Spring is traditionally the busiest season for new-client enrollment at Command Education, a college admissions consulting firm for high-schoolers based in New York City. Not this year.
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Colleges Have a New Source of Protest on Their Hands: Irate Parents
Christopher Rim, founder and CEO of Command Education, a company that helps students complete competitive-college applications, says that in the past week he has received calls from about 25 parents with students at Columbia University and the University of California, …
One Thing Parents Won’t Cut From Budgets: Extracurricular Activities
The Supreme Court’s June decision outlawing affirmative action could put even more emphasis on extracurricular activities to make a student stand out, said Christopher Rim, chief executive of Command Education, an elite-college consulting firm in New York that advises…
Some Schools See Opening in Affirmative-Action Ruling
Within an hour of the decision, Asian-American clients began calling Christopher Rim, founder and CEO of Command Education in New York, which counsels students for college admissions.
Rim said the first call came from a Korean-American student who said he wanted to bro…
Can’t Make Your College Tour? The Campus Will Come to You.
Christopher Rim, CEO of Command Education, a college-counseling company, said that for the first time he has had clients hire his team as private, round-the-clock tour guides on weeklong college trips.
The Legitimate World of High-End College Admissions
Christopher Rim, a recent Yale graduate and founder of Command Education, also in New York, has a top rate of $950 an hour. He said one family from Chicago paid him $200,000 last summer to work with their twin daughters.