Kaplan founded test prep centers

Published 5:00 am Wednesday, August 26, 2009

NEW YORK The founder of the Stanley Kaplan Educational Centers Ltd., the nations first test preparation company, has died. He was 90.

Stanley Kaplan passed away from heart failure on Sunday at his home in New York City. He started his company from his parents Brooklyn home in 1938, which later became a chain of more than 100 centers nationally.

Kaplan, rejected from medical school, believed that students should have access to higher education based on their capabilities, not connections. He began Kaplan centers to help students with SAT and other admissions tests.