It was divine appointment that we found Mr. Test Prep. I…read morealmost never use Yelp anymore to search for anything (sorry, yelp!) but I came on here just to see if there was any SAT prep service that could help my son. He had already sat for the SAT in his 10th grade, and had a decent 1550 score, but we wanted to see if he could improve it. Mr. Test Prep's approach and clear value proposition really stood out to me in the sea of the multitude of tutors and SAT prep services. We gave it a try, our son Ethan loved Michael's style, and format, and it was a good fit for our family's needs all around. Ethan sat for the SAT again in a few months of working with Michael, and his score was perfect. Of course, everyone's mileage may vary. For us , it was a match made in heaven :) Thanks, Michael

Online only tutoring. My understanding is that Mr. Test Prep used to be great when he had kids come…read moreto his home. Now it is entirely online. My son (who actually does well with online learning) did the trial and felt he could do better on his own. I eventually got someone who did in person tutoring. In my experience, a lot of these online classes and tutors benefit the tutor but not the students. If you have a student who does well with online teaching, maybe this is okay. But if you want to pay big money, make sure you get results. For our family, the benefit of taking the SAT over and over was good. But not having any human interaction with the tutor or peers was not good. My son eventually scored a 1570 but with an in person tutor and taking the SAT five times.

I registered my daughter for 10 semi-private sessions. (But last 2 sessions were private sessions)…read moreThe tutors provided essential tips and strategies and helped her improve SAT scores. My daughter achieved the score that she wanted after completing all the sessions. Grayson cares about the students and he is very supportive in helping the students reach their goals.

Zenith tutoring is unbelievable!!! Grayson identified that ACT would fit my son better even though…read morewe hesitated initially. I would have never imagined he could get the perfect score of 36 after only a couple of months. I am so glad we made the decision to join Zenith. I highly recommend Zenith! Their program is really impressive: they characterize the general rules that are easy to understand; and drilled into each problem that my son missed and pinpointed a particular rule that he needed to work on. Thank you so much, Zenith, for improving my son's score to perfection.

We had Collin for our son for 2 years on Chemistry (Chem Honor and AP Chem). Collin is the best…read moretutor we have ever had - he has heart - he gave inspiration, encouragement, patience, and coaching. He is very accessible, gives advice on studying and test taking techniques, foster subject interest to make it understandable. Our son is a non-STEM subject student, and under Collin's positive influence he got A in both classes, and did well in AP exam. It's truly "transformative". We'd highly recommend Collin to any future students!

Skilled and talented tutors, coordination and correspondence top notch. Highly recommended.read more

Great if you want to spend 8k on SAT prep. they charge $270 for 50 minutes and half of that time is…read moresitting with your kid while your kid takes practice tests. The cost is absolutely outrageous. The tutor was very good but it's just not worth it for a test that the UCs dont even require anymore.

These guys are totally first rate. We've worked with them as needed since 2006; most of their…read moretutors are extremely high achievers from top rate universities with a tremendous ability to teach students how to perform well on standardized tests. AT starts with a diagnostic to identify a student's area of needs and then focuses on improving a students weaker academic areas while also enhancing a students stronger areas. This makes for an efficient use of study time to maximize results in a reasonable time frame. Whether a student is trying to fill in the gaps one has from one's school's curriculum, or trying to prepare for standardized tests, the AT crew headed by Gus is true find.

My daughter came out of class excited and confident…read more Shan is very patient and spent time teaching my child. Shan has a calm demeanor and projects respect for the learner and caregivers. my daughter has never been so excited after an academic course.

What happened to Shan? We did the camp and there was no Shan there. Does she teach during the…read moreregular school year and not over summer? We were disappointed to not see the manager of the center the entire time we were there. Who's in charge and how can we sign up for more sessions when we don't know whom to talk to. Very strange place.

I'm a recent graduate of Palo Alto High School. I started SAT prep around late freshman year,…read morejumping around test prep places to try and raise my math score. I always ended up back at FLEX--Philip, who teaches math, is incredible. He genuinely loves what he's doing and last time I asked, he had more than 1000 hours of tutoring, so he really knows all sorts of tips and tricks to combat the SAT which helped improve my scores. Aside from SAT math prep, I also did college counseling at FLEX with Dan starting sophomore year and I will say that sitting through several ego-beating sessions ("your dream school is a little unrealistic" and such) was well worth it in the end: I got into every single "target" school Dan suggested. I should also just put out there that he is a pretty cool guy. Dan is super understanding and patient if you and your family are confused as to how the college process works, as mine were. I was lucky enough to receive an acceptance from one of my "reach" schools and will be headed there for my freshman year. Though I can't say Philip+Dan= automatic acceptance, both of them and FLEX in general really provided a sense of security during college admissions season by giving me a realistic list of schools to apply to. Overall, the whole point of the college admissions process is to give yourself as many options as possible. FLEX helped me choose the right ones.

