DO NOT TAKE THE PRINCETON REVIEW. If you're planning to get into med school, do not take any review course with these clowns. All they are after is your money and the course is a joke. The teachers don't care and the material doesn't ...

It is unfortunate higher education in the US is greatly impacted by a testing group that makes money off teaching people how to take their tests. Princeton Review is synonymous with standardized testing because of the classes it offers to teach students how to improve their scores. With classes offered for the SAT's in English/Writing and Math these private and small classes are helpful but only if you put the time into it. The price tag on these classes does not run cheap and that's why many a college student loves working for them (because from what I've heard they pay quite well). The office/teaching area at the Irvine location is set up in a plaza that also has a 24 hour fitness and In n Out Burger, right across the street from UCI. The rooms were big enough for 10-15 students and classes are usually this size or smaller to provide better instructor-student interaction. The instructors are usually pretty helpful and have taken the practice tests many a time so they know their stuff. Classes are usually daily so getting to them is on the student or parents to transport them there and then pick them up. Overall I learned tricks to the test and how to better analyze problems but it's really unfortunate that those that are more well off can afford to put their kids through this program while others do not get the opportunity. Personally I'm glad I took the courses and talked with the instructors a lot about the tests and how to better learn from the practice ones. Overall its a good program, if you can afford it. Hopefully they come up with better ways to reach out to less fortunate people someday.