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Summit Educational Group Celebrates 10 Years in D.C. Area

Posted on: Monday, 18 July 2005, 09:08 CDT

ROCKVILLE, Md., July 18 /PRNewswire/ -- Summit Educational Group, Inc., one of the region's premier standardized test preparation and academic subject tutoring providers, today announced that the company is celebrating 10 years of providing personalized test preparation services to Maryland and Virginia high school students.

Founded by two Yale graduates in 1988, Summit pioneered the one-on-one, in-home tutoring concept, a component that remains at the core of the company's business today. After experiencing rapid growth in its first location in Massachusetts, Summit introduced its one-on-one, in-home tutoring concept to the Greater Washington, D.C. region in 1995.

"A trend that we've seen first in the Boston area, but now in Maryland and Virginia as well, is that tutoring is becoming very, very common," says Charlie O'Hearn, founder and CEO of Summit Educational Group. "Parents want to give their children every opportunity to succeed, and tutoring is one part of that equation."

"Based on the concept that each student learns differently, we have been able to rapidly grow our business by providing customized instruction to each and every student we work with," continues O'Hearn. "Students and parents realize that personal attention is the best way for a student to achieve his or her potential, and by providing individualized instruction we've been able to thrive in an increasingly competitive industry."

Summit Educational Group has grown by at least 20% each of the last two years, and in the first half of 2005, revenues are up by more than 40%. Throughout its 10 years in the DC area, Summit has worked with students from more than 150 schools for one-on-one, in-home tutoring, and has partnered with 30 of those schools to provide classroom tutoring and PSAT/ SAT orientations (see attached listing of partner schools). With the advent of changes to the SAT this spring, Summit developed materials and prepared students for the new essay section and other changes to the test. Summit students who took the new SAT have seen score increases of 200, 300, even 400 points.

Summit recently named a new Director in the DC office, Alexa Gilpin. She notes, "During the past ten years, we've grown to a full-time staff of 25 and now have more than 100 tutors in the DC-area. This is a great milestone for Summit and is a tribute to the fact that our tutors have had tremendous success helping students to maximize their score results. We look forward to helping thousands of more students achieve their potential during the next 10 years."

About Summit Educational Group

Summit Educational Group provides standardized test preparation (SAT, ACT, SAT Subject Tests, PSAT, SSAT and ISEE) and academic subject tutoring services to students in grades 5-12. Each year, thousands of families enroll in Summit's one-on-one, in-home tutoring and classroom-style programs to increase standardized test scores and gain the study skills necessary to succeed in school. The company also publishes its own branded SAT course books, which are used by Summit's expert instructors, private tutoring companies and schools across the country. For more information about Summit Educational Group or standardized testing, please visit the company's website at http://www.mytutor.com/, or call 1-800-MYTUTOR (800-698-8867).

Summit works with students across the Washington D.C. area. Virginia Maryland Washington DC Annandale High School Charles E. Smith Duke Ellington Jewish Day School School of the Arts Fairfax High School Foundation School Georgetown Visitation School Falls Church High School Holton Arms School Gonzaga High School Langley High School James Hubert Blake National Cathedral High High School School McLean High School Montgomery Blair High St. Alban's School School Oakton High School Our Lady of Good St. John's College Counsel High School High School St. Agnes & St. Stephen Owings Mills High School School Woodson High School Quince Orchard High School Yorktown High School Riverdale Baptist School Sandy Spring Friends School Walt Whitman High School Wootton High School

Summit Educational Group, Inc.

CONTACT: Maria Doyle For Summit Educational Group, +1-781-964-3536,dmmkdoyle@comcast.net

Web site: http://www.mytutor.com/

Source: PRNewswire

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