Our Story
SAT Perfect was founded in 2023 as an alternative to the large company test prep model. After 15+ years in private education, Ben noticed a compelling trend: everyone everywhere was throwing around the term "executive functioning" and it seemed like all of his students were suddenly eligible for a time accommodation. Why then was no one – neither the teachers nor the learning specialists – focusing on time? SAT Perfect is the closest thing to a real test prep guarantee because we measure mastery as a function of time. This strategy-ethos is what separates us from the competition and ultimately enables us to deliver top percentile scores time and time again.
Ben graduated magna cum laude in 2009 from New York University (Economics + English Lit double major), receiving the university's Founder's Day Award. In 2013, he earned a full stack certificate from General Assembly's Software Development Immersive program. Since then, he has earned multiple certificates in computer science and mathematics from MIT. He is currently pursuing his DELE C2 certification for native Spanish language fluency.
Ben sees the SAT as a marker of a student's quantitative and linguistic literacy. To that end, he uses the test to benchmark a student's holistic progress in math and language. His students typically score in the top 1%, or 1500+. He has over fifteen years experience and 20,000 hours teaching one-to-one.
To date, 100+ of his students have been admitted to Harvard, Yale, UPenn, MIT, Stanford, Dartmouth, Cornell, Vanderbilt, Wash U in St. Louis, Tulane, Northeastern, Kenyon, Boston University, Edinburgh and more. The list goes on.
The skills required for the SAT develop long before students' junior year, when most take the exam. Ben recommends starting the process early, ideally freshman year. It takes approximately 100-200 hours to fully prepare. Broken up across a two year span, this means he and his students meet 2-4 hours weekly. His approach centers on time management — specifically, making sure his students know exactly how long each question should take them.
Ben's private practice is capped at ten families a year. SAT Perfect is the same roadmap, available to students committed enough to follow it — at a fraction of what families have come to expect to invest in test prep.
