Top of the Class
Hear from Harvard graduates, Olympiad medalists, charity founders, science fair winners, college admission experts and more. We get their practical tips and advice so you can do the same. This podcast is powered by Crimson Education - visit crimsoneducation.org to learn how to apply to the world’s top universities and create your own extraordinary extracurriculars.
- Update frequency
- every 4 days
- Average duration
- 33 minutes
- Episodes
- 123
- Years Active
- 2020 - 2023
#66 How To Build A Public Speaker Brand At 13-Years-Old
#66 How To Build A Public Speaker Brand At 13-Years-Old
Hasini LakshmiNarayanan is a 13-year-old public speaker, activist, founder of an organisation and journalist. She joins the podcast to share how…
#65 Win $1000USD With The Harvard Crimson Global Essay Comp!
#65 Win $1000USD With The Harvard Crimson Global Essay Comp! Ft Karin
Summary
Crimson Global Academy student and Ambassador for the HCGE, Karin, answers all our questions and gives her own tips for gr…
#64 Time Management, Art, Math Research & College Classes All At 16-Years-Old
#64 Time Management, Math Research & College Classes All At 16-Years-Old Ft Apoorva Panidapu
Summary:
Apoorva's has carved her own education pathway and it's easy to see why. At 16, she has raised $40…
#63 Balancing UC Berkeley CS and an International STEM Org - LinkedIn Tips, College Tips and More!
#63 Balancing UC Berkeley CS and an International STEM Org - LinkedIn Tips, College Tips and More! Ft Stephanie Su
Summary
Stephanie is a freshman at UC Berkeley and the Lead Director at Superposition.…
#62 Solving The Impossible With Arnav, Mikael and Aahaan
#62 Solving The Impossible With Arnav, Mikael and Aahaan Ft Arnav, Mikael and Aahaan
The Solving the Impossible Award for 14-18 year olds was recently taken out by IBM's youngest ever intern, Arnav. T…
#61 How Aditya Is Teaching Personal Finance To Thousands
#61 How Aditya Is Teaching Personal Finance To Thousands Ft Aditya Bagga
Personal finance is almost always the top thing students, parents and teachers think schools should teach more. But, with forma…
Our Guest Is Stuck In An ELEVATOR! Oh, and we're now on Slack...
I was sooo looking forward to chatting to our next guest but he's stuck in an elevator!
All signs point to him being ok with help on the way but the episode will have to wait.
In the meantime, I'd lov…
#17 How An Extracurricular Expert Evaluates Student Activities
College Tips - How An Extracurricular Expert Evaluates Student Activities Ft. Tressa Thomas, Crimson Education Head of ECLs
Summary
When it comes to getting into top colleges, it's usually the extracur…
#60 The Winners of TGCC - The World's First Global, Virtual Case Comp For High Schoolers
The Winners of TGCC - The World's First Global, Virtual Case Comp For High Schoolers Ft. Tina Mai, Alexis Lindenfelser and Charlotte Quintanar
The Tiger Global Case Comp has thousands of high schooler…
#59 How Will Got Into YYGS and Made Evatt Nationals On His First Attempt!
How Will Got Into YYGS and Made Evatt Nationals On His First Attempt Ft. Will Gu
Australian, Will Gu, recently made it into the Nationals for the prestigious Evatt competition (similar to Model United…
#58 How This 16-Year-Old Got Internships Through LinkedIn and Built A Coding Community
How This 16-Year-Old Got Internships Through LinkedIn and Built A Coding Community Ft. Sirihaasa Nallamothu
Episode Summary
Sirihaasa "happy cried" during FIRST LEGO League competitions so she knew he…
#16 How 'Name, Image, Likeness' is a Game Changer For Student Athletes
College Tips - How 'Name, Image, Likeness' is a Game Changer For Student Athletes ft. Tessa Berger - Crimson Education Head of Athletics
Episode Summary
Crimson Education's Head of Athletics and former…
#57 The CEO Of Revoteen Talks Connecting Teens To Opportunities
The CEO Of Revoteen Talks Connecting Teens To Opportunities ft. Aditya Jain
Episode Summary
Aditya is 15 and started Revoteen to connect teens to opportunities. The platform has quickly grown to 3000 …
#56 How Non-Profit Status Helped Sciencious Reach Thousands!
How Non-Profit Status Helped Sciencious Reach Thousands! ft. Nathan Nguyen
Episode Summary
Nathan is the founder and CEO of Sciencious, an organisation bringing STEM education to underprivileged and un…
#55 Interning at Musk's Neuralink, Blockchain, Making Luck and Studying at Stanford
The AP Mini Series - Why AP Psychology is a Fantastic Foundation for College
In the final episode of the AP Mini Series, AP Psychology teacher, Audrey, talks about how she came to love AP Psychology, why it's the perfect foundation for many college courses and how it's often …
The AP Mini Series - How to Nail AP Calculus with Mr Simpson
Crimson Global Academy teacher, Mr Simpson, describes AP Calculus as both a beautiful course and the toughest high school course there is.
In this chat, Mr Simpson gives an insight into the level of m…
The AP Mini Series - How to Crush Computer Science A with Mr Chang
The AP Mini Series - How to Crush Computer Science A with Mr Chang
Episode Summary
In this mini series, teachers from the Crimson Global Academy come on the show to give you an insight into their subje…
#54 The Youngest Ever Chess Grandmaster, 12-year-old Abhi Mishra, Talks Training, Competing and More
The Youngest Ever Chess Grandmaster ft. Abhimanyu Mishra
Episode Summary
The Top of the Class welcomes Abhimanyu Mishra as this week’s guest. Abhi recently broke a 19-year-old world record in becoming …
#15 The 5 Hurdles in the Race to College Admission
Guest: Carol Lyrio - Crimson Education Strategist and Duke University alum from São Paulo, Brazil.
Carol discusses the five hurdles of college admissions - finance, academics, extracurriculars, essays…