PREP 101 MCAT Course

[Fade2Black]

Has anybody taken the Prep 101 MCAT course? I'm considering taking it over Kaplan and Princeton b/c their course are offered on the weekends and weekdays which is very convenient. I was wondering if anybody has any insight into the quality of the program (its also cheaper than the other 2): http://www.prep101.com/mcat/comprehensive_toronto.php.

Thanks guys

[badapple]

Yup, i've taken the course and i thought it was well organized and really good value

The instructors were the strong point of this course.

[cling]

Lol badapple is clearly affiliated with prep101. His only 2 posts are saying how amazing it is. There goes any reputation that company had ...

[Endeavour]

Originally Posted by badapple

Yup, i've taken the course and i thought it was well organized and really good value

The instructors were the strong point of this course.

Are you SERIOUS????????????????????????????

I agree with Cling totally!

[rmorelan]

Originally Posted by Endeavour

Are you SERIOUS????????????????????????????

I agree with Cling totally!

hehehe are you suggesting his/her username is most appropriate then?

[cling]

this belongs in the mcat section

[dan0105]

Originally Posted by cling

Lol badapple is clearly affiliated with prep101. His only 2 posts are saying how amazing it is. There goes any reputation that company had ...

ahaha. awesome. well done Cling on calling badapple out. what a dink.

[hkm91450]

Sorry for digging up this old thread, but recently Prep101 has showed up at my campus and I wanted to find out a little more information about them.

And noticing how this badapple person commented on the OP's posting one year later, really puts more doubts about this company into my mind.

Sketchy?

[runningdoc]

I really can't speak for Prep 101's MCAT course, but if they run it like they do their undergrad prep-courses then I certainly wouldn't recommend them (at least in London).

They got in a bit of trouble a few years ago for plagiarizing notes from the professors of courses, teaching material wrong on exams (for those from UWO who can remember back far enough for a certain Orgo teachers' crusade against them) and just simply not hiring proper professionals to teach the prep courses.

They were paying students (by giving them free access to the review course) to give them access to the course notes, and then just printing off the lecture notes, putting them in a booklet, and then just redoing what was taught in lectures (and not always properly). That was going on in my first year at Western, the Orgo thing happened in my second year, and I can't say much about them by 3rd/4th year because they don't delve into those courses so I wasn't able/didn't care enough to pay attention.

Their course may be perfectly fine, I'm sure it has helped many students do better on exams at some point, but I have a hard time buying that these courses are anything more than what they used to be.

And quite frankly, I'm looking at their UWO instructors website and some of these reviews are a little farfetched. 6 instructors for undergraduate courses...all of the evaluations on their instructors range from 0.02% dissatisfied to 3% dissatisfied. When I see numbers like that, when these people have tough 1000s of kids (780 to 7800) seems a little unbelievable.

[sgt.pepper]

I would go to kaplan or TPR if your going to go to one because your really paying for the FL tests and prep101 i don't hear to much about. I say this because they pay students that got high MCAT scores to teach you and most of the time people maybe able to learn themselves and get a high score but cant teach you very well. my belief is those courses are a waste of time and money because you learnt all the material in your prereqs and plus i think your time is better spent figuring out what strategy works for you by staying home and experimenting and doing the passages. Don't feel like spending 1000$ is going to magically get you a high score but if your not confident in yourself or need a schedule then by all means go