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The admissions director at a $56,000-a-year private school in NYC says there’s a key quality they look for in students, and it has nothing to do with intelligence

David Buckwald Avenues

  • Avenues: The World School is a private school in New York City where tuition is $56,400 per year.
  • Students at Avenues range from nursery-level to 12th grade, and they also have a part-time program for 2-year-olds.
  • David Buckwald, the admissions director, says that while the school has a holistic admissions process, there’s one quality that can be a “key differentiator” in their application review: curiosity.
  • Curiosity leads students to “pursue their developing interests and passions … [and] take all that they’ve learned out into the community, city and world, even while still in middle and high school,” read more >>>

    Source:: BusinessInsider.Com