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然而即使你能付得起学费，你必须要先入园才行。在曼哈顿区一些最抢手的学校里，争夺一个名额的竞争是非常激烈的。

But before you can even pay the tuition, you have to get in. Competition for a spot at some of Manhattan's most coveted schools is fierce.

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“要想进入心仪的学校，我必须更加努力才行。”25岁的库纳尔·达斯(Kunal Das)说，他在微软纽约分部担任搜索媒体策略师。

'I'm going to have to work a lot harder to get into the school I want,' says Kunal Das, 25, a search media strategist at Microsoft Corp. in New York.

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