PrepScholar

PrepScholar is an online test prep company whose core product is an adaptive prep program for the SAT, ACT, PSAT and AP exams, with academic subject help alongside, and it reaches beyond high school with GRE, GMAT and TOEFL programs. Most of what the homepage offers is aimed at high school students and their parents. Next to the self-study software, the company runs instructor-led classes and private one-on-one tutoring for some of those tests, plus a college admissions consulting service. The site's copyright line runs from 2013, and its legal notices name the company as PrepScholar Inc. Its headline promise is "Get Results You Want Faster. Guaranteed." The footer notes that the College Board, ACT, ETS and the Graduate Management Admission Council do not endorse PrepScholar and are not affiliated with it.

The adaptive prep program

PrepScholar describes its online courses as scientifically designed to understand a student's strengths and weaknesses and customize to their exact abilities. The engine behind that uses performance algorithms to keep evaluating where a student is strong and weak and to focus instruction where it is needed, rather than marching every student through the same sequence. The company says this lets students make more progress in less time than with any other program, and it calls its platform the only test prep platform that works this way. Students sign in to separate programs for the SAT, ACT, GRE, GMAT and TOEFL, and the admissions service has its own sign-in as well. A banner on the homepage says the ACT program has been fully updated for the new Enhanced ACT.

For students who have not yet chosen between the SAT and the ACT, the site offers a short questionnaire that it says takes about a minute, meant to point a student toward the test that suits them better. It is a small tool, but it answers the first question many families have before they buy any prep at all.

Results the company reports

The homepage leads with numbers. It says its SAT students improve by 180 points on average, and that a quarter of those students gain 370 points or more. ACT students, it says, improve by 4 to 5 points on average. On admissions, it states that "PrepScholar students are 7.8x more likely to gain admissions to the Top 10 Colleges in the US", that 99% of its students are admitted into their Top 10 Choice Colleges, and that they are 6.1 times as likely as non-PrepScholar students to get into the Ivies. These are the company's own figures, given without a method or a sample size. A success stories section collects results from past students.

Tutoring and classes

PrepScholar says its tutors and advisors scored in the 99th percentile, attended the most prestigious universities, and are trained educators who use a student's individual data and proven strategies to give the support that student needs. The tutoring request form shows how tutoring is sold: families choose a block of 4, 8, 16 or 32 hours. The services listed on the form are SAT, ACT, PSAT and GMAT prep, AP tutoring, academic tutoring and admissions counseling.

The academic tutoring list is broad for a test prep company. In math it covers Algebra 1, Algebra 2, Geometry, Pre-Calculus and Calculus. Language tutoring runs from 9th through 12th grade English. Science covers Biology, Chemistry, Physics and Earth or Environmental Science, and social studies covers World History, United States History and United States Government. That makes PrepScholar usable for schoolwork as well as for test day.

AP tutoring covers a long list of courses: Calculus AB and BC, Statistics, Biology, Chemistry, Environmental Science, Physics 1, Physics 2 and Physics C, Computer Science A and Computer Science Principles, English Language and Composition, English Literature and Composition, United States History, European History, World History, Human Geography, United States Government and Politics, Psychology, Macroeconomics, Microeconomics, and French and Japanese Language and Culture. A student taking several AP classes in one year can get help across most of them from the same provider.

College admissions consulting

According to the site, PrepScholar's admissions consultants draw on proven strategies and experience with thousands of students to help applicants get into their top choice schools. The service is sold as several packages: an Admissions Overview, a Complete Admissions Package, Admissions Mentoring (shown elsewhere on the page as an Annual Mentorship Package), Passion Project Development and Essay Coaching. Between them they cover an overview of a student's admissions plans, a full package for the whole application, a year of mentoring, help developing a passion project to stand out on an application, and coaching on the essays themselves.

Advice and support

PrepScholar runs an advice blog; the articles featured on the homepage cover whether SAT and ACT scores still matter, whether it matters where you go to college, and what counts as a good, bad or excellent SAT score. Families can also sign up for free college admissions advice by email. To talk to someone, they can call the company's Expert Academic Advisors or fill in a form asking for a call back, which collects the student's graduation year, whether the person is a parent or a student, and which service they want. A For Schools section addresses schools rather than families. The contact forms request a graduation year from 2026 to 2030, with an option for students who have already graduated, so they are set up for current high school students and recent graduates. The homepage publishes no prices for any course, tutoring block or admissions package, so cost is something families learn from an advisor.

Who it suits

PrepScholar fits a self-motivated student who wants software that adjusts to them and is comfortable studying online, especially one preparing for the SAT or ACT, where the company reports its largest score gains. Because the same company covers the PSAT, AP exams and school subjects, a family can keep one provider from early high school through to college applications, adding tutoring hours or admissions help when the adaptive program alone is not enough. Students heading to graduate school can use the same platform for the GRE or GMAT, and the TOEFL program sits alongside them.

The admissions and score claims are striking, and families should treat them as the company's own figures. Students who want a fixed classroom timetable should note that live classes are offered only for some tests, and families who like to compare costs before talking to anyone will need to call or request a call back first.