Hania
Came in at 570 on Verbal. Left at 770. Now coaches students up the same climb.
VERBAL570770+200PTS
Hi There…We’re1550+
We broke test prep so that you could get the score you actually want.
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Our story
1550+ Started
With an 1130.
The founder of the 1550+ program was a 4.0 student, graduated fifth in her class, was accepted to UPenn, earned a Master’s from Johns Hopkins, taught math for seven years…and still managed a “spectacular” 1250 when she took the SAT again as an adult.
A definite improvement from the 1130 she got in high school, but still nothing you’d confidently slap on a website and say,
“Give me your children!”
So she did what any unreasonable person would do and spent the next five years figuring out exactly why smart, hardworking students can be terrible at this test.
That obsession eventually became 1550+.
The next five years
Same person. Different approach.
1130
High school
1250 as an adult
Year 1
Why this test
is different
Year 2
Patterns
and data
Year 3
Testing
and refining
Year 4
A proven
system
Year 5
1550+
is born
1550+
A brighter future
Our story
Then We Started
Breaking Things.
The more we learned, the harder it became to accept how SAT prep normally worked. Students could spend months studying and come out the other side no closer to their goal. Money-back guarantees didn’t give families back their time. And even if a kid LOVED their tutor, they weren’t there to make a friend.
They needed a score…
so we started breaking things.
Here’s What We Broke:
The Tutors
✕ Broken
We don’t hire your typical straight-teethed Ivy League grad who got a 1570 without really studying. Being great at the SAT and being able to make someone else great at the SAT are two very different skills.
The Group Class
✕ Broken
Our curriculum is set, but how your student moves through it is not. Their schedule is flexible and they move at their own pace, instead of being rushed forward or held back by the crowd.
The Tutoring Session
✕ Broken
If the tutor is doing most of the thinking and talking, congratulations you’re paying for the wrong person to get better. Our students do the work in the room because they’re the ones taking the test.
The Study Plan
✕ Broken
We don’t hand teenagers an 800-page practice book and tell them to dive in. We target their exact weaknesses so they can spend less time studying and get a higher score faster.
The One-Size Fits All Program
✕ Broken
Every student gets diagnostics, testing, and individual score analysis even inside our group program, so that you can get in, get the score, and be DONE!
The “Realistic” Goal
✕ Broken
Sometimes your goals are “unreasonable”…and we think you should go for them anyway. It certainly wasn’t reasonable for an 1130 scorer to create a program designed to produce 1550+ scores. But here we are.
Real results
Okay, But Does All This
Actually Work?
Here are a few of our students and how far they’ve come.
Cynthia W.
SAT SCORE
↗
+170
points
1420
→
✦ FINAL SCORE ✦
1590
800
1600
Haroon A.
SAT SCORE
↗
+230
points
1370
→
✦ PERFECT SCORE ✦
1600*
800
1600
Ryan T.
SAT SCORE
↗
+150
points
1450
→
✦ PERFECT SCORE ✦
1600*
800
1600
Billy H.
SAT SCORE
↗
+180
points
1420
→
✦ PERFECT SCORE ✦
1600*
800
1600
Hiyu M.
SAT SCORE
↗
+260
points
1280
→
✦ FINAL SCORE ✦
1540
800
1600
Aarush T.
SAT SCORE
↗
+420
points
950
→
✦ FINAL SCORE ✦
1370
800
1600
Akil E.
SAT SCORE
↗
+410
points
900
→
✦ FINAL SCORE ✦
1310
800
1600
Luck C.
SAT SCORE
↗
+270
points
1240
→
✦ FINAL SCORE ✦
1510
800
1600
Dylan T.
SAT SCORE
↗
+290
points
1190
→
✦ FINAL SCORE ✦
1480
800
1600
Turns out, breaking test prep works pretty well.
Our tutorsOur Tutors Had to
Our Tutors Had to
Earn It Too.
We don’t hire people just because they were naturally good at the SAT. We train people through the same kind of transformation we expect them to create for students, and trust us the training is no joke.
Boniface
Started at 490 on Verbal and finished at 770. A 280-point climb, now passed on.
VERBAL490770+280PTS
Rubia
The biggest climb on this page: 430 to 760 on Verbal, the hard way.
VERBAL430760+330PTS
Ehsan
800 on Math. Trained the 1550+ way anyway.
MATH800(okay, he started strong)
Erin
A perfect 800 on both sections, up from 530 and 500.
VERBAL530800+270PTS
MATH500800+300PTS
We would rather have someone who knows exactly how to climb the mountain than someone who happened to start near the top.
Better students. Brighter futures.
1550+