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Need test prep this year? The group bootcamp is not enrolling and no seat is for sale. What is running now is founder-led college readiness coaching, which handles testing milestones inside the retainer.
See coachingACT/SAT Bootcamp · 8 weeks · Inquiries open
Live expert teachers in small online cohorts. Serious preparation for the Digital SAT or current ACT — plus an AI literacy curriculum that teaches your child to study far more effectively and use AI ethically, which they keep using through AP exams, college essays, and freshman year of college. Humans first; AI as a tool we teach them to use well — never to cut corners.
Why this is different
Legacy SAT and ACT bootcamps put your child in a class of fifteen-plus with a curriculum that has not meaningfully changed in twenty years. The new wave of AI study apps — free Gemini, ChatGPT subscriptions, every venture-backed AI tutoring product — gives your child a tool but never teaches them how to use it well. We rebuilt the bootcamp around what families actually need: senior expert instructors leading small-group classrooms, plus an AI literacy curriculum that compounds across AP exams, college essays, and freshman year of college.
Small-group instruction taught by specialist teachers across math, reading and writing, English, science, and test strategy. Every student in the cohort is known by name and progress pattern. The instructor is the foundation; AI is the leverage — never the substitute. Humans first is not a slogan, it is how the eight weeks are scheduled.
vs. legacy bootcamps with classes of fifteen-plus
Every student is taught how to use AI for academic work the way working engineers, lawyers, and researchers actually use it — responsibly, critically, and as a tool that makes them faster, not lazier. The same fluency that lifts SAT prep also lifts AP exams, college essays, college coursework, and the first jobs that follow.
vs. AI apps that hand over a tool with no instructions
Inside the literacy curriculum, every student builds their own study system in week one — an error log, a profile of the gaps they keep hitting, and written instructions for how they want to be helped. Those files get supplied to the AI at the start of each session, so practice targets the exact gaps, and the student keeps them after the bootcamp ends — through retakes, AP exams, and college applications. One tool inside the curriculum, not the whole pitch.
vs. a blank chatbot, where nothing carries over and nothing is inspectable
When the eight weeks finish, your child keeps the AI literacy framework, the study file they built, and the meta-skill of getting AI to explain things the way they learn best. You are paying for a study system that compounds for years, not a packet of drills they forget by Friday.
vs. eight weeks of value, gone when the bootcamp ends
Prefer 1:1 with your own coach?
Same engineer behind the curriculum. Same 80+-placements track record. Different format — recurring monthly with a personalized AI study tool tuned to your child plus monthly strategy time with Peter directly. Bootcamp and 1:1 are complementary; families pick whichever format fits their schedule and learning style.
AI Literacy Curriculum
AI literacy is a meta-skill. We teach it explicitly, alongside the SAT and ACT material, so your child finishes the bootcamp not just with a stronger score but with the working-professional habits of using AI ethically to learn faster, write better, and reason more carefully — never to cut corners or hand off the thinking. The same skills compound through every academic year that follows.
How to ask AI questions that build your child's understanding — instead of doing the work for them. The single biggest difference between a student who learns from AI and one who hands their thinking off to it.
Practiced in every AI-tutor session, weeks two through eight.
AI confidently invents wrong answers. Your child learns the specific failure modes — silent math errors, fabricated citations, plausible-sounding dates — and the verification habits that catch them every time.
Demonstrated and rehearsed against real SAT and ACT prep examples.
The line moves by school, by teacher, by assignment. Your child learns to recognize where the line is — and how to stay clearly on the right side of it on essays, problem sets, and college applications.
Framework adapts to your child's school policies and teacher norms.
Brainstorm, outline, and pressure-test a draft with AI — without letting it write for you. The college-essay rule: AI is for sharpening your voice, never replacing it.
Carries directly into the senior-year college essay process.
How to use AI to resurface past mistakes at the intervals memory actually consolidates — three days, one week, two weeks. The method generalizes to any subject your child studies, not just the SAT.
Built into the bootcamp's mistake-tracking from week one.
Practice tests, scoring guides, AP rubrics, college admission requirements — your child learns which materials are authoritative and which are not, and the habit of always checking against the real source of truth.
Modeled the way senior engineers verify production code — habit, not exception.
One tool inside the literacy curriculum
Every time a student opens Claude or ChatGPT it is, in effect, a substitute teacher: capable, but it has never met them, so the help comes out generic. Inside the AI literacy curriculum every student builds the fix in week one and keeps it. A written study page listing the questions they got wrong, the patterns underneath them, and how they want things explained. They supply it at the start of every session, so practice targets those exact gaps instead of generic drills. It works in whatever tool the family already uses, and no model is remembering anyone: the page is what carries over, and the student rewrites it as they go.
