Korean School Preps Students For Ivy League

Anthony Kuhn:

With admissions getting more competitive every year, spots at top American colleges are becoming a globally coveted commodity. In Seoul, one elite South Korean prep school has become the envy of many upper-crust U.S. prep schools with its success at getting its students into Ivy League colleges.

The Korean school's formula is simple: Select the country's brightest and most ambitious students and work them extremely hard.

U.S.-Style Studying 101

Roughly 1,200 students at the private Daewon Foreign Language High School begin their day with a nationally required curriculum of Korean, math and English. Three afternoons a week, about a quarter of them continue their studies in the Global Leadership Program -- a special course that emphasizes the research, writing and analytical skills they will need at top U.S. colleges.

Posted by Jim Zellmer at July 3, 2009 5:11 AM
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