ThinkTank Learning

I send my 8^th grade son to ThinkTank everyday after school. He likes it very much especially their English classes make him more interested in reading! Teachers are very nice and responsible. You can always walk to the teachers in person at the homework helper club. My son especially likes his consultant. She helped him on time management and also a goal setting. He’s now actually doing more activities than before just staying home and playing video games. My son was a very shy boy didn’t have too many friends, but after going to ThinkTank he’s more outgoing and always share with me things happened in class. I’m very happy with ThinkTank Learning’s teachers and staffs. They are always here to help! A great place to go!

Best tutor center ¹⁰⁄₁₀! Staff are awesome and people are super nice which makes learning enjoyable!

Had Jon as a college consultant my Senior year. He was really helpful and always answered my emails (every one, even the simple questions). I definitely owe him for helping me get into UC Davis.
Also, the staff here are super nice and the center feels really welcoming. It feels like they really care.

$ 120/​hr to tutor any subject, are they insane?

I do NOT recommend this place. Employees will suck you into paying thousands of dollars to help further you education with SAT classes and college prep, but will NOT follow through. I have only met two employees here out of many that are actually considerate about their students, one of which ended up transferring to a different center anyway. The rest are only concerned with getting the most money out of you as possible. Most teachers at Think Tank have no idea what they’re doing and really have no experience with the subject they are teaching. Classes I attended here made me more confused about a subject after attending them.
In addition, the college counselors are very disappointing. I was assigned with a counselor my senior year to help assist me with the overall college application process as well as THREE college applications specifically of my choice. My parents and I signed a contract stating that if I later decided to change any of the three college applications I was working on with my counselor, there would be a penalty fee (as if the thousands of dollars we already spent wasn’t enough). My experience with my counselor specifically was frustrating. The time that we did work on the applications together we didn’t accomplish much. I was sent emails from my counselor that didn’t have a professional attitude and were equivalent to someone yelling at me. And if all this wasn’t enough, when the time to work on my third application arrived, my counselor vanished. Yes, vanished. Didn’t reply to either my parents’ or my emails, calls — simply disappeared. Completely unprofessional. I basically spent my whole senior year working on my college applications independently.
After MONTHS of silence from my college counselor and the rest of Think Tank, I received a message from my counselor this month, asking if I’ve been «well» and which college I ended up deciding to go to. I was appalled that someone would have the nerve to ask this (most likely for statistical purposes) after completely vanishing when they were supposed to be assisting someone.
Overall, my experience with Think Tank was outrageous and deeply disappointing. The employees will convince you to spend thousands of dollars on a program that is utterly useless. Please save your money and do NOT send your children here. They will get a much better experience elsewhere.

I do not recommend this place. Their price is really high but they do a poor job taking you serious after you signed up. The service include monthly counseling on college application and preparation. When we first started, We were assigned a tutor/​counselor but we met him just once and were then notified that he resigned from the center for personal matters. No one followed up to assign us for a new one until we followed up with them 3 months after. Everyone knows that the college planning such as summer camp selection/​application need advanced planning and preparation. Wasting 4 months of time in such planning time is devastating for the whole year. The counselor they finally assign us is not very helpful either.
The biology class got canceled all the time and they only send notice to you right before class start. My child traveled to their center several times only to know the class got canceled. The whole class was canceled in less than 2 months after starting since the teacher quitted the job.
Overall, I don’t think the service they provide justify their higher price compare to other places. They put a sheen on what it really is when they try to sell it to you. But once you signed on, they do not take your child’s future serious. We end up paying the high price and still have to spend a lot of effort making sure they do what they promised to do. We could use these efforts to do research on our own.

I am pleased by their sat pre class which made me improve my score tremendously. The staff is nice and friendly and they care about all the students that are here. Their center in san ramon has a quiet and inviting center for students to learn. My rwo other sisters are also signed up here. We love so much here we always come here even though we live in oakland.