<p>Thinking about pursuing it as a possible summer activity. Has anyone here done it? How was it?</p>
<p>Do they hire people just for the summer or do they require longer commitments?</p>
<p>I taught MCAT prep for them.</p>
<p>If you want to teach a prep course you need to have scored at least above the 90%ile, though they prefer the 95%ile. Then you have to "audition" rather than interview. Then there's the training period which for me was about a month long (but that's because it was difficult to coordinate everyone's schedule - my trainer was in dental school at the time).</p>
<p>They likely won't hire you just for the summer, but depending on the size of the center, the time commitment is pretty low - so you could do as a job during the school year very easily. Even if I had two lessons to teach in a week, it'd only be about 1.5 hours to prep each one and then 3 hours of teaching per lesson for a total of 9 hours a week. Throw in a little bit of time responding to student questions and I'd max out at around 11 hours a week if I didn't have an exam to proctor (MCAT in those days was 8 hours of testing so that helped). Luckily the pay is excellent.</p>
<p>If you can only do the summer, try to get hired as a center assistant or whatever they call it - basically just answer the phones, make copies, hand out testing materials, take care of registrations and stuff, and see if they'll have you teach on the side. Then you'd be getting more hours in.</p>
<p>What is the pay?</p>
<p>Thanks for the response. I do have the requisite scores, but I only have a little over two months free this summer before starting law school in August. If training takes as long as a month, then this is probably not a realistic option. </p>
<p>Northstarmom: the pay varies from region to region, but I believe it's around $20 an hour for NY.</p>
<p>It might vary. I haven't taught in two years so it's probably gone up, but I started at $14/hr for time spent in the classroom, got $7 for the time spent prepping lesson plans/helping students and $10/hour for proctoring. Once I "finished" my first course (essentially I taught one lesson in an ACT course which was finishing up around the time I was done training), I got an immediate $3/hour raise for my time spent in the class room. I got lucky with the timing, latching onto a course which was almost over, but it counted and I got the raise.</p>
<p>I'd encourage you to do it. I have a good friend who went to Georgetown Law (she actually trained with me) and she taught throughout law school. Once you've prepped the lessons, it's a pretty minimal time commitment - just show up for the class. You'll be busy with school, but it's a nice break, and you'll know your exam schedule with enough time to spare so you don't take on class sessions that might interfere with your studying. I mean, I did it throughout my first and part of my second year of med school and we averaged an exam every three weeks which is like the polar opposite of law school. </p>
<p>Plus, the pre-law kids will worship you and hang on every word you speak about law school.</p>
<p>Does anyone here know if you can teach SAT and PSAT prep for Kaplan while you're still in college? Or do you have to be a college grad?</p>
<p>It's possible that it varies from center to center, but you shouldn't have a problem while being an undergrad.</p>