Private tutoring has also grown in popularity but comes with an even higher price tag. For example, the Princeton Review’s SAT private tutoring costs between $175 and $364 per hour. Between 1997 and 2022, the number of private tutoring centers more than tripled, from 3,000 to 10,000. Private tutoring centers tend to be concentrated in areas with high income and parental education and high shares of Asian American families. College admissions test prep is not the only service these tutoring centers provide, but these results still point to differences in demand for and access to this form of intensive test prep across socioeconomic status and race/ethnicity.
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