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BECOME A NATIONAL MERIT SCHOLAR

A PROVEN PLAYBOOK TO HELP YOU REACH THE HIGHEST LEVELS OF THE PRESTIGIOUS NATIONAL MERIT SCHOLARSHIP COMPETITION

Our Future National Merit Scholars Playbook is the ultimate PSAT prep course for driven, highly intelligent students: a rigorous and comprehensive program that teaches advanced strategies for every reading, writing, and math question on the new digital PSAT.

PARTICIPANTS LEARN

How to dissect PSAT reading passages to uncover the author’s argument.
How to maintain poise under the pressure—a critical skill for elite test-takers.
How to quickly tell whether an answer is actually right or merely seems to be correct.
How to shortcut the digital PSAT’s most deceptively tricky math problems.

KEY BENEFITS INCLUDE

  • 4 two-hour sessions from a charismatic, Ivy League- educated expert in test preparation who has successfully helped thousands of students reach their full potential.
  • Our exclusive prep guide, FUTURE NATIONAL MERIT SCHOLARS PSAT PLAYBOOK, which features hundreds of strategies, tips, and practice questions.
  • 4 full-length digital PSATs to gauge progress, build mental stamina, and ensure that students are entirely comfortable and confident with the new online format by test day.
  • Video recordings of every lesson, so students can review key concepts whenever and as often as they would like, even after the course has ended.

“I feel like I finally understand math for the first time in my life. Thank you for being so patient with me and for the extra advice on Friday. I was still kind of nervous when I took the test, but I used all of the strategies we went over, and I didn’t feel like anything was a surprise. I actually finished the no-calculator section a few minutes early, which is amazing considering I used to run out of time. Thank you so much again. I’m really proud of my 690, especially considering I got a 550 the first time.”

Erika Lichtmann
New Tier High School
Winnetka, IL

“It seems so easy now – I can’t believe I used to get confused by these questions. You guys did an awesome job explaining everything, especially word problems and trig. And it wasn’t boring!”

Jacob Gordon-Reed
Harriton High School
Rosemount, PA

“I got a 750!! Thank you, thank you, thank you!!!”

Samantha Burke
Acton-Boxborough Regional High School
Acton, MA

“Thank you so much. I had no idea what to do for my Common App or supplements and kept writing drafts that I wasn’t happy with. You helped me understand what admissions officers look for when they read students’ personal statements and how I had a unique story to tell. I’m positive my essays helped me get into Brown, and I feel much more confident in my writing ability now than I did before. Thank you!”

Allison Winograd
Brookline High School
Brookline, MA

FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS

For the vast majority of students – nearly all – the PSAT is simply a practice exam, a barometer of how they are likely to eventually perform on the SAT. However, for a select few students – the top one-half of one percent in each state – the PSAT is a path to prestige and college scholarships. Top-scoring students on the PSAT enter the National Merit Scholarship Competition, which honors the most elite test-takers and renders them eligible for major scholarships. Our Future National Merit Scholars PSAT Boot Camp is specifically designed for students who possess both the intelligence and drive to compete at the highest levels.

Many high-achieving students will take both. The Digital SAT Playbook is specifically for the SAT, while our Future National Merit Scholars PSAT Boot Camp is exclusively for the PSAT and for students who are true contenders for the highest honor in the National Merit Scholarship Competition. Although there is a great degree of overlap in content and strategies between our digital SAT course and PSAT Boot Camp, the latter is more fast-paced and focuses on the types of questions that ambitious AP students find most challenging. The PSAT Boot Camp also benefits students with four PSAT exams to supplement the 10 SAT exams in our Digital SAT Playbook course.

Yes, absolutely. We cover every inch of the new digital PSAT – every verbal and math question guaranteed to be on the test. We also illustrate how to make the best use of the new digital format, which is markedly different from the pencil-and-paper test.

The tuition is $699 per student.

Yes, all students can repeat our Future National Merit Scholars PSAT Boot Camp at any point in the future, so students who are in 9 th or 10 th grade can benefit from a head start without incurring the cost of an elite-level PSAT prep program twice.

ACE THE PSAT AND BECOME A NATIONAL MERIT SCHOLAR

Our Next PSAT BOOT CAMP Begins September 28

Aiming to become a National Merit Scholar? Learn proven strategies and techniques that will help you score among the top one-half of one percent of test-takers on the PSAT.

