C2 EducationReviews of c2educate.com

This is a scam organization that focuses on money and hides refund options deep in a contract. They are very very expensive and unethical.

Read the recent reviews. This is sales 101....and delivery is awful. No improvement after months....and the rest of their services are billed out at 1 hr of essay prep = 3 hours of tutoring. A complete waste of money....

We signed up our daughter for SAT prep and C2 described their philosophy as customized expert instruction. A few days after we signed up, the center director called to tell us she was able to get an outstanding offer for us to double our hours at a savings but the offer was only good that day. She said we could use the hours for our son who was in 8th grade at the time. We took the offer. The C2 platform was not customized in any way. Each time my daughter took a practice exam, they would review the areas where she needed more work. However, she would just continue on with the next lesson in the workbook and there was no deviation from the book plan. When my son began SAT prep, the exact same thing happened. When he took his practice exams, his scores were emailed to us, but then nobody ever reviewed the exam with him to show him his mistakes. We had to complain regularly and their response would always be, "they should have done that". We lost complete faith in them and felt we should be able to get our money back for the remaining hours because the C2 prep provided no real benefit to us. We were then told the contract expires after 3 years which somehow was not mentioned and only in the fine print of the contract. My son would have only been starting 11th grade at the time the contract expired, the exact time he needed C2 prep. So that important fact was deliberately not mentioned when we signed the contract despite knowing it would not be useful for our son. Our center closed (I assume for poor management) and the new center who covered for a few months before the closure said they would honor our remaining hours. However, that center was no different with suboptimal tutors and management. During our time at C2 we had to deal with 5 different Center Directors. That should tell you something about their management problems. Each new director would tell us they have no responsibility for anything that happened with the previous director. They will not provide any corporate contact information to lodge complaints, but also will not take responsibility to address complaints. I would not recommend C2 to any parent based on our experience. There appears to be many similar complaints on this site as well as the BBB so their model of upselling appears consistent.

Parents beware. The staff at the McLean office uses scare tactics when enrolling to upsell the amount of hours needed to purchase. Not only were we told our child would not be getting into a good college, we were also instructed that we should have began the college planning process in 7th grade and were behind the curve by a lot. We explained that our student is in full IB course work in Arlington, VA. We were assured that they are capable in dealing with students in this category. They are not. We ended up signing up for 200 hours of tutoring at a cost of close to 12k. Our student utilized half of the hours and was on a strict regimen of attending tutoring consistently along with full IB coursework. We had absolutely no college counseling and or help with essays or college applications or college choice advisement. Other than them stating our child would not be a candidate into any of the school on her list. Beware of the refund policy which they will state is on the “back of the contract” and an abomination compared to the services you expect or use. We were told to by double the amount of tutoring we used and they have stated they will only return to us 15% of the unused hours. This place is a scam. You will find better tutors elsewhere without this kind of cost and up selling.

C2 education is a joke of a program. When I needed help studying for the SAT, we reached out to C2 to learn more about the tutoring programs and cost. I had gotten a low score on my SAT, and the manager of C2 immediately shot down my plans of going to the University of Illinois and said I should go to a small school like Lake Forest College. She said that without their help, I won’t get in to the school of my choice. She continued on to tell us that the tutoring program will cost $11,000 and that I needed a 1500 to get into UIUC for biology. I can happily say, that I will be attended UIUC for the major of my choice without their help. I was a well rounded student, and the SAT did not influence my admission decision the way C2 said it would. I applied with a 1140, and got in. Save your money and use other resources for SAT prep like Khan Academy etc. Never let this corrupt company tell you that you can’t get in to the college of your choice. They want to scare you enough so you buy into their ridiculous company.

Scam scam scam- con artists that stoled $2,000 from us. We signed a contract and paid thousands of dollars, but then covid hit and they closed all the locations for months. We called one hundred times during that time of the pandemic to see if we could use our hours remotely. No one ever returned our calls. Then the location we went to in Roswell closed permanently. For months we asked for our money back and wouldn’t hear from anyone. After persisting with more calls- they informed us our contract had expired. How is this legal? They were closed and not able to render services and our contract expires. Crooked-bad dishonorable people at C2. I am a retired teacher w a Masters in Teaching English. Teaching was awful- my daughters literally slept through it, bc the tutor was working with other students and they would wait to get their work reviewed. This system is bad- and they used the pandemic as a way to take our money without providing services. Shame on C2! Con-artists- don’t be scammed by this business!

Business model built on pre-paid hours of training rather than results driven. Management cannot communicate to parents as many are just reading scripts. Daughter learned how to take test under the gun, not much else.

With my personal experience in C2 Education, I found that the SAT prep that was offered was not worth the money at all. When I say this, I don't mean that the SAT prep classes are useless as a whole. The prep books that they give for Math and English are good to use in order to prepare. However, these classes are not worth thousands of dollars in the slightest. In my tutoring sessions, all we did was solve problems and then correct them. I would get assigned homework and then correct it the next day. Rinse and repeat. There was no personalization, nothing really stuck with me. The kind of work we did could have been done through self-study. Although the tutors themselves were nice and helpful to an extent, they were usually tutoring other kids in the same session, meaning the tutoring sessions weren't one on one. Overall, C2 Education is extremely overpriced for a mediocre tutoring service. Wouldn't recommend.