许多父母仍然为他们的孩子注册就读私立高中，为了许多预备学校长期拥有的王牌：跟学院顾问有力的高度的联系。

Still, many parents enroll their kids in private schools for the trump card that top prep schools have long held: the powerful, highly connected college counselor.

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不过，他们10岁的儿子巴伦正在曼哈顿的私立哥伦比亚语法预备学校就读，目前，一个学年刚刚进行到一半。

But the couple's 10-year-old son, Barron, is midway through a school year at the private Columbia Grammar and Preparatory School, in Manhattan.

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