Grey Eyed Owl Academy
Holistic, skills-based small group education for the ambitious leaders of tomorrow.
Secondary School as a Competitive Advantage:
The Benefits of Group Instruction
Learning Density
Group settings create opportunities for students to increase the depth of their mastery by learning from their peers. Whether they gain from seeing alternative methods of tackling a problem or hearing answers they wouldn’t have considered, group learning can accelerate content mastery.
Productive Struggle
True mastery requires effort, concentration, and struggle. By learning in small groups, students are able to normalize struggle by seeing challenges their peers face, and by facing challenges as a cohort. This establishes the merits of hard work among seminar students.
High Engagement
The rigorous pace of the class keeps all students moving forward, offering a strong sense of structure as well as peer and personal accountability. Group settings also offer additional methods for students to learn through different activities and learning tasks.
- Maximum class size of 8
- 48 hours of comprehensive classroom instruction for math and verbal; meet virtually twice a week, 90 minutes each over 16 weeks
- 4 of the world’s most qualified instructors offering abundant teaching and support
- 1 hour of orientation
- Two 30-minute post-course individualized sessions—one for math, one for verbal
- One 30-minute post-exam assessment to support college admissions
- All physical books and online materials, including 4 full-length practice SAT exams
SAT SEMINAR INCLUDED TEXTS & MATERIALS
- The Ultimate Guide to SAT Grammar (Meltzer, 6th edition)
- Digital SAT Total Prep (Kaplan)
- 4 Full Length Practice Exams
- SAT Study Guide (College Board, 2nd Edition)
Meet Your Instructors
We are mentors, role models, and enthusiastic partners in the lifelong pursuit of learning. We look not just for superlative degrees from top universities and outstanding test scores in the 98th percentile, but for something rarer: curiosity, compassion, and cognitive empathy.
Fewer than 5% accepted
min. 120 hours of training
98th percentile scorers
Matt
Economics, Science, History
B.A. Dartmouth College
Ebonie
Art History, Humanities
B.A. Washington University St. Louis
Ph.D., M.A. Harvard University
Michael
Math, Physics, Coding, Computer Science
B.S.E. Univ. of Pennsylvania
Tiffany
English, Poetry, Research
B.A. Univ. of New South Wales
M.E. Univ. of Sydney
SAT Seminar Syllabus
Pre-requisites:
Completion of at least 9th grade—this class is the best fit for students entering or in 10th grade or higher.
Objectives:
To develop mastery of quantitative mechanics, qualitative evaluation, and robust critical thinking that empowers students to meet their highest potential on the SAT and beyond.
Students will develop essential skills useful for their future careers by:
- Building an advanced vocabulary and learning memorization techniques
- Writing original sentences and paragraphs in their unique voice
- Dealing with complex historical and contemporary texts
- Analyzing and interpreting challenging data sets
- Developing a deeper understanding of equations
- Modeling the world around them with numbers
- Translating sentences into equations and diagrams
Seminar Expectations for Students:
An outstanding SAT score is merely the byproduct of deep understanding that will serve students well far beyond test day—from college to graduate school and into their professional lives. Achieving success requires class attendance, participation, and at-home completion of homework assignments.
Schedule:
Sundays and Wednesdays from 7:00–8:30pm ET.
Meet the Curriculum Developers
Built for Success Beyond the Test
At GEO, we view Test Prep as a genuine and meaningful benchmark for where students are with their quantitative and qualitative foundations. These math and verbal skills are essential for success in one's academic, professional, and personal career. While most companies just focus on how to take the test (ie: teaching strategies like process of elimination), our curriculum focuses on content mastery that will bolster student performance in their classes for years to come.
Reed
Math, Economics, Philosophy
B.A. Univ. of Virginia
M.A. Univ. of Virginia
Crafted by Experts
The Grey Eyed Owl SAT Class was built by educators with 30 years of experience, who have dedicated thousands of hours to teaching and refining the material on standardized tests. These instructors, who themselves scored in the top 1% on the SAT and its ‘big siblings,’ the GMAT and GRE, have seen where other programs fall short — and designed GEO’s course to rise above.
Cat
English, Math, Fiction Writing
B.A. Harvard College
M.A. Univ. of Cape Town
M.F.A. Columbia University
