美国是常春藤盟校的所在地。常春藤盟校由八大精英大学组成，包括耶鲁、哈佛、普林斯顿。入读这些院校的竞争非常激烈，最后收到录取通知书的学生不到一成，而中国学生的比率大槪会低得多，只要想想，耶鲁和哈佛正在受查或被控歧视亚裔申请人，许多院校要求申请人参加「学术能力评估测试」 (SAT) 等标准化测试，而中国大陆并没有试场，学生要到香港应试，比率高低就不难想像了。常春藤盟校的录 取率正不断下降，今年香港和中国大陆都没有学生得到麻省理工学院提前录取。
为人父母总是想给孩子最好的，难免会焦急。许多家长把希望寄托在私人教育顾问那里，从陔子撰写大学入学申请文书、预备面试到参加有意义的课外活动，都由这些顾问全程协助完成複杂的申请程序。可是，香港的教育谘询公司成功率不算很高，举例说， The Edge Learning Center 、 Arch Education 、 Capstone Prep Education 都是把大约四分之三的学生送进他们所选的头几家顶尖院校升学（分别为 73% 、 70% 、 80% ）。 香港的教育谘询公司很快面对新的竞争，教育谘询公司 Command Education 正迅速扩展业务至亚洲市场，他们的成功率高达96% 。
Command Education 创立时，首席执行官 Christopher Rim 仍是耶鲁大学本科生。 Rim 是他念书的中学几十年来唯一获耶鲁录取的学生，于是校内开始有很多同学向他请教，之后也入读顶尖的大学，这促成了公司的成立。时至今天， Command Education 有十多位员工，在曼哈顿分设两个办事处，一个在第五大道，俯瞰中央公园，另一个位于几个街区外，在布鲁明戴 尔（ Bloomingdale's ）百货公司对面。对 Rim 来说，能够入读常春藤盟校，靠的并不是出众的学业成绩；事实上，他当时只是普通不过的学生。真正把 Rim 送进耶鲁大学的，是他创办了公益组织，向四百多万学生宣扬建立更积极正面的的学校环境。 Rim 的行动引起了流行歌手 Lady Gaga 的注意，更邀请 Rim 加入她的基金会顾问委员会。中学时代的这类活动，在招生人员眼中肯定是出类拔萃的。 Rim 现在所做的就是帮助后来者跟随他的脚步，踏进大学之门。他把在耶鲁学到的情商法，也即是情绪智能原则，付诸应用，与全属 25 岁以下、常春 藤盟校或十大院校毕业生的导师团队一起，鼓励、启发学 生探寻自己真正热爱的事物，之后， Command Education 团队全力协助学生参加有声望的实习计划，跟随常春藤盟校教授实习；创立公益组织，让他们有机会到联合国发表演说，又或在电视上现身说法；创办其他会社和公司。凡此种种，都围绕着学生所热衷的事物开展，都能帮助学生为社区带来改变，以及加强他们在大学入学申请的竞争力。
Command Education 总部设在纽约市，但团队与世界各地的学生合作。今年，得到团队帮助的国际学生大部分已获常春藤盟学录取。公司团队有 能力处理中国学生在申请入读美国大学过程中遇到的具体问题，因为团队现时合作的学生中，有 71% 是亚裔， 75% 并不是自小就说英语的。 Command Education 几年前才成立，凭着独特的方法和极高的成功率，业务迅速增长。今年三月， Command Education 计划在香港美国会举办讲座，由耶鲁大学和哥伦比亚大学讲者主讲，正式拓展中国市场。
This 23-year-old has helped dozens of students get into Yale University so far
The United States is home to the Ivy League— a group of eight elite universities including Yale, Harvard, and Princeton. Competition for these schools is fierce, with less than 10% of students receiving offers of admission. This rate is probably much lowe r for Chinese students, when you consider that Yale and Harvard are under investigation or being sued for discriminating against Asian applicants, and that many schools require standardized testing such as the SAT, which is not available to take in mainlan d China (students must travel to Hong Kong). Admissions rates are dropping — this year, not a single student from Hong Kong or mainland China was admitted early to the prestigious Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).
However, there is hope for anx ious parents who want the best for their children: many parents currently seek out the help of private education consultants who can help their children navigate the complicated application process, from essays and interviews to meaningful afterschool acti vities. The success rate of Hong-Kong-based consultancies is not very high, however — for example, The Edge Learning Center, Arch Education, and Capstone Prep Education only get about three-quarters of their students into one of their top school choices ( 73 %, 70%, and 80% respectively). They will soon be facing competition, however, from Command Education, a consultancy with an incredible 96% success rate that is expanding rapidly into the Asian market.
Command Education was founded while its CEO, Christo pher Rim, was an undergraduate student at Yale University. As the only person from his high school to get accepted to Yale in decades, many of his classmates began coming to him for advice. Their success led to the founding of the company, which now has ov er a dozen employees and operates out of two offices in Manhattan, operates out of two offices in Manhattan, one on Fifth Avenue overlooking Central Park and the second a few blocks away, across from Bloomingdale’s. To Rim, getting into the Ivy League isn’ t about perfect grades and test scores — in fact, he was an average student. It was his work founding his own nonprofit which helped him get into Yale — the organization spread its message of a more positive school environment to over 4 million students an d gained the attention of popstar Lady Gaga, who invited Rim to serve on her foundation’s advisory board. That sort of high school activity is sure to stand out to admissions officers, and Rim now helps other students follow in his footsteps. Using the pri nciples of EQ, or emotional intelligence, that he learned at Yale, he and his team of mentors (all under 25 and graduates of Ivy League or Top 10 schools) help motivate and inspire students to discover what they’re truly passionate about. Then, Command Edu cation helps them gain prestigious internships with Ivy League professors, found nonprofits where they are invited to speak at the UN or appear on television, and start other clubs and businesses that align with their passions, help them make a difference in their communities, and will strengthen their college applications.
Although the company is based in New York City, they work with students all over the world. This year, a majority of their international students have already been accepted to Ivy Leagu e schools. The company is well-suited to working with the specific issues Chinese students face when applying to US colleges — of Command Education’s current students, 71% are of Asian descent and 75% grew up speaking a language other than English. Command Education was only founded a few years ago, but their unique approach and strong success rate have lead to rapid growth, and the company plans to officially expand into the Chinese market by hosting a lecture with speakers from Yale and Columbia Universit ies at the American Club Hong Kong this March.