Whois & Analysis for princetonreview.com

The Princeton Review is a college admission services company offering test preparation services, tutoring and admissions resources, online courses, and books published by Random House.

The company has more than 4,000 teachers and tutors in the United States and Canada and international franchises in 14 other countries.

The company is headquartered in Natick, Massachusetts, and is privately held.

It is not associated with Princeton University.

The SAT is a standardized test widely used for college admissions in the United States.

Introduced in 1926, its name and scoring have changed several times; originally called the Scholastic Aptitude Test, it was later called the Scholastic Assessment Test, then the SAT I: Reasoning Test, then the SAT Reasoning Test, and now, simply the SAT.

The ACT (originally an abbreviation of American College Testing) college readiness assessment is a standardized test for high school achievement and college admissions in the United States produced by ACT, a nonprofit of the same name.

It was first administered in November 1959 by Everett Franklin Lindquist as a competitor to the College Board's Scholastic Aptitude Test, now the SAT.

The ACT originally consisted of four tests: English, Mathematics, Social Studies, and Natural Sciences.

In 1989, the Social Studies test was changed into a Reading section (which included a Social Studies subsection) and the Natural Sciences test was renamed the Science Reasoning test, with more emphasis on problem solving skills.

In February 2005, an optional Writing test was added to the ACT, mirroring changes to the SAT that took place later in March of the same year.

The ACT is now offered as a computer-based test.

The test will continue to be offered in the paper format for schools that are not ready to transition to computer testing.

Test preparation (abbreviated test prep) or exam preparation is an educational course, tutoring service, educational material, or a learning tool designed to increase students' performance on standardized tests.

Examples of these tests include entrance examinations used for admissions to institutions of higher education, such as college (e.g. the SAT and ACT), business school (the GMAT), law school (the LSAT or LNAT), medical school (the MCAT), BMAT, UKCAT and GAMSAT and graduate school (the GRE) and qualifying examinations for admission to gifted education programs.

University admission or college admission is the process through which students enter tertiary education at universities and colleges.

Systems vary widely from country to country, and sometimes from institution to institution.