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Christopher Rim

Chief Executive Officer at Command Education
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Christopher Rim is the founder and CEO of Command Education, a premier education and admissions consultancy based in New York City and Miami.

Prior to founding Command Education in 2015, Christopher Rim worked on building inspirED at Facebook in partnership with the Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence. Christopher has served on multiple advisory boards, including Lady Gaga’s Born This Way Foundation and panels such as the Emotion Revolution at Yale, HackHarassment by Intel, and World Internet Conference in Shanghai. He is frequently featured in education-related TV segments and articles, including The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, US News & World Report, New York Post, and FOX, as well as international media such as the Hong Kong Economic Journal and South China Morning Post. He is also a Senior Contributor for Forbes, where he writes about emotionally intelligent leadership and education.

He earned his Bachelor’s degree in psychology from Yale University and used his research to develop his EQ-driven, near-peer mentoring approach. As the founder of Command Education, Christopher has been recognized on Forbes 30 Under 30. He received President Obama’s Lifetime Achievement Award and was named to Luce’s Young Global Leaders and People Magazine’s “Heroes Among Us.”

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  • "If you live in, say, Arkansas or Kansas, there might be fewer students who have aspirations of wanting to go to certain top-tier colleges or Ivy League schools," says Christopher Rim, CEO and founder of admissions consulting company Command Education. "You have a much better chance of getting in if you’re in a state that might be in a more rural area. If you’re not in a major metropolitan city, your competition is much less."

  • "This is the first time and first application season where I've seen a student who got into Harvard early that I've worked with for almost three and a half, four years now, starting in ninth grade — we're seeing them say, ‘You know what? I want to apply to other schools because what if I graduate and this stigma and this reputation of Harvard stays the same?’ That's their true concern," he said.

  • ‘A standout student narrative is one that is truly holistic.’. For Rim, students’ involvement in extracurricular activities, summer programming, coursework and college essays should be ‘continually’ tailored to feed a specific narrative. ‘Every aspect of a student’s application should coalesce around one compelling and cohesive story,’ he explains.

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