Elite educational consultants, including firms like Command Education, are charging parents exorbitant fees, with some paying as much as $1.5 million for multi-year preparation, to help high school students gain admission to Ivy League schools. These services, costing upwards of $120,000 annually, involve curating extracurricular activities, securing internships, crafting essays, and more. Meanwhile, Yale, Columbia, and Duke have paid a collective $104 million to settle price-fixing charges, indicating financial considerations in admissions decisions. This has sparked a debate over equity in college admissions, particularly after the elimination of standardized tests.
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
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