school through the extracurricular, academic, and essay advice they provided."
Tarun S.Accepted to
UCLA
"In hindsight, working with Crimson was one the best decisions I made during the application process. I felt that I had the perfect fit with my tutors, as they were only as involved as I needed them to be and my applications felt like the best reflections of me possible."
Nina K.Accepted to
USC
"I am glad that I decided to work with Crimson because I gained access to so many valuable resources and information that I would not have known about otherwise, and I definitely think that Crimson helped me be successful."