SAT/ACT prep & college consulting · Glenview · Live online now · Glenview, IL in-person planned
SAT and ACT Prep and College Consultingin Glenview, IllinoisTaught by an Engineer
Small-group SAT and ACT preparation and founder-led college consulting for Glenview families, for students in grades 9 through 11, live online. Students at Glenbrook South High School work directly with a UC Berkeley engineer who spent eight years building software at companies that include Amazon and Ring, and who has placed 80+ students at top-20 universities.
Glenview students attend the larger of the two Glenbrook schools, and the practical consequence is range: enough course and activity options that a student can finish four years with a full transcript that does not argue anything in particular.
- Schools served
- Glenbrook South High School
- District
- Northfield Township High School District 225
- Best starting point
- Sophomore spring to junior fall
- Lake Forest
- Libertyville
- Vernon Hills
- Highland Park
- Lincolnshire
- Buffalo Grove
- Deerfield
- Northbrook
- Glenview (this page) — planned in-person location
- Wilmette
- Skokie
- Park Ridge
Communities served across the North Shore and Lake County. Schematic, not to scale.
What Glenview families can work with us on
Two things, taught by one person, with the AI literacy inside both rather than sold as a separate course. An AI agent is an AI helper with one job and written rules: your student writes the rules, the agent works through the job step by step, and a person checks the result. It does not know your child and does not remember last week; the written rules and your student’s own notes carry that, and they belong to your family.
SAT and ACT preparation
Direct instructionSmall-group preparation for the Digital SAT and the current ACT, built backward from a specific official test date; 1:1 sessions where the group does not fit.
Content instruction in math and verbal, full-length official-format practice tests with per-question review, a test-day plan, and the study system the student keeps for retakes. No score guarantee — variability between students is large and anyone promising a number is guessing.
Ask about thisThe study system, taught inside every subject
Study-method coachingThe layer that runs through everything above: how to direct AI tools honestly, check their output, and keep a record of your own thinking.
Students build an error log, write the instruction that turns it into practice, and run the verification step that catches a wrong answer. The files belong to the student and travel with them. No model knows or remembers your child — the student re-supplies their own record each time, which is exactly why it keeps working across courses and years. This is study-method coaching woven into the subject work, not a separate class.
Ask about thisCollege consulting
Direct instructionThe application arc for freshmen, sophomores and juniors — college list, timeline, activities, essays, and the testing plan inside it.
Milestone-based and founder-led, with a written plan and dates against each item. Seats are deliberately limited; we will say when we are full rather than stretch.
Ask about this
What is actually true in Glenview
Glenview is served by Glenbrook South High School, part of Northfield Township High School District 225 alongside Glenbrook North in Northbrook. It is the larger of the district's two schools.
Range is genuinely valuable — and its failure mode is accumulation: four years of individually sensible choices that add up to a transcript with no through-line. Admissions readers are not counting items; they look for the claim an application makes, then check whether the evidence supports it.
So the work in Glenview is usually subtraction rather than addition: deciding what not to do, so what remains means something. It applies to courses as much as activities — the same discipline that makes a study plan work, aiming hours rather than adding them.
At a school with this much on offer, the hard part is choosing less
Nobody inside a household is well placed to tell a hardworking sixteen-year-old to drop something they are good at, and a counselor serving a whole cohort cannot hold that conversation weekly. That is what an outside voice is for. We write the reasoning down and expect families to argue with it.
What "AI-centered" actually means here
Watch the study system work — mistake, instruction, check.
This is the loop your student runs in every subject. The part most programs hide — the instruction — is the part we teach.
Study_System_Loop.md
Three files, one habit — the loop every subject here runs on
## Reading & Writing — Oct 3
- Q14: comma splice vs. period+capital.
Picked B. Right answer D.
Why: I treat "however" like "and."
Written by the student — readable by you
Using my error log, quiz me on comma splices and "however" sentences. One at a time — don’t show the answer until I commit, then make me explain WHY in one line.
How sessions run for Glenview families
Classes run live online today. In-person small-group cohorts are planned for Glenview, IL, serving the North Shore and southern Lake County — we will publish the location and dates once the room is under contract, and not before.
Glenview is where we are working to open that room, because it is central to the communities we serve. We will publish the address and dates when the space is under contract — not before, and we will not take a deposit against a plan.
August 2026 – January 2027
Fall consultations and test-prep planning
Consultations with the founder, live online, for families choosing between the February ACT and the March SAT. In-person meetings are not scheduled; the Glenview room is planned, not signed.
Inquiries open
February 22 – March 18, 2027
Winter small-group bootcamp · the Illinois school-day ACT in spring 2027
Four weeks, eight live hours, four to six students, one exam and one level per group, live online, for students in grades 9 through 11 aiming at the spring 2027 school-day ACT or SAT dates. It runs only if the written minimum enrollment is met; the decision date is February 15, 2027.
Inquiries open · decision date February 15, 2027
Summer 2027
Summer SAT/ACT bootcamp · June 28 – August 16, 2027
The eight-week summer bootcamp for rising sophomores, juniors and seniors, live online. Enrollment opens in the winter, after the first cohort has been delivered and families can see the work rather than a description of it.
Waitlist open
Korean-language support for Glenview families
Consultations, written plans and parent progress updates are available in Korean or English. Many families here use both — one parent more comfortable in each language — and we work with both rather than routing everything through the student. Student sessions run in English, since that is the language of the exams and the application.
한인 학부모 AI 클래스 자세히 보기 →How AI is used here — and where the line is
Students build a study system they own and can read: a log of their own mistakes, the instructions they wrote for how they want to be helped, and a checklist for verifying an answer before trusting it. The system is a set of files the student keeps. It does not know your child and it does not remember them between sessions — what persists is what the student wrote down, which is exactly why it still works a year later and in a different course.
The limit belongs beside the benefit: a model can be confident and wrong, which is why verification is taught as part of the method rather than mentioned at the end of it.
Owned by the student — files, not accounts
Any AI tool
Starts from zero, every session. It does not know your child and it does not remember them — the student’s files are the continuity, which is why the system survives a tool change, a school year, and graduation.
Questions Glenview families ask
Also serving nearby communities
- Northbrook
- Vernon Hills
- Buffalo Grove
- Deerfield
- Highland Park
- Lincolnshire
Start with a consultation
We will look at where your student actually is, what the next twelve months should hold, and whether this is the right fit. If a local tutor or your school’s own counseling is the better answer, we will say so.