Varsity Tutors

Using Varsity Tutors was one of the best investments we made for my children to have confidence and get their smiles back. With them performing so well on their tests is truly a testimonial that this is working. My 9th grade daughter was looking to find a Biology tutor. That was an immediate need, and so I didn't have a lot of time to find a referral or look at other sites. Varsity just popped up on a Facebook page. We set up everything in the system and my daughter was paired off to one person but that didn't work out. Then, she got Melody and that was terrific. My daughter just got her Biology final test yesterday and she got a 97 on the free response questions. It was the highest grade in all of the four Biology classes. The next highest grade was an 88. Nobody in her class got an A, and for her to get a 97, even the professor commended her.

Updated on 12/15/2018: I can't say enough how much we loved Varsity Tutors. Today we got my son's SAT report and he went up 150 points! Margaret was an excellent tutor. Thank you thank you thank you!!! Money well spent! I would highly recommend them.

I'm very satisfied with Varsity Tutors. I had a different tutoring before but that wasn’t near as good as Varsity. With my prior one, I wasn’t getting what I actually needed because I only had one tutor so I wasn't getting enough out of it. With Varsity, I'm able to have interactions with the tutors to show me exactly where I'm going wrong at and it's more at a personal level. My instructors showed me how to go in and look at and work on a problem, whichever it was. At first I thought that I couldn't do it, but once they showed me how or some of the things that I needed to do, that made me think for myself. I had Jenna and she was very good.

My objective was for my son not to flunk this particular class and that he's gonna graduate high school. He can't get lower than a C either because it's gonna impact his scholarship. Varsity Tutors had an online component which is necessary for my son’s schedule and they were extremely highly-rated. My son has a lot of time commitments, so we needed to make sure we could have something available. The tutor that we're using at Varsity Tutors is fantastic. I've had interactions with him because we have to schedule, we communicate on certain issues, plus I hear him. I make my son take the tutoring session in front of me so I hear their entire interactions. His ability to teach is phenomenal. The level that he is taking my son to is just a lot more than we expected. It's also very cost effective. It doesn’t involve my son driving or somebody coming over here. They're interacting visually, so it's great.

My daughter had the after-school program and they did other things. I thought the program was for her to help her with what she was lacking in school, but it actually wasn’t. It was just something extra for her, and she wasn’t getting the attention that she needed, so I went with Varsity Tutors. Everything is going great with them and the rep there has been doing a great job with my daughter. There has been a lot of improvement and a lot of feedback that she has given me, and I appreciate the time that she is spending with my daughter with certain subjects that she is having trouble with. My daughter is improving her grades in school and it is showing in her work. I would definitely recommend Varsity Tutors.

I had a really good experience with Varsity Tutors. It was really positive and Varsity Tutors helped significantly. My child got help in Reading and Math. He became more confident and his grades went up. Varsity Tutors is pricey but I would recommend them.

Two years ago, we started with Varsity for my oldest son and then my middle child used them for her SAT prep work and some other studies. And for about four weeks now, we're using them for my 8th grader, Celia, primarily covering Algebra. Compared to the previous tutoring that we had, Varsity is 100% better. It's one-on-one and my daughter is able to ask questions if she doesn’t understand something. She also feels comfortable that even if she doesn’t understand it after asking once, she can ask again as many times as she needs to, which I really appreciate. She doesn’t feel like she's being deemed stupid because she doesn’t understand something.

I had a few tutors with Varsity Tutors but Kate was very consistent. She offered a lot of help, so we stuck with her for so long. She was helping my child with his English and his writing, and he made honor roll. So, she really got deep with him. If he did something that wasn't right, or he said something that was wrong, she broke it down for him so that he could understand it in a different way. When he got to that specific subject, he could channel it the correct way. She was hands-on and he misses Kate. His reading has improved and even the way he speaks. If he said something that was wrong, he would correct himself and he has been doing that a lot. Varsity Tutors should keep doing what they’re doing. They are expensive but my child had a great learning experience.

I researched and spent some time online and I found Varsity. I got as much information as I could and I was satisfied with my initial research that Varsity would be helpful. Then, I spoke to them and one thing led to another. I worked on the FINRA Securities 79 exam Investment Banking with my tutor and we meticulously covered just about everything there was to learn, top to bottom - videos, study pages, explanations. They were all an hour and a half sessions so it was a combination of really going through every aspect of it, discussing it, and giving me assignments. It was a really on mark and very comprehensive approach.