Not worth the money or your time. All of the information that they give you is readily available…read moreonline. The exorbitant prices really aren't justified, so don't fall for the trap of "it must be good if it's expensive."

My high school son was struggling with his AP Computer Science (Java) class. Luckily, I found Clint…read morewho has been a HUGE help. Clint is very prompt, professional, and does an incredible job in explaining and demonstrating concepts. The online (Skype) method of tutoring has been very effective. I really appreciate all of Clint's help (and so does my son)--he is a great tutor!

Clint is amazing! Our son was behind in his Java class and we called Clint last minute to help…read moreprepare our son for a test. Clint made himself available and helped our son to pass the test!! We continue to use Clint and have seen our son improve an entire letter grade in one month...plus our son loves working with him and now actually enjoys doing his Java coding...we could not be happier!!! Thanks Clint!!!

Every parent wants to offer the best education support for their children, and our intention was no…read moredifferent. We joined C2 Education two years ago and were introduced to the center director, Gordon. Despite our reservations, he sold us a 100-hour package and assured us in writing that we could get a refund for unused hours with just a single email sent to the C2 helpline. He repeated this in subsequent sales transactions of 100-hour packages as well. In January 2024, we got a farewell email from him, notifying us that he was departing the center and there would be a new director. We immediately responded, worried there would be a communication breakdown and the commitment would not be honored. The former director responded from his personal email that we had nothing to fear and that the refund would be honored. We have not received a response from anyone officially employed by C2 during that period. In May 2024, as our daughter was graduating high school, we sent a formal email requesting a refund of the unused hours. We got a response from the new Center director stating that we used 64/100 hours and that we would be reimbursed only 15% of the total purchase price (which comes to around $800), which was a complete breach of commitment. Our original concerns and fears were well-founded. After several back-and-forth communications, the new Center director acknowledged that the former director, Gordon, had made a mistake. She discussed refund options with us, and we settled on an option that included a pack of 10 classes we could use once our daughter started college in the fall and a balance refund of around $1852. She sent an email saying that she would work with us through this process and sympathized with us for our challenging position. She then returned after about ten days, asking us to take a call from Scott Thomas as a follow-up, and a call was scheduled. After waiting on a Microsoft Teams call for more than 20 minutes (we sent a follow-up email saying we would be dropping off and to call a phone number - we received a phone call). We were asked the same set of questions that we had already furnished in prior calls over several days. This gentleman was extremely rude and started shouting on the phone, saying that we should be adhering to their policies without regard for what it means to be polite to the customer. He immediately followed up with an email sent to the C2 customer contract distribution center, saying that we now only have 53 100 hours, not 64 100 hours like what was communicated originally. After a few days, the VP of Operation Services, Whitney Myers, from the escalation center, responded that there was no recourse and that we would only get $851 back, refunded to our bank account (instead of the original form of payment)--why is that? There are several problems here. 1) The discrepancies in communication have been highly frustrating for us as customers of C2. 2) You don't yell at your customer and tell the customer that you don't care about helping us here. 3) It was your former employee who committed on behalf of your organization, representing your organization, and it's your responsibility as an organization to honor that commitment. You don't say I am not going to take responsibility - you are on your own. 5) All individuals (current center director, sales manager, VP operations) have gone silent despite repeated attempts to contact them during this episode for the last seven weeks. Our only recourse is to leave this detailed review across all sites so that other prospects are walking into this den of deceit with their eyes wide open. This entire experience has us questioning the credibility of C2 as an educational institution chartered with the goal of improving our children's lives. This is not how customers should be treated, and we hope every prospective customer spends the time to read this and beware of this center/franchise/organization. It is an absolutely dishonest organization with questionable practices.

The new director does the bare minimum and does not try accommodate our requests at all. He totally…read moredisregards our requests and implements lessons into the schedule that we didn't even ask for. The service is rude and the atmosphere is unpleasant. The customer support is horrendous. Additionally even though I went to C2 for several years there were no improvements or benefits. In fact, I saw improvements only when I started self studying outside of C2.