Nervous About Trump, NYC’s Rich Parents Are Being Lured by Elite UK Schools
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On a cool evening in early May, emissaries for 11 of Europe’s finest prep schools mingled with the Upper East Side set at the Pratt Mansions, a classic, Beaux-Arts edifice erected across the street from Central Park.
Officials from Milton Abbey School were there and Benenden School and Westminster School. For two hours, they pitched New York’s well-heeled parents on the benefits of sending their teens across the Atlantic to study: morning rows on the Thames, breakfast in a Hogwarts-like dining hall, ski trips in the Alps — all for just a bit more than the roughly $70,000 they’d pay for private schooling in Manhattan.