Boarding School: Elite Education Away From Home
Top boarding schools cost $70,000 a year in the US and over $200,000 in Switzerland. Here’s who actually goes, what it really buys, and what families get wrong.
Top boarding schools cost $70,000 a year in the US and over $200,000 in Switzerland. Here’s who actually goes, what it really buys, and what families get wrong.
Wealthy parents spend $70K a year on a Manhattan kindergarten and $500K on a college consultant. The genuine risks to their children are not what most of them are buying against.
A 2025 Goldman survey said 40% of Americans earning over $500,000 live paycheck-to-paycheck. The math defends it. The framing does not. Here’s both.