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Crimson’s Admissions Jumpstart course demystifies US and UK university admissions, introducing students to the value of a university education in a fun, interactive way!

Featuring:

• Admissions requirements;
• Introduction to university selection;
• Introduction to major/course selection;
• Writing workshop;
• Provisional timelines;
• Analyses of role-model profiles.

This course is delivered in four units and incorporates insights from admissions officers, practical workshops, research activities, and analyses of role-model professional and Crimson alumni profiles to launch students’ admission journeys. Ideal for students aged 12-16.

A precursor to the Rise Capstone curriculum, this course focuses on building fundamental skills necessary for successful, Ivy League-level extracurricular and leadership work.

Topics include:

• Research techniques;
• Professional communications;
• Project management;
• Critical thinking;
• Internships.

This modular course allows students and their mentors to focus on the topics most relevant to the student’s needs. Upon completion, the student will be prepared to effectively engage with existing extracurriculars and/or design and execute a Rise capstone project.

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Through in-depth exercises and real-world examples, this course allows students to engage with the building blocks of thinking like an entrepreneur, ideating a start-up company, financing and budgeting a business, and designing an entrepreneurial endeavor.

Topics include:

• Market Analysis and Fulfilling a Need;
• Financing and Budgeting;
• Real-Life Case Studies;
• Prototyping;
• Marketing a Product.

Based on the Cambridge Trinity curriculum, this course introduces a student to formal debate via practical assignments on analysis, argumentation, research, and writing.

Topics include:

• Argument structure;
• Corroborating evidence;
• Debate analysis;
• Evidence comparisons;
• Real-world applications;
• Writing argumentative essays.

More than formal debate practice, this course gives a student the analytical tools to understand and engage with the world around them—an increasingly crucial human skill in context of today’s dependence on technology-driven communication.

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This course provides students with a foundation in the history of social entrepreneurship and the critical processes of designing, financing, and launching a business that does social good.

Topics include:

• Definition of social entrepreneurship;
• Real life case studies;
• Design process;
• Communications and team management;
• Pitching a venture.

The Social Entrepreneurship course emphasizes real-world case examples, concluding with a final project in which the student analyzes elevator pitches and designs a pitch for their own proposed enterprise.

This course gives students a taste of real programming in some of today’s most powerful languages, including Java, Python, and HTML. 

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Topics include:

• Web development introduction  (HTML, CSS)
• Block-based programming (functions, animation)
• Python introduction 

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A highly practical experience, this course incorporates multiple hands-on exercises with revisions and debugging, engaging the student in full-fledged web applications as they practice problem-solving and design-thinking skills—applicable not only to coding but to their entire academic career.‌

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This program offers bespoke, 1:1 coaching that supplements a student’s experience in a local or school-based Model UN club. 

As with any skills-based activity, high performance as an MUN delegate requires both practical experience and technical coaching. While most clubs provide a space for students to practice acting as a delegate, these group settings lack the personalized attention necessary to hone a student’s skills. Crimson pairs the student with an expert who coaches them as they work through their club’s curriculum, refining the student’s skills and preparing them to lock in a prestigious résumé addition. 

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This program offers bespoke, 1:1 tutoring to supplement a student’s studies of one of the following languages:

• French;
• Spanish;
• Italian;
• Latin;
• Japanese;
• Mandarin.

Crimson’s tutoring provides support to students interested in developing a conversational level of fluency. Focus can be on any topic the student is interested in targeting, from area-specific vocabulary to deeper grammar explanations to conversational practice.