Command Education in the Media

Elizabeth Stone, president of Top Tier Admissions, had a student pick Duke over Columbia this year because of concerns over federal funding for research, while Chris Rim, founder of New York-based Command Education, said many of his students who got into Columbia this year are opting for other schools.

“Fewer and fewer students [I work with] are putting safety schools on their list,” says Christopher Rim, founder of Command Education. He adds that he is increasingly seeing an Ivy-or-bust mentality among the clientele of his admissions counseling firm. “The parents say, ‘If we don’t get into a top 25 school, my kid will take a gap year and then reapply.’ ”

Christopher Rim, founder and CEO of Command Education, told Newsweek: “Colleges are expected to interpret SAT scores the same way as before, but because the digital test differs significantly from the paper version, performance comparisons across test formats may not be perfect.

“Foreign students present a unique challenge for the Trump administration’s hardline immigration policy efforts,” said Christopher Rim, president and CEO of college consulting firm Command Education.

“On the one hand, international students account for a large portion of foreign residents in the U.S., and some of the most politically outspoken,” Rims said. “However, they are among the most economically advantageous, as well.”

The statement offers “no clear reason why he would benefit from attending college … At its essence, the personal statement must convey who the candidate is beyond his or her accomplishments and how they’ll uniquely contribute to the campus,” Christopher Rim, founder and CEO of college admissions consultancy firm Command Education, told The Post.