This is a real review and I have reviewed over 130 locations. Amazing quality of education and courses. Read the unrecommended reviews, because there are so many 5 stars there. I don't know how they ended up there, but those are real reviews. Likewise, be critical of the negative reviews. They are the competition trying to slander this center without ever having been actual clients / students. I even found one named after a fruit / vegetable. Don't pay attention to negative reviews with the name of a vegetable. The administration and teachers, instructors, all are passionate about helping students maximize their potential. They want doors to open for the students to get the best University / college educations possible. My daughter is 11 and is in her 2nd semester of college / University study. We are considering to move to be near the center so she can continue to excel in her college courses. I will try to post updates as we continue to improve and benefit from our experience from these amazing teachers, professors, and courses. read more

If I could give negative star, I would have done so. Worst place I've ever bring my kid to, highly regretted. The money hungry, heartless, shameless wife pretended to be a counselor and sell you a high price program that may not be appropriate for your kid. The husband is the instructor bullied your kid and made them feel like you are stupid or something. Exactly opposite of another tutoring place in town promised＂把孩子當自己家教＂ read more

Mr. Way is a very dedicated teacher. He is not money hungry nor mean to the students. He has high expectation for the students to do well in Schools and colleges. Mr. Way is not there to babysit your son or daughter. He is there to teach. read more

Time Education Center is a wonderful place to allow your children improve their skills needed not only for a good college, but also to keep the GPA in place and really understand the subject the student is currently learning. As a high school student, I take some of the most advance classes available and also is involved with sports and other extracurricular activities. With these all together, my GPA and grades started to move down, especially in math. I went to many other after-school education centers and other tutoring centers to help me on math, but I either find some too expensive or not enough to keep my grades up. As my friend recommended me to Time, I never went to another school for tutoring. Spence Way, their principle is very responsible to every student and understand every students' need to a great GPA and good SAT(II), ACT, and AP scores. Spencer have 30 years of experience and teaches the math classes himself, providing necessary information when needed, he is my favorite teacher. They have fair prices and nice staffs with a good environment for the students to learn. Time also have lots of open house to explain to the parents how to help their children achieve a good SAT and AP test scores for a good college and give useful information that are extremely important to college applications. With their easy understanding lectures and courses, it can really help the students to understand the subject thoroughly. I plan to return to Time and strengthen my knowledge and get a headstart towards college for my next year of high school and strongly recommend you to Time if you need a responsible education center to help you on your way to success. read more

Spencer is a hard but good teacher. His lectures are very rigorous and deep, but he explains it in a very clear way and is always willing to answer any question when we ask him about the content. For anyone who are not able to understand or learn anything from him, it may just be that they don't dare or are too lazy to ask when they cannot follow. read more

This education center is the worst education center that my son had ever attended! They just want your money and don't care your kid can learn from the class or not! I'll never let my son take their class anymore even it is for free! read more