Every wrong answer your child gives — across every diagnostic, quiz, and full-length practice test — feeds into the AI tutor's memory. After two weeks the tutor has identified granular patterns no human tutor would catch this fast: compound-interest questions with quarterly compounding, inference questions in dense historical passages, function-graph transformations in reverse.
Built on AI memory and project features — the tutor accumulates a longitudinal model of your child specifically.
Once the tutor knows the patterns your child keeps missing, it generates targeted practice questions matched to those exact patterns — not random drills from a fixed bank. Your child builds a personalized, effectively infinite practice library that attacks the specific gaps they keep falling into.
Generates new questions every session based on weakness patterns, calibrated to the question style of the Digital SAT and current ACT.
Each student trains the AI tutor on how they learn. Visual learners get diagram-heavy explanations and worked examples. Step-by-step learners get logical derivations. Conceptual learners get story-form explanations tying ideas to the real world. Over eight weeks the tutor gets better and better at explaining the way your child specifically processes information best.
The student is in charge of shaping how the tutor teaches — a meta-skill that pays off long after the SAT or ACT.
The student's study page
ACT/SAT Bootcamp · week one to long after
Week 1: the student writes it from their own diagnostic
Records the mistakes they repeat and how they learn best
Supplied at the start of each session, so practice hits those gaps
Week 8: the bootcamp ends. The page stays.
Still useful through retakes, AP exams, and college applications
Illustrative run. The study page every bootcamp student writes in week one and keeps. No model remembers the student; the page is what carries over.
The bootcamp week — in person or live online
Class is the anchor; the system runs all seven days. Flip the room and watch what changes — and what deliberately does not.
Cohort_Week_3.md · same files, either room
One program week — flip the room and watch what refuses to change
Saturday · the anchor
Live online cohort — small group, cameras on, same instructors, joined from anywhere.
Instruction, timed work, and the week’s misses logged into the student’s own files before anyone leaves the call.
Sun
20-minute block
Six practice items generated from the student’s own error log — not a generic worksheet.
Mon
20-minute block
Weakest pattern first; every miss goes back into the log.
Tue
Timed mini-section
Real conditions. Misses land in the log with a one-line why.
Wed
20-minute block
The verification habit: check the tool against the official explanation.
Thu
Rewrite the instruction
The student tunes how they want to be drilled — the skill itself.
Fri
Instructor reads the files
Same three files, before class — so Saturday starts from what actually happened, not “what did we cover?”
Flip the toggle again — the six weekday cards do not change. Remote families and in-person families run the same week on the same files; the only variable is the room the anchor class meets in.
The 8-week arc
Most test prep starts at 'here are the question types.' We start earlier: structure, baseline diagnostics, and your child's AI tutor account. By the end of week eight, your child has both the score-prep work AND a personalized AI study agent they keep using for years.
Test structure deep-dive (Digital SAT module timing or ACT section structure), a full-length baseline diagnostic, and the setup of each student’s personal AI tutor account. By the end of week two, your child has a tutor they can talk to.
Granular weakness analysis. Instructors teach the question-type taxonomy in plain English; students teach their AI tutor to recognize and explain those patterns back to them. Practice volume increases.
The AI tutor generates progressively harder targeted practice against each student's specific gaps. Students teach the AI tutor to explain in their learning style — visual, step-by-step, or conceptual — which makes the tutor a better teacher week after week.
Advanced AI tutor features: a running record of every mistake across the full eight weeks that the student re-supplies each session, custom rubrics for writing prompts, and personalized test-day playbooks. The final two weeks are about confidence, consistency, and a polished plan for test day.
Choose your track
Families pick which test their child will focus on — or both, for students keeping their options open. The instruction is calibrated to each test's specific structure (the Digital SAT and the current ACT), but the AI tutor architecture, learning-style adaptation, and 24/7 support model are identical across tracks.
Built around the current Digital SAT format — adaptive Reading & Writing module, Math module with built-in calculator, and the section-timing realities of the new test.
The Digital SAT changed how students should prepare. Adaptive module difficulty means second-module performance depends on first-module accuracy. Embedded calculators change which math shortcuts matter. We teach the test that students will actually sit for.
Built around the four ACT sections (English, Math, Reading, Science) plus optional Writing, with strategy calibrated to the ACT’s distinct timing pressure and question style.
The ACT rewards a different set of test-taking habits than the SAT. The Science section is really a data-interpretation section. The English section punishes overthinking. The ACT timing pressure is more aggressive. We teach the test on its own terms — not as 'the SAT with science.'
