Testimonials

My name is Gabi Mestre and I’m a senior at Carrollton. I had been studying for the SAT for over a year. My score improved but it hadn’t improved as much as I wanted it to, so I realized I kind of needed a change, so that’s why I wanted to join. 

I had taken the SAT twice. I mean, my score was good enough. I just needed some help with math. I had been studying with a different tutor at first, then I was studying on my own and it reached a point where I was getting the same math score every time.

I kinda had forgotten the basics from school. Like a lot of Geometry, especially because of COVID. My math teacher had to leave, so I hadn’t really learned any Geometry. I took Algebra in eighth grade and I had forgotten most of it, so I wanted to refresh, which was helpful.

I was in Calculus Junior year. I would say I was good at math, but more calculus stuff, not the SAT because it’s very different from school. I feel like I couldn’t really see through the SAT tricks, if that makes sense. I feel like the math, it’s not even that it’s hard, but it’s more that they’re trying to trick you, so you really have to know what you’re doing in order to not fall into it. I was being tricked a lot, I would forget a tiny little rule and that would mess up the entire problem.

My score was fine before. I had a 700 in math and I couldn’t really get it up, at all, from there. So, it was kind of weighing down my score because the English was really carrying my score. But then I ended up having a higher math score so it just boosted my score to be over the point that it would help me instead of just being neutral.

I think the Peace of Pi program was really, really good. The lessons were super, super helpful. I liked how we focused on each thing in the class. Topic by topic. And then the homeworks would go with the class so it was helpful. I feel like it’s more similar to going to classes for a subject instead of an SAT tutor tutoring session. I’d experienced other tutoring services and it was more, just doing practice tests and then looking over those. But with this you can really zone in on subjects and then as it gets closer to the test, you can know your weak spots. Like at the end I knew I still had to study more Trig and Geometry. I told Peace of Pi and they gave me all the practice tests focusing on those subjects.

The work was manageable. I mean, it was a lot, but I knew it was going to be a lot. I also did the Summer prep so it really was intensive, but Renan told me at the beginning it was a lot. And I was like, ‘okay, it’s fine’ because I really wanted to get my score up. So if you’re committed, it’s fine. 

I thought the virtual group was going to be more like virtual school because usually in virtual school you can kind of just listen along, but in this one you really have to focus since you have to send in your answer for every single question. You couldn’t really get sidetracked. Which is good. That was really helpful because if not I feel like I would have just zoned out and not done every single problem. 

I had a 1490, and I started with a 1430. My math improved by 60 points from a 700 to a 760. I think the tutoring really helped me. I applied Early Decision to Emory University in Atlanta and I got in. I’m going there to study pre-law which is good. That’s the goal.