Years ago I took the MCAT and used Kaplan for my test prep. Incredible instructors and the books…read morewere very helpful in learning the material. I did very well on the actual exam and felt very prepared. It was critical to my medical school applications that I rock the MCAT.

Kaplan prices are always high but this location is pretty nice because they offer a lot of free…read moretrial tests for things like MCAT, PCAT, DAT, GRE, etc. I took DAT practice course here and my tutor was very well trained and knowledgeable. They also offer a place to for people to study (regardless what you're studying for) even after you are done w/ your program.

Signed up my son for a SAT/ACT class. The website was very hard to navigate and confusing. Come on,…read morethis is 2014, your IT dept should be on top of this. Signing up for the class should generate an email for confirmation but it did not. As a result, we were in the dark about when & where the classes were held until I called a month before the classes began. They said an email will be generated the closer we got to the date. Again, we didn't get an email and we showed up at the Davis office on the day it should start and no one was there! After calling around for 30 mins I finally contacted someone in their Berkeley office to tell me it was canceled due to low enrollment. What? Thanks for telling me. We checked my son's call history and they did call once but left no vm. Also, I as the parent didn't get a call nor an email. For their credit (reason they got a one star), they were apologetic and tried to offer us tutoring instead but I'm not confident in their company enough to try them again. My recommendation: stay away. Unless they turn things around and become more consistent & reliable, you are taking a chance. I checked their reviews at their Berkeley office and several other parents had the same issues.

Club Z! In-home tutoring has provided outstanding services to two of my children over the past four…read moreyears. The Tutors were well prepared, had excellent teaching/tutoring skills, were reliable and absolutely worth the investment. A few years back, my son needed help with calculus during his senior year of high school. The UC Davis student who tutored him was outstanding. During this last year, my daughter receive tutoring in physics and math. Her tutor was also an excellent teacher, patient, skilled and was also kind and very personable. Rich Lee is helpful responsive and professional in all of the scheduling and business part of the operation too. I would recommend Club Z! without hesitation. Reliable. Valuable. Easy to use!

What can I say, Rich Lee is one of most amazing persons I have ever worked with. His understanding…read moreand kindness to my needs are indescribable. I am a single mother with a son that is dyslexic. Although my son is very bright, he needs extra support at home with homework in order to succeed in school. I, myself am dyslexic and I cannot give him the help that he needs. I rely solely on outside support. I contacted Rich Lee in 2012 and told him about my situation. He has been the kindest, most understanding man and is very sensitive to my needs. He sent me a bright young girl that we call Yaya. She is professional, smart, prompt, knowledgeable, humble, respectful, hardworking, caring, and patient. My son loves her and spends hours doing homework with Yaya and never gets bored. Yaya is willing to go the extra mile to make sure my son gets what he needs to keep the straight A's he is getting in school. She comes whenever we need her, even weekends and emergencies. She has become part of our family. Rich Lee seems to have a gift of pairing tutors with children. We are so blessed and thankful for coming to ClubZ! We will continue to use Rich Lee's services until my son graduates from high school. I highly recommend ClubZ! to all those struggling parents that seem to think their is no other solutions. I do not know what I would do without Rich Lee and his services. I would like to say thank Rich Lee and Yaya for all your support.

Words cannot describe how grateful I am to have had Paul as a tutor. Not only did I start…read moreunderstanding the material I was learning in school and getting better grades, but he helped change the way I saw myself in terms of academic confidence. Paul knows how to explain things to you based on the way he's observed you to learn best. My ACT score went up 4 points after working with him! I highly recommend this service, especially if you've been struggling in school and are frustrated. I know I used to get really worked about about grades and assignments, but Paul helped me relax, get organized, and be productive. He also changed my mentality from learning for the grade to learning for the sake of learning. That in and of itself moved mountains for me. All in all, it's worth the investment. He can help with pretty much all subjects too, which is great!

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When you have to get your boyfriend to write a positive review then pretend they're a client it…read moremakes knowing whether the rest of the reviews are authentic or not. And if you are good at what you do, why would you have to. I almost hired Jeanie to help me with redoing my resume and consulting on what appropriate places of employment would be ideal to apply to based on the strength finder test. She did make a few changes to my existing resume, but I wasn't impressed. Thanked her but it left a lot to be desired. Red flags definitely went up when she referred to my being empathetic as a negative since Empathy is one of my top 5 strengths. Red flags because there is no weaknesses in your strengths when it comes to strength finder. That's the entire point of the system. Instead of trying to improve weaknesses in a career setting, strength finder teaches how to utilize your strengths. This led me to check to see if she was CERTIFIED by Clifton and strength finder and I learned she wasn't. https://www.gallup.com/learning/certification/en/directory - Her website states she is trained, which in my opinion is misleading. I did find a wonderful CERTIFIED coach and it's a world of difference. They're positive and upbeat and definitely know what they are talking about. I had also hired her for tutoring my son some years ago and to help my daughter with essay writing for college application. While I appreciated her help with my son, I didn't realize she hired college and HS students to tutor the kids while charging the rates that she does. More recently I hired a math tutor for my son, paying the same rate, but it was one on one tutoring, and there definitely was a difference. To each their own, but not the sort of place or person I want to do business with.

