100% Online SAT / ACT Prep for Your Students
PrepScholar: Designed to be 100% Online from day one so we have not had to change our platforms due to Covid 19. We are business as usual at PrepScholar. CONTACT:
Alissa James , Education Advisor PrepScholar, Inc ALISSA@PREPSCHOLAR.COM (866) 811-5546 ext 7006#
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About PrepScholar
About PrepScholar USERS WHO CHOOSE PREPSCHOLAR PREFER:
• The mission of PrepScholar is to improve education at scale through technology. In particular, we believe that every student has different strengths and weaknesses, different learning styles, and different learning motivations.
CUSTOMIZED EXPERIENCES: Students want a learning solution tailored to their own personal strengths and weaknesses.
• Therefore, every student deserves a unique, customized educational experience to get the best possible outcome. We’ve designed every PrepScholar service offering around this guiding mission.
FLEXIBLE SCHEDULES: Students now have busier schedules than ever before. They prefer not to have to report to a physical location at a specific time.
• We use technology to improve the quality of preparation while lowering costs and to make world-class education accessible to more families nationwide.
FLEXIBLE LOCATIONS: Students can study anywhere if they have an Internet connection. HIGH-QUALITY, AFFORDABLE PREP: Families want to gain maximum value for each dollar spent and avoid unnecessary costs like travel to tutoring sites or tutors who must travel to your home.
• PrepScholar features a full range of services for SAT / ACT prep and college admissions, including: o Online, automated self-guided SAT / ACT
prep
o Live online SAT / ACT classes o Online 1-on-1 SAT / ACT tutoring
AUTONOMOUS LEARNING: Students can learn independently and at their own pace.
o Professional development for teachers o College admissions consulting
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Student Results SELECTED STUDENT PROFILE
80% OF STUDENTS SAW AN INCREASE IN SCORE
76%
+60
51%
+100
23%
+150
O R M O R E P O INT S
“I came in needing help in math and reading, specifically. PrepScholar was perfect in finding my weaknesses and focusing me on what I needed the most help in. Your program made me familiar with 99% of the SAT problems and gave me amazing strategies to succeed. I improved by 150 points.” – Brian Z., San Francisco
O R M O R E P O INT S
O R M O R E P O INT S
• PrepScholar enables tens of thousands of students to achieve strong and consistent results across every one of our services. For our flagship SAT offering, over half of our students increased their reported SAT score by 100 or more points. • What does this score increase mean for student success? Putting this into perspective, a student with a score of 1250 on the 2020 SAT would have scored in the 81st percentile of test takers. On the same exam, 100 additional points (a 1350) would have returned a score in the 90th percentile. • Such SAT score improvement has a significant impact on student college admissions results. For example, a 1250 would be competitive at the University of Arizona (1120-1350) which Us News & World Report ranked 97th in National Universities for 2021. In comparison, 1350 would be a competitive score at UCSB (1290-1510), which currently ranks 30th in national universities.
Before PrepScholar
After PrepScholar
SAT: 1290
SAT: 1440
University of Maine
University of Pennsylvania
Sources: College Board, USNews& WorldReport
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Highest Quality Educators Scoring in the top one percentile of the SAT / ACT, PrepScholar’s instructors know the tests inside and out, and they give students insider knowledge on how to prepare for and take tests like a pro. Furthermore, our tutors provide valuable life guidance to their students, serving as inspiration for their students’ college goals. We believe no other company boasts a similar quality roster of tutors. Select tutor profiles are shown below: DELLA J.
ERIC C.
FLANN C.
ACT: 36
ACT: 36
SAT: 2320
SAT: 1590 (1600 Scale)
Della graduated Magna Cum Laude from Dartmouth with an AB in Government. Having taught test prep to a wide range of students in various one-on-one, smallgroup, and large-group settings, Della has been developing student-specific SAT and ACT curricula for several years.
Eric graduated Summa Cum Laude from Harvard with an AB in History, and received a PhD in American History from Oxford University. He has taught government and other subjects to hundreds of students in countries including Singapore, the United Arab Emirates, and China.
