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How College Consultants Invent Perfect Ivy League Applicants

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This article was featured in One Great Story, New York’s reading recommendation newsletter. Sign up here to get it nightly. Christopher Rim makes himself hard to get to. First, there’s the email to register as a guest at the Aman Club, where members pay an initiation fee of $200,000 to perch themselves above the crowds on Fifth Avenue and where Rim sometimes holds his client meetings. Then there’s the check-in at the front desk to get access to the elevator, which leads to another reception area on the 14th floor. From there, a man in a suit guides me into the main room (fireplace, lots of couches, mostly empty), then through a door that blends into a wall, past a bar (one guy drinking water; it’s only noon), and up a narrow flight of stairs. It’s there that I meet Rim in a small room decorated with bottles of Macallan 18 and coffee-table books about art. His look is quiet luxury, though everything about this meeting appears designed to scream money. On his wrist: a $55,000 Patek Phili

At Colette Club, one of the members-only clubs in Manhattan where Christopher Rim sometimes meets with clients. Photo: Jeff Brown This article was featured in One Great Story , New York ’s reading recommendation newsletter. Sign up here to get it nightly. Christopher Rim makes himself hard to get to. First, there’s the email to register as a guest at the Aman Club, where members pay an initiation fee of $200,000 to perch themselves above the crowds on Fifth Avenue and where Rim sometimes holds his client meetings. Then there’s the check-in at the front desk to get access to the elevator, which

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