An excerpt from the Boston Globe -
What’s the craziest thing about a $16,000 college application boot camp: that it has a wait list, or its secret location?
By Beth Teitell
Are you doing enough to get your kid into college? Are you sure? Have you hired a former CIA operative to scrub your kid’s social media presence? Are Hollywood screenwriters helping zip the college essay? Do you have a Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center interventional radiologist positioning your high schooler for the medical school track?
Did your child just finish the four-day, $16,000 Application Boot Camp at a Boston-area hotel — a program so hot that cofounder Michele Hernandez Bayliss wants the location kept secret? “We’ve literally had reporters and competitors trying to stalk” us, she e-mailed the Globe.
When it comes to college consultants, nothing is too extreme. With applications at elite colleges rising — and acceptance rates plummeting as a result — so many wealthy parents are so desperate for any edge it’s as if satirist Sacha Baron Cohen is at work, trying to see what people will buy.
https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2018/08/13/what-craziest-thing-about-college-application-boot-camp-that-has-wait-list-its-secret-location/qBA6dDuE49KFAtYNrJNZPL/story.html?et_rid=606374700&s_campaign=todaysheadlines:newsletter
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