Hello everyone! I'm Clay Cooper, President and Founder of Cooper Test Prep. I offer the world's best SAT and ACT classes and tutoring.
I am best known for having achieved six perfect scores on official tests - three perfect 1600s on the SAT (including a perfect score on the new, Digital SAT - before it even arrived in the US), two perfect 36s on the ACT, and a perfect Selection Score Index of 228 on the PSAT (also, I once lost really badly on Jeopardy!, which I have yet to live down).
I'm also a licensed attorney - but I don't practice law. Instead, I am one of only a handful of full-time, year-round SAT & ACT prep professionals in the United States. Cooper Test Prep is my livelihood, my chosen profession and my passion.
I have won numerous scholarships and scholastic achievement awards, have attended five colleges, and have achieved high-99th percentile scores on numerous other tests, including multiple high-99th percentile scores on the LSAT, GMAT, GRE, ISEE, SSAT, HSPT and other tests.
I have 15 years and 10,000 hours of experience helping student raise their SAT and ACT scores through group classes and One-on-One Tutoring. I have helped literally tens of thousands of students raise their scores and achieve their goals. Past clients of mine have attended every Ivy League college - and every other US News and World Report Top 50 University - and won more than $6 Million in scholarships.
More importantly, over my decade and a half as a professional test nerd - and, especially, after managing teams of more than fifty 99th-percentile-scoring SAT and ACT instructors around the United States as Senior Director of Product and Operations for a Shark Tank and Mark Cuban-affiliated test prep company - I have learned that being the best SAT tutor on Earth requires much more from me than simply the ability to choose the correct answer myself - or even to explain why I did so.
Instead, to be the best SAT teacher on Earth, I know that I must:
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Continuously study and never stop learning more about how we as humans learn most effectively - which I do by closely and regularly following the cutting-edge research being carried out by the exceptional professionals in the in the fields of the science of learning & cognitive neuroscience;
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Work harder than test prep providers who simply show up and preach - instead, I proactively assess the unique needs of my individual students and clients and continuously adapt my instructional style to suit those unique needs;
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Continuously work to hone my skills as a communicator - because, in the end, test prep is a process of effectively sharing complex ideas; and
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Most importantly, always over-deliver for my clients - as a rule. It may be a cliché, but it's true: I cannot sleep at night - I quite literally toss and turn and worry - if I don't feel like I am going over the top to provide my students with the best prep experience available anywhere.
Some may disagree with my claim to be the best SAT & ACT instructor in the world - though no one else has ever achieved the world-record 3 perfect SAT scores, 2 perfect ACT scores, and 1 perfect PSAT/NMSQT score that I have earned - but, if I get the opportunity to work with your student, you will see first-hand that I refuse to be out-worked in my field.
Simply put, there is not another instructor anywhere who cares more about his students' success than I do, who works harder to help them achieve their goals than I do, or who brings more energy, focus and discipline to the task of opening academic doors for deserving young people than I do.
As a result of my good fortune and hard work in this profession, I have been able to make a livelihood of helping other people understand these tests like I do.
My passion in life lies in moving the needle for individual students who have found that other test prep approaches just don't work for them. I love nothing more than to finally help a hard-working young person achieve the breakthrough they need, get the score they want, and go to the school of their dreams. I hope you'll let me do that for your student.
Before focusing full-time on Cooper Test Prep, I worked for other test prep companies as Director, as Senior Director and in other positions - I even was a trial attorney for a while before returning to my true passion: helping deserving students conquer the SAT.
I started Cooper Test Prep because, after years of working with other test prep companies, I saw an urgent need for change in the industry. Too many SAT prep companies are sophisticated marketing operations - that also happen to have contracted with college students to teach SAT classes. Their focus is on sales, on profits - not on your student.
I knew that with my deep understanding of the SAT - and my passion for helping individual students conquer this test, concept by concept - I could offer families a different - and, I think, far better option: the highest-quality SAT prep available anywhere.
Without gimmicks, without games - no slick marketing here. No promises that I CAN RAISE YOUR STUDENT'S SCORE BY HUNDREDS OF POINTS, GUARANTEED! - followed by dishonest refusal to honor that guarantee.
Yes - My classes and personal tutoring are more expensive than most companies'. Because my SAT prep is far - far - better, more effective, and more professional than anything you can find from any other test prep company on Earth - those companies whose instructors
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Don't have a SINGLE perfect SAT score
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Likely have not even taken the Digital-format SAT or Online-format ACT that they are teaching to your student - much less earned a perfect scores on these modern-format tests as I have
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Are completely unknown to you
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Are unreachable (good luck contacting them personally)
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Are teaching the SAT as a side job (rather than as their full-time profession of 15 years)
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Simply put, don't care about your students - they care about earning $50 an hour teaching classes twice a week because they got a 99th percentile SAT score in high school.
I charge more because I give my students more - far, far more - commitment, knowledge, expertise and attention than you will get from any other test prep company in the US or abroad. I charge more because only students and families who intend to get the most out of their SAT prep are willing to pay more for the superior product. I charge more because - simply put - charging more brings me the students whose expectations, discipline and commitment match my own.
There are, to be sure, many options for SAT and ACT prep providers available to you. You can base your choice of provider on any number of different criteria or qualifications. But allow me to observe some simple truths that you may find helpful as you choose whom to entrust with your student's academic future - that is, with your child's future, period:
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You simply will not find another World Record 3-Time Perfect SAT Scorer and Digital SAT Perfect Scorer - guaranteed.
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You may find one of the other dozen or so full-time, year-round SAT & ACT prep professionals in the United States if you dig deep and search far and wide - but that professional absolutely will not come close to matching my score and experience qualifications.
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You simply will not find another SAT nerd who can't sleep at night if he feels like he's not going over the top for your student.
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In short, there are many options, but this truth is objective and easily verifiable for yourself: what I offer is not available elsewhere.
As a wise person once said: You get what you pay for.
I'd love to give your student the best SAT prep in the world.
I'd love to show you why my students and their parents know that's true.
I'd love to show you why my client families keep coming back - student after student.
I hope you'll give me the chance to do so.
I live in Las Vegas with wife - an incredible, caring, and insightful social work professional whose compassion and drive inspire me every day - and our two to four dogs at any given time. When I'm not teaching or tutoring the SAT & ACT, I volunteer weekly tutoring homeless youth to help them achieve their GED or HiSET passing scores - helping them channel their drive and desire to open doors to a life they deserve. I enjoy traveling, playing and watching sports, reading about astronomy, working on cars (badly) and agonizing about the US Men's National Soccer Team's performance.
Thanks for visiting, and please contact us with any questions or to explore our products further.
Most of all, please let me show you how I can help your student reach their full potential on the SAT or ACT - and put themselves on a path to a better life.
