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...biggest low-cost growth areas is in online tutoring, a relatively new addition to the $4 billion test prep industry. The Princeton Review's cheapest online program - which includes three weeks of access to practice tests and online office hours with a certified instructor - will set you back a mere $85, less than a quarter of what the company charges for a single hour with a flesh-and-blood tutor; enrollment in its online offerings grew 15% in 2008. Over at Academic Approach, online programs are also enjoying double-digit growth. They're more expensive - $499.99 for 45 instructional videos...
Parents of students who are taking the SAT test on Saturday - or getting ready for the next one in May - know that test prep can be an expensive proposition, limited mainly to affluent families who can afford expensive private tutoring sessions. But in a deepening recession that has forced families to cut back, the test-prep industry has responded by lowering prices. And business is booming...
Watching those games is also great prep for picking winners. There are so many different criteria proposed by experts that they often contradict each other in the end. So go with your gut. Pick teams you root for to win, within reason, while predicting teams you don’t like to lose earlier than expected. (Duke has lost to a lower seed every year since 2004 hahaha). Most importantly, be pumped. This is sports utopia...
...said Arun Alagappan, the president of Advantage Testing and one of the principal financial sponsors of the program. “We’re trying to level the playing field by increasing opportunities.” Students will participate in the usual hallmark activities of LSAT test-prep services, including logic games and argumentation, but the program will also draw on the sizable resources of Harvard and NYU to bring in legal scholars and practitioners to address the students. Even though the program is closely associated with Harvard and NYU, with both schools providing some funding...
...insured patients want to hit the chair while they're still lucky enough to have the insurance. "We're seeing that a lot of folks are fearful of losing their jobs," says Rick Willeford, founder and president of the Academy of Dental CPAs, whose members provide accounting and tax-prep work for some 7,000 dentists across the country. "So they want to use their benefits. That has helped keep revenues strong." Spindel, who had his best year ever in 2008, says last spring he saw a "miniboomlet" in these types of cases. "People know that if they're going...