Dear Shmooper Bowl Champs*:
Tick, tick, tick**
The countdown to test day is on. What are you supposed to do? Well…. proselytize Shmoop! (Fancy way of saying, “Buy from us.”) We even self-promote in $5 words. Who else does this? Yep, only Shmoop. We sell online test prep materials which help you…. survive. Lots of ways to get them:
- Buy a SAT//ACT//PSAT//AP course for one: just get mom to fork over her credit card
- Make it a free-for-all: your school district can license a whole slug of Test Prep from us. The cost to students can drop to zero. And if we learned anything from Calculus, zero is a tough price to beat.
NEW on Shmoop
The guts of the SAT are vocab words – gnarly ones. We have WD-40 to lubricate the friction in your brain against learning new words. They are the brand spankin’ new Shmoop Vocab Flashcards.
Upcoming Test Dates
Tick, tick, tick**
Don’t be late; deadlines are prefixed ‘dead’ for a reason.
- SAT dates: March 12, May 7, June 4
- ACT dates: April 9, June 11
- AP Exams: May 2 – May 13
Shmoop’s Financial Aid 101 (Or: How I learned to Stop Worrying and Love Fixed-Rate Loans)
Unless you are going to Kawmedy Kollege (where you learn that words which start with a ‘k’ are funnier than words which start with a ‘c’), College is expensive. We have new insights to help you find the best way to pay for college (with somebody else’s nickel… er… 200 grand).
- College Costs
- Financial Aid Calculation & Expected Family Contribution
- Financial Aid Timeline & Deadlines
- How to Apply for Financial Aid (FAFSA & CSS)
- Financial Aid Resources
- Federal Student Loans (Stafford, Perkins, Plus)
- Federal Student Grants (Pell)
- Federal Work-Study Program
Put the Wisconsin Labor Union Protests in Historical Context
History – and history in the making – is never as simple as a headline or sound bite. Shmoop’s History of Labor Unions Learning Guide looks back through many lenses: ideology, law, race, gender…
This Week on the Web
- The true building blocks of knowledge. What would famous authors look like as lego characters? Yep, someone out there took the time to answer this pressing question.
- T.H.E. Journal talks to Shmoop CEO Ellen about using online resources to make Economics education less, um… dismal
- In The Nudes: (Naked truth, naked whales…) Moby-Dick’s muse is found. Archaeologists discovered the whaling ship belonging to the captain who inspired Ahab. The Great White Whale really did happen, sorta. Call me Ishma-email.
- The Great Gatsby video game: “Protagonist Nick Carraway must fight his way through flappers and hobos while powering up on martinis.”
Tick, tick, tick**
Peace, Egypt. And Libya. And Bahrain. And you.
The Folks over at Shmoop
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* Have you noticed anything different about Shmoop? Nope, we didn’t get a new hairdo (but thanks for asking). We turned our logo green and yellow for the month of February in honor of Green Bay’s Super Bowl victory. Our Packer-fan-in-chief, Ellen, is in cheese bliss.
** Not a reference to a tiny household insect which views your dog as a condo complex. Think MacGyver. Or maybe even MacGruber.