Flann graduated with high honors and Phi Beta Kappa distinction from Princeton University. She has taught students from elementary school to college age in a wide array of subjects and is currently pursuing a PhD in music composition.
Kristen graduated from the University of Chicago with Honors in Anthropology and Comparative Human Development. She has been teaching test prep in both one-on-one and classroom settings for over six years. She specializes in demystifying tricky test questions and developing concrete strategies for each section of the test.
KRISTEN L.
SELECTION PROCESS
100+
INSTRUCTOR APPLICATIONS
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FIRST-ROUND INTERVIEWS
IN-DEPTH MOCK SESSIONS
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PERFECT TUTOR HIRED
Trusted By Families Globally • PrepScholar has published 2,000+ free guides online on how to succeed on the SAT / ACT, in high school academics, and in college admissions. • Because of the world-leading quality of our instruction, we rank #1 on Google for most popular searches on SAT / ACT prep and admissions. • We reach over 4 million readers every month, meaning virtually every student and parent who researches the SAT / ACT or college admissions online comes across PrepScholar. “I've read a lot of articles that explain how to get a perfect score on the SAT EBRW section (such as the PrepScholar one) and implemented the tactics described in them into my practice. They have all kinds of articles written by SAT perfect-scorers that will help you improve test-taking strategies (trust me, these really work).” @skompella9892 @skompella9892
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Student Reviews When PrepScholar delivers results, both students and parents are overjoyed. They leave ratings around the Internet, making us the highest-rated online prep program available, with an average rating of 4.95 stars out of 5.0.
CHERYL TERDINA CHICAGO , IL
“My daughter Val uses PrepScholar to study for the SAT and has gotten a lot of value out of it! Everything is very detailed, which shows a commendable amount of passion and thoughtfulness. I also love having so many practice problems to do on such specialized modules. It really makes it easy to double down on practice and avoid procrastination.” September 17 2019 06:51PM
639 reviews
CHRISTINE GOLL ESTERO , FL
31 reviews
“My daughter did the $400 online ACT study program through Prep Scholar. It was very helpful, and she improved her score from a 28 to a 31 after putting in 75 hours of time into studying with this program. Her increased score equates to $4000-12000 (over 4 years) in additional merit scholarship money at most of the schools she has applied to.” November 4, 2018 08:54 AM
115 reviews
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JEFF SUNSHINE AUSTIN , TX
“My wife chose PrepScholar for our daughter after a pretty thorough review of the market. We are very happy with her choice. Our daughter needed a structured program like PrepScholar in order to keep her on track. Guidance throughout was very clear, and we liked how we could log in and check if my daughter really did the worked she claimed.” October 4, 2018 05:50PM
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Founders and Key Team Members PrepScholar was founded in 2013 by two Harvard alumni who were unhappy with the quality and cost of online education. Our headquarters are in Cambridge, Massachusetts, with teaching staff located across the country.
DIANA PATTON, MANAGING DIRECTOR
Diana is currently the Managing Director of PrepScholar. Over her career, she’s overseen the instruction of thousands of students, as well as management of hundreds of world-class instructors.
Cambridge,MA
Diana graduated from Swarthmore College with degrees in Math, Education, and Literature.
ALLEN CHENG, CO-FOUNDER
FRED ZHANG, CO-FOUNDER
Allen Cheng is a co-founder of PrepScholar. From founding, he led the product, test content, and content marketing teams. He has authored the world’s leading guides on college admissions and SAT/ACT preparation.
Fred Zhang is a co-founder of PrepScholar. He led the paid marketing, tutoring, and operations teams. Fred designed the smart diagnostic algorithms that use AI to understand student strengths and weaknesses.
Allen graduated from Harvard College summa cum laude in Chemistry and attended the Harvard/MIT MD-PhD program, before withdrawing to co-found PrepScholar.
Fred graduated from Harvard College summa cum laude in Economics and earned a PhD in Economics from Harvard before co-founding PrepScholar.
