Dr. William Ashby
Founder, former admissions reader
SAT and ACT tutoring in Princeton
Dr. William Ashby, a former admissions reader, leads a team of five tutors who all scored in the 99th percentile. Private test prep is $135 an hour.
Free diagnostic practice test every Saturday.
01 / The practice
Our founder read applications for a living. Now he teaches what that taught him.
Nassau Hall Prep is a tutoring practice in Princeton. We do SAT and ACT prep, subject tutoring for AP courses, and college essay coaching from the first brainstorm to the final draft. Every tutor here scored in the 99th percentile of the test they teach.
99th
The percentile every tutor scored in.
Five tutors, each of whom sat the test they now teach.
20
Hours in the SAT package.
One to one, twenty hours booked together for $2,500.
$135
An hour of private prep.
SAT, ACT or the AP subject your student is stuck on.
02 / How we work
Start with a diagnostic, not a guess.
We begin with a full-length practice test at the real clock. It is free on a Saturday, and you get the score report whether or not you book anything afterwards.
A full-length practice test
Timed the way the exam is timed and marked the way it is marked, so the number you get is the number you would get on test day.
A report you can act on
Which sections lost points, which questions went wrong twice, and which of those are fixable in the weeks you have before the exam.
A plan with dates on it
What we cover each week, when to sit the next practice test, and the date the real thing comes round.
Not sure whether to sit the SAT or the ACT? Call (609) 555-0134 and we will help you choose.
Test prep
SAT and ACT, one to one, at $135 an hour.
Essay coaching
From the first brainstorm to a finished draft, in the student's own voice.
AP tutoring
Help with the AP course your student is taking right now.
Free diagnostic
A full-length practice test every Saturday, at no cost.
Test prep
Practice under the real clock
AP tutoring
Help through the school year
Essays
Drafts read line by line
Families
A plan you can follow
03 / What it costs
Prices, before you pick up the phone.
There are four ways to work with us, and one of them is free. These are the same numbers we would give you on the phone.
Private test prep
SAT or ACT, one to one, as often as you need it.
$135 an hour
SAT package
Twenty hours of one-to-one prep, booked together.
$2,500
Essay coaching
From the first brainstorm to a finished draft.
From $900
Diagnostic practice test
Sit it on a Saturday morning, at the real clock.
Free
04 / The tutors
The people who will be sitting across the table.
Five tutors, every one of whom scored in the 99th percentile of the test they teach. Dr. Ashby leads the practice and reads the plan before the first session.
Naomi Feld
English, reading and essay coaching
Marcus Bell
Maths, SAT and ACT
From the diagnostic to the final draft.
05 / Book a diagnostic
Sit a full-length practice test this Saturday, free.
It takes a morning. You leave with a score and a report showing which sections lost points and which of them can be fixed in the weeks you have left.
06 / Families
What parents say afterwards.
Two families, two different starting points. Both began with the free diagnostic on a Saturday morning.
“The first thing they did was hand him a full practice test at the real clock. After that, every session had a reason behind it.”
“She brought in a draft she could not stand. A few sessions later it was finished, and it still sounded exactly like her.”
07 / Questions
Two things parents ask first.
If the answers raise anything else, call the practice and ask it. You will be talking to a tutor.
Cost
What does a term of tutoring cost?
Private test prep is $135 an hour. The SAT package is $2,500 for twenty hours booked together, and essay coaching packages start at $900. The diagnostic practice test on a Saturday costs nothing.
Getting started
Do we have to buy a package first?
No. Book the free diagnostic practice test, sit it on a Saturday morning, and decide after you have seen the score report. A tutor walks you through the report either way.