How much would you pay to help your child get accepted into Harvard, Stanford, or MIT?
$10,000? What about $100,000, or even $750,000?
Hundreds of families are writing six-figure checks to a millennial named Christopher Rim to get their kids into top colleges. As the founder and CEO of college admissions consultancy group Command Education, Rim has become a wizard of sorts for how to crack the Ivy League code. Over the past five years, 94% of his clients have been accepted into their top three college choices.
And while the $3 billion college consultancy industry may sound like another leg up the rich have to get their children into schools, Rim says it’s about helping students reach their dreams and unlock their potential. After all, on average, only about 5% of pupils who want to go to an Ivy League school actually get in.
“You have one chance. That’s it,” the 30-year-old tells Fortune. “You can’t go back to college or apply to these selective universities again.”
