That, And Blair Waldorf Still Won’t Think You’re Good Enough To Be At Constance Billard

And aren’t some of the schools that cost this much places that snobs sneer at anyway? In other words, it’s more expensive to attend these places than it is to enroll at Harvard, with a fraction of the prestige:

Over the past 10 years, the median price of first grade in the city has gone up by 48 percent, adjusted for inflation, compared with a 35 percent increase at private schools nationally — and just 24 percent at an Ivy League college — according to tuition data provided by 41 New York City K-12 private schools to the National Association of Independent Schools.

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“Within one to two years, every independent school will cost more than $40,000,” said one board member at a top school who spoke on the condition of anonymity because the school had not yet set tuition.