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PrepScholar & Your School
Complete Online SAT & ACTPrep All PrepScholar packages utilize our flagship Complete Online Prep Program at their core. Combining world-class test content, advanced data science, and behavioral psychology, our program integrates the best of a 1-on-1 teaching experience into an automated platform. The Complete Online Prep Program Includes: • 1 year of 24/7 access. Access anytime and anywhere, at student’s convenience, with no limitations on hours of study o Smart diagnostics to identify each student’s
strengths and weaknesses o 210+ hours of content, including 7100+ practice
questions
o 700+ problem-solving videos o 98 SAT skill lessons and 104 ACT skill lessons with
strategy videos
Each student’s personalized syllabus starts them off at the right level and progressively develops their skills until they master the test. Our program ensures mastery of everything from foundational content to advanced strategies.
o 101 fine-grained skills to master: 49 for the SAT
and 52 for the ACT o All sections covered: Math, Reading and English,
ACT Science, and Essays o Full-Length Official Practice Test Simulations . 10
for SAT and 5 for ACT. o Detailed answer explanations for every question
that teach transferable critical thinking that students can apply throughout their learning
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Motivational features proven to increase study time: weekly progress reports, study session scheduling, gamification, study session reminders, progress tracking, and more,
Training and Monitoring All packages feature a supervisor interface that allows any instructor or administrator to analyze the performance of any group of students. This allows supervisors to stay up to date on study time, number of practice tests completed, most recent SAT scores, and much more. Our supervisor interface empowers you to achieve a number of helpful educational aims: • Track overall improvement in test scores • Identify students who are not engaging with the program • Group students into small groups based on skill weakness. • Give awards and recognition to students for activity and achievement
You can create an unlimited number of supervisor accounts customized to your desired levels of access. For example, you can grant classroom teachers access to data for a group of 15 students but administrators can have access for the entire class.
• Compare performance of different classrooms or teachers • Performance reporting for program supervisors
Customized Teacher Training Our Master Teacher Trainer will conduct an in-person, comprehensive 2-day Professional Development Workshop for your teachers. We’ll work with you to develop a custom workshop to fit your school’s needs and cover topics including: • An insider look at test structure and scoring
• Managing motivation, testing anxiety, and focus
• Personalized strategy development for students with different needs
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Optional Tutoring and Classes Building on top of our Complete Online Prep program, the Online Classes Package and the 1-on-1 Tutoring Package each add a live teaching experience. Both packages pair your students with 99th-percentile scoring instructors, meticulously trained and rated to be the top PrepScholar teachers and tutors. The 1-on-1 Tutoring Package pairs each student with a dedicated tutor. We select each tutor to be the optimal fit for the student’s skill level, educational goals, and learning style. Our tutors are the best in the nation. All of our tutors are not just 99th percentile scorers from top colleges, but also are passionate, expert teachers. Each student’s tutor analyzes their progress in the online prep program and prepares a customized study plan for each session. This means every minute of tutoring is focused on instruction, not on reviewing homework or getting updated on progress. • Custom matching to optimal tutor • On-demand scheduling to fit the student’s personal timeline • Every session is customized to the student
The Online Classes Package brings up to 14 classmates together online with a worldclass PrepScholar instructor. The instructor teaches our renowned SAT / ACT curriculums. Students can ask questions, share ideas, and get immediate feedback on their learning. Our online format means we can choose the best teachers in the country, not just those who happen to live close to your students. • Up to 15 hours of live online classroom time • Dedicated time in each class for student questions • Small class sizes with a maximum of 14 students
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Additional Resources Learn more about our Complete Online SAT Prep Program, including how it works: https://www.prepscholar.com/sat/s/ Learn more about our SAT Prep Classes: https://classes.prepscholar.com/1/ Learn more about our SAT 1-on-1 Tutoring: https://www.prepscholartutors.com Visit our world-famous SAT, ACT and College Admissions blog: https://blog.prepscholar.com
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Looking to the Future How would your students benefit from a 100+ SAT score improvement? A 3+ ACT score improvement? What college opportunities would this unlock for them? If you partner with PrepScholar, we can help you make that happen.
Contact our advisor who is dedicated to your school. Alissa James, Education Advisor PrepScholar, Inc. ALISSA@PREPSCHOLAR.COM (866) 811-5546 ext 7006#
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