HSA TutoringReviews of hsatutoring.com

The application preparation course has been helpful to an extent. The afternoons are not structured enough which makes for days longer than they need to have been and seemingly the course could have been done better and in less days. As a parent, I would like to have known what the goals were for each day as it seems that personal statements have been worked on for 3 days and little else. Given the course is 40 hours, one would expect that at least a draft of essays for a full application would be done and critiques would be given of the essays. There is none of that and the kids overall are bored and saying the course should have been shorter and had much more structure.

Hard to get packages because some people constantly get them without limit (e.g. David Hill); also when you do get packages pay is sometimes great and sometimes awful and there is no standardisation. also rather inconsiderate and inflexible. otherwise, an acceptable tutoring platform though it could be better.

There are a lot of administrative changes that make it difficult for tutors to adjust to! There are also redundancies (e.g. I have provided a bio probably at least 4 times to different people) that could be eliminated by sharing information better - a shared Google Drive or something like that would suffice. There are definitely good resources for tutors and support, though, which I really appreciate!

There were lots of opportunities to find tutees, but my main issue was with the pay cycle. They didn't have a regular pay cycle at all and so I never knew when I was gonna be getting paid and even now I was told payroll would come out on Sunday but it's Wednesday and I'm yet to be paid.

Tutors don’t get paid enough, or even competitively, for the amount of experience that we have and work that we do. I was doing college level calculus with someone…that is worth WAY more than $20 and hour. This is especially true considering how much clients are paying for our services - they would probably be shocked to hear that tutors only make $20-$25 of that payment. The improvements to picking up packages (letting it sit for two hours instead of it just being a rat race of who can respond “interested” on their phone the fastest) I think was a great idea, though.

The teacher is just ok. He just read everything from the book.

Ovonu was really wonderful. Its the logistical challenges that made me give an average review.