I’ll tell youse something funny about the sat/act…

So during a dark period of my life when I graduated with my math degree but no job, I ended up doing some tutoring at tutor[dot]com. It was some gig bullshit, you know how it is.

So anyway, it turns out tutor[dot]com was owned by match[dot]com, which is already funny to have your tutoring for kids shit run by volcel outlaws.

But a few years later, they fucking go and buy Princeton Review, which is pretty name-brand as far as admission test prep is concerned—their bread and butter has been selling practice tests etc for the ACT and SAT.

A dating site doesn’t own Princeton Review anymore, sadly:

In April 2010, the company sold $48 million in stock for $3 per share, and a short time later was accused of fraud in a class action suit filed by a Michigan retirement fund, which claimed The Princeton Review leadership exaggerated earnings to boost its stock price.[4] In 2012, the company was acquired by Charlesbank Capital, a private equity fund, for $33 million.[5] On August 1, 2014, the Princeton Review brand name and operations were bought for an undisclosed sum by Tutor.com, an IAC company, and Mandy Ginsburg became CEO. The company is no longer affiliated with its former parent, Education Holdings 1, Inc.[6] On March 31, 2017, ST Unitas[7] acquired The Princeton Review for an undisclosed sum.[8]

I just think it’s extremely funny how something a lesser country might mistake for something important—education—is the kinda thing a bunch of bankers and other sordid coke heads pass around, knock a couple bucks out of for a year or two, then give it to the next guy.

And it actually is fine; the people who deserve employment are exempt from credentialism/have other processes to acquire the necessary bona fides, so this is just stuff the middle class and poors get to peck each others’ eyes out over