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Is Westminster School the best school on Earth? STATESMOM returns
statesmom · 27/06/2024 22:23
statesmom · 28/06/2024 16:57
To ncsurrey22:
I did not say that; parents at top private schools in Manhattan do not necessarily need counsellors for $1.5 million (by the way the article is here: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/03/magazine/benjamin-bolger-college-harvard-yale.html) quote: "In the world of elite college coaching, this isn’t exceptional: A five-year plan from the New York firm Ivy Coach costs as much as $1.5 million."
Top private schools in Manhattan have relationships with Ivies, as does Eton, Harrow, ASL and many others.
That I had to spend so much ca$h on a consultant really peeved me off. But they got the goods and I'd happily pay it again. Thank goodness we could afford it. But they did provide years long guidance so I guess 5 figures can be expensed over time!!!!!!!!!
All of the top kids are going to university in the US. Who would take Oxford over Stanford, Harvard, Princeton, Penn, Chicago? Only a moron.
The US is the future. What are you going to tell your kid? You want to succeed? Move to Verona! Silicon Valley is so overrated.
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statesmom · 28/06/2024 23:42
Do you really want to get into a debate about whether you want your child to forge a life in the United States or in the UK or Europe?!
If you're a top flight 18 year old in Athens, let me tell you, you are not staying in Greece, OK? Hello?
Any top kid growing up in the UK, with a brain, can pretty clearly see that there is a better future for him in America. I mean, is this a debate?! Please.
And so of course we set out son on a path to the Ivy League. Because we love him.
If we were selfish and wanted him to live near us we'd have him apply to Oxford Community College or whatever it's called.
I ask anyone reading this: If you had a choice to send your child to Stanford, and be near Silicon Valley's opportunities, or to Cambridge for, I don't know what, punting on the river; which would you choose?
Give me a break people!
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