Elite educational consultants, such as Command Education, are charging upwards of $120,000 a year to sculpt high-school kids into Ivy League bait by curating their extracurriculars, helping them land internships, and crafting essays. Additionally, a firm is reported to have 190 clients paying $120,000 each per year for their children, resulting in a total revenue of $23 million. Meanwhile, more than 130,000 New York City public school parents are missing out on free college funds due to a cumbersome enrollment process. In related news, Yale, Columbia, Duke, and other top colleges have paid $104 million to settle price-fixing charges, and standardized test bans have sparked debates on equity in education.
NY Mag profiled an Ivy League college admission consulting firm working with parents of New York private high school students. Here is the setup: ▫️190 clients paying $120k each a year for their child ($23m total revenue) ▫️In exchange: children get basically 24/7 access to a… https://t.co/XTCfHDgM2Y
I’m quite confident the parents who pay hundreds of thousands to admissions consultants did NOT spend the time and money, or enforce the parental discipline of taking their kids to Kumon after school https://t.co/h5Qcostz4H
I read that article about people who pay consultants hundreds of thousands of dollars to marshal their kids into top colleges, and I wanted to know if they ever just say to these kids: "Do your homework, study, and read."
This is what happens when standardized tests get banned. Nothing about $120,000 educational consultants for high school kids promotes “equity.” https://t.co/lVLSyFKTqc
Yale, Columbia, Duke and other top colleges have paid $104 million to settle price-fixing charges, per NYT. They have settled a lawsuit accusing them weighing financial ability when they deliberated over the fates of some applicants.
Elite educational consultants are charging parents upwards of $120,000 a year to coach their kids into Ivy League schools by curating their extracurriculars, helping them land internships, craft essays and more https://t.co/pMVgKMH4td https://t.co/ESiJlTJaYQ
More than 130,000 New York City public school parents are leaving free money on the table for a college fund – and critics say a cumbersome enrollment process could be the cause. https://t.co/ihKzB95jLs
In this article, we see people are paying as much as $1.5 million for multi-year application prep to Ivy schools for high school kids. Just a note: calculus is still calculus at your state school... https://t.co/wFkfmotucS
Elite educational consultants like Command Education charge upwards of $120,000 a year to sculpt high-school kids into Ivy League bait. https://t.co/Kl3rn1ZlVn
How do 0.1 percenters get into their top-choice schools? For our new cover story, @caitmosc reports on elite educational consultants—like Command Education— who charge upwards of $120,000 a year to sculpt high-school kids into Ivy League bait. Read now: https://t.co/ntqM8e51G1 https://t.co/ldvQwC41UH