१५ सप्टेंबर, २०२६

"Beaton... had graduated magna cum laude from Harvard in 2016, picking up a master’s degree in applied mathematics along the way. He had gone on to collect an M.B.A. from Stanford."

"Then a law degree from Yale. That was followed by a doctor of philosophy in public policy from Oxford, where he was a Rhodes scholar — all before age 28. Attending classes remotely and in person, he earned additional master’s degrees from — deep breath — the University of Pennsylvania (education entrepreneurship), Stanford (education technology), Princeton (finance), Cornell (health care policy and economics), Dartmouth (implementation science), King’s College London (war studies) and Tsinghua University in Beijing (global affairs).... Is it education as performance art? An elaborate marketing ploy for his business?"

From "He Might End Up the World’s Most Educated Person/Jamie Beaton has 12 advanced degrees from Harvard, Yale, Oxford and other top universities, with more on the way. Why? How?"

५३ टिप्पण्या:

Smilin' Jack म्हणाले...

"Beaton... had graduated magna cum laude from Harvard in 2016, picking up a master’s degree in applied mathematics along the way.“

In math that’s a consolation prize for not being able to hack the Ph.D.

Josephbleau म्हणाले...

At Harvard they say, “only a magna”.

RideSpaceMountain म्हणाले...

60 years ago this would've been more impressive. It's still impressive, but higher education hasn't exactly cared well for its brand. In fact the most impressive pedigree on that list is QingHua. That's impressive.

RCOCEAN II म्हणाले...

How many people weren't able to attend any of these schools or get a place in a class because this guy was hogging all the space?

Levi Starks म्हणाले...

This kind of advanced accelerated learning poses a risk to all other less capable students, We need immediate legislation to insure this increasing level of knowledge possessed by a single individual does not go unchecked.

RCOCEAN II म्हणाले...

Usually once you get into one of the elite colleges you're in "the club". But they "the club" is keeping out all kinds of super-students based on race and religion. Mostly asians, but also many White Christians. But y'know who cares about that.

Wince म्हणाले...

“Beaton has 12 advanced degrees from Harvard, Yale, Oxford and other top universities, with more on the way.”

The Ramones wrote a song about this show-off!

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=HBg4Nk1WuSQ&ra=m

WK म्हणाले...

At least he seems to not have any educational debt to pay off.

chuck म्हणाले...

Maybe it is fun? As long as he can pay the bills, why not?

Leora म्हणाले...

When I was growing up, we had a family friend who kept going for multiple degrees. He ended up as the president of a small liberal arts college of the progressive type.

john mosby म्हणाले...

The masters degree could be from the Harvard sophomore standing program. If you have enough 5’s on AP exams, you are kinda-sorta placed out of your freshman year and given an opportunity to use the fourth year to take all grad courses and get a coursework-only masters. You get both the BA and MA conferred at the end of that fourth year.

I’ve often thought the Ivies should just give all their undergrads an MA to reflect that they showed up to college having already completed most of a college education. CC, JSM

Lazarus म्हणाले...

Some of those aren't real subjects.

If he's found dead though, I hope Jimmy Franco has an alibi. Franco did, after all, manage to get other things done while he was getting all his degrees.

tommyesq म्हणाले...

Wait, I thought higher education and trying at stuff was facist?

tommyesq म्हणाले...

Who paid for all of this? What did they (or more likely, we the taxpayer) get out of it?

Joe Bar म्हणाले...

How did he pay for all this? Higher degrees aren’t cheap.

J Scott म्हणाले...

He did get a degree in education entrepreneurship, maybe that's how he managed to afford them

Saint Croix म्हणाले...

He's 30 now.

His first several degrees were legit, I imagine.

Over the last two years, he's picked up a monster number of degrees, most of it via "remote" work. He's using AI, it seems to me, which accounts for the number of degrees, and how quickly he is getting them. This isn't a remarkable human story, in my opinion. He's just figured out how to game the system. That's my guess, anyway.

Saint Croix म्हणाले...

He's the founder of a company valued at $600 million dollars. Did y'all read the article? He's paying his tuition out of petty cash.

Dave Begley म्हणाले...

This guy claims he is educated? Ha! Not a single Jesuit school on the list.

boatbuilder म्हणाले...

Seems like a brilliant and highly motivated person. Not clear why he's wasting his time pursuing degrees, but he does seem to get a lot done outside of his schoolwork. Also smart enough to get the photo with his wife taken on the staircase.

F म्हणाले...

When I was a glider flight instructor I had a student who wanted the training necessary for a commercial glider certificate. I suggested he take additional training in advanced soaring techniques. He wasn't interested. He wanted the rating but never planned to use it.

