Prep

Prep is a short form of "preparedness" or preparation.

Prep may also refer to:

Education

• College-preparatory school, also called a prep school, or college prep school, or university-preparatory school
  • Preppy or preppie or prep, a subculture in the United States associated with old private Northeastern university-preparatory schools
• Test preparation or test prep

Science

• PREP (gene), the gene encoding for prolyl endopeptidase (PE)
• Prep, abbreviated form for a plasmid preparation (including minipreps and bulk preps) or the DNA prepared by such a method
• PrEP, acronym for Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis, the use of prescription drugs to prevent HIV transmission before exposure
• Prep, abbreviated form for presequence protease, a mitochondrial and chloroplastic protein

Other uses

• Prep, a novel by Curtis Sittenfeld
• P-rep, a statistical value of the probability of replicating an observed effect
• PReP, the PowerPC Reference Platform
• Preparative, a NATO signal flag
• The Public Readiness and Emergency Preparedness Act, a U.S. law enacted in 2005

See also

• Prep for Prep, a leadership program in the Bronx
• All pages with titles containing Prep or Preps
• All pages with titles beginning with Prep
• Prepper (disambiguation)
• Preppie (disambiguation)
• Prepare (disambiguation)
• Preparation (disambiguation)
• Preparedness (disambiguation)