Class Dat
Sep 28 - Oct 08Thursday & Sunday Evening ClassesSee ScheduleLive-Online$699 Enroll

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SEPT 28 - Oct 08 Schedule

Class 1:  THURS, SEPT 28, 2023, 07:00 PM – 09:00 PM EDT
 
Class 2:  SUN, OCT 1, 2023, 07:00 PM – 09:00 PM EDT
 
Class 3:  THURS, OCT 5, 2023, 07:00 PM – 09:00 PM EDT
 
Class 4:  SUN, OCT 8, 2023, 07:00 PM – 09:00 PM EDT

Jul 17 - Aug 16 Schedule

Class 1: MON, JUL 17, 2023, 09:00 AM – 11:00 AM EDT

Class 2: WED, JUL 19, 2023, 09:00 AM – 11:00 AM EDT

Class 3: MON, JUL 24, 2023, 09:00 AM – 11:00 AM EDT

Class 4: WED, JUL 26, 2023, 09:00 AM – 11:00 AM EDT

Class 5: MON, JUL 31, 2023, 09:00 AM – 11:00 AM EDT

Class 6: WED, AUG 2, 2023, 09:00 AM – 11:00 AM EDT

Class 7: MON, AUG 7, 2023, 09:00 AM – 11:00 AM EDT

Class 8: WED, AUG 9, 2023, 09:00 AM – 11:00 AM EDT

Class 9: MON, AUG 14, 2023, 09:00 AM – 11:00 AM EDT

Class 10: WED, AUG 16, 2023, 09:00 AM – 11:00 AM EDT

Aug 27 - Oct 4 Schedule

Class 1: SUN, AUG 27, 2023, 12:30 PM – 02:30 PM EDT

Class 2: WED, AUG 30, 2023, 07:00 PM – 09:00 PM EDT

Class 3: WED, SEPT 6, 2023, 07:00 PM – 09:00 PM EDT

Class 4: SUN, SEPT 10, 2023, 12:30 PM – 02:30 PM EDT

Class 5: WED, SEPT 13, 2023, 07:00 PM – 09:00 PM EDT

Class 6: SUN, SEPT 17, 2023, 12:30 PM – 02:30 PM EDT

Class 7: WED, SEPT 20, 2023, 07:00 PM – 09:00 PM EDT

Class 8: SUN, SEPT 24, 2023, 12:30 PM – 02:30 PM EDT

Class 9: WED, SEPT 27, 2023, 07:00 PM – 09:00 PM EDT

Class 10: WED, OCT 4, 2023, 07:00 PM – 09:00 PM EDT

Jul 17 - Aug 16 Schedule

Class 1: MON, JUL 17, 2023, 07:00 PM – 09:00 PM EDT

Class 2: WED, JUL 19, 2023, 07:00 PM – 09:00 PM EDT

Class 3: MON, JUL 24, 2023, 07:00 PM – 09:00 PM EDT

Class 4: WED, JUL 26, 2023, 07:00 PM – 09:00 PM EDT

Class 5: MON, JUL 31, 2023, 07:00 PM – 09:00 PM EDT

Class 6: WED, AUG 2, 2023, 07:00 PM – 09:00 PM EDT

Class 7: MON, AUG 7, 2023, 07:00 PM – 09:00 PM EDT

Class 8: WED, AUG 9, 2023, 07:00 PM – 09:00 PM EDT

Class 9: MON, AUG 14, 2023, 07:00 PM – 09:00 PM EDT

Class 10: WED AUG 16, 2023, 07:00 PM – 09:00 PM EDT

100 THINGS MOST TEENAGERS WOULD RATHER DO THAN PREP FOR THE SAT OR ACT

1. Visit the orthodontist. 2. Watch PBS. 3. Go an entire week without rolling their eyes at their parents. 4. Watch C-SPAN. 5. Retake their AP Chem final. 6. Intern at a local CPA’s office. 7. Turn off their cell phone. 8. Mop the kitchen. 9. Clean their bathroom. 10. Renounce social media. 11. Write a 10-page history paper. 12. Get a bunch of allergy shots. 13. Wait in line at the post office. 14. Watch the Weather Channel. 15. Be abducted by aliens. 16. Attend a clarinet recital. 17. Tour a Soviet-era nuclear plant. 18. Eat a healthy and nutritious dinner. 19. Do calisthenics. 20. Bake snickerdoodle cookies for that guy who’s always loitering by his van. 21. Watch a black-and-white foreign film without subtitles. 22. Clean out the rain gutters. 23. Pretend they’re 42 and recently divorced. 24. Listen to NPR’s Weekend Edition. 25. Read a newspaper. 26. Visit the DMV. 27. Eat crispy fried tarantulas (considered a delicacy in Cambodia). 28. Serve as a “breath odor evaluator” for a toothpaste company. (Yes, this job actually exists.) 29. Go on a double date with their parents. 30. Undergo dental surgery. 31. Babysit their annoying stepbrother. 32. Empty Mr. Whisker’s litter box. 33. Take out the trash. 34. Clean the rain gutters. 