# Jamie Beaton

> Jamie Beaton is the New Zealand-born co-founder and CEO of Crimson Education, the global university-admissions consultancy he started at 18 from a Harvard dorm room. After getting into all 25 elite universities he applied to, he built Crimson into a roughly billion-dollar company spanning 25+ countries, while personally collecting degrees from Harvard, Stanford, Yale Law, Oxford (as a Rhodes Scholar) and more. He is the author of the bestselling admissions guide ACCEPTED!

- **Role:** CEO and Co-Founder at Crimson Education
- **Organizations:** Crimson Education, Crimson Global Academy
- **From:** Auckland, New Zealand
- **Nationality:** New Zealander
- **Education:** Secondary (academic scholarship), King's College, Auckland, BA & MS, Applied Mathematics-Economics (magna cum laude), Harvard University, MBA & MA Education (Arjay Miller Scholar), Stanford Graduate School of Business, DPhil Public Policy (Rhodes Scholar), University of Oxford, Blavatnik School of Government, Juris Doctor, Yale Law School
- **Known for:** Accepted to all 25 elite universities he applied to at 17, including Harvard, Stanford, Yale, Princeton, Cambridge and Wharton, Graduated Harvard in three years with a BA and MS, magna cum laude, Among the youngest Stanford MBA graduates in decades, with the Arjay Miller distinction (top ~10%)

## Career timeline

- **2013** — Co-founded Crimson Education with Fangzhou Jiang and Sharndre Kushor while a Harvard freshman
- **2014-2015** — Raised $1M seed funding from Julian Robertson and Chase Coleman; worked as a young analyst at Tiger Management
- **2016** — Graduated Harvard in three years, magna cum laude
- **2019** — Became one of the youngest Arjay Miller Scholars / MBA graduates at Stanford GSB
- **2022** — Published bestselling admissions book ACCEPTED!; Crimson valued around US$550M
- **2023** — Earned Juris Doctor from Yale Law School
- **2024** — Crimson reportedly valued near US$1 billion after Series D funding

## Achievements

- Accepted to all 25 elite universities he applied to at 17, including Harvard, Stanford, Yale, Princeton, Cambridge and Wharton
- Graduated Harvard in three years with a BA and MS, magna cum laude
- Among the youngest Stanford MBA graduates in decades, with the Arjay Miller distinction (top ~10%)
- Rhodes Scholar pursuing a DPhil at Oxford
- Earned a Juris Doctor from Yale Law School in 2023
- Built Crimson Education into a global firm across 25+ countries reportedly valued near US$1 billion
- Author of the nationally bestselling admissions guide ACCEPTED!

## Latest updates

- **2024-11** — Crimson Education closed a Series D round, with reports valuing the company near US$1 billion.
- **2023-05** — Graduated from Yale Law School with a Juris Doctor.

## Links

- Website: https://www.jamiebeaton.com/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jamiebeaton/
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/crimsonedu
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LAJ5NNz112o
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jamiebeaton_phd/
- Facebook: https://facebook.com/crimsoneducation.org/

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Last updated: 2026-06-04