So it's the Middle of April and You Need to Cram?

Yup, it's that time again - when the weather gets better and finals come closer. Have you got an AP Exam in Statistics you convinced your parents to blow almost 100 bucks on, or a final in college the first or second week of May (like most students do at Columbia)? Well, if you do, you might just have walked into your nearest bookstore searching for some book that'll help you cover all the important stuff and FAST! The problem is that every year there seem to be more and more books to choose from and almost no way to compare them to one another. You might flip through one or two, but how do know which one will really be the best bang for your, not buck, but time.

Well, next month we're going to be trying to get some feedback posted from people who've used the various "helping" books either for the AP or Finals. We'll then try to either rank them or at least describe the main ones (Barron's, Kaplan, Princeton Review, Sparknotes, etc.)in Math/Statistics.

Since this online blog/magazine didn't exist last year, we don't have a winner to sight from last year's nonexistant rankings/polls. So like so many publisher/editor-and-chief's before me, I'll just pick the one that seems to work for me. I wonder if Hef had the same problem with Marilyn Monroe? Anyway, and the winner is...

THE PRINCETON REVIEW - PERIOD. And no, that's not Marilyn Monroe on the cover.:(