Kaplan Test Prep

I know its cliché as with other reviewers but if I could ever give 0 stars, I would give it to this guys. I laugh outloud everytime I see their mottos saying student comes first and that if you don’t succeed they don’t. This guys are about MONEY. They juice every single cent out of you, and you would think it’s worth it. It isn’t. Mediocre to bad lectures, staff stuck in a system that doesn’t seek student benefit in no way whatsoever, and poor declining student services plague the whole center. If you see these guys offering you a package, RUN! Save your money, burn it before giving it to these guys, at least you’ll get warm from it… All you get from Kaplan is headaches and horrible experiences overall.

I would give Kaplan 0 stars if possible. They cancelled my in person class the day before it started, and put me in an online class instead. The online class was NOT helpful and their customer service reps were incredibly rude. They also shipped my books to the wrong address, three months late. Overall, the company is incredibly unprofessional. Would not recommend at all.

I’ve seen the highs and lows of this program. Kaplan knows their stuff, but they are ridiculously overpriced. I took a course in college for the LSAT, but didn’t get to go to some classes due to some illnesses in my family taking priority. I wasn’t ready to take the test when the time came around, and Kaplan didn’t let me use the higher score guarantee. The people in this office were not very compassionate in what I thought was a unique and unwanted circumstance.
I crazily spent money to take the course again a few years later, and I am pretty happy with it right now. It is helping me a lot. However, I don’t recommend taking if you are not 100% committed to the study and class schedule. As I said before, Kaplan is NOT accomodating to personal issues.

Helped me pass the USMLE!!!
GREAT faculty. As only other medical students will understand, I feel like I met celebrities here. I met Dr. Conrad Fischer here. And Dr. Kudrath. And the very great and amazing Dr. Steven Dougherty (though he is no longer with them). Everyone was so helpful, even after the course ended. I got to experience the BEST, the ultimate, most inspiring lecturer of my life here: the LEGENDARY Dr. John Barone.
I am deducting a star for Zohra, one of the staff members who is just awful. She is uncaring, pushy, and just all around unpleasant if you need advice or anything. She basically ruined what would have otherwise been a perfect experience. But everyone else was so great, especially my beyond amazing and awesome medical advisor, Rafael. Some of the TAs were not as good as others, but they were all helpful in their own way. Almost everyone was friendly, and everyone who was there to teach was so very helpful in my journey to achieving my goals.
And GREAT location. Being located in the Loop, such a professional, exciting and accessible place (for students especially}, made the torture of studying for a board exam more bearable than it would have otherwise been.

Sadly, I would not recommend the Kaplan GMAT on-​site prep course. I signed up for the 6-​week intense on-​site and online course and had a few months to take advantage of the classes and online resources I spent $ 1500 to have access to.
The class sessions were moderately helpful, at least to setup & discuss the types of questions we’d be seeing on the test. The online resources were my favorite part, because you could work practice problem sets, take practice tests and sit in on «virtual» class sessions.
I went to all of the classroom sessions, but sadly, my husband was diagnosed with a form of Muscular Dystrophy in the early part of the year, and my focus was shifted to that, so I was unable to take advantage of the remainder of resources available as part of the $ 1500 fee I paid. I sent customer service a note and asked if I could extend my access to the online portion of the resources from the course for a reduced fee since it was beyond my control (and, quite honestly, way more tragic than me not doing well on the GMAT). They sent me a form email back saying no, but I’m free to take advantage of the Higher Score Guarantee Free Repeat… which I don’t meet the requirements for due to aforementioned family circumstance.
All in all, I’m giving Kaplan one star because this seems a terrible way to treat customers, especially in extenuating circumstances like mine. Due to their inflexibility — even when I shelled out $ 1500, which I cannot afford again — I will not be recommending their services to anyone I know prepping for testing in the future. Such a shame; I thought Kaplan had more integrity as a company than this.

If I could give them 0 stars I would.
After months of research I had to go to Kaplan last minute after my class with PowerScore was cancelled. I was taking the GMAT a few months after the class. I talked to the representative and the told me if I was not completely satisfied with the course I had their“Higher Score Guaranteed” refund policy. They said their GMAT instructors all had to score within the 90^th percentile in order to teach.
Issues:
1. Diagonostic score is incredible set low so that you can «improve»
2. My instructor, Laurie, never took the GMAT. She was doing clinical psychology. Granted she may be smart, but she couldn’t work through the problems, instead she had a cheap sheet of instructions.
3. The classroom sessions were a waste of time and did not give you any help.
4. My practice scores were all higher than my diagnostic, then when i took the actual GMAT, it was no where near my practice score.
I feel that Kaplan was a waste of $ 1500 and if your considering it, do yourself a favor and SAVE YOUR MONEY.

I just can’t seem to stay away from Kaplan because I run to it for help every few years. I liked Kaplan so much in high school that I enrolled in their SAT course twice (well, that or my score just really needed serious help). Fortunately, the 2^nd time (and some private tutoring on the side) was the charm and I had the score I needed.
I returned to Kaplan 2 years ago for some help with the GRE. Although I decided against applying to graduate school and kicked myself for all the time and money spent on the course, I did get the score I needed… thanks to Kaplan!
And now I’m enrolled once again in a Kaplan class for the GMAT. I can’t say I’m happy to be back because any standardized test is not fun, but once again I’m very happy with the program. Hopefully they will once again help me get the score I need!

I thank this Kaplan site for helping me get into medical school! When I was preparing for the MCAT, I arrived here every morning ready to take whatever exams were available. They have so many resources (videos, practice examinations, audio files) and great study space areas. Great location, close to the Union Station and the El.