For students taking both tests, or keeping their options open during junior year — the AI tutor framework supports both tracks in parallel with full-length practice tests for each.
Some students benefit from preparing for both — different colleges weight them differently, and some students naturally perform better on one. The AI tutor handles both test architectures in parallel, with separate weakness-pattern memory per test so progress on one doesn't get tangled up with the other.
Format and delivery
An eight-week intensive built so families get serious volume (real instructional hours, real practice tests, real strategy reps) without the per-hour cost of one-on-one tutoring. 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. The personal AI study tool extends every class hour into the rest of the week, so your child keeps practicing between sessions.
Each class day is a structured arc: live small-group subject instruction, a short break, a personal AI-tutor practice session, and test-strategy or full-length-test segments to close. Same expert instructors, same students, same AI tutor framework all eight weeks.
Small online cohorts so every student is known by name and progress pattern. We hit the ratios test-prep families actually want — not the lecture-hall class sizes that legacy bootcamps default to.
What students leave with
Every student finishes the bootcamp with the same set of deliverables, anchored by an AI literacy framework that works for the SAT, AP exams, college essays, and freshman year of college, plus the study file your child builds and keeps.
The six-part literacy curriculum — prompting for understanding, spotting hallucinations, fair-use vs. dishonesty, essay voice, spaced repetition, and source verification — used across AP exams, college essays, college coursework, and the first jobs that follow.
A written record of the student's diagnostic history, weakness patterns, the practice they generated, and the explanations that actually worked. Readable, editable, and theirs to keep. It works in whatever AI tool the family already uses, and it outlasts any one of them.
Real instructor hours with specialist teachers across math, reading and writing (SAT) or English plus reading plus science (ACT), and test strategy — a higher instructional volume than the legacy bootcamp baseline.
Diagnostic, mid-bootcamp, and final practice tests — every full-length test run under official conditions and analyzed by the AI tutor against each student's specific weakness patterns.
Honest fit check
The bootcamp fits when
A better fit is the 1:1 monthly program when
Either way, the honest answer happens on the discovery call. The founder runs it personally and will tell you the wrong fit if the program is not right for your family.
Timeline and availability
Every cohort is built backward from an official SAT or ACT date, so the work lands when it counts. Enrollment for each window opens ahead of it, and a cohort runs only when it meets a written minimum enrollment — we would rather move a date than deliver a half-filled room.
Free and low-cost parent workshops across the North Shore, alongside 1:1 coaching timed to the autumn SAT and ACT dates. This is the window where families meet the program in person before committing to a cohort.
Inquiries openThe first small-group cohort timed to a specific test date, for sophomores and juniors sitting the February ACT or the March SAT. Enrollment opens in the autumn; the cohort runs only if a written minimum enrollment is met.
Enrollment opens autumn 2026The eight-week summer program for rising juniors and seniors, plus subject intensives for AP coursework. 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 openWho is teaching this
Jinwoong Lee — a 2018 UC Berkeley graduate — is a senior software engineer with eight years of experience building production software at companies that include Amazon and Ring. He has also founded and shipped AI software that helps small care facilities replace paper-based workflows — built for owners who aren’t technical, in a privacy-regulated healthcare environment. That combination — production AI engineering plus a track record of teaching non-technical users to actually adopt AI — is rare in test prep, and it’s the foundation the AI-tutor curriculum is built on.
Companies that include Amazon and Ring. Currently a senior software engineer. The same engineer who builds AI systems at work designs the AI tutor architecture students train in the bootcamp.
Founded and ships AI-assisted software for small care facilities operating under strict healthcare-privacy rules. Building AI that non-engineers actually use is exactly what the bootcamp teaches students to do.
Eleven years coaching students from his own private practice; mentees placed at Harvard, Stanford, Princeton, Columbia, Brown, Dartmouth, Cornell, UC Berkeley, UCLA, Northwestern, Georgia Tech, and other top-twenty universities. The teaching style in the bootcamp is the same one those placements were built on.
Most test prep founders are educators who have never built AI. Most AI engineers have never taught a teenager. The ACT/SAT Bootcamp curriculum exists because one person sits at both tables — and that combination is what makes a working personal AI tutor for every student possible.
FAQ
Inquiries open · Live online now · Glenview, IL in-person planned
Tell us which test date you are aiming at and we will tell you which cohort fits, or say plainly that a different format suits your family better. Founding-Cohort families help shape the curriculum and receive the first round of personalized literacy reports. We get back to families within two business days.