Let me just preface this by saying that this place gets around by word of mouth. In other words, all of the other reviews on Yelp are either really negatively or positively biased. As a student who has spent hundreds of hours in his classes, I will try to give as unbiased a review as possible. I took the occasional math tutoring classes, but most of my time was spent taking two of his AP courses. He is very very knowledgeable, but if you don't pay attention sometimes, he can make you feel like you're dumb. If there's something basic you don't know, he will be disappointed in you. However, you're usually surrounded by smart peers and will most likely have a phone. It won't be hard to search or ask for an answer. And what if you do feel dumb? I mean, it feels bad but you'll learn that it shouldn't affect you (or your child) for that long. At most he will be disappointed in you, and if you are affected emotionally, then honestly you ( or your child) is probably the annoying sensitive kid in school that no one likes. If you want sugarcoating and encouragement, take your business to white people. Chinese people do not mollycoddle. He wants everyone to succeed, and he just has really high expectations for everyone. He doesn't go out of the way to bully or make anyone feel bad unless you to go his sessions to chat on WeChat the entire time. That brings me to another point. If you're taking any math or science class, you will take it with him. I haven't taken any English classes, so I can't say anything about that. He has a Chinese accent, so if you don't understand him through it, don't take classes with him. I could understand him most of the time, and the other 1%, he usually points out the term or whatever on the textbook so that I could understand. Also, his lectures are very very long. Like bare minimum 2 hours, and Physics is 3 hours. He demands a significant amount of your time for the duration you are there, but you learn a lot. I get bored very easily, so I usually zone out most of the time. However, I still got 5s on the AP exams (without any school help, mind you). Also, he tends to go into very specific details of the topics he is lecturing, so a lot of the information is frankly useless. I bought AP books to help me stay on track of what I should actually know for the exams. I've been talking about the negatives mostly, so what is the reason people would go there? Well, first of all, he really pushes you to study and get that good score. Even if he doesn't, the mindset of all of the peers around me did. A lot of people there were really smart, so the environment is very good. Even if you zone out in a lot of his class, he still brings attention to the important information and the lectures preps you for the textbook readings. If you have really a good attention span, then you will without a doubt get a 5 or above 750s on the tests unless you are actually dumb. So, should you go there? I think it depends. Most of the prep places around where I live (I've tried 3-4 of the "big" places) are frankly pretty useless. There are some downsides to his classes, but the amount of academic achievement you will achieve is insane. He is a really good resource, but at the end still a resource. You will have to ask friends and other people about how to study for tests, and for me that consisted for using Spencer's lectures as a rough guideline on what to study and reviewing the prep books for the AP tests. If you want a personal guardian angel telling you exactly what to do, then you're kinda screwed for college. No one's going to help you then, and you have to find the best way to study. Obviously, this is my personal experience, so your mileage (or kilometerage if you're not American) will vary. Do I think my time there was worth it? Yes and no, but mostly yes. For me personally, I was really lazy and procrastinated a lot, so his lectures really scared me into studying, so I got better study habits as a result. read more

I took geometry, algebra 2, pre calc, ap calc ab&bc, ap physics 1,2 Mech and E&M with Spencer. His classes r interesting especially in physics class, and he has his own way of understanding questions, he always can come up with a better way to solve problems, there r few ap sub problems that my physics teacher at school had no idea how to do, and spencer can work it out easily. His math class includes many things that schools dont even teach, and they are really useful in other classes like chem and physics. His physics class was the best science class ive ever had, if u want to get 5 on ap calc or ap chem/ap physics/ap bio, i strongly recommend u to go to spencers class. read more

The environment is not perfect for everybody, but if it fits you, it fits you fairly well. There are two main classrooms inside, but the place is practically open all the time so there's a great variety of classes to take, especially over the summer. I think the teaching quality is pretty good, about 17% better than the average teacher at my school. (Right now I'm taking their SAT Reading, Writing, and Math classes. They also offer science/math AP courses and some other.) The people/employees here are pretty nice, and you'll probably get to know them. Classes can get tiring if you take two in a row plus practice tests or one of their intense five-hour lectures, and sometimes they are crowded with about 24 people in the room (at least during summer). Definitely a place to check out if you're in the area. Price is pretty reasonable on an hour-per-hour basis (like $12 for me, I calculated). Cheers. read more

this is the worst place EVER when u need help they tell you "come to tutoring" and u have to pay like $20 each time when u ask spencer a question he'll be like "HOW CAN YOU NOT NOW THIS U STUPID" and he sucks at word problems they don't care if u understand everything during the lecture they only care aobut money read more

Avoid this place at all cost. There is no refund. There is no mercy. I found so many things wrong with the place that I demanded and refund. The teachers were mediocre. My teacher read straight from the book and reprimanded the students who asked questions during class, saying it's "disruptive" and "disrespectful." Find somewhere else. This place preys on student's success, claiming everything is attributed to them instead of the student. They make around 400,000 a year from all those classes and their results are mediocre. Seek someplace else. ANY place else. read more