The Ivy Advisor

Rated 1.0 Totally useless. My son attended his literature and SAT preparation classes. Dr. Jiang is over confident with his class and teaching skill, for SAT preparation, there are 10 classes in total, but within these 10 classes, two classes are 3-hours test, I don’t think the students can improve a lot within the limited 8 classes. This class is for the students who are already with high scores and want 1600 maybe(I doubt his capability), not for regular students.

Rated 1.0 Taking the SAT Summer Bootcamp - Overall informative class so far, but Dr. Jiang constantly yells and all of his *own* distributed books are compiled and copied from other SAT prep books. Forces you to memorize over 30 pages of vocabulary ( words) in the first week and is testing us tomorrow, on Saturday. And then there will be more tests afterwards. Honestly, out of all the SATs and prep classes I have taken, I have not seen 75% of those vocabulary words be used on the tests (both real and practice). There is no point for this vocabulary memorization and it is a waste of time that could be used for additional actual practice tests. For homework he assigns after each class, it is basically just complete all the practice tests in the books he distributed (aka we bought, which was not included in the tuition). Complete BS homework assignment as in other prep centers, you actually take the tests in class. In addition, while taking the practice tests in the classroom, he will often stand over your shoulders and just "observe," which is intimidating, while he says "I expect all of you to get 800s on the math portion because it is extremely easy." Overall, don't take this class or use this company. Useless practice and a total waste of time, parents can monitor children to learn from their own through buying prep books as all he does is read out of them.