Top of the class: Hong Kong students get boost to Ivy League chances from former child prodigy, qualified for 25 top universities, now a businessman consultant
- Former child prodigy sets up business to help Hong Kong students navigate complex application process for top US universities
- The number of students from the city applying to Ivy League schools has skyrocketed over the past three years
A child prodigy who applied to 25 of the world’s top universities and was accepted into all of them is now helping students in Hong Kong navigate the complex application process.
New Zealand-born Jamie Beaton, 28, graduated from Harvard University in 2016 with a double-degree in applied mathematics-economics and applied maths.
When he was 20 he was also one of the youngest to be accepted to Stanford’s Graduate School of Business and in 2019 he graduated from Stanford with an MBA and MA in education.
“Having attended Harvard, Stanford, and Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar, I can say that these institutions truly possess the springboard to transform one’s life and the lives of their families for generations to come,” he said.
Today Beaton shares his knowledge through Crimson Education, a college admissions consulting firm he co-founded aged 17 with a vision to level the university admissions playing field.