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| | University-preparatory school - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | A university-preparatory school or college-preparatory school (usually abbreviated to preparatory school, college prep school, or prep school) is a private secondary school designed to prepare a student for higher education. |
 | | The existence of such controls, which are a primary defining characteristic of public, government-operated, elementary and secondary schools, have contributed to the support and growth of prep schools, because these controls are widely viewed by preparatory school proponents as an unacceptable burden on the educational process, and on student outcomes such as university matriculation. |
 | | However the term preparatory school, more commonly "prep school" is used in a different way to describe schools which prepare students under thirteen for prestigious fee-paying Public Schools. |
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