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To: Clam Clam who started this subject	9/20/2001 11:45:51 AM
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WAY OFF TOPIC* Disjointed Commentary on Apollo Group. ( i smell a great short - I could be wrong) Stock is trading in lock step with AOL (recently) As i understand the story they are growing by acquisition. They have 100 thousand students or so they say. (which i find impossible to believe.) which would mean about 7K per student in revenues. They have multiple forms of education that they provide and it is nearly impossible for me to find information on some of the stuff they have. Their website appears to be toast. apollogrp.com Longs argue that cash position is improving. Shorts argue cash position is improving through acquisition deferred costs of acquisition and general Proforma Voodoo. >All colleges are providing online classes in ever greater numbers and are generally moving in that direction. (absolutely NO barriers to entry for an established school of any kind, IMO) >Competition offers accredited and transferable classes for 33 dollars a semester in California. >advantage of 33 dollars a semester versus 7 thousand dollars in tuition for private online school....Students don't have to pay back enormous loans (and classes are fully transferable to say a Harvard, for example). >Who really accredits this stuff? What does the accredation board consist of. Who gets to do it. Can you appoint your own accredation board? what is the big deal here. 4.something billion Apollo group market cap. In bed with University of Phoenix Online (2.0 billion market cap. (which appears to change its name on a regular basis?) I think they are a stock selling machine. Insiders sold ~500 million in stock in the last year. They donated 1 million to the relief fund in NY. Market Makers are not happy campers.

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