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Congratulations on a job well done!!!
James Chen, SWARTWOOD PRE-MED, now Johns Hopkins Medical School MD PhD Student.
 
Congratulations to Our Covergirls, Lauren Appell, Ramee Younes, and Kate Lee on a Job Well Done!!!
 

CHECKOUT the LATEST SPY REPORTS (Lady Impersonating a Police Officer & Company Owner Gone Desperate) BELOW. 

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Life Is All About Choices...
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Come see the MCAT and MCAT Verbal class everyone is talking about...John Swartwood (See STAFF SECTION) leads a team of instructors dedicated to your success. 

It worked for
James Chen (39, now at Johns Hopkins Medical School-MD PhD), Michael A. (38, now at Stanford Med), Samia Malik, Tasha Fernando
(+3 Verbal, now in Medical School in LA), Lori Brandt (34), Levon K. (36), Robbie Havard (now in a program in Chicago),
Michelle Lim (+4 Verbal), ... many more... , Cassidy Vuong,
Tony Hung (now in DG Med School, Los Angeles), Minh-tu Do (Chicago Med School), Angel M., Stephanie Du, Leo, Stella C., Rakhshita, Vincent (+3 Verbal), Sarah Mohajeri (+3 PS), Brittany (+7), Ramee Younes (13 Bio, +4 overall), Brittany Yee (+3 Verbal), Tina Jung (93rd Percentile DAT), Eric Chen, (Nancy Carballo, Madinah A., Mark S., Kate C., Lauren Appell, Albert S.  ... and You? (NOTE all +'s indicated improvements from previous official MCAT scores).  

 
 WHY DO WE NOT PUT EXTENSIVE INFO. ABOUT CLASSES UP ONLINE?
EASY:  The Other Companies Are Stalking Us!!!
Sad But True.  Marketers and instructors from other companies have been harassing us (posing as students)! 
  
These companies have been asking (harassing) our students, "So what made you choose SWARTWOOD?"  The answer is simple: TEACHING!  (The other companies might think they have the best, but if that were true, why would they be SO surprised by the fact that we get students SOLEY off of exceptional teaching?) 
 
TO THE OTHER COMPANIES: Here's a Tip.  We have
no "Super Secrets," just truly exceptional teaching.
We don't just SAY we do.  We actually have the BEST.
 
EXAMPLE 1:  Check this out!  They're so scared; they even created a FAKE website: www.sMartwoodprep.com (now removed).  On top of the fake website, they put up the name "John sMartwood."  
 
EXAMPLE 2: An email that was sent by someone claiming to represent another company: "Nobody is spying on you!!!!  You are a ******* ****** *******, get **** **** *** ** **** ***!!! We are a ******* dollar company with endless marketing and exposure, why would we spy ** * **** *** **** smartwood, excuse me dumbwood!!!" (Time Nov. 17th 12:41AM) 
 
The following is Stephanie Mizuhara's Opnion and in no way reflects SWARTWOOD as a whole:
Isn't this stalking? You are so low end. We don't go on to other testprep companies' websites and sent them emails at 12:41AM. We're too busy.  All that money, endless marketing and exposure, but you still can't help students...Keep doing this stuff, we love free publicity!
 
EXAMPLE 3:  It's official!  We thought at least one big company was above the spying thing. BUT NO!!!!  One of their marketers just sent an email posing as a student asking about our course
Why???? Now we have definitive proof that you're spying on us.  Why do you guys care?  Just do your thing.
 
EXAMPLE 4:  Even the small companies are panicking!  Recently (in May), the owner of a company sent out a MASS EMAIL attacking us (but not the big companies).  All we have to say is THANKS!  Here's what one of our recent students said, "I had not heard of you until I saw the email.  It was like 'Whoa, that guy sounds desperate.  He must be really scared of SWARTWOOD.'  So, I looked up the website and decided to sit in."  Of course, once he came by and saw our class, he joined.  THANKS again! 
 
P.S.  You should check your email.  It has a lot of incorrect information about teachers and students alike. Plus, you still don't get it. You're just pigeon-holing yourself as the "small, bitter company."  Attacking a company like us implies that we are of serious concern to you.  You're just convincing everyone that the bigger companies are out of your league.  Spending so much energy on an imaginary nemesis must be time consuming.  To be honest, as far as I know, none of our instructors cares enough about you- or any other company for that matter- to make you an object of disdain.  You can't be helping people if you're obsessing about others. -Stephanie Mizuhara
 
EXAMPLE 5: Someone is SO THREATENED, they sent a lady posing as UCLA PD to scope out the class.  She promptly ran away.  Dumb Move! One of our students got you on her cell phone.  Now, there's a UCLA PD report with you on it.   
 
