Throughout my entire life, going to college and starting my own life has always been a big dream of…read moremine. I just never knew how I was going to achieve that. Both of my parents are immigrants and as they try their hardest to help me achieve my goals, they did not have much information on how to apply to colleges or what colleges I should even apply to. That was when my friend referred me to the college planning center where I was given my very own college counselor, named Rajani Rao who showed a deep care in seeing my success in this college process. Every step of the way she gave me direction and deadlines ensuring I would get all of my applications done on time. Whenever I needed help with anything I was able to turn to her incredible knowledge and get a fast, swift, and helpful answer. She made the college application process, which is an extremely stressful one, more enjoyable, easy and she showed that she believed in me throughout every step of the way. I ended up getting in to one of my dream schools and I could not have done it without the college planning center's and Rajani's incredible help. I would recommend this to anyone and everyone looking for help and guidance through their college application process! -Selihom Kibrom, Class of 2024 Going to Cal Poly Slo!

Through this tedious college process, I found myself quite lost and overwhelmed with the weight of…read morecollege applications and the stress it had on me. In reaching out to the college planning center, Rajani reluctantly was willing to take me on late into the process. She was extremely organized, timely, and helped me get all of my early applications done far before the deadlines. She was very informative and helpful when reviewing my writing and truly guided me to putting my best work forward. Her tentative support and care for my applications and future truly shown through. She was quite patient with all my fears, concerns, and desires as well as being excited and encouraging with me through it all. With Rajani's help, I was accepted into 9 out of the 10 schools I applied to! I believe that anyone who is lucky enough to have Rajani as their college career counselor will have the swiftest, stress free college application process, alongside someone who truly cares about your ambitions and passions. Without her guidance, advice, organization, peer review, and heartening support, I wouldn't have ended up where I am today. :) -Ava McMinn, senior in high school

I loved working with Emily. I found her through Sage Educators in Mill Vally and was so glad that I…read moreworked with her over other counselors. I had friends who worked with other counselors who were discouraged about the schools they were applying to and Emily was always very supportive of me while still being realistic about what I should be looking for. Emily met with me personally, helped me fill out applications, reviewed my essays and even gave me a binder (and google doc) of my daily schedule for applying to schools. I couldn't recommend anyone else. I am currently a student at Chapman University (my top choice of colleges) and owe it to Emily!!

I highly recommend Emily. I chose Emily on my own searching on yelp for a counselor when I realized…read moremy school counselors weren't very helpful. Emily showed me a lot of schools that I didn't know much about and I ended up applying to most of them. The net result couldn't have been better, now I am in a top-tier school in my subject (tied with brown and yale on CS rankings) and I have to thank her for that. She has the power to change lives! :)

The Center Director Aaron is fantastic. My daughter went to Mathnasium for years (before Aaron…read moretook over) and is interested in coming back to work. Aaron has been SO supportive of her and her process...super encouraging and reaches out to me to check in on her and keep communication and the supportive environment open to her. I am so impressed, I felt I had to leave a review so other parents looking for a great leader to help their kids - this is definitely the place. And they learn a lot of math. :)

This place used to be five stars but since the new guy took over from Scott the hours are super…read morelimited (with no weekend time the to only time our son does not have school or activists) and the prizes are downgraded and the kids don't like it as much. Used to be five star but just keeps going downhill. Very sad. Hope Mathniusm will take back the franchise and give it to someone who will stay open a few hours a week.

We have used Tamalpais Tutoring for several years, specifically for math and science classes from…read morethree different high schools. Jock Christie is the best and I know that the A's my daughters received were due in part to the foundation Jock provided coupled with his tips and tricks. Jock is patient and flexible with his schedule to best serve the needs of his students. I highly recommend Tamalpais Tutoring to all!

Jock is like the smart uncle that my kids never had! Seriously, he helped my kids prepare for tests…read moreand do homework through out high school, and he has also been available online to help with some of their challenging college work. We are very lucky to have Tamalpais Tutoring available as a resource.

We transferred here after two years in a local public school and cannot be happier. The campus is…read moreextraordinary and filled with beauty all around, from the redwoods to the babbling stream. Education with purpose is not only their motto but one they truly live up to. The community and staff are down to earth and kind and inclusive and educated and driven and all around wonderful. They truly shape the minds and the character of the students to be sharp, creative, and conscientious members of society.

