The Kindergarten Wars
The Battle to Get into America's Best Private Schools
Chapter One
The $500,000 Question
The Three C's
From the moment the idea for this book inflicted itself on me, before I
began meeting with admissions directors and following families around the
country, friends, colleagues, and acquaintances who were frantically applying
to private school kindergarten began bombarding me with questions: Is private
school that much better than public school? Will getting into an elite
kindergarten get my kid into an elite college? Do people of diversity have an
edge? What should I write on the application to make me stand out? What are
admissions directors looking for in the interview? Are there really such things
as feeder nursery schools? Do first-choice letters matter? Do siblings
automatically get in? Do people buy their way in? Is a private school education
worth $500,000 per child from kindergarten through twelfth grade?
This book attempts to answer those questions.
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