How many $3000 SAT courses have you paid for?
Another point that ties into what I was mentioning, when it came to paying for entire course completion, I never had to negotiate prices with asian students. If I went through the syllabus and work and determined the working hours and thus a price of $1500+, they never complained, they were probably ready to pay any price.
In truth, if you look at spending a couple thousand on a child's education as too much, talking long before college, you couldn't fathom what these parents are ready to throw at their child's development, beyond just education. In fact, although I dipped into a bit earlier, the lady that really got me into providing school services was an assistant professor, she was working on her post-graduate studies at the time, but all of the money she was making was going to her child's private schooling. She was retiring from these services at the time only because she had finally saved up enough to pay for the entirety of the child's private schooling, and I'm talking covering it until HS graduation.
I remember being dumbfounded when she said that shyt to me, here I was spending the money on games and PC parts and this lady just secured private schooling for her child. Yeah, affluent people play the game differently, that's what is really "built different", a recognition of the numbers and how they trend to success in adolescent development and simply following that path.