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The Best SAT Prep Available in the UK

Manhattan Review has been providing trusted, reliable and innovative SAT prep to thousands of high school students since the company's inception in 1999. We have a history of helping our clients attain higher test scores in order to help them reach their academic goals. We are proud to have played an important role in our students' acceptance to the best universities in London, Europe, and around the world. Manhattan Review clients from years past now have rewarding careers in almost every field and industry. Some of our former students work for Fortune 500 companies, and others have started their own businesses and entered the world of entrepreneurship and innovation. In London alone, students have gone onto work for esteemed companies such as Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan, and BlackRock, just to name a few. Manhattan Review has also assisted people begin public sector careers as educators, researchers, and government officials. At Manhattan Review, we are dedicated to supporting you attain the future of your dreams, be it through studying at an Ivy League University in the United States such as Harvard or MIT, attending a top local university such as the London School of Economics or Oxford.

Manhattan Review's SAT prep courses, available in both on-site and online interactive formats, prepare students from a wide variety of backgrounds to excel on the exam. We've developed an intricate and thorough understanding of the test prep techniques that have been shown to work, combining them together into a rigorous course that maximizes efficiency for improved results. We're familiar with the most current modes of thought on teaching and learning the material associated with the SAT, and also kept the best strategies from earlier versions of the exam, which has since been revised a number of times in recent years. The result is the perfect marriage of innovative strategies and skillful techniques. Manhattan Review's SAT prep courses give our students in London and the U.K. a solid understanding of how the test itself is architected, how to approach each section, and how to make the most of study time. We believe this gives way to outstanding results, within a reasonable amount of time and effort.

Best SAT Instructors in the UK

Manhattan Review's SAT instructors are hired through a thorough screening process unlike that of our competitors. While other test prep companies in London care only about a prospective instructor's SAT score, we believe that's merely a starting point. At Manhattan Review we also look for academic achievement, professional success, a zeal for teaching, as well as interesting personal backgrounds when making our hiring decisions. Many of our SAT instructors are graduates of prestigious schools, be it the London School of Economics, Cambridge University, Harvard, Stanford and others across the globe. We realize that the most selective universities do not have a monopoly on talent, as our tutors have established themselves in many different professions and can thus offer fresh perspectives on teaching the SAT material. They are beyond high scorers, they are beyond their intellect; our teachers are of truly high quality. They enjoy contributing to the success of others and are dedicated to their mission as educators. Our instructors and tutors also live active lives outside of work, with hobbies and interests that make them accessible to their students, further enhancing the teaching and learning process.

Manhattan Review History

The initial seeds of Manhattan Review were planted at Columbia Business School in 1999 when Joern Meissner, then a doctoral student at that institution, earned a wide-reaching reputation for explaining advanced and complex MBA subjects in an accessible and easily understood manner. A handful of these students encouraged Meissner to come up with a method of Graduate Management Admission Test (GMAT) prep that was better than their own lackluster to experiences. Meissner eagerly responded by creating original GMAT lectures that covered GMAT material using an skillful and streamlined approach. Students quickly agreed that Meissner's techniques were far superior to the memorization and "tricks" offered by other GMAT prep companies.

In the years since its inception, Manhattan Review has blossomed into an international educational services firm, with branches not just in London, New York and across the U.K., but throughout a variety of Europe, North American, Asian, and Australian cities. Our offerings have grown to include prep courses and private tutoring for the SAT, SSAT, ACT, ISEE, GMAT, GRE, LSAT, TOEFL, and IELTS, in addition to first-rate admissions consulting and top-tier application advisory services. Test prep for international applicants to universities in the English-speaking world has become one of our specialties, as a large percentage of our student population live outside he U.K. and the United States. We offer our test prep clients encyclopedic knowledge of higher education and standardized testing. In addition, we are very familiar with the educational communities and specialized student needs of every metropolitan area we serve, not just in London, Manchester, Oxford, Cambridge, Birmingham, Edinburgh and Glasgow, but also throughout the world.

About our Founder

Joern Meissner is an internationally renowned business school professor with a Diploma in Business Management at the University of Hamburg and a PhD in Management Science at Columbia Business School in New York City, one of the top Ivy League Schools. Upon completion of his doctoral degree, Meissner chose the career track of an academic and has now more than 25 years of experience as a postsecondary educator. His passion for teaching is apparent, as he has taught business courses at the University of Hamburg, Lancaster University Management School, the Leipzig Graduate School of Management, and the University of Mannheim. Meissner's research on supply chain management, dynamic pricing, and revenue management has been published in several well-known and respected academic journals. While Professor Meissner thoroughly enjoys his research, he believes that grasping an idea is only half of the fun; imparting knowledge to others is even more fulfilling. This philosophy was paramount to the establishment of Manhattan Review, and continues to remain its most treasured principle today.