INTO PREP - Most Powerful Test Prep and Elite College Consultancy
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Overview
INTO PREP stands out with an ambitious score guarantee: a 270-point improvement on the SAT (or 6 points on the ACT), or a minimum achievement of 1500/33. That is one of the most aggressive guarantees in the Philadelphia area, and they claim to have delivered on it for over a thousand students -- with 458 scoring 1500+ and 213 scoring 1550+.
Run by a husband-and-wife team, INTO PREP has locations in Malvern and on the UPenn campus. They cover SAT, ACT, GRE, and LSAT prep, along with admission consulting and academic tutoring. Their approach leans heavily on rigorous curricula and metacognitive strategies, and they have been operating for nearly a decade.
Beyond standard test prep, they offer a summer camp program, AP prep, a private study club membership, and even a book club for teens. The operation feels more like a structured academy than a typical tutoring service, with absent forms, homework tracking, and an online score tracker. For families wanting an intensive, results-driven program with strong accountability, INTO PREP targets the high end of the market.
What Parents Are Saying
Reviews for INTO PREP are largely positive but polarized. Many students and parents praise the program for producing dramatic SAT score improvements and credit the highly qualified, passionate teachers and staff, particularly director Allison. However, several negative reviews cite the high cost (around $4,300), a heavy homework load, concerns about the score guarantee's fine print, and some parents who felt the program was not sufficiently personalized or that real SAT results did not match practice test performance.
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