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Your article "Test Prep Courses Stress, Cost Students" (Feature, April 7) explored an unrepresentative range of Harvard experiences. The article correctly supports the assertion by Nicholas B. Lemann '76 that test prep courses traditionally promote meritocracy. However, there are also exceptions to this tradition. Not all companies use a few rare financial aid offerings covertly. Less privileged students also have the option of using courses that seek them out. Some options, such as my $350 TestWell LSAT course, charge everyone based on financial need and allow for free repeats. Your article fails to mention that students can make more moderate...
...while Kaplan and Princeton Review often tout their financial aid programs to critics, they never advertise them to the public, according to historian Nicholas B. Lemann...
...Lemann, a former Crimson president, studied the origins of test prep companies for his 1999 book The Big Test: The Secret History of the American Meritocracy...
...What economists call the return to education has been increasing very dramatically," Lemann says. "Back in my era, the smart kid in California would go to Stanford or Berkeley. Now the smart kid...is much more likely to apply to Harvard. You have a bigger pool of people chasing a fixed number of slots in the top professional schools...
...ironically, Lemann says no study has ever proved conclusively that test prep courses actually improve applicants' scores...