Jeanie at Finding Strengths completely changed my son's feelings about himself and learning!…read moreAnother mom recommended Jeanie last summer and my son (then 9) worked with her all summer. My son has significant learning disabilities and is falling through the cracks of public school special education which has led to low self esteem, frustrations, anxiety and even school refusal. He told me with tears in his eyes, "Mom, I'm just not a school person" After a summer with Jeanie, this completely changed! He was excited every week to go! He was excited to start the school year this year and he has been asking me monthly, if not weekly WHEN he can start LEARNING with Ms. Jeanie again! He is so excited to be seeing her again! I am so grateful that he feels so seen and supported by Ms. Jeanie and is starting to believe in himself again!

In short, ESM is the best you can get. ESM's team of mentors helped me immensely throughout my time…read moreas a high school student. From my AP tutoring needs as well as ACT prep (BTW increased by 5 points!!), Billy, Adam, and Justin really prepared me for the college application process. As stressful as high school was for me, Billy and his team of warm, SUPER intelligent, polymathic mentors, guided me through every step of the way, being accessible 24/7 by text, call or email. Any question that my parents and I had, at any time, was answered. Looking back as I start my second semester at Columbia University, I could not be more thankful for the time that I spent with the amazing team at ESM! I trust the team at ESM and cannot wait to have Billy and his team help my own future children apply to college!

ESM has supported me and my family for years now. Not only did Billy help improve my high school…read moregrades, get phenomenal ACT scores, and get me accepted at a majority of my college choices, but he continues to support me and offers his thoughts and help whenever I text or email him about grad school and career choices. Billy has a wonderful set of tutors that really cares for their students and want to see them achieve all their academic and extra-curricular goals. My tutors always worked around my schedule and made meetings fun and educational. ESM truly wants their students to succeed on any life path they decide to take. I recommend ESM to every family I know with students still in high school because no matter how successful a student is, ESM can help.

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As a junior student, I have used the drop-in writing tutoring several times. And trust me, it can…read morebe helpful and supportive, especially for UWP 001 students. For each time I used the service, I came near final weeks and I usually signed-in in the morning to avoid the crowd. Every time I came with a fully developed paper for word choice check and minor grammar revision. In short, Pros: friendly, informative Cons: time-consuming waiting process, limited tutoring duration SASC is considerate to provide seats, although most of the time they are not enough. The front desk is very friendly and supportive. Every time I signed in, the staff there would tell me roughly how long I had to wait for my appointment. The tutors there were very responsive. They would come into the waiting area to call the next person's name on the wait list. The actual tutoring process was informative and supportive, since the tutors did not rewrite my paper, but provided suggestions on improvements by open questions. Some of my friends also asked tutors for help on higher order of concerns like how to develop their essay and cohesion between paragraphs, and they also gave a satisfactory feedback on that aspect of the tutoring. However, the current tutoring system is still not perfect. Before my tutor guided me into the tutoring room, the most annoying part was the waiting process. SASC has a very strict policy on the wait list: everyone has to sign in the spot right after the previous person and students will lose the spot if their names are called and passed. For reference, I usually signed in at nine, when there are roughly ten people ahead of me, but the system will take about two hours to digest the wait list. On the contrary, the actual tutoring duration is pretty short, only thirty minutes being allowed. Here are some of my tips for you: * Do not wait till the due date to go to SASC for tutoring help. * Remember to bring a hard copy, or SASC will refuse to revise your essay. * Get there as early as you can to avoid the crowd. If you cannot get up early, try to use the online sign-in system for appointments with writing specialists instead. However, those appointments are on a first-come, first-served basis. * Bring your laptop or homework to use the time during waiting. * Use the call-in service at the front desk to check your spot on the wait list if you need to leave and come back later. * Review your paper before the actual appointment. Bring concise and specific questions rather than rely on memory to remember what you want to ask. Please feel free to message me about my experience or if you have any further questions. Hope you can find the help you need in SASC :)

The Student Academic Success Center is great! I recently took one of my papers there during drop-in…read morehours to get an opinion on whether or not my thesis statement was clear and if I had written enough analysis to back up my examples. I wrote my name on the sign in sheet and it only took about 5 minutes for a tutor to call me into the room! The tutors were very friendly and explained what my essay was missing in detail. They also suggested ways that I can fix the little mistakes they found rather than just telling me what was wrong. Not only did they focus on helping me fix the small errors like grammar, they helped me look at the bigger picture of my essay. They also really addressed the concerns I had with my essay by making sure my thesis had a clear single focus and my personal examples had enough analysis by the time I left SASC. Overall, my experience with the drop-in tutors for writing was great! I also had the chance to make an appointment and meet with a writing specialist. I made the appointment online at their website and went in to meet with a specialist named Larry. He was also very friendly and helped me really convey the message I wanted to by encouraging me to add more details to my essay. I enjoyed how he didn't do any of the rewriting for me; he would ask me questions about certain parts of my essay and have me write the corrections next to what I had originally written in the margins of my paper. This helped me better understand how I was lacking analysis, and then apply it later on in my writing. He also taught me the TAXES concept. T stand for the topic, A stands for the assertion, X stands for example, E stands for the explanation, and S stand for significance. I've been applying this to my writing and ever since I've been writing very well. Overall, my experience with a writing specialist was very informative and enjoyable. I still continue to go back to SASC for writing help because all of the tutors and specialists are very supportive and are always willing to help. They offer help for any type of writing, not only UWP, and they know exactly what the professors are looking for in the assignments. From one UC Davis student to another, SASC is the place to go when you need help with college writing.