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The Princeton Review (TPR) is an American educational preparation company. It offers test preparation for standardized aptitude tests such as the SAT and advice regarding college admissions. Approximately 70% of the company's revenue comes from test preparation. [1] The company was founded in 1981 by John Katzman, after graduating from Princeton University, and is based in New York City. It is not affiliated with Princeton University or the Educational Testing Service.

Test preparation

The Princeton Review offers test preparation courses in various tests:[2][3]

The company offers courses world-wide through company-owned and third-party franchises. Countries with Princeton Review franchises include China, India, Israel, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, Mexico, Pakistan, Singapore, Syria, Taiwan, Thailand, Turkey, and the United Arab Emirates.[4]

The Princeton Review offers both private tutoring and classroom courses. SAT courses guarantee an improvement in scores.[5]

College admissions

The Princeton Review Bookstore[6] publishes various guides to colleges, including The Best 366 Colleges, the Complete Book of Colleges, and the Parents' Guide to College Life. It also publishes test preparation books for various exams.

The Princeton Review website provides free advice and tools for college admissions.[7] It also provides the rankings from The Best 366 Colleges, including "Top 20" lists in categories such as "Professors Get High Marks", "Happiest Students", and "Dorms Like Dungeons".[8]

The admissions division also offers services to high school guidance departments[9] and colleges[10].

K–12

The Princeton Review's K–12 and Admissions Services division provides assessment, intervention and professional development programs to school districts.[11]

August 2008 Data Exposure

In August 2008, the New York Times reported that a flaw in the company's web site exposed data about 34,000 Sarasota, Florida students to the web, including FCAT test scores.[12] In addition, names and birthdates of 74,000 Fairfax County, Virginia students were exposed, as well as some documents regarding Princeton Review's internal procedures. After being notified of the problem, the company shut off access to the data and conducted a review of procedures.

References

  1. ^ Third Quarter Earnings
  2. ^ Test preparation
  3. ^ More tests
  4. ^ International Offices of The Princeton Review
  5. ^ Our guarantee
  6. ^ College bookstore
  7. ^ Colleges and careers
  8. ^ Best 361 Colleges rankings
  9. ^ Guidance support & test preparation
  10. ^ Admissions center
  11. ^ http://www.princetonreview.com/educators/instructional/default.asp K–12 Educators
  12. ^ http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/19/technology/19review.html
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