Learning Ladder

Just the most amazing tutoring center! The people are so friendly and there are so many tutors available to help. Such a great environment and my son’s grade has gone up ever since we started at the Learning Ladder!

My daughter had been in tutoring for a year and prepping for the HSPT, specifically, for four months with someone other than Learning Ladder prior to taking her first practice test in the fall so it was disheartening to see her initial results. I was concerned that 3 months wouldn’t be enough time to improve her scores to the level necessary. When Laurie, the owner, spoke about starting the company after struggling to find the right person to work with her son years prior, something resonated with me and I knew Learning Ladder would be the right place to work with my daughter.
She started one on one tutoring immediately, and then went through the boot camp for the 3 weeks prior to the exam. The tutors just had a way of connecting with my daughter so that she was able to understand the material. She actually enjoyed going to tutoring! In 3 months, she was able to double and in some areas triple her scores. They even helped in preparing her for the interview process.
Learning Ladder was flexible, able to work around her extracurricular schedule and is reasonably priced. Special thanks to Brian and Russell who worked with my daughter. She was accepted to all three schools where she applied! She’s continuing to tutor in preparation for the math placement exam and it will be the first place we turn for any future tutoring needs.

I wouldn’t recommend this, based on my experience in ²⁰¹²⁄₁₃. It’s not that they can’t tutor: the girls are nice and generally prepared, even if they really want to spend a big chunk of your child’s time chatting with each other and texting. It is the complete lack of accountability at the office, an unwillingness to admit when they make mistakes and then take responsibility for fixing them that makes me mark them down. We were scheduled for tutoring for a time when the office was going to be closed (but they didn’t tell us that), scheduled for testing as a special thing during the holidays, (but they didn’t tell us it was a special time) and then phone calls were ignored, emails unreturned and in the end, it really made no difference to my daughter’s grades because there was no real effort to evaluate her progress. Being offered that the owner had a good relationship with the admissions folks would have been a plus, but we had no confidence that she would actually do what she said she would, based on our interactions.
There are other, better choices.

Meh… I suppose I would recommend this.