At $50,000 a Year, ‘Baby Ivies’ Road to Yale Starts at Age 5

  • College scandal confirms what affluent New Yorkers know
  • Pre-K and kindergarten are as tough to crack as Ivy League
The Expensive Road to the Ivy League

The words are whispered under a cone of silence in moneyed Manhattan: cutthroat, ruthless, Darwinian, cruel.

Whispered, too, are the shimmering prizes: the future keys, it’s said, to Harvard, Princeton or Yale.