Crimson Rise

A stand-out university applicant profile is years in the making. Crimson Rise helps young students get a head start to becoming the best college candidates they can be.

About Crimson Rise

Crimson Rise is the premier college preparatory program for students aged 11-14.

With our tailored, one-on-one approach, Crimson Rise supports younger students in optimizing their academics and extracurriculars to ensure they put their best foot forward when it’s time to apply to university. Our simultaneous focus on personal development ensures students are prepared for life in college, career, and beyond.

How Crimson Rise Works

Crimson Rise is packaged into two segments: Strategy and Coursework.

S T R A T E G Y

A Strategist works one on one with a student throughout their time with Crimson Rise, designing a roadmap to help the student take ownership of their high school years with their university and career goals in mind. In particular, a Strategist focuses on:

Academics

Assessment of the student’s strengths and challenges in school and support in developing effective study habits, personalizing academics through online and supplementary courses, and strategizing academic pathways for optimal growth.

Extracurriculars

Extensive interest exploration to help the student pinpoint natural abilities, investigate new activities, deepen current engagement, develop leadership skills, and map out potential college and career pursuits.

Personal Skills

Development of foundational skills in goal-setting, time management, stress management, self-reflection, and decision-making that will prepare the student to handle the rigors of high school and college applications.

C O U R S E W O R K

Crimson Rise also offers unique educational courses. Each is sold separately and delivered one-on-one by a specialized tutor, coordinated by your Crimson Team.

Foundation ECL Skills

Foundation ECL Skills precedes Crimson Core’s Extracurricular and Leadership curriculum. Covering topics like research skills, critical thinking, professional communications, and project management, this course helps students build foundational skills necessary for Ivy League-level extracurricular work later on.

Entrepreneurship

Through in-depth exercises and real-world examples, Crimson’s Entrepreneurship curriculum engages students with the building blocks of thinking like an entrepreneur, ideating a start-up company, financing and budgeting a business, and designing an entrepreneurial endeavor.

Social Entrepreneurship

Crimson’s Social Entrepreneurship gives students a strong foundation in the history of social entrepreneurship as well as in the critical processes of designing businesses that do social good.

Coding

There’s no getting around it: coding is a skill for the future. Our Coding curriculum offers most students their first taste of real programming in some of today’s most powerful languages, including Java, Python, and HTML.

Speech and Debate

Our Speech and Debate course gives students practical skills in argumentation and analysis, introducing them to tools they need to not only to debate effectively but also to engage critically and confidently with the world around them.

Model United Nations Tutoring

Model United Nations is one of the most recognized and essential extracurriculars in the US university system. Our tutoring accompanies students’ involvement in their own MUN club, helping them maximize their potential as a delegate in order to lock down a prestigious addition to their extracurricular profile.

Want to learn more about Crimson Rise?

For a deeper dive into the features and fact-based benefits Crimson Rise offers for young students with ambitious university and career goals, download our free Crimson Rise flyer!

Student Leyla shares her Crimson Rise experience!

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What brings parents to Crimson Rise

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“She joined Crimson Rise when she was 11. In one year, she changed completely. After the leadership course she became more responsible and can manage her time, and became more focused and self-disciplined than before. We have to thank Crimson in their selection of Strategist; you were the perfect match for her.”
“We were very happy with the development of our daughter this semester. We noticed a significant evolution in social behavior. She became more disciplined: she started sleeping early, started exercising, and taking care of her eating habits - something that we used to tell her about but it went ‘in one ear and out the other.’"
“Our daughter really enjoys and gets a lot from her Strategy conversations and has loved the stress management, time management, and goal-setting discussions (she has) had. One of the things we’ve seen through this process is community impact, understanding what admissions officers are looking for, leadership and innovation.”

Meet our team

Crystal Stankey, Strategist

B.A. and M.M. from University of Chicago. Background in education, music, Montessori, private school admissions.

Todd Rigg Carriero, Strategist

M.S. from University of Michigan, B.S. from California Polytechnic State University. Background in astronomy, astrophysics, education, Montessori, educational curriculum development.

Julia Becerra, Strategist

B.A.. in English from Harvard. Background in writing, the outdoors, experiential learning, family communications facilitation, SAT tutoring, international student counseling.

Eva Parisi, Tutor: Foundation ECL Skills

A.B. in Molecular Biology from Princeton. Experience in natural sciences, laboratory research, medicine, SAT prep, and ECL consulting.

Michael Wingate, Tutor: Entrepreneurship, Speech & Debate

B.A. in Philosophy & Government from Harvard. Experience in student government, literary editing, football, drama, and music.

Quinton Ashley, Tutor: Coding

B.M. in Music Technology from NYU. Experience in software development, app creation, and developmental psychology.

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