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Live online, anywhere in the US · based in Glenview, Illinois · founder-led

Founder-led · Every session with the same person · Six families at a time

A clear plan for junior year, with a human consultant.

Your student builds an AI agent along the way, a study helper with written rules, and keeps it. College consulting, SAT/ACT small groups, and summer and winter bootcamps.

Founded and taught by Jinwoong Lee · UC Berkeley 2018 · 8 years building software at Amazon and Ring · 80+ placements at top-20 universities

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See the 20-second demo
Recurring · open nowCollege consultingRolling · live online anywhere in the US · six founder-led seatsWinter bootcamp · Feb 22 – Mar 18, 2027SAT/ACT small groupFebruary 22 – March 18, 2027 · live online, anywhere in the USSummer 2027 · Jun 28 – Aug 16Summer bootcampJune 28 – August 16, 2027 · live online, anywhere in the US

  • 80+

    placements at top-20 universities

  • 11

    years in private education, 10+ of them college consulting and SAT/ACT prep

  • 8

    years building software at Amazon and Ring

  • 6

    families at a time, every session with the founder

Three things, and nothing else

College consulting leads. The SAT/ACT group and the summer bootcamp sit beside it.

Recurring · open now

College consulting

Parents of freshmen, sophomores and juniors, juniors first, who want the whole application arc handled by one person.

Founder-led and month to month, anchored to the next real date. Every session with Jinwoong; a written plan and a monthly report you can read in five minutes. The student builds their AI agent, a study helper with written rules, in week two and keeps it.

When
Rolling · live online anywhere in the US · six founder-led seats
Terms
Pricing differs by package · a consult decides which package fits · terms in writing before anything starts
Request a consultWhat consulting includes

Winter bootcamp · Feb 22 – Mar 18, 2027

SAT/ACT small group

Sophomores and juniors sitting the spring ACT or SAT. One exam and one level per group.

Eight live hours over four weeks with a named teacher, AI practice between sessions that a person checks, and an AI agent the student built and keeps. Four to six students. Written minimum-enrollment decision on February 15.

When
February 22 – March 18, 2027 · live online, anywhere in the US
Terms
Pricing differs by package · a consult decides which fits · terms in writing before any seat
Ask about the February groupHow the group works

Summer 2027 · Jun 28 – Aug 16

Summer bootcamp

Rising juniors and seniors aiming at the late-summer SAT and the fall test dates.

Eight weeks, sixteen live hours, live online. Minimum four, target six, cap eight. Go or no-go on June 14; the refund policy is published before any deposit.

When
June 28 – August 16, 2027 · live online, anywhere in the US
Terms
Pricing differs by package · early-bird list opens in January · joining the list is neither payment nor a seat
Join the summer listSummer details

The AI agent your student builds and keeps

An AI agent, in plain words: a helper with one job and written rules.

You hand it a job and a written rule instead of a question, and it works through the job step by step, then stops where you told it to. Your student writes the instructions, tests the output with us, and keeps the instructions.

It does not know your child and does not remember last week. The written page carries that, and the page belongs to you. The tool can be wrong; your student still does the work.

Most programs hand students an app. Here the student writes the agent’s rules, tests them with a person, and keeps them.

Build your own AI agent

Is this cheating?

AI explains, quizzes and organizes. It never writes what the student submits. A parent approves the tools, and where a teacher’s rule forbids AI for an assignment, it is off for that assignment.

The longer answer, with the college policies

The 20-second demo: one practice section becomes tonight's plan

Nothing vanishes. Every miss becomes the next session, and the instruction is on the screen.

Practice_Section_RW_Module2.pdf

27 questions · graded against the student’s own error log

Tonight’s drill is built

Q1 – Q27 · every question, graded

missed — into the log shaky — timed re-run solid — move on

error-log.md — the student’s own file

  • Q7Comma splice vs. period — picked B, answer D. I treat "however" like "and."
  • Q19Transition question — chose the contrast word out of habit, not from the sentence.
  • Q3 · Q12 · Q22 · Q26Right, but slow or second-guessed — flagged for a timed re-run, not for drilling.

The instruction — written by the student, readable by you

Build tonight’s 20-minute drill from these six. One at a time, hardest first — and don’t show me the answer until I commit to one.

Scripted demonstration on a synthetic section — no student data, and no model that knows or remembers anyone. The error log is the student’s own file; it is the continuity.
Talk it through in a consultIs this cheating? The honest answer →
Jinwoong Lee, founder of AI College Prep Academy

Who teaches

Why an engineer runs this.

Jinwoong Lee graduated from UC Berkeley in 2018 and spent eight years building software at companies that include Amazon and Ring, including AI products for people who are not engineers.

Alongside that he has run a private education practice for eleven years: college consulting and SAT/ACT prep for more than ten of them, with 80+ students placed at top-20 universities.

Most programs hand students an app. Here the student writes the helper’s instructions, tests them with a person, and keeps them.

Built by an engineer who shipped AI products at Amazon and Ring, taught by the same person.

About Jinwoong

Where 80+ mentees have landed

Universities across 11+ years of 1:1 mentorship.

  • Harvard
  • Stanford
  • Princeton
  • Columbia
  • Brown
  • Dartmouth
  • Cornell
  • Berkeley
  • UCLA
  • Northwestern
  • GT
  • Harvard
  • Stanford
  • Princeton
  • Columbia
  • Brown
  • Dartmouth
  • Cornell
  • Berkeley
  • UCLA
  • Northwestern
  • GT

How it starts

Consult, written plan and price, month one.

  1. Request a consult

    Thirty minutes with Jinwoong, no pitch. You leave with at least one thing worth doing whether or not we work together.

  2. A written plan and the price

    We aim to send the plan for the next milestone, the scope, and the number within two business days, in writing, before anything starts.

  3. Month one

    The first session names the date. The student builds their AI agent in week two, and you get the first monthly report.

Our position on AI

The student does the thinking.

Every family asks a version of the same question before they ask about price: is this cheating? We answer it in public, name the things we refuse to do, and say so when the honest answer is that nobody knows yet.

Read our AI safety commitments
  • The student does the thinkingAI can explain a missed problem, quiz a student on a weak skill, or reorganize messy notes. It does not produce work the student turns in as their own. If a workflow only works when the student stops thinking, we do not teach it.
  • Every answer gets verifiedWe teach the check, not just the prompt. An AI explanation is confirmed against the textbook, the scoring guide, or the original source before it becomes something a student studies from. Students should leave more skeptical of a confident wrong answer than when they started.
  • No black boxesWe show the instruction that produced each output. A student who can read and edit their own prompt owns the system and can repair it. A student handed a finished bot owns nothing and learns nothing when it breaks.

FAQ

Top questions from parents.

See all 13 questions on the full FAQ page →

Join the parent groups

Free and public, on Facebook. Jinwoong posts and answers there; ask first if you like, and the consult is here when you want a plan.

The Facebook groups are public — posts can appear in search outside Facebook. The KakaoTalk room is for parents only.

Start with a consult

Bring the next date. We will bring the plan.

Thirty minutes, no pitch. Based in Glenview, Illinois; live online for families anywhere in the US. You leave with at least one thing worth doing whether or not we work together.

No score, admission or placement promises. Nobody honest can make one, and we say so in writing.

Request a consult
See the SAT/ACT group