so I just want to review their hiring process. I was asked to do two not in person interviews that…read moreseemed great. then they told me I had to go to the campus and they expected me to be there from 7:50-1:30 on a work day interviewing with different school admin. I did as much as could because like most people I actually have to work a job that pays. After spending 4 hours there I told them I'm sorry I have to get to my other job. You would think that investing that much time would result in being hired. But no it did not. All I can say is any other place would have respected a persons time and not wasted half of their day. they would have gotten all the people together and had a panel interview. so I mean all I can say is that I feel really disrespected by this staff. Who does that? I dunno. if you like bougie people that clearly do not mind wasting your time this is the perfect location for you. And sorry I do have to say this because you must be an extreme elitist to think wasting half a work day doesn't impact the average joe. it does. if someone who has helped open wellness centers and is on the 40 under 40 list for the north bay business journal isn't good enough for them, then who is? thanks! Not only this but the person in charge Stacy Cohen, left me several times during this 4 hour stink to wait on the admin who had not received any copy of this interview schedule from the day before. She had emailed me the night before this schedule telling me she had been sick on her travels but when I got there and she was coughing all over the place she continue to tell me she wasn't sick. One of the people she had set up to interview me never even showed up. They were not even on the campus that day. So I sat for an hour of my time waiting for someone who isn't there to show up in a library while I could have been at my actual job. So not only is this snobby elitist behavior but inconsiderate and rude. If this is what you want from your admin staff of your school please go here. Not to mention being extremely combative over things that made no sense. She apparently got angered when I shared an answers from one of her staff as if this was my opinion. A major lack of ability to take any criticism, it was an extremely unprofessional interview in which at the end I still offered to come back another day to meet with these other people who could not be there that day and since I was leaving. Instead they just waited till after the holiday weekend to tell me no thanks.

Mike is a great math tutor for high school students. He is extremely professional and is known for…read morehelping students improve their grades, particularly in advanced algebra and calculus. He creates a great learning environment in his home office and is very reliable. Highly recommend him!

My daughter, a high school junior, has had a number of math tutors over the years. None come even…read moreclose to the pedagogical excellence and 'touch' of Mike Kennedy. My daughter went from a lowish B to a high A (if not the highest grade in her class, nearly so). I am an attorney and ex-college professor myself - someone who's endured, and compelled others to endure lessons. Although as they say, "results may vary", for my money, you can't do better than Mike.

Do not recommend. Not helpful and the couple that run it are controlling and mean. Try Sage…read moreEducators instead, SO much better.

I tried this learning center in two different ways with my middle schooler who needed math help…read more The first way was the "homework club" that they offer at my child's school. The club was convenient in that it took place after school right on campus. My child went twice per week for two weeks and then told me she did not feel like she was being helped in math. They basically gave the kids time and space and support to do their homework but not much instruction in the subject I requested (math). So we tried the private tutor route. I figured that one-on-one sessions with specific instructions as to what my child needed help with would be more productive. We did this for a couple of weeks, twice per week, and I was greatly disappointed. I received zero feedback from the tutor and the center even though I specifically requested regular feedback. I told them the specific aspects my child's teacher wanted her to work on and on the third session my daughter came home and told me she was working on Algebra (I had asked for help with math facts, fractions and decimals). So I went to the next session with my daughter and found she was indeed being taught Algebra. What the heck? I emailed the owner and told her that the specific tutor she had assigned was not a good fit. I told her how disappointed I was about not receiving feedback and about my child being taught things I had not asked for and not being taught what I had asked for. Apparently my email got "lost" because I did not hear back from the owner for about 10 days. Too little, too late. I spent several hundred dollars with TLC over a five week period and I feel that the experience was not worth the money. The only reason I did not rate one star is that my daughter's math grade did improve, but she was no closer to not hating math or feeling confident in her basic skills. I have since contacted several math teachers at the local high school and now we are working with a HS student who is finding fun ways to tutor my daughter in math. I actually saw my daughter laughing during one of her tutoring sessions. Priceless.

David and College Match were great to work with. David was a critical part of the college…read moreapplication process for my two children, now undergraduates at UC Berkeley and UCLA. His style of working with high school students is very easy-going and patient, asking inquisitive questions to help them identify their own approach and highlights throughout the complicated and intense application process. We started with David a bit late with our first child, but David quickly helped him catch-up and stay organized. With our second, we were able to involve David earlier in the process which helped space out the work better. He and his team were equally responsive and timely with their support. Thank you David!

My stepdaughter Catalina began her search & application process for graduate schools relatively…read morelate in the process, with just a few weeks before the deadline. Right off the bat, David was very accommodating with his time. From the initial consultation, I could tell that David was very skilled at determining her strengths & weaknesses & how they fit into various graduate MBA programs. He quickly got an intrinsic understanding of ''who she is'' & was able to devise an action plan to highlight her strengths for her school of choice. Based on a couple initial conversations we had, he generated a terrific list of core values which helped drive the rest of the process. Just to be safe, I shopped around a bit and found that David's fees were very favorable compared to some of the other well-known admissions strategists around the country, in some cases less than half as much. So we decided to stick with David. David would promptly answer our questions & provided strong recommendations for my daughter on how to articulate herself in the both the application and essay. He was always available either by phone or email and always made us feel like his top priority when we needed his assistance. I have to recognize that we called him perhaps much more than we should have, but he took it all in stride and was extremely accommodating, reassuring, patient and attentive. He was also excellent in researching the most recent admission trends for her top choice university so we could appropriately strategize the application and pitch her strengths in a way that helped turn the tables on the college admissions process. I would highly recommend David if you are looking for an expert in the graduate admissions process. He's worth every penny. - TT (stepdaughter), admitted to Stanford MBA