Command Education in the Media

Command Education’s founder, Christopher Rim, famous for charging $750,000 to help get kids into Harvard University and Yale University, offers bespoke career coaching programs tailored by industry that range from a few months to a year, with pricing starting at $50,000. Some clients start working with him as early as the summer after high school graduation.

Other top-tier schools are seeing similar low acceptance rates, including Duke University, Brown University, and Dartmouth College. And some small liberal arts schools, such as Bowdoin College and Williams College, are also notching record-low acceptance rates, writes Christopher Rim, the CEO of Command Education, in a recent article published by Forbes.

Every spring, thousands of highly qualified applicants find themselves in the disappointing position of being waitlisted at their dream school. Most students know that one of the most important steps to take after a waitlist notification is to write a Letter of Continued Interest (LOCI), a brief note that enthusiastically reaffirms a student’s interest in a school and provides relevant updates on their candidacy since the application deadline, such as a new award, an updated GPA, published research, or a recent leadership role.

In the days since Ivy Day results were released, many other top schools have published their admissions results, providing a more holistic view of this cycle’s admissions landscape.

Yesterday, students across the globe received their admissions results from the Ivy League and select top schools, an annual tradition of coordinated admissions releases known as “Ivy Day.” As in previous cycles, a number of Ivy League schools—including Harvard, Princeton, Cornell, and Penn—chose to withhold their admissions data, continuing to distance themselves from their reputations for hyperselectivity.