Elite Prep

I couldn't be happier with my experience at Elite Prep! My SAT scores improved dramatically thanks to the guidance of Joon, Jeff, and Thuan. They are not only excellent teachers but also helped me see the SAT from a completely new perspective. I'm truly grateful for all the support I received, and I highly recommend Elite Prep to anyone seeking academic help!

I am extremely happy with my experience at Elite Educational Institute, and especially my guidance counselor and advisor,Jesse Kwon. As I prepare to make a transition to college, I can look back and understand how much of a contribution Elite and Jesse, in particular, have had in creating opportunities for me. My journey with Elite started in the early part of my freshman year at high school. Like most Asian families, my parents and I went to meet Jesse for the first time with ideas that only included lofty college brands, perfect GPAs and the most impacted majors. It took Jesse only one meeting to make me understand that I can do myself the best service by focusing on my studies with right time management, practice, doing due diligence to all my work, and asking for help whenever needed. During every college counseling meeting, Jesse always encouraged me, and even during times when my grades had dropped, he kept my spirits high. These four years, Jesse worked with our family like a team, providing valuable information, setting up course plans, summer programs, extra-curriculars, and helping me to maintain my school track records in spreadsheets. His dedication to help his students is exemplary. He is so invested in helping his students that he always loses track of time unless reminded by the front desk. I am also pleasantly surprised by the amount of patience he has as he will answer all questions (and sometimes my parents had a lot) without being dismissive. When it came time for college applications, I don’t think I could have done so well without the help from Elite. Jesse took all the time to review and shortlist my Activities list, Awards and Honors, and of course my essays. I worked with Jesse through multiple rounds of reviewing before he gave me the greenlight. He also reviewed my entire application to make sure there were no errors. I cannot express the amount of work that I got to put with the Elite team to make my college application really strong. Even with a few blemishes in my grades, I still got admitted to 16 excellent universities, of which 6 were UCs. I got into both computer science and data science. In the end, it was a bit of a challenge to decide, but I am going to UC Berkeley. Without a doubt, my parents and the Elite team have immensely helped me through this phase. This may seem a bit out of order, but I wanted to cover my college application experience and the final outcome first. But I think my review will be incomplete if I don’t mention Jesse as a tutor. Jesse was my math tutor in 10th and 11th grade. My school, Irvington High School, has a reputation of being intense at math. Apart from being a really excellent math tutor, I have always wondered how Jesse never gets stumped by any super difficult math problem. Last but not least, I am really thankful to the entire Elite team that I got the opportunity to work with. Chelsea was so much on top of everything giving me reminders if I am falling behind on any for-credit course. She is so well organized and really helped me to stay on track on a number of occasions. I worked with Joon as my essay coach, and he is definitely an expert of essay writing. It is difficult to satisfy him with the essay, but in the end when it all takes shape, you can only see how valuable his critique was. In the end, I became a much better writer.

Great tutoring and college consulting services. Specifically, Jesse, both a math tutor and consultor, has been exceptional at both. He's genuine, pragmatic, kind, and helpful. In tutoring, he's phenomenal at answering Calculus questions. Not simply just by being knowledgeable in the subject, but by having the aptitude to teach and being able to establish the thought process towards learning and solving complex ideas. In college consulting, the experience has been great as well. From creating practical college lists to polishing essays and extracurricular activities, Jesse has been a great help with both mathematics and the college application process. Highly recommend this location's services and this individual.

I emailed them 4 times and only heard back once, then when we responded to schedule a call/meeting, C never return my email even after 2 reminders to follow up. Did other parents experience that? Not sure if they are just being selective who they talk to and pick only the super good potential students. I heard good reviews from other parents but disappointed we never hear back.

I am a class of 2025 student that has attended Elite Prep in Fremont since the 2023 Winter Bootcamp for the SAT. They have helped me improve by hundreds of points from a 1350 all the way to a 1540! And although I started my college counseling journey here quite late (junior year second semester), they still have helped me so much whether it was through recommending ECAs, awards/honors, college choices, determining what major is right for me and MUCH MORE. Their essay service is excellent as they assign you a specific person just to help aid you with your essays for every single school you have planned to apply to. Rather than just being generic and saying things like "you need more details" or "be more specific", they are with you the entire process of editing. Scheduling is consistent and everyone genuinely hopes for a great outcoming throughout your entire journey. I started off extremely nervous, thinking and knowing that I didn't have great ECAs, a great SAT score, good amount of AP's, and a mediocre GPA. And yet, here I am successfully entered into Wash U St. Louis for Biology class of 2029 go Bears! Without this organization, I would have no clue where I would be currently, but with their efforts for more than just a year (not even the full 3-4 years) they have gotten me this far to go to my dream school. With your efforts and mindset and their organization, I am sure you will be able to go to a good college too as this organization provides you anything you need help with that is related to test scores and college counseling. I cannot express my thanks enough to this organization to achieve a goal that I never thought I would achieve. THANK YOU ELITE PREP FREMONT!!!! (and all the amazing staff there: Jesse, Chelsea, Walter, and many more)!

I was a student during Elite's summer SAT boot camp, and Elite definitely pushes you to surpass your boundaries. There's a lot of work and much of it requires intense focus, but I felt that none of it was 'busy-work' or work simply given just to give work. My teachers really cared about my performance and took personal investments in seeing me succeed. They sometimes stayed after class to address my questions and were really good at explaining things in ways that I could understand. In the end, I really enjoyed my summer experience at Elite, and my SAT scores showed it. It wasn't easy, but it was WORTH IT.

Though I was initially intimidated by how rigorous the schedule and policies were at Elite, they were just what I needed to learn in order to excel at taking the SAT. Elite Prep Fremont helped me to not only improve my SAT score but also my work ethic. After memorizing 25 vocabulary words every day and getting quizzed on them right away, taking multiple full-length tests week after week and going over methodical ways to approach each question with teachers in class, my test-taking confidence skyrocketed, allowing me to perform well on test day. (improvement of 400 points compared to my diagnostic test for the old SAT) I highly recommend Elite to anyone who is looking to improve their SAT score and/or work ethic. Not only are both of these things beneficial in one's college admission process, they also come in handy after one goes to college.