OK gig if you like enabling vile elitism - SAT/ACT Tutor Ivy Experience Employee Review

2.0
29 July 2022
Recommend
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Pros

You are fairly autonomous as a tutor and can choose to accept or deny assignments.

Cons

SAT/ACT tutoring is deeply tied to the toxic prestige culture of upper and upper-middle class parents in wealthy enclaves. If you can tolerate the horrifying inequality that you are helping to perpetuate by serving as a tutor, this is an OK gig for a short time.

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5.0
17 Sept 2020
Recommend
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Pros

-Great Clients and decent pay

Cons

-some of the staff aren't the most responsive with questions

1.0
15 June 2025
Recommend
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Pros

Most of the students I worked with were an absolute joy—engaged, kind, and genuinely rewarding to teach. The day-to-day work with them was the highlight of the job. Pay was decent and had the autonomy to dictate my own schedule.

Cons

Management regularly failed to communicate important information. I was often blindsided when students would reference something a manager had told them—information that had never been relayed to me. This lack of coordination undermined trust and made it harder to support the students effectively. It was common to receive calls from a manager warning me that a new student was “difficult” or criticizing them in ways that often seemed unfair to me. I was often made very uncomfortable being put in that position. It often felt like decisions were driven more by client affluence rather than student needs. Every time the manager repeated the phrase "we are trying to be a luxury service" on a phone call, my heart sunk a little more. The culture there definitely favors those with perceived prestige or social status. It was so dehumanizing.

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