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Reviewed on August 1, 2019 | Parenting
When education expert Clavel's son was two years old, she began the competitive search for preschools in New York City (reputedly harder to get into than Stanford, with a four percent acceptance rate). Thousands of parents (some willing to hire expensivce counselors to guide them through the application process) compete over fewer than 30 slots, many of which are reserved for legacy kids. At the end of the preschool experience, private preschools in the city have an "exmissions" staff to help parents write "first-choice" letters for admittance to prima...Log In or Sign Up to Read More