A big-brand classroom course with unpublished pricing
The Princeton Review runs the widest range of MCAT course formats of anyone here: Self-Paced, Self-Paced LiveOnline, Fundamentals, Ultimate, 510+, and a 515+ Immersion available both live online and in person.
The 515+ tier carries a money-back score guarantee, and there is a 14-day free trial on Self-Paced.
Pricing is not published. You contact enrolment and they quote you. That places The Princeton Review in the same bracket as Altius and Varsity Tutors on transparency, and it is the main reason it scores where it does on our value criterion.
We cannot assess value for money against a price we are not shown.
What the courses contain
17 full-length exams and 500+ video lessons across the tiers, plus classroom instruction on the live formats. The materials are extensive and the brand is established, and the classroom experience is the most traditional on this page, which suits some students well.
The most common criticisms in circulation are about production quality on the video content and a thin flashcard offering. Neither is disqualifying, and both matter more at a four-figure price than they would at a lower one.
What hundreds of students told us about The Princeton Review
The Princeton Review comes up in hundreds of conversations students have started with us. In a meaningful share of them the student described a score that had stalled after completing a full classroom course.
The same caution applies as everywhere on this page: co-occurrence in inbound support mail, not measured outcome, from a population that self-selects for difficulty.
But the shape of it matches what we see with every full-content course. Sitting through a complete curriculum, and sitting through it attentively, does not by itself change how you work a passage under time pressure.
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The Unbiased MCAT Prep Course Decision Quiz
Three different problems stall an MCAT score, and buying the wrong fix costs months. Six questions sort out which one is yours and what to spend on it. We name competitors and free resources when they beat us, and say so when the answer is spend nothing.
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Transparency, before you start. We sell MCAT tutoring and courses, so here are the rules this quiz follows.
- Zero budget, no purchases. Free resources only, and we say so.
- Content gap, buy content first. From whoever does it best, which is usually not us. Our tutoring comes up only as an optional add-on for a big gap.
- Strategy gap, we recommend our own course first. We would put our name against it, and we name a cheaper alternative beside it so you can price us against ours.
- Competitors named and linked when they beat us: UWorld, Kaplan, Blueprint, ExamKrackers, Khan Academy.
- We appear only where we fit, with the budget to match, and always beside a cheaper option.
- Our free MCAT resources show up wherever they fit, and they ask for nothing.
Where it makes sense, and where it does not
Use the 14-day free trial. It is the most useful thing the company offers a prospective student, and it lets you judge the teaching before you are on a sales call discussing price.
The 515+ guarantee is the differentiator if you are close to that range already. Read what it requires of you, because score guarantees at this level generally require full attendance and completion.
Get the number early. Because pricing is quoted rather than published, decide what you are willing to spend before the consultation and compare it against the published prices on this page. Blueprint and Kaplan will both tell you their price without a phone call.
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