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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]not sure exactly where the kids of Katie Holmes, Sarah Jessica Parker, Emily Blunt, Drew Barrymore, Tina Fey go.[/quote]

LOL.  Actresses are not the wealthiest and most influential people in NYC.  They are also not the most educated.  Sarah Jessica Parker and Drew Barrymore did not go to college.  NYC has over 100 billionaires, including Michael Bloomberg (who has donated heavily to his alma mater Johns Hopkins).[/quote]

Either way, NYC takes wealth to a new level over most of the elite DCUM private day schools.  These are the people paying $100K for SAT test prep and another $100K for a college counselor starting in 8th grade. There are plenty of $50-60K+ day schools in NYC area and majority of those kids goal is elite universities, with many getting in.  Hard not to have the right resume when you started preschool on 3rd base (at a $50K/year preschool) and all the help/assistance possibly needed during the next 15+ years. [/quote]

Nobody anywhere is paying 100k for test prep.[/quote]

This is not true. My friend’s tutor was $750/hour. Let me use another point of comparison: I belong to a concierge doctor in DC. I pay $2500. My NYC friend pays $60k for her concierge service. My CC cost $85k. She belongs to four and each costs about $300k-$800k. My house is prob worth $3mm. Her apartment is worth $20mm. I fly economy plus or business if I can stomach it. She flies first or private. There really is no comparison. The levels of wealth in NY are in another stratosphere. She is the average among my friends.

I also won’t go into what they are doing in NY to get their kids in. Letters from board members is just the baseline. Phone calls from major people, money/donations/etc are on the regular. No one is leaving anything to chance. Plus the NY kids really perform at the colleges because they have already been performing at that level in life in terms of exposure and level of energy. That said they have the same amount of mental health issues that kids anywhere have! But I find that mostly they are more resilient and have a greater sense that they can get thru anything. They just carry on. Mostly because they know they’re parents will always help. [/quote]

lol.  Wealthy NYC private school kids performing at some elite level in college, post grad, and life in general just isn’t my experience at all.  All of the financial expenditure may be true (though isn’t anywhere close to the norm in even that set - for starters the entire class at dalton doesn’t live in 20M apartments or come from that sort of extreme wealth) but seeing that outlay translate to results in actual meritorious performance metrics is straining credulity. [/quote]

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