It turns out he was a collector of FAA certificates, most of which he said he'd never use. When he was working with me he already had FAA certificates and ratings for private, commercial, and ATP land and sea, instrument, single- and multi-engine, commercial hot air balloon, turbine and piston ratings in heavy aircraft and a handful of type ratings. He asked if he could get an ATP rating in gliders -- I told him the FAA did not have one.

And he was funding it all out of his own pocket. Turns out collecting FAA ratings is a thing. Only one I ever knew.

Lem Vibe Bandit म्हणाले...

ai: "A professional student can mean either a graduate student training for a specific licensed career or, colloquially, someone who stays in school for many years without entering the workforce."
I was only aware of the 'lighthearted coloquial' label.

Scott Gustafson म्हणाले...

Why does this remind me of The Librarian?

William50 म्हणाले...

RCOCEAN II said...

How many people weren't able to attend any of these schools or get a place in a class because this guy was hogging all the space?
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1 for each school.

Ampersand म्हणाले...

A life like that emerges from a social network utterly foreign to the one I came from. It is a network hermetically sealed from my own.

rsbsail म्हणाले...

The old saying about the road to bankruptcy for companies is paved with MBA degrees is not far off.

hanuman_prodigious_leaper म्हणाले...

Reverse Arday

MikeD म्हणाले...

He might end up as the world's most educated? He'll end up, maybe, the most credentialed, which in no way equates to educated!

BG म्हणाले...

Oh, yeah? But does he know how to fix a leaky faucet or change the oil in his car?

Fred Drinkwater म्हणाले...

I guess things have changed since the time at Berkeley when the joke was, they'd never give Bill Joy his degree because then who would keep BSD UNIX running?

Leora म्हणाले...

I just checked on my family friend - he left Bennington to become President of Rutgers after we'd lost track of him. Wikipedia says his presidency was a golden age at Rutgers. He only had 6 advanced degrees as I remember. His wife was my pediatrician.

Nancy Reyes म्हणाले...

Now have him go to medical school where part of the degree mandates working with people.

bagoh20 म्हणाले...

I just read today that the government is going after an Indian (dot), organization that's been printing and selling thousands of fake degree: doctors, nurses, all kinds. One guy was an ER doctor with a fake degree. That's ballsy. Our country is one big Keystone Cops station.

bagoh20 म्हणाले...

This sounds like something a white supremist would do just to be superior. I'm against it.

Oso Negro म्हणाले...

His firm is a "Global university admissions consultancy". In other words, bilking desperate parents who want to secure admissions to a certain class. Being a native of Missouri, if he was an applicant, I would insist on verifying every single one of his diplomas. Remember folks, credentialed does not mean capable.

Narr म्हणाले...

I worked in the university library with a guy who had four MAs at the time--library, econ, history, and literature IIRC, and was also an army veteran.

He had virtually no personality and lasted about six months.

As for Beaton, he sems to have made something of his studies, and good on him.

RCOCEAN II म्हणाले...

Narr. He was obviously over qualified. Or maybe he was just a great student and a poor worker.

RCOCEAN II म्हणाले...

Actually when i read about all these degrees two thoughts popped into my mind. 1) He has connections. 2) Jeffrey Epstein.

Left Bank of the Charles म्हणाले...

“Away from his studies, Beaton, 31, has become a player in the field of college admissions counseling. His clients pay between $30,000 and $200,000 for a multiyear program designed to enhance their children’s chances of getting into top universities.”

“[His company Crimson Education] now has 1,200 full-time staff members, he said — and hired an accounting firm to vet its numbers. Of the 10,000 students who have used its services, more than 2,000 have been accepted by Ivy League universities, Stanford or the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, he said.”

That’s a lot to pay for a 20% success rate.

john mosby म्हणाले...

Left Bank: 20% is five times better than 4%, the overall success rate for applying to the Ivies. CC, JSM

Saint Croix म्हणाले...

AI use is off the charts. Obviously. My suspicion is they all use it. The advantages for the people who use and the people who don't are probably ridiculous.

Use AI to write your paper and go out and party.

Or stay at home, don't party, and try to write your paper yourself.

In the future, you're hiring people based on their ability to use AI. If you're hiring people at all! Do you need to go to Harvard to learn how to use AI? Do you need to pay somebody $200,000 to get your kid into Harvard so she can learn how to use AI?

Magilla Gorilla म्हणाले...

I ended up with three degrees because I could not make up my mind what I wanted to do when I grew up. Law school was my most expensive mistake. But when my wife compliments me for doing something that is not entirely stupid, I say "nine years of college...."

Wilbur म्हणाले...

This guy sounds like the perfect contestant for To Tell the Truth or I've Got a Secret.

mezzrow म्हणाले...

