Choosing Between IB and A-Levels? Start Here

Learn the curriculum and admissions strategies that give students a competitive edge.

Meet Your Speaker

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Joy Phophichitra

Joy Phophichitra

Cambridge Graduate with First Class Honors

Joy graduated from the University of Cambridge with Bachelor's and Master's degrees in Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology, earning First Class Honours and graduating in the top 20 of her cohort. She spent nine years as an engineer at Shell before becoming a Crimson Admissions Strategist, where she helps students gain admission to Cambridge, Oxford, and other top UK universities.

Which Curriculum Should You Choose?

Applying to Oxford, Cambridge, and top UK universities is highly competitive. Your strategy starts with choosing the right curriculum.

Choosing between IB and A-Level is one of the most important and confusing decisions on the road to a top UK university. In this on-demand session, Joy, a Cambridge graduate (First Class Honours) and former Shell engineer, now a Crimson Education strategy consultant, breaks down exactly what it takes to get what it takes to get in, based on real experience inside the admissions system.

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Understand what admissions officers notice when they only have minutes to review each application

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Inside top UK universities: unique courses, the college system, and how to choose the right one

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Entry requirements for Oxbridge, G5, and Russell Group universities

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Learn how you can prepare a strong application by learning from real success stories from Indonesian students who made it in

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Why Crimson?

A Team of Specialists—Not Just One Counselor

At Crimson, you don’t rely on a single advisor for every aspect of your application. Instead, you get a dedicated team—from essay mentors and extracurricular strategists to interview coaches—each a specialist in their field, all working together to maximize your success.

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The Knowledge Network

Meet Our Experts

Crimson’s admissions counselors include an impressive lineup of Former Admissions Officers from the Ivy League and several other Top 10 and 20 universities, including Stanford, Duke, Johns Hopkins, Northwestern, and more.

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Devery D.

Devery D.

Former Harvard Admissions Officer

Devery studied higher education management at Harvard's Graduate School of Education and served as a Harvard admissions officer, UC Berkeley application reader, and an application reader for a top liberal arts college. Applying a strategic, data-driven approach, Devery helps students make informed choices as they tailor applications to Ivy League institutions.

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Dana C.

Dana C.

Former Princeton Admissions Officer

Dana C. is a Princeton graduate, former application reader in Princeton University's Office of Undergraduate Admission, and a seasoned admissions consultant with a decade of success guiding domestic and international students into top US, UK, and Canadian universities. Dana's students have earned offers from Harvard, Princeton, Stanford, Caltech, the University of Chicago, Oxford, Imperial, UCL, and leading Canadian institutions.

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Kimberley L.

Kimberley L.

Former Stanford Admissions Officer

Kimberley brings over a decade of expertise in undergraduate admissions from her roles at Stanford University and Northwestern University. At Northwestern, she spent seven years leading the evaluation of all undergraduate applications, crafting the reader handbook, training staff and application readers, and even managing the music admissions process!

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