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At Harvard, 23% of freshmen who started in fall 2023 reported working with a private admissions counselor, up from 13% in 2017.
He reverse engineered their process.
Two traveled from Switzerland, two from Australia, one from the United Kingdom.
By his sophomore year his company had revenue north of $1 million, and he didn't reapply for aid.
When 230 people came to hear him speak at the end of his senior year he recognized he had stumbled into a business opportunity.
At Harvard, Beaton took an accelerated academic track in applied mathematics to earn his undergraduate degree in three years and his masters in his fourth year.
His knowledge of university programs and admissions practices is encyclopedic, and his “just the facts” demeanor steadies the nerves of anxious parents, clients said.
Born in Auckland and raised by a single mother, he began what he calls his “brutal pilgrimage” from the bottom of the planet to the top of the academic hierarchy.
The youngest was 11.
Word of his success earning admission to the world’s best universities spread across New Zealand and prompted calls from families who wanted to know his secret.
Families who have worked with Beaton described him as affable, earnest and able to navigate the cutthroat tactics necessary to succeed in elite college admissions.
He didn’t attend a single party at Harvard or a Harvard-Yale football game.
Last year, for freshmen from families with incomes over $500,000, 48% used one.
Beaton based his program on his own experience.
Eventually, Beaton was accepted at 25 colleges including Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Stanford, Columbia, Cambridge University and Duke University.
Seven children flew into New York in late July to meet with the college counselor they believed would get them into Harvard University or another top-flight U.S. college.
He started two businesses—a free newspaper distributed at cafes and a business selling iPhone stands for cars.
They were there to meet Jamie Beaton, a 29-year-old Rhodes scholar from New Zealand with a reputation as the man who has cracked the code on elite college admissions.
He worked through weekends and vacations.
Clients pay Beaton’s firm from $30,000 and $200,000 for a four- to six-year program that includes tutoring in academics and test-taking, and advice on how to gather stellar teacher recommendations,
When he recognized he couldn’t rise to the very top of an activity—such as piano, tennis or the math Olympiad—he switched to something else.
Beaton’s strategy was to invest the least effort into the greatest number of arenas and rise to the top of the hierarchy in the shortest time.
Beaton received $40,000 in financial aid to attend Harvard and immediately began hiring classmates to help tutor the student clients he had acquired back home.
He earned straight A’s on a class load roughly 2½ times the size of a typical student’s.
He has a mop of brown hair, a slight frame and a style that is more tech support than tech tycoon.
