Now a USA Today and Publishers Weekly bestseller! How do you REALLY get accepted to Harvard, Yale, and the Ivy League? Told from the fresh and personal perspective of 26-year-old Crimson Education CEO and Harvard, Stanford, and Oxford graduate Jamie Beaton, Accepted! is an honest and practical guide on beating the odds and getting into Ivy League and other elite schools – the smart way. Beaton takes you behind the doors of the world's top college admissions offices, revealing the highly strategic selection processes applied by institutions whose reputations depend on the number of students they admit, or more pointedly, the tens of thousands that they don't. In Accepted! , Beaton delivers the ultimate insider "how to" and disrupts cliched admissions advice with savvy strategies like: Moneyballing the university rankings and increasing your chances of admission - Class spamming your way to academic supremacy and acceptance - Playing the early application dating game and understanding how institutions are using it to their reputational advantage Packed with real-life examples from the thousands of students Beaton has helped land a spot at Harvard, Stanford, and other esteemed universities, Accepted! is a never-before assembled culmination of secrets, insights, and application strategies guaranteed to maximize your chances of "getting in" to the school of your choice. From ambitious students and their supportive parents to academic advisors and admissions professionals, Accepted! is the must-read guide to demystifying the often-convoluted and increasingly competitive world of elite college admissions. “This revelatory, insightful, brutally honest book will actually help you! That’s because Jamie Beaton has more experience than anyone, from his personal journey as a New Zealander to Harvard, Stanford, Oxford and Yale to his pioneering role as founder and CEO of Crimson Education, which has helped thousands of students crack the code of Ivy League admission. ACCEPTED! is the real deal―and fun to read to boot. Tiger Mother approved.” - Amy Chua , John M. Duff, Jr. Professor of Law at Yale Law School, New York Times bestselling author of Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother and The Triple Package: How Three Unlikely Traits Explain the Rise and Fall of Cultural Groups in America “No one knows more about how to get into a top school than Jamie Beaton. This book is filled with actionable advice for improving your odds.” - Adam Grant , New York Times bestselling author of Think Again, Originals and Give and Take, University of Pennsylvania Wharton School of Business top-rated professor for 7 straight years, and listed as one of the world’s 10 most influential management thinkers and Fortune’s 40 under 40. “Higher education has always been exclusive, and in the last 5 years it has become even more so. Lean on Jamie and his experience to get into the best programs in the world.” - Scott Galloway , NYU Stern Professor of Marketing, New York Times bestselling author of The Four, Algebra of Happiness, and Digital IQ Index . Elected to the World Economic Forum's "Global Leaders of Tomorrow," which recognizes 100 individuals under the age of 40 "whose accomplishments have had impact on a global level." “I spent 20 minutes with Jamie Beaton some years ago and jumped at the chance to invest in Crimson when it was a small company with huge success in New Zealand. He was not your typical 19 year old. At an early age Jamie understood the importance of receiving the best education possible, and has tried to avail that to tens of thousands of students worldwide. Jamie is a force of nature who exudes passion, energy and intelligence during almost every hour of the day.” - Julian Robertson , Founder of Tiger Management, The Wizard of Wall Street “When I was growing up in country Australia, it was understood that you’d go into one of two careers: dairy or beef. The chance to attend a great university opened a world of opportunity for me. I hope this book will help bright, ambitious high school students from around the world shoot for the stars through higher education.” - Kevin Rudd AC, Former Australian Prime Minister “If you spend any amount of time with Jamie Beaton, you will find him to be an exceptional and tireless individual. He figured his way from New Zealand to the best universities around the world. He systematized his insights and created Crimson Education to help aspiring students understand the college admission system. Now he brings those insights to ACCEPTED! , his very well-written and entertaining book. If you value entrance to a great university, this book is compulsory reading.” - Alfred Lin , Partner, Sequoia Capital & #1 Venture Capitalists Globally in Forbes Midas 2021 "Jamie is a true pioneer in the education landscape. Through his own experience studying at Harvard, Stanford and Oxford, as well as the almost decade working alongside some of the world's most ambitiou