Achieva College Prep Centers |
| Headquarters: Palo Alto, Calif. |
| College-admissions services: One-on-one counseling by recent college graduates, many from Stanford University or the University of California, Berkeley. Senior-year package of services runs about $2,000. Achieva promotes starting services as early as freshman year of high school, when it can help students with study skills and summer and extracurricular-activity planning. |
| Other services: Test prep, tutoring. |
| Annual revenues: Not available. Company is privately held. |
| Kaplan Educational Centers |
| Headquarters: New York City |
| College-admissions services: Counseling services in small classes of about four or five students. Course consists of five 21/2-hour sessions and costs $699, or $499 for students enrolled in a Kaplan college-admissions-preparation course. Also offering online version. |
| Other services: Test preparation in centers and online, Score! tutoring centers, career services, and Concord University School of Law, the country’s first all-online law school. |
| Annual revenues: $255 million in fiscal 1999. Kaplan is a wholly owned subsidiary of the Washington Post Co. |
| Princeton Review |
| Headquarters: New York City |
| College-admissions services: One-on-one counseling with advisers who have a minimum of three years’ experience in admissions, at either the high school or college level. Packages range from $2,900 for high school seniors (one year of counseling) to $5,400 for freshmen (four years of counseling). Those packages include a Princeton Review test-prep course or five hours of tutoring. |
| Other services: Test prep in centers and online, and Homeroom.com, a new online service to help teachers, students, and parents with educational tools aligned to state curricula and tests. |
| Annual revenues: $80 million in fiscal 1999. Company is privately held. |
