Inside the first-of-its-kind ‘luxury’ college campus tour that costs mind-bending $300K for four days

These precocious schoolers are getting a instruction successful luxury. 

College hopefuls will soon beryllium capable to circuit universities for illustration rockstars — zipping betwixt campuses connected a backstage jet, crashing successful five-star hotels, and wining and eating their measurement to a decision. 

For a mind-boggling, all-inclusive $300,000, nan assemblage admissions consultancy group IvyWise will whisk distant 7 students — each pinch a genitor successful tow — connected an opulent, first-of-its-kind circuit of 7 elite universities this fall. 

The four-day jaunt costs astir arsenic overmuch arsenic 4 years of tuiton astatine an Ivy League college.

The maiden “Elevation Experience” originates Oct. 13 successful nan Big Apple, wherever nan families will sojourn New York and Columbia universities, earlier nan parents bask meal astatine either Casa Cipriani aliases Zero Bond.

Students, meanwhile, will beryllium treated to Samoa Sundaes astatine nan personage hotspot Corner Store, according to IvyWise’s CEO and founder, Dr. Kat Cohen. 

But that’s conscionable nan beginning.

Attendees will beryllium chauffeured to nan Four Seasons successful Tribeca, wherever they’ll enactment for a nighttime earlier boarding a backstage Gulfstream G650 pitchy that will whisk them to Princeton University successful New Jersey — followed by a skip and a jump to Yale successful New Haven, CT.

Before nan extremity of Day 2, nan pitchy will get successful Beantown, wherever nan families will walk nan adjacent 2 nights astatine different Four Seasons edifice betwixt tours of Boston’s Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard University, and meal astatine ritzy Deuxave. 

The travel culminates pinch a formation to Washington, DC, for a field circuit of Georgetown University – complete pinch a repast astatine nan esteemed Le Diplomate – earlier jetting backmost to Manhattan. 

Attendees tin expect backstage tarmac pickups and chauffeured luxury cars each measurement of nan measurement – arsenic good arsenic caller bags to carrier their belongings, courtesy of a not-yet-decided designer luggage marque that IvyWise will partner with, according to Cohen.  

As acold arsenic world advice, IvyWise counsellor Christine Chu – who antecedently worked arsenic nan adjunct head of admissions astatine Yale and Georgetown – will beryllium connected committee to guarantee students are asking value questions during field info sessions, and that they’re getting nan afloat acquisition during each visit. 

“So you’re getting proposal from an master nan full time,” said Cohen – including earlier nan trip, erstwhile IvyWise’s unit will meet pinch students to create personalized reports.

Post-tour, nan IvyWise unit will thief nan students pinch filing assemblage applications, penning essays and preparing for interviews pinch assemblage administrators, Cohen continued.

“It’s a very robust and highly broad service,” she said, adding that an world circuit is already being planned for outpouring 2026. 

“A batch of families show america that assemblage visits are 1 of nan astir stressful parts of nan admissions journey.” Cohen said. “They want personification to scheme each of their travel, they don’t want immoderate hassle on nan way, and they want to make judge they’re going astir nan tours successful nan correct way. This takes . . . each nan accent retired of it.”

Except for nan SATs.