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Crimson is your typical, corporate college admission firm:  it seems to target high-income parents who want their students to have even more of a leg up than their family's wealth already offers them.  If you are someone who truly wants to help students, it's really tough to reconcile that desire with Crimson's intended audience.

However, as long as you know this going in, you'll be okay. You can save most of the time and emotional turmoil you'd otherwise feel due to eventual disillusionment, and use your job at Crimson to get the experience you need to move on to a bigger and better role. 

While you're there, you'll be in the trenches with some of the most brilliant and caring colleagues you've ever known, from all over the world.  You'll get to help amazing students from all backgrounds present themselves properly on applications to US, Canada, and UK university admission and financial aid teams. You'll also get to learn about different ways to lead and run a team, how to receive and give constructive feedback, and perhaps the most valuable lesson of all is when you learn what your limits are regarding the amount of work you can handle along with all your other life responsibilities.  If you've done higher ed consulting before, you'll learn to streamline your established processes to fit ridiculous expectations of conformity, so that Crimson can pay you as little as possible for your work. 

Lastly, you'll learn that the CEO/co-founder is a big fan of revenge, and can't stand it when people challenge him or dissent in any way. This is why you'll notice that my job title for this review is as non-specific as possible; I've built solid bridges in this field that I'd like to keep. 

Crimson is the fastest-growing company I've ever worked at, and that means a lot of opportunity to grow and push yourself in ways that weren't even imaginable when you join the company in the first place. Managers and colleagues are super supportive, and given a strong culture of promoting from within, it means that many of the managers and execs started off in much more junior roles and know what it takes to up-level quickly in their career.

The fast-paced environment is not for everyone, but if you want to work at a really successful, fast-growing company that is doing amazing work with families and students, then I honestly feel like there's no better place than Crimson. 

The company is very profit driven and lots of questionable sales tactics are used in the company. Salespeople are often asked to lie to the parents. You could see many employees are burnout and there's a high turnover rate in the company. Despite the fact that the company has been there for a while lots of things are still quite chaotic and disorganised somehow. Some micromanagement issue from some management people.

Crimson Education is a side job for me, but I know many within the company that this is their full time job. The students I work with are driven to success, but in a healthy way. I've thoroughly enjoyed the work I have done, and have always had the support when needed. 

The job offers a fair pay structure aligned with the workload and the flexibility to create your own schedule, which is a significant plus for remote work. There is a degree of autonomy that is quite empowering. However, it's not without drawbacks; the workload can be unpredictable, leading to occasional burnout, and the seasonal nature of the job may require additional planning. Overall, it's a solid choice if you're adaptable to its variable pace.

This job is your basic tutoring job. You have to create your own curriculum based off topics from other sources. Sometimes those sources don't match with the topics. 

If you're ok with getting consistently delayed pay ours the you'll love it here. 

I was hired as an ECL instructor but instead they downgraded me to tutor. 

The Exec team is quite out of touch from  what's happening at the company, with the clients. Leadership team is made up of people who can't tell the difference between Customer Success and Customer Support. Favoritism runs pretty rampant here at Crimson so unless they like you, they can screw you over KPIs and deprive you from career advancement. 

Disorganized/lacked structure. Good place for someone looking for remote work that is very flexible and who prefers the lack of structure and direct supervision.

Management was great and very supportive.  Crimson cares enough about creating quality materials to actually pay their teachers enough to put in the time to get it right.  I really enjoyed getting to discuss biology with the other biology teachers also.

It might be a pioneer for future education, but also is more available for the wealthier families. Though they do provide some scholarships as well for the lower income families.

Top Job Titles	Average Salary
Admissions advisor 4 salaries reported	$80,000 per year
Admission counselor 1 salary reported	$75,000 per year
Regional coaching consultant 1 salary reported	$72,500 per year
Mentor 1 salary reported	$2,140 per week

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