35. Tell their parents they’d like to sit down to discuss the Birds n’ the Bees. 36. Stare at a blank television screen for several hours. 37. Be fitted for orthodontic headgear. 38. Organize their closet. 39. Vacuum their entire house. 40. Eat that substance their school cafeteria claims is Sloppy Joe. 41. Kiss Tucker Carlson. 42. Make origami turtles for the residents of a local nursing home. 43. Do a few hundred burpees. 44. Try Uncle Morris’s beef stew. 45. Watch Hillbilly Handfishin’ on Animal Planet. 46. Eat “bird’s nest” soup, which sounds kind of scrumptious unless you know the broth is made from bird SALIVA. 47. Set up an Facebook account for Grandma. 48. Start a backyard garden. 49. Dust home furnishings. 50. Do an exercise known as the “Bulgarian Split Squat.” 51. Help Dad trim his back hair. 52. Hunt for spare change between the sofa cushions. 53. Hunt for leftover Cheez-Its between the sofa cushions. 54. Mow the lawn. 55. Learn how to knit. 56. Research Wikipedia’s entry on the history of Q- tips. 57. Count how many times they can blink in one hour. 58. Compose a haiku. 59. Do one of the American Dental Association’s oral disease-themed jigsaw puzzles. 60. Watch televised bowling. 61. Give Grandpa a foot massage. 62. Give Grandma a foot massage. 63. Play tea party with their six-year-old stepsister. 64. Read The Red Badge of Courage. 65. Browse Burlington Coat Factory’s fall collection. 66. Floss. 67. Listen to The Scarlett Letter on audiobook. 68. Watch televised bowling. 69. Lie really, really still and pretend they’re deceased. 70. Join their twelve-year-old sister and all of her friends for a dance party!!! 71. Wash their parents’ minivan. 72. Journal about their feelings. 72. Give themselves a haircut. 73. Make homemade kombucha. 74. Learn to crochet. 75. Get a head start on their LinkedIn profile. 76. Watch a black- and-white movie marathon. 77. Visit the library. 78. Run a relay race. 79. Eat slimy san-nakji, which is considered a delicacy in Korea. 80. Eat khash, a traditional dish in Southeastern Europe that is so disgusting you’re just going to have to Google it to find out what it’s made of. 81. Eat the Swedish delicacy blodpättar, which kind of sounds like what it is. 81. Eat bat soup, a traditional dish in Micronesia. 82. Eat harkarl, rotten shark meat that is considered a delicacy in Iceland. 83. Eat the Scottish dish known as haggis. 84. Eat escamol, a Mexican dish that kind of looks like it’s made of rice but definitely isn’t. 85. Eat “Rocky Mountain Oysters,” which, despite the name, may not be from the Rocky Mountains and definitely are not oysters. 86. Wrestle an alligator. 87. Be a “professional apologizer,” a person whose actual full-time job is to apologize on behalf of other people. 88. Be an ostrich babysitter, which is apparently something people do in South Africa. 89. Ponder what life would have been like if they had been born in Kazakhstan. 90. Take a transatlantic flight on Biman Bangladesh Airlines, widely considered the worst airline in the entire world. 91. Eat fugu, a potentially lethal blowfish. 92. Do a form of running exercise known as “laps of misery.” 93. Walk the neighbor’s dog. 94. Clean their room. 95. Frolic naked through the mall. 96. Do a handstand on two fingers. 97. Do one-armed chin-ups. 98. Do a form of exercise known as a “flying human flag abdominal crunch.” 99. Watch the 2011 movie Tree of Life. (Trust us, it’s booooring.) 100. Use sock puppets to practice their future networking skills.