Give us a break!  If you're that scared of us, you have some serious problems.  Just work on making your course better.  Or is that just TOO HARD?   
 
Why???? Now we have definitive proof that you're spying on us.  Why do you guys care?  Just do your thing.
 
P.S.  You do realize that we are building a BANK of information on you including student testimonials (yes, students actually like us enough to sign witness forms...).  We have emails from two different MARKETERS from two big companies posing as students.  If you do not stop stalking us, we will post them!!!

QUESTIONS?  Contact me, Stephanie Mizuhara. 

So I already feel like the MCAT was a year ago but I still think that it went well and that I was considerably more prepared with John than I would have been without his help or with another program. Given the relatively short period of time that I dedicated to the test I am very satisfied with the results. While I know that I could have done better had I spent more than roughly 3 1/2 solid weeks preparing for the test, the end result was still better than I hoped. John's verbal intensive class presents the framework and content of the verbal section in a much more comprehensible manner than other systems or prep classes. Given the passage dense nature of the MCAT, it follows that your scores in the other sections will benefit from his methods as well. Everyone has different methods of studying and John's style caters to everyone. People see this test in different ways, and in my opinion this is not a knowledge based exam. While a strong foundation is really helpful, I found that studying details was a waste of time. Maybe this was more so because of the restricted time line in which I studied. I had my masters program to start, and there is no way i could do both the test and the program at the same time. John was right to teach that the 'difficult' passages can all be broken down and all the answers can be extracted from the information provided. In very few instances if at all was elaborate detail required to answer any questions.

Know the trends and the basics, everything else will follow. I don't think the MCAT is going to test the exceptions to the rules. It's too tedious. Focus on what John says is important and you'll be fine. John's lectures include everything you need to score well. 

Robbie Harvard- MCAT Master Course

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Welcome to SWARTWOOD Testing, Admissions, & Review, the best choice for MCAT, DAT, OAT, PCAT, LSAT, GRE, GMAT, GRE Subject Test, and SAT preparation. Our UNIVERSITY REVIEWS section also offers the most effective big style lecture, group, and private tutoring for university classes.

Founded on a belief in bringing the best instructors under one roof and promoting the most effective pedagogy, SWARTWOOD Testing, Admissions, & Review is dedicated to your success. No gimmicks, fancy tricks, or 24hour hotlines, just hard work and diligence.

We strive to provide you with the scaffolding you need to fulfill your educational and professonial goals.

OUR MOTTO: To attend to you as an individual (not just another number), hand crafting a course of study best suited to your needs.

OUR ADVANTAGE: What can we offer that the other companies cannot? OUR INSTRUCTORS.

If you're taking a prep course, you should be saying what our students are saying,

"The reason why this course is the best is not the material- I can get that off the bookshelf, it's not the online support and 24hr hotline- who needs a 24hr testprep hotline, it's the instructor. That's why I chose this place, even after I'd been to the others. I went through three other companies and wasted my time trying to improve my verbal and physical sciences scores. I wish I had heard about SWARTWOOD earlier. " (Serena C.- MCAT-improved from a 29 to a 38)

That's what we have to offer. Without our teachers, we're just like any other testprep company. Everyone claims to have the best, but we actually do. Come and see for yourself...

WHAT YOU WON'T SEE: You won't see fancy webpages, flashy ads, or a glossy presentation of how our instructors hang glide down the Grand Canyon while planning today's lesson . We're not about that. Everything we have to offer is in the teaching, period. We claim that the difference is so noticeable (even from the supposed best out there) that you'll agree from the first class day.

SWARTWOOD Testing, Admissions, & Review is comprised of three departments: Testprep for Graduate and Professional Schools, Admissions Consulting for Graduate and Professional Schools, and University Class Reviews for University Classes.
 
Our Testprep Department entails preparation for the medical school (MCAT), law school (LSAT), graduate school (GRE), business school (GMAT), dental school (DAT), optometry school (OAT), GRE Subject exams, and SAT.
 
Our Admissions Department covers applications for medical, law, and graduate schools as well as undergraduate universities.
 
Our University Class Reviews Department (founded off the enormous poplularity of John's class reviews) handles large lecture style reviews as well as private tutoring in mathematics, psychology, statistics, biology, physics, chemistry, organic chemistry, communications, political science, and philosophy.

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