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Star Prep Tutors

About Star Prep Tutors

Personal attention, proven results.

Star Prep Tutors provides students with a focused, efficient learning experience. Our mission is to offer the personalized attention in test preparation and academic tutoring that large test prep companies can't.

99th
percentile SAT instructors
50+
academic subjects, K–12
Online
+ in person at partner schools
Red-brick university building on a tree-lined campus

Leadership

Our co-founders

Star Prep Tutors was founded by three educators who each bring years of classroom and one-on-one teaching experience.

Portrait of Vik Khanna

Co-Founder

Vivek "Vik" Khanna

20+ years in test preparation

FocusSAT & ACT preparationAP math & sciences

Vik brings more than 20 years of teaching experience from one of the world’s leading test preparation companies. He has prepared students for the SAT, ACT, MCAT, and TSIA, and has taught a range of Advanced Placement subjects, including AP Chemistry, AP Physics, and AP Calculus AB and BC.

At Star Prep Tutors, Vik brings two decades of insight into how students learn and where points are won and lost on standardized tests. Outside the classroom, he is an avid reader of political history, particularly of the Cold War era.

  • 20+ years of teaching
  • SAT, ACT, MCAT & TSIA
  • AP Chemistry, Physics & Calculus
Portrait of Finn Horsley

Co-Founder

Finn Horsley

99th percentile SAT · former Princeton Review instructor

FocusSAT strategy & curriculumBusiness strategy & outreach

Finn has been teaching for more than eight years, several of them as an SAT instructor with The Princeton Review. He studied economics and finance at the London School of Economics and at Babson College.

He writes practice material for Star Prep Tutors and leads the company’s business strategy and outreach. Outside the classroom, Finn competes in international chess tournaments and was an All-American collegiate skier.

  • 8+ years of teaching
  • Former Princeton Review SAT instructor
  • London School of Economics & Babson College
Portrait of Francisco Larrea

Co-Founder

Francisco Larrea

Chemical & biomolecular engineering, UIUC

FocusWebsite & Student Hub designMath & science curriculumBusiness strategy

Francisco has more than five years of combined experience in academic tutoring and SAT instruction. Trained as a chemical and biomolecular engineer at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, he specializes in mathematics, physics, and chemistry, helping high school and college students master subjects such as AP Calculus, Organic Chemistry, and Classical Mechanics.

Francisco designs and builds the Star Prep Tutors website and Student Hub, develops our math and science curriculum, including lessons, practice tests, and questions, and contributes to business strategy. Outside of work, he is passionate about astrophysics and cosmology, software projects, and hiking.

  • 5+ years of teaching
  • Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering, UIUC
  • Designer of the Student Hub

Our approach

What sets us apart

Three principles guide every class, lesson, and practice test we build.

01

Small classes, by design

Large test preparation companies often favor a rigid, by-the-book approach that leaves little room for individual needs. We deliberately keep our classes far smaller than industry norms, typically less than half the size, so instructors can adapt to every student. We will not trade the student experience for scale.

02

Real SAT material

The College Board publishes thousands of official questions, yet many prep companies rely mostly on their own. We use a hybrid approach: proprietary questions for additional practice, alongside careful analysis of real SAT problems, so students prepare with the material that most closely reflects test day.

03

Efficiency over volume

We teach what is relevant to getting questions right, and nothing more. Our test-first approach covers more in less time, protecting students’ limited hours and energy for the content that moves their score.

Student smiling and waving during a live online class
“I find that teaching and the students keep life going, and I would never accept any position in which somebody has invented a happy situation for me where I don't have to teach.”
Richard Feynman
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