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PERHAPS THIS would not concern anyone if episodes this year did not clearly suggest that the professional administrators have made expediency the end of Harvard policy. Derek Bok nearly sent Harvard interns to all-white South African prep schools and other institutions that bolster apartheid as what administrators called an educational initiative to benefit South Africa's Blacks...
While actual cram courses are indeed ineffectual at best, there is irrefutable evidence that the Kaplan program is much more than an "expensive confidence booster." No less an authority than the FTC's Bureau of Consumer Protection, in a 1979 study on standardized-test prep courses, wrote, "though it cannot be concluded that coaching [in general] will work for everyone, the results of the study do show that coaching can be effective for those who do not score well on standardized tests." Much more significantly, they added, "coaching at School A [Kaplan] can be effective for all students, not just...
...addition, having taken a prep course didn't seem to affect students' LSAT scores or chances of admission, Geraghty said...
Another Harvard Law School applicant said she doubted whether taking a prep course helped her scores. "I think that I could have learned the same on my own," said Linda J. Runyan...
...England regional head of the Stanley Kaplan Education Center, Susan B. Kaplan, said she does not think the new question will affect the demand for prep courses. The Kaplan course costs $400 and runs for eight weeks, with one four-to-five-hour class per week...