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...COLLEGE PREP It's never too early to start envisioning the possibilities and payoffs of higher education...
...feckless but funny bunch of buddies. Also a paraplegic brother, a three-legged dog and a widowed father (Alec Baldwin) for whom tough love is a family tradition, not a catch phrase. It is he who has sentenced his son to a last-chance senior year in prep school, which strikes him as a better, if more expensive, alternative to reform school...
...Internship Bible. He estimates that the number of interns has doubled in the past decade. Peterson's Summer Opportunities for Kids & Teenagers contains 1,800 entries this year--internships, specialized camps and summer-abroad programs--nearly twice the 1995 number. Summer-school enrollment is on the rise, as are prep courses for the SATs; the Princeton Review got so many tutoring requests in the ritzy Hamptons this year that it had to rent a summer house to accommodate all the tutors. "It's getting pretty grim out there," says Dave Berry, president of College Prep Services, Inc. "Colleges want...
...nonwhite, non-Asian minority communities across California, college prep is beginning younger and younger. It is a legacy of Proposition 209, which ended affirmative action in California, and a reaction to the prospect of Hispanics' and blacks' vanishing from state campuses...
...story circulating on campus describes the leader of a study group preparing for a recent exam who required the transcripts and resumes of other students who wanted to be part of the exam prep contingent...