OUR DIFFERENCE
We have a superior test prep program that
has been tested for 12 years
in 1on1 instruction and at private and public schools,
with students seeking Ivy-League admission and those looking for a minimum score to graduate.
We empower live teaching with:
A program that provides simple, visual cues that help students identify and perform these skills.
Technology that collects tremendous quantities of data to make test prep as efficient as possible – pinpointing what skills a student, school – or even district – needs to master for outsized score gains.
Technology
Our Platform allows students and tutors easy access to diagnostic and practice materials, as well as analyzes those materials.
Powerful Data Efficiencies
Our platform continually analyzes student test results against a host of data – a student’s previous test results, their academic profile, historical test trends, test data from similar students or cohorts, University Select proprietary test analysis, and University Select conditional statements – all to maximize efficiency by identifying a handful of skills that represent outsized score gains for a student, class, school or district.
Student Engagement
The best data insights alone don’t move scores. Not only do we partner with tutors/teachers who translate these insights for students, we also engage students and support instructors in this translation process through our platform and proprietary practice material.
We collect more data on tests and on students, in a more dynamic fashion, than our competitors. We leverage our collective twelve years of teaching in higher education to mold a highly sophisticated, yet simple to teach, program. Our data insights and outside-the-box strategies allow SAT and ACT score gains to be made more quickly, and across a broader range of students, than has traditionally been the case in the standardized test prep industry.
Efficient
University Select’s program is heavily diagnostic-based. We only use official sample tests from the ACT and SAT as diagnostic material, and students take weekly diagnostic tests (interspersed with memorization exercises and practice sets) to identify whether the question types on which they've worked are going away, as well as what types of new statistically-relevant question types are cropping up. In short, we rely on our analysis of the best practice material available from the test writers themselves, and we commit to continual diagnostic analysis of this material in an effort to make targeted, efficient gains.
Students view their diagnostic progress through two customized reports on our online platform. One gives a visualization of incorrect response trends, while the other digs into the details of how we categorize and bundle each of the incorrect responses.
Evolving
One of our significant differentiators: we do not just understand every publicly available SAT, PSAT & ACT test, and we do not just understand how each test continues to evolve (and they do!), but we also understand that a student's performance continues to evolve. We evolve with the student and continue to alter their customized study plan, as the student progresses, to constantly focus on the greatest score growth opportunities.
How we optimize student score potential
Effective
A thorough and current understanding of the tests and of our students is our starting point. Even when provided the most efficient path to maximum score gains, however, without simple yet effective methods to get students to the correct answers, scores will not budge. As former and current undergraduate, graduate and law professors, we know how to break down complicated content into manageable bites. Many of those writing test methods for companies that look like us are the Michael Jordan's of test taking. We are, instead, the Phil Jackson's: we are successful test-takers, but we are even better at coaching others to be successful on college entrance exams. This success is not restricted to those students seeking perfect scores, but all along along the entire spectrum of baseline scores.
Our methods have to meet the following litmus test: can they be applied easily, consistently, and under duress? While our program is sophisticated – data driven and research based – its aim is to provide simple solutions to get our students to the right answers and to higher scores.
While our program is sophisticated, we provide simple solutions to get our students to the right answer and higher scores.