Private & Independent School Admissions
SSAT Tutoring & Test Prep
Expert preparation for the Secondary School Admission Test. We help students earn admission to the country’s top private and independent high schools with scores in the highest percentiles.
● 1500–2400 Score Scale
● Live Virtual Sessions
● 25 hrs/month $400
● Top Percentile Results
Why the SSAT Matters
The Gold Standard for Private School Admissions
The SSAT (Secondary School Admission Test) is accepted by over 1,000 independent schools across the United States and worldwide. Administered by the Enrollment Management Association, it is the leading admissions assessment for students applying to private and independent schools in grades 4–12 — and a defining factor in competitive high school admissions decisions.
Summer 2026
Course Schedule & Options
Two months of live morning instruction — 25 hours per month for $400/month. SSAT testing runs year-round — prepare in summer for Fall and Winter test dates. Gold = Mon/Wed • Blue = Tue/Thu.
Know the Exam
What Is the SSAT Upper Level?
The Upper Level SSAT is taken by students in grades 8–11 applying to private and independent high schools. It measures verbal, quantitative, and reading skills across six sections.
📋 The 6 Sections
📅 When, Who & How
📈 How SSAT Scoring Works
Raw scores (+1 correct, −¼ wrong, 0 omitted) convert to scaled scores (500–800 per section) and percentiles (1–99).
🎓 Competitive Score Targets
Top Private & Independent Schools Accepting the SSAT
The SSAT is accepted by over 1,000 schools. Here are some of the most prominent.
The SSAT Admissions Timeline — What to Expect
Our Philosophy
We Teach for Life — Not Just for the Test
The SSAT is a reasoning test as much as a content test. Vocabulary depth, logical analogy thinking, and reading inference skills are built through genuine intellectual engagement — not memorization. Our Socratic approach develops exactly these skills.
Vocabulary & Reasoning, Not Memorization
The SSAT Verbal section rewards students with deep vocabulary and strong analogical thinking — skills built through reading and reasoning, not vocabulary lists alone. Our Socratic method pushes students to think about words, relationships, and logic rather than memorize definitions.
Strategic Guessing & Pacing
Unlike the ISEE and HSPT, the SSAT deducts ¼ point per wrong answer. This makes strategic guessing essential. We train students to make confident decisions under time pressure — when to attempt, when to skip, and how to manage 3+ hours of sustained focus.
Diagnostic-Driven Instruction
Every student begins with a diagnostic across all three scored sections. We target the specific vocabulary gaps, quantitative weaknesses, and reading passage types that are holding your student’s percentile back. No wasted sessions.
Expert Instructors
Our online platform allows us to bring the best SSAT instructors to your student regardless of location — including instructors who attended the exact schools your student is targeting and know what top-percentile performance looks like.
What Parents Are Saying
The Verbal section was our biggest challenge. My daughter’s analogy scores were dragging her percentile into the 60s. After eight weeks she was hitting the 93rd percentile consistently. What changed wasn’t just vocabulary — it was how she thought about relationships between words. The Socratic approach made that difference.
My son kept losing points on the SSAT because he was guessing too aggressively. The instructors taught him a precise framework for when to attempt and when to skip. His score jumped nearly 150 composite points in six weeks. At $400 a month for this level of personalized instruction, we could not have gotten better value anywhere.
Ready to Get Started?
SSAT Fall testing starts in September. Summer is your window. 25 hours for $400/month — enroll now or schedule a free consultation.
Expert prep for competitive private school admissions — building critical thinkers since 2014.
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