SAT PREP & UNIVERSITY TOURS

Los Angeles and Salt Lake City

Our 22-day adventure begins at the Los Angeles International Airport and continues with a short flight to Salt Lake City where life is truly elevated. The city sits at an elevation of 4200 feet with the soaring peaks of the Wasatch mountains as a stunning backdrop. Fittingly, we stay in the same dorms at the University of Utah that served as the Athlete Village during the 2002 Winter Olympic Games.

Our week in Salt Lake City is intense as we begin a rigorous schedule of SAT prep. The week begins and ends with a 3-hour proctored practice test. We base out of Higher Ground Learning, a world-class test prep organization. It is here we go through hours of testing, classes, one-on-one tutoring, and homework sessions. Even with the hours of study, there is still time to enjoy the stunning locale each day as we participate in afternoon excursions to take in the stunning views, historic landmarks, and fresh mountain air.

Arches National Park

Southern Utah’s world-renowned red rock formations come into full view as we celebrate a week of hard work with a trip to one of the most iconic national parks in America. We experience Arches’ most famous vista with a sunset hike to Delicate Arch. No trip to Moab is complete without stopping at Dead Horse Point to view the breathtaking panorama of Canyonlands National Park. Our time in Utah comes to an end as we catch a flight to San Francisco, get back to our prep work, and tour some of the most prestigious universities in the world.

San Francisco

Our next program section is in the San Francisco Bay Area, home to such world renowned academic institutions as Stanford, San Francisco State University, and the University of California Berkeley. We will tour them all. It is during this section that the SAT instruction becomes more specialized and individualized. We meet regularly with our instructor to receive personalized tutoring based on their most recent practice test results. We have a robust number of homework assignments tailored to the specific issues arising in each tutorial session. When not in tutoring or doing homework, we go on college tours at Berkeley, Stanford, and other area universities while also taking in sights such as the Golden Gate Bridge, Fisherman’s Wharf, and the redwoods of Muir Woods. After five days of rigorous SAT prep and city life, we head to Yosemite National Park for a brief and tranquil respite.

Yosemite National Park

In Yosemite, we are all humbled by perhaps the most dramatic scenery in the world. Massive vertical walls of granite and a stunning glacier-carved valley is our setting for our next 36 hours. We stand in the shadow of the famed El Capitan and take in Half Dome as well as Yosemite and Bridal Veil Falls. Yosemite’s grandeur adds a truly majestic exclamation point on our unique blend of studying and adventure.

Los Angeles

From Yosemite, we return to the coast where we tour the picturesque University of California Santa Barbara on our way to thriving Los Angeles. The UCLA dorms are our new home for the last week of our trip and we continue the rigorous regimen of tailored individual SAT instruction. When not studying this week, we tour the campuses of UCLA and USC and take in the sights of Los Angeles. We also take a culminating exam to appreciate the full scope of our progress and to highlight any final areas that still need work in the last few days. Finally, we celebrate our course completion with a day at famed Universal Studios followed by our group’s final night’s “feast”. After 80 hours of testing, classes, tutoring and homework, multiple college tours and visits to some of the world’s most iconic natural wonders, we head for home with incredible experiences, lasting friendships and poised for future success on the SAT.