While most kids are looking for summer jobs, starting a pre-college internship or pouring over their summer reading lists, the kids who attend Raquette Lake Camp, located in the heart of New York's Adirondack mountains, enjoy luxuries little known to the majority of people.
Raquette Lake is so exclusive that rates for 2014 are not listed on its website. The rate in 2012 was a whopping $11,400 per kid (per Business Insider.com) – and that's just for the basics!
Campers (ages 6-16) enjoy million dollar facilities, a camper to counselor ratio of 2:1, full-uniform attire, Olympic-level sports coaches, and around-the-clock counselor supervision in the bunks, all with 100 miles of shoreline on one of the cleanest lakes in the country.
Money alone doesn't guarantee you a summer at the prestigious camp, which has room for only 450 campers. Of those kids, most are returnees. Next chosen are siblings and legacies (some kids are third-and fourth-generation campers), leaving about 10 to 12 spots for new recruits who have to go through a rigorous screening process. Most end up on a wait list.
Every camper has tennis instruction every day and once a week the campers take on a ropes course. There is an equestrian program and the older campers – boys and girls alike – take an 80-mile canoe trip.
If that isn't enough, every week at camp, a different age group puts on a full-length play with the help of Broadway and off-Broadway directors, voice coaches, and costume designers. Jazz hands, everyone!
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