Yale graduate makes the Forbes 30 under 30 list by helping students get into Ivy League schools
From starting an anti-bullying group at 15 to guiding teens into elite universities, Christopher Rim has done a lot in his 23 years
He founded an anti-bullying organisation when he was 15, for which he received the President’s Lifetime Call to Service Volunteer Award from then US president Barack Obama. He served on Lady Gaga’s Born This Way Foundation dedicated to empowering youth.
Today, he earns US$1,500 an hour helping teenagers get into Ivy League and medical schools, and is listed on Forbes 30 under 30 2018, representing the education category. And, he is still only 23 years old.
Christopher Rim is the founding CEO of Command Education, an organisation which uses emotional intelligence (EQ) coaching to help students realise their passion and gain admission to elite universities. This method boasts a 96 per cent success rate this year of helping students get into their top three colleges, which include Harvard, Brown, MIT and Stanford University.
The company offers private hourly tutoring on SATs, ACTs, PSATs and NMSQTs, as well as their signature one-on-one mentoring sessions specialising in college applications, launch of non-profits, entrepreneurial coaching and year-round guidance on high school success.
“One of the roots of my mentoring approach is near-peer mentorship – the idea that you learn best from someone close enough to your age that you can relate to them, but who has a little more life experience than you do,” the psychology graduate at Yale University tells the South China Morning Post. This is similar to how teenagers act on advice from an older sibling or cousin more readily than from a parent or a teacher.
