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Questions About Our Services

Why Ivy-Bound?
What academic services do you offer?
Do you offer summer programs?
What do you offer for the intensive SATI/PSAT summer program?
What do you offer for the intensive SSHSAT summer program?
What are the differences between Ivy-Bound and other preparation services?

How often are Ivy-Bound's programs?
What are the hours for spring, fall and summer terms?
How long have you been in business?   
Are your tutors professional teachers or college students?
How can I register for your tutoring? 
Can I choose my teacher for one-on-one tutoring or if I am not happy with my teacher, can I change to another one? 
If I can’t go to your school, how can I get tutoring from you?
What courses do you have online?

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Why Ivy-Bound?

Ivy-Bound is committed to providing educational services of the highest quality.  Working closely with our clients, we leverage our extensive professional expertise to identify, address, and finally help our clients overcome their most significant academic challenges. 

Our highly experienced and qualified professional staff is our strongest asset. Our instructors and tutors are all successful college professors and licensed high school teachers, each with ten to up to thirty-five years of teaching excellence.  They hold doctorate and master degrees from prestigious Ivy League universities including Harvard, Yale, Columbia, and Cornell.

Our clients learn from only the best as we select only the best instructors to help our students reach top scores and achieve lasting results.  We offer

1. Courses across a wide variety of expertise--more than fifty subjects including all standardized school entrance exams and all junior high school, high school, and college courses.
          
2.Small classes of ten to fifteen students and one-on-one teaching that enable our instructors to focus personal attention on each and every student’s individual needs. We evaluate the academic strengths and weaknesses of every student upon enrollment and work closely with students and their families to develop tailored step-by-step study plans for achieving their highest goals.
 
3. Programs that guarantee results: 100% of our Honor Roll students exceed performance expectations.  Overall 90% of all our students reach their desired scoring targets and are admitted to Ivy League and other top universities and the best high schools every year.

4. Academic excellence seven days a week.  Because there is no limit to what you can achieve, we are here to support your efforts Monday to Sunday.

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What academic services do you offer?

We prepare students for achieving top scores on all standardized exams including SATI, SATII, PSAT, ACT, AP tests, LSAT, GMAT, MCAT, TOEFL, Regents, SSAT, SSHSAT, ISEE, Hunter test, etc. We prepare students to be the top of their class in junior high, high school and college course subjects. We also offer unparalleled college application services.      

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Do you offer summer programs?

We offer ongoing weekend preparation programs year-round and in the summer we offer additional seven weeks intensive preparation program. Classes are Monday to Friday and offered in the morning, afternoon, and evening to prepare students for top scores on SATI/PSAT, SATII, SSHSAT, Hunter and other exams.

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What do you offer for the intensive SATI/PSAT summer program?

Our summer programs are structured on our proven formula for preparation success.  On Mondays thru Thursdays, three hours’ classes feature four lessons in reading skills, vocabulary, grammar/essay writing, and mathematics. Students are expected to complete three to five hours of homework that covers: one word list of 100 new words, five reading passages, five pages of sentence completion, five pages of math exercises, five pages of grammar exercises, and one essay assignment. On Fridays students take a practice test to reinforce their progress through our program.

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What do you offer for the intensive SSHSAT summer program?

We offer three hours of lessons daily consisting of four lessons: literature reading and writing, test reading comprehension skills, mathematical reasoning, and logic reasoning. Every day students have five hours of homework including 50 pages of novel reading, one essay, five pages of short passage reading, five pages of math exercises, and five pages of logical reasoning exercises. Classes are Monday through Thursday. On Fridays students take a practice test to reinforce their progress through our program.. In addition to the test skills training, students will read seven classics with the guidance and support of our expert teachers.

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What are the differences between Ivy-Bound and other preparation services?

We select only the most qualified instructors so when you prepare with Ivy-Bound you can rest assured that you are preparing with the best.  While other prep centers hire college students and part time teachers. We work hard to retain only the best and brightest instructors to help our students reach top scores and achieve lasting results. 

We are committed to personalized attention and do not believe in a one size fits all approach to education.  We give each and every student our personal attention to ensure each and every one can reach his or her goal.  Our constantly accumulating wealth of preparation materials is developed, applied, and revised to fit students of different skill levels.  Our instructors follow a similar approach in our classrooms and are highly adaptive to the needs of the class instead of confine the class to rigid curriculums. Classes are divided according to skill levels. In this way we apply materials of appropriate difficulty and challenge the limits of all our students in each and every class.

The most important difference, of course, is results.  Our students improve their test scores by hundreds of points, a testament to our excellence that other preparation centers simply cannot match.

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How often do you offer your programs?
Our standardized test preparation programs are offered in spring, summer and fall. In the spring and fall, we have classes on weekends and weekdays after school hours. In the summer, we have Monday to Friday and Saturday classes. One-on-one tutoring can be arranged seven days a week.

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What are the hours for spring, fall and summer terms?
During spring and fall, we have group classes 9:00 to 12:00, 1:00 to 4:00; during summer, we have 9:00 to 12:00, 1:00 to 4:00 and 4:00 to 7:00. One-on-one tutoring can be scheduled on a custom basis.

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How long have you been in business?
Ivy-Bound's tradition of excellence began in 1996.  Since then, we have helped thousands of students realize their academic aspirations.

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Are your tutors professional teachers or college students?
Our teachers are college professors or licensed high school teachers.

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How can I register for your tutoring?
You can register by phone: 212-608-5262/718-261-4882 or online: www.ivyprepschool.com.

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Can I choose my teacher for one-on-one tutoring or if I am not happy with my teacher, can I change to another one?
Yes. We recommend only teachers that will best fit your needs; however, we also believe that ultimately the student must feel that his/her tutor is a good fit.  Alternative arrangements can be made at your request.

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If I can’t go to your school, how can I get tutoring from you?
We can still help you achieve academic success through our online program. We e-mail or postal mail you the necessary course materials and teach you one-on-one through e-mail or over phone.

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What courses do you have online?
All school entrance exam courses and most school subject courses are available online.

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