“I highly recommend Alexis and his company, Prepped & Polished (P&P), including for students who live many states away from P&P’s headquarters. Our son, a college senior, lives in Virginia. He is in the process of applying to graduate school in English. He is very busy with school and his job so commuting to a fixed location for a GRE-prep course was a daunting thought. I consulted with Alexis, who assured me that P&P could work with our son online using skype and P&P’s internet-based tutorial software. Alexis also identified a tutor that he thought would work well with our son both in terms of her educational background and personality. Alexis was right! Our son worked great with his tutor, Colleen, in preparing to take both the general and subject-specific GRE. They are able to schedule tutorial sessions at different times and days of the week to suit our son’s schoolwork demands and schedule. Colleen is also working with our son on the application process. Thanks Alexis and Colleen!”
“As someone who worked with clients of Alexis, I know that he always made certain that I was as well prepared as I could be to deliver the best tutoring services possible. His tutors reflect his level of organization, dedication, and excellence.”
Cameron N. (Boston, MA)
“I am pleased to provide my strongest possible recommendation for Alexis Avila. Alexis has worked with my oldest son and is currently working with his brother preparing for the SAT exam. Both children are good students attending boarding schools (Milton Academy and Lawrence Academy) but have had difficulty with standardized testing. Alexis provided the boys with a practical understanding of the tests and taught useful strategies for both the SAT and ACT. My oldest son showed significant improvement of his scores as he worked with Alexis and is now attending Lawrence University, which was his first choice. In addition to providing quality study tools and strategies, Alexis was able to adapt to the boys busy athletic schedules ensuring they completed the full course of study in time to make an impact on their test performance. The boys both felt very comfortable with Alexis and more confident taking the tests after working closely with him. I plan to have my younger boys work with Alexis and feel the investment was worth the benefit to my older children.
Carmen B. (Woburn, MA)
“Alexis was instrumental in preparing my daughter for SAT, ACT exams. We re-engaged Alexis a second time to analyze results and seek additional improvement for top flight colleges, and we were also successful in achieving this result. My daughter is now performing well in a pre-pharma track at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor.”
Uldis S. (Norwell, MA)
“Alexis was an excellent SSAT and ISEE coach for my son. He narrowed on my son’s needs and exercised great diligence in his approach.”
Nathalie Wallace (Cambridge, MA)
“We have hired Alexis on multiple occasions this year with excellent results! He worked with our 13 year old daughter who needed help with focus and organizing homework. Our son is in his junior year of high school and the SAT prep work that Alexis did with him was fantastic. We plan to have him work with Ben for round 2 of SATs and his college essay. I can’t say enough positive things about Alexis and his team – if you have kids in need of a great coach, he’s your guy!”
Sheira M. (Needham, MA)
“Alex tutored three of my children in preparation for the ISEE, SAT and the GRE exams. Each child had different needs and issues preparing for exams. Alex tailored his approach with accuracy and insight, working effectively with each child to ensure an excellent result.”
Tom U. (Wellesley, MA)
“We hired Alexis to tutor our daughter for the SAT’s and ACT’s. After his first meeting with her he suggested that we focus all of our tutoring on the ACT’s since he felt she had a better chance of doing well on that test. He was very flexible with his schedule, and gave her valuable practice tests and homework to do in between meetings. She took the ACT’s once and scored much higher than expected for a student with her G.P.A. What a relief! Now our daughter can look at more challenging schools because of her scores! Alexis was a very good value, since he spent much less time than we expected teaching her to do well on her test.”
Elizabeth & Tim S. (Wayland, MA)
“Alexis helped our son take charge of the college search, application, and decision process. This was a tremendous help to our whole family during the difficult college prep time. It significantly reduced our household stress over college. He guided our son in an organized and results oriented manner. Our son is now enrolled at a good college which he is excited to attend.
We received more from Alexis than just the “college coaching”. I strongly believe he helped change our son into a more self-motivated individual. It seems like he really grew up while under Alexis’ tutelage.
Lastly, our son loved working with Alexis and they got along great together. He thinks everyone should use Alexis.”
Dave D. (Wayland, MA)
“Alexis is a talented, caring and inspiring college advisor/coach, who engages from day 1 and follows through with remarkable flexibility and competence. We are very happy we chose him to help us!”