Our free Skills Diagnostic maps every missed question to a real skill and its timing. Then we build a Target Strategy Roadmap around your student — and rebuild it every week from actual results.
The same dashboard students and parents watch all the way to test day.
Every session is one-on-one with a tutor or counselor who recently lived this process themselves. Choose the path that fits where your student is now.
One-on-one prep built from a real Skills Diagnostic and rebuilt every week from your student's actual results.
A clear roadmap through a confusing process, from a blank page all the way to a finished application.
No fixed syllabus and no guesswork. Every step is built around what your student actually needs next.
More than a practice test: our free Skills Diagnostic maps every missed question to a specific technical skill across sections, units, and topics — then overlays precise timing data to uncover the hidden bottlenecks holding the score back.
Free tools and big-box courses have their place. Here is where working one-on-one is genuinely different.
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“The explanations were a little too easy for me. It would show me how to do something, but not really how to prepare for the test itself.”
The SAT dashboard your student logs into every week — and the same view parents can follow, from the question bank to the score trend.
Thousands of official-style questions, each tagged by domain, skill, and difficulty, so every practice set targets the exact areas your student is working on right now.
Recent, lived experience. Every tutor scored 1550+ on the SAT or a 35+ on the ACT, and every counselor was admitted to a T20 university and/or a combined medical program — across different specialties, so your student is matched with the counselor who fits their direction.
A 35 ACT scorer who rebuilds a student's approach one section at a time, starting with whichever is holding the composite down.
35 ACT
He's guided dozens of students to 200+ point score gains and top-tier applications at highly selective universities.
36 ACT, T20, Ivy, BS/MD
A Coca-Cola Scholar admitted to multiple top 20 schools including Duke and Brown, as well as six combined medical programs.
1600 SAT, Coca-Cola Scholar, BS/MD
Admitted to Penn, Cornell, and Johns Hopkins, she works with pre-med and BS/MD applicants on the essays Ivy admissions actually rewards.
1600 SAT, Ivy, Pre-med
Admitted to UCLA, UC San Diego, and a combined medical program, he knows the UC application system inside and out.
1600 SAT, UC Specialist, BS/MD
A 36 ACT scorer admitted to Notre Dame, Vanderbilt, and Georgetown alongside two combined medical programs, across both liberal arts and pre-med paths.
36 ACT, T20, BS/MDEvery number here comes from a real student's own diagnostic and practice test history.
“With the prep book I couldn't hold myself accountable. With Parth I'm getting to all the sessions, getting the homework in on time — it's definitely helping and I feel that I'm improving.”
“Parth is a really good tutor. He figured out exactly what I was struggling with and helped me improve significantly.”
“Parth helped me understand how to attack the SAT and get used to how the questions and modules were formatted. His explanations and demonstrations were great.”
“You're very clear and concise. Not once did you give me an instruction that was confusing.”
“This saved me so much time, and the end product was extremely polished.”
“It's clear how well you know this process. Triya could really use your help.”
“With the prep book I couldn't hold myself accountable. With Parth I'm getting to all the sessions, getting the homework in on time — it's definitely helping and I feel that I'm improving.”
“Parth is a really good tutor. He figured out exactly what I was struggling with and helped me improve significantly.”
“Parth helped me understand how to attack the SAT and get used to how the questions and modules were formatted. His explanations and demonstrations were great.”
“You're very clear and concise. Not once did you give me an instruction that was confusing.”
“This saved me so much time, and the end product was extremely polished.”
“It's clear how well you know this process. Triya could really use your help.”
Parth Patel, founder
I built The Ivy Track because I had to figure out the college application process — and standardized tests like the SAT and ACT along with it — almost entirely on my own, making plenty of mistakes and losing time along the way.
I want students to have the guidance I never did: a real strategy for long, demanding exams, and a clear blueprint for a holistic application system that is genuinely unintuitive the first time through.
That matters most for students with immigrant parents who, like mine, don't always have a native read on how U.S. undergraduate admissions works, and who could use someone to translate the whole process for the family.
I scored a 36 on the ACT and earned acceptances to Penn, Duke, and a number of other top-20 universities, several BS/MD programs, and multiple full-ride offers. I'm now a student in Penn State's accelerated BS/MD program with Sidney Kimmel Medical College. In the years since, I've walked dozens of students through both the tests and the applications — and the ones who start with a plan don't lose the time I did.
Tell us your goal and timeline. We'll show you the jump you're aiming for — no email required.
Because your biggest hurdle is running out of time, we'll drill pacing until you finish every module with time to spare.
One-on-one over Google Meet, with in-person available locally. Sessions run 1, 1.5, or 2 hours depending on the plan and pace, and every upcoming session shows up on the student dashboard.
After the free Skills Diagnostic, we set your student's target: 150+ points above their starting score, or a 1500, whichever comes first. The starting score comes from their first full length adaptive practice test on our platform, and the target counts as reached on their best later one, so both ends of the comparison are the same kind of test. If your student attends their sessions, follows the weekly pacing, finishes homework on time, and completes their custom timeline terms but doesn't reach the target, we keep working at no cost until they do. Those sessions are added on once the package you paid for is finished.
Every tutor scored 1550+ on the SAT or a 35+ on the ACT, and every counselor was admitted to a T20 university or BS/MD program, recently enough to know exactly what the process feels like and what actually works today.
An official-style question bank tagged by domain, skill, and difficulty; a score-trend dashboard; adaptive assignments targeting exact skill gaps; and a shared calendar so students and parents always know what is next.
Just text your tutor directly to reschedule. The commitment is simple: every student gets the exact number of sessions they signed up for before their test date.
We work with BS/MD and BS/DO programs. Together these cover the full range of combined medical pathways, including BA/MD and BA/DO tracks.
Students who are deeply passionate about becoming a physician and want to build the strongest possible case for admission into a combined medical program.
We work from a completely blank page through to a final, polished draft, brainstorming the story, building the outline, and writing and editing it into a top-tier essay.
We talk about it honestly and adjust, lightening the load or restructuring sessions rather than penalizing a student for real-life constraints. Plateaus are normal and usually mean we have hit a harder skill that needs more focused rebuilding.
Khan Academy has great free content but no one reviewing your data or holding your student accountable. Kaplan teaches to the middle of a 30-student class on a fixed curriculum. We start with our Skills Diagnostic to isolate exact technical weaknesses, then build a Target Strategy Roadmap that adapts every single week, one-on-one.
Book a free intro call. We'll talk goals, timeline, and fit, then schedule your free Skills Diagnostic. No commitment required.
ACT prep is coming very soon. Right now we specialize in SAT tutoring, so reach out if you'd like to be notified when ACT launches.
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