I'm a student of Engineering and my Math is very important to my GPA. I searched on Google and Varsity Tutors was the first option on the list. I searched reviews, got an overall feel for what they might be offering and then I went from there. In class, the teacher teaches as fast as he can and if somebody asks a question, that’s fine. If not, then he's talking out loud as he does it. With my tutor James, he lets me say what I think needs to happen next, and if not, he corrects me quickly so I don’t form any bad habit. We worked through things together that way.

I have a visually impaired son that gets assistance from the Foundation of Blind Children who employ Varsity Tutors. They put us in touch with a tutor out of Milwaukee, WI. Her name is the "Good Doctor JH". What a joke. She was so out of line it was not funny. Calling my visually impaired son's university professor and telling him lies to make herself look good while simultaneously placing my son in a precarious position with the university and his professor. Totally unprofessional and uses profanity while instruction. Rude and hung up on us and then called back. She called my son's vision impairment, "a ** entitlement!" and she was tired of it. AVOID Jill **. Varsity is good overall and has assured us they will find another qualified tutor.

Varsity Tutors has been wonderful. With them, I have a more convenient schedule and their price is less compared to my child's previous tutors. The guy we have at Varsity Tutors has also been great. We were able to choose the type of personality of our tutor and we wanted a guy who was sort of funny, which is what all boys want. Plus, my son would not respond well to a very strict woman. I am a woman and a teacher myself and I know how he would respond. And with the tutor that we got from Varsity Tutors, he said that it was cool and great that he's a man. So, our tutor has a lingo and that’s good.

Somebody told me to use Varsity Tutors if we needed tutoring. I googled it, then I bought some hours for the tutorial at Varsity Tutors. My daughter had an awesome experience with Peter for the tutorial for the SAT test. I also bought a number of hours to tutor for her AP classes, which is for Calculus and English. Varsity Tutors is very active in sending information if I still need it so that one doesn’t remove from my mind that that's the only company I need. It was up to the expectation. With Peter, they wanted to match the need of my daughter and they are focused on the tutorial in the Math area.

We got Varsity Tutors and had our son tutored in Mandarin. They were really good and flexible, and they addressed our goals and worked with us to see that everything went well. His tutor was fantastic. She regularly worked with my son. Once or twice a week, they had an appointment and she helped him with his homework. She worked with him on the language itself, and she had the same workbook that they used in class so she was able to be consistent with what he was experiencing in his classroom. She was also very concerned that he understood everything and she made it fun for him. My son enjoyed it. Unfortunately, my son is in a new school and they don’t have Mandarin, so he's not continuing that. But given the opportunity, he'd like to continue it.

I would not recommend Varsity Tutors for any test related tutoring. Spent hundreds of dollars only for our daughters SAT score to go down. She did two hours of tutoring each day for six days leading up to the test. She felt more confident, but was devastated when her scores came back. Her tutor was very nice, and seemed to know what he was doing, but my daughter was his first one he has ever tutored through Varsity Tutors.

Paid $425 over phone to rep-- he called me saying my son was interested in tutoring which I knew he was interested. Agreed to pay over phone (I was at work and could not ask questions). He informed me that I could cancel within 30 days and DID NOT mention that one must have at least one tutor session prior to canceling. Thus they would not cancel. BUT my son DID try to have a session and the tutor canceled and also was unavailable for another session. BUT they still would not cancel it.

I was online looking for tutors and Varsity Tutors looked good. I called them and I was impressed with the people who answered the phone. You could tell they were educated, and I just got a good feel from them. I explained to them my situation, and then over the course of two weeks, they were trying to find a match ‘cause what we were looking was for my son with special needs. He has Asperger’s, as well as OCD and ADHD. He wanted to learn to code, but he didn’t know what kind of coding. Varsity Tutors stayed in close contact and let me know that they were working on it. And then, when they found a match, they sent me her profile for me to approve or not.

We signed up with Varsity Tutors in early September 2018 to help my daughter prep for the ACT. They advised that they would do what they could to help for the September test date, but said the best results would come with the October date. They were great in communicating with us as we made our decision to use their service and great with the follow up almost to the point of following up too much. My daughter spent considerable time working with the tutor (who rescheduled on her at least twice). Outside of tutoring time, my daughter studied and practiced diligently. She took the test in October. ZERO change in her score. I immediately reached out to our account manager and have heard nothing but crickets. Very dissatisfied and cannot recommend Varsity Tutors. I feel ripped off.

