❦ Bullhead City, Arizona · Est. 2017
Smarter Preparation. Brighter Futures.
One-on-one SAT, ACT, K–12, and college admissions tutoring for the families of Mohave County. No call centers, no franchised curricula — just careful, lasting work with the same instructor from your diagnostic to your decision letter.
Why Ivy League
We've built this practice the slow way — one family at a time.
Trained instructors
Lead instructor Richard Campos holds an M.Ed. from Arizona State University and has logged more than 11,000 hours of one-on-one teaching.
Curricula built in-house
We don't license boxed materials. Our SAT and ACT workbooks are rewritten every two years from the released exams the College Board and ACT publish.
Honest score targets
Your goal is set during the diagnostic — not the sales call. If we don't believe a target is achievable, we'll tell you and propose a more useful one.
Our Programs
Four paths. One instructor at a time.
average SAT point improvement over a 12-week plan
of seniors accepted to their top-three college list
serving families across Mohave County, AZ
every lesson — no group classes mislabeled as private
"Test scores are the part everyone sees. What I really care about is the way a student walks into the room three months later — calmer, more curious, and certain that hard work is something they're good at."
— Richard Campos, Founder & Lead Instructor
Read Richard's storyLetters from families
What our families say
"Richard met our daughter at her pace. She walked into the SAT calm — and walked out 210 points higher than her PSAT."
"I'd taken the ACT twice on my own. After eight weeks with ILT my composite jumped from a 24 to a 31. The pacing drills made all the difference."
"We tried two online programs before this. The difference is that Richard actually reads our son's homework and remembers what he struggled with last week."
"I wrote four essays. He sent the first one back with eleven questions in the margins. That's when I realized this wasn't going to be easy — and that was the point."
"Our family runs on river time. They scheduled lessons around my son's swim practice every single week. It mattered."
Students & families from
Class results
Where our students went last year.
Our Class of 2025 sent twenty-eight students to four-year colleges and universities. Six earned merit scholarships of more than $20,000 per year. Three were accepted to honors colleges. Below are a handful of the institutions our students enrolled in this fall.
- Arizona State University
- University of Arizona
- Northern Arizona University
- UC San Diego
- Cal Poly SLO
- UNLV
- Grand Canyon University
- Embry-Riddle Aeronautical
From our notebook
Free reading for parents and students
Common questions
A few things parents ask first
- Both. Our studio in Bullhead City hosts most local students; we run lessons by Zoom for families in Laughlin, Fort Mohave, Kingman, and Lake Havasu City.
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Let's plan your first twelve weeks.
Bring us your transcript, a recent practice score, or just a vague sense of "we need to start." We'll do the rest.
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