Let's talk about addictive behavior and the ways it can become manifest.

Left Bank of the Charles म्हणाले...

“20% is five times better than 4%, the overall success rate for applying to the Ivies.”

The overall success rate of getting into any Ivy is much higher than the success rates for a particular Ivy, probably around 15%, taking into account that many students apply to multiple Ivies.

If the applicants who have no realistic chance of admission are excluded, the overall success rate is probably around 30% to 50%.

Left Bank of the Charles म्हणाले...


“He has connections.”

Yep:

‘Amy Chua, the author of “Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother,” a 2011 memoir about her hard-driving parenting style, was one of Beaton’s professors at Yale Law School. In recent years she has written more letters of recommendation for him than she can count.

“He can’t stop applying to things,” she said.

She acknowledged that his story sounds apocryphal.

“Jamie is so unusual that I wouldn’t have been surprised if someone had said to me, ‘Oh, he invented the whole thing — he doesn’t even have a mother,’” Chua said.‘

JK Brown म्हणाले...

According to college propaganda, this must become the most successful man in the world. After all, he had lots of "college premiums" built up.

Let's check back in 10 years or so to see if this guy has done anything economically useful in the world.

"The idea is, of course, that men are successful because they have gone to college. No idea was ever more absurd. No man is successful because he has managed to pass a certain number of courses and has received a sheepskin which tells the world in Latin, that neither the world nor the graduate can read, that he has successfully completed the work required. If the man is successful, it is because he has the qualities for success in him; the college "education" has merely, speaking in terms' of horticulture, forced those qualities and given him certain intellectual tools with which to work—tools which he could have got without going to college, but not nearly so quickly. So far as anything practical is concerned, a college is simply an intellectual hothouse. For four years the mind of the undergraduate is put "under glass," and a very warm and constant sunshine is poured down upon it. The result is, of course, that his mind blooms earlier than it would in the much cooler intellectual atmosphere of the business world.

"A man learns more about business in the first six months after his graduation than he does in his whole four years of college. But—and here is the "practical" result of his college work—he learns far more in those six months than if he had not gone to college. He has been trained to learn, and that, to all intents and purposes, is all the training he has received. To say that he has been trained to think is to say essentially that he has been trained to learn, but remember that it is impossible to teach a man to think. The power to think must be inherently his. All that the teacher can do is help him learn to order his thoughts—such as they are. "

Marks, Percy, "Under Glass", Scribner's Magazine Vol 73, 1923

mikee म्हणाले...

Why? Because he can, and wants to. Academia is a world unto itself, and can be a comfortable life worth living. Why he is not yet a tenured professor in an endowed chair is the only remaining question.

And I am thinking of Bighead from Silicon Valley as I type this.

loudogblog म्हणाले...

"Now I have the best of both worlds; a Harvard education and a Yale degree." - JFK
"Magna Cum Laude!" - Junior Potter, son of Paleface Potter

Rocco म्हणाले...

Because he has a master’s degree, he’s now Master Beaton.

NMObjectivist म्हणाले...

Grok, who is Beaton. Well he's super rich!!
"Jamie Beaton is a New Zealand-born entrepreneur (around age 31 as of 2026) and co-founder/CEO of Crimson Education, a global college-admissions consulting firm.

He grew up in Auckland, attended King’s College on scholarship, applied to 25 top universities as a high-schooler and was accepted to all of them, then compressed a Harvard BA + master’s in applied mathematics into three years, graduating magna cum laude in 2016. He later added an MBA (and another master’s) from Stanford, a JD from Yale, a DPhil in public policy from Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar (all by age 28), plus additional master’s degrees from Penn, Princeton, Cornell, Dartmouth, King’s College London, Tsinghua, Columbia, and others. He is still enrolled in more programs.

What he’s doing now
He continues to run Crimson Education (valued in the $600 million–$1 billion range in recent reports), which helps students apply to elite universities and has operations in 25+ countries. He also co-founded Crimson Global Academy, an online high school.
...

Rosalyn C. म्हणाले...

‘Amy Chua, ... one of Beaton’s professors at Yale Law School. In recent years ... has written more letters of recommendation for him than she can count.

What would she say, he's motivated and likely to make a contribution to this field, when she knows he's collecting degrees and won't? Or that he probably won't take up much space and will pay out of state tuition?

Aught Severn म्हणाले...

Nothing in that list seemed particularly impressive. Maybe those programs were rigorous, maybe not, but "xxx of arts" degrees don't generally get associated with genius-level intellect when I come across them. The kind of degrees where you can take middle-school (ie, not calculus based) science courses as part of the degree requirement. So...meh.

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