I was primarily interested in the instant tutoring i.e. you have a problem and can get help from whoever is online. I asked about 3 subject areas for the instant tutoring and they claimed they were all available for instant tutoring. I signed up, it turns out that not only were the subjects not available for instant tutoring, they did not have any tutors for those areas. They then claimed they would get someone for one of the subjects. After 10 days of various promises I gave up and requested a refund. This turned out to be a brutal affair. Each time I requested a refund they would come back with 'let me tell you about other options.' Although they have a 30 day refund policy, I am not holding my breath.

We went with Varsity through recommendations and the tutor we had was wonderful. We love her very much. She was very caring and very patient and our child had advanced in his school studies.

I’m a single mom and I look at raising my son differently than a mother who has a father at home who teaches math. Varsity Tutors was referred by my nephew. He used multiple tutors and said that Varsity was neat. It also goes with my lifestyle and the needs, so I went for it. So far, my son has been going one-on-one with his ESL teacher who is teaching math, too.

Over the last 6 months I have dealt with at least 8 different tutors from Varsity. At first everything was great, my son (17) worked with a tutor he liked for about 1 1/2 months to review for the US History AP. Suddenly 10 days before the exam, the tutor had a "personal" issue and he could no longer work for Varsity. Fine, that does happen, and I felt lucky that Varsity would quickly draw on their thousands of tutors to find someone new. The next guy spoke English with such a thick accent, he was impossible to follow. Basically the test was over before they could locate a suitable replacement. Later in the summer I asked Varsity to locate a tutor to work with my son on his college essays and they introduced us to Anna. She was a good match for the task except that very quickly her availability (after about one week) diminished as she was starting another job.

There were a couple different tutoring companies in our area but Varsity Tutors was better for us because we could schedule it whenever my daughter needed it, which was helpful. As far as scheduling when no one had to come to our home, she didn't have to go anywhere so the convenience of being able to be at home was such a huge benefit. We also get a lot of teachers and college students working in the field that seem to know what they're talking about and have a good perspective on things.

When I was looking for a tutor for my son's ACT, I researched and found a couple perfect tutors based on the description of their experience, availability and locations. It says to contact the tutor. The tutor does not contact you, the company does and they tell you the tutor you selected is not available and they assign the tutor.

I asked my friend if she knows any tutoring options because we are in a very small town and I cannot find any good tutors for myself. She told me she is on Varsity Tutors and she bought a lot of hours and that I get discounts. I said I would try it and it’s super helpful. It takes lots of responsibilities for a student, and they are very active after the session. I had a consultation with my mom we thought I was not going to take SAT subject test for the two subjects anymore because I’m not very good at them. But Richard did a very good job teaching. The tutors have experiences or they are really good at those subjects and really can help. In the future, if I still need some help, I will still go Varsity Tutors.

Varsity Tutors was the only one who could come up with a AP Civics tutor. We had one session with a tutor we didn’t like, but they gave us two additional options. We picked another one and it was perfect. It was a high school senior working with a PhD student, and she provided him with problems that she had difficulties with. He explained the concepts and helped her develop strategies to understand the problems. He taught her some concepts where there were gaps from her instructor at school. Varsity Tutors is very easy to work with. The customer service is good and they’ve got a very large stable of tutors, so if you don’t like the initial proposal, you can be persistent and ask for somebody else, and they can usually find somebody.

I looked up Varsity Tutors on the internet and they had good reviews, so I contacted them and everyone was very nice, accommodating, and very helpful. I had a very positive learning experience, and the learning was easy and very well facilitated by my tutor. He was great and he helped me understand the subject. He went through an extra mile and sent me information that he had put together. I already finished my course and while I don’t need any more tutoring at this point, I will definitely personally recommend the Varsity Tutors. I already recommended them to my daughter who may be contacting them in the near future.

Our experience with Varsity Tutors was very good. I found them online and when I talked to them, it was a good fit for what my daughter and I needed. We had a different tutoring option prior to Varsity and it was like night and day. Everybody at Varsity was working really hard with our last-minute schedule changes because it was my daughter's senior year. Her teacher did a great job and was patient with her when she did not understand. There was a bit of an interpersonal relationship because he helped my daughter through a struggle. Moreover, he was very understanding in the material and a lot of times, he was better than her teacher at some things.

My son used Varsity Tutors for nine months and his grade went from failing to a high B. The tutor was very friendly, courteous, knowledgeable and he knew how to reach him. He was a great tutor. I would definitely refer my friends to Varsity Tutors.

This is an online service, why is there no indication of the currency you are paying at any time? For this price, I expected a more seamless process and to have access to experienced accountants. The staff is very friendly and proactive, it seems they do their best to help but I felt compelled to defend myself in my decision to close my account.