Mark Treas and Rhett Barbour dislike the actual ACT college entrance exam. “College admissions won’t even give a thought to a kid unless they achieve a certain score on it,” Barbour stated. And so the two eccentric buddies have created a business out of showing students how they can actually beat it.
Both are 28 years old and from Fort Thomas, they’re co-owners of ACT Boot Camp. They sold out their camp recently to 70 Northern Kentucky and Greater Cincinnati students Newport on the Levee. It is a 40-hour week of intensive training – not on how they can improve their comprehension in ACT subject areas, but on how to better go ahead and take test to improve scores as well as acquire scholarship grants. The camp was timed using the ACT exam, which will be administered Saturday nationwide.
The course costs $300. The majority of the students in it took the ACT at least once. The business ensures they are going to increase their scores after taking the course. Those that do not may take the course once more for free. If they do not increase their scores after that, they get their money back. The company has trained countless students in its first two years, and can expect to serve about 600 students this year alone. Only four have come back to retake it, Treas stated. Nobody has requested a refund.
He stated the business has saved households much more than $1.7 million in college tuition. “We have students who are AP students, they get straight A’s for four years of high school, yet they still have this one multiple choice test they have to get through,” Treas mentioned. “We try to get them to buy into us, and we train the heck out of them.”
ACT is really a timed test, so one of the main stresses of the camp is quickness. For instance, on the reading portion, they train students how to scan the passage, find important words, make notes as well as answer the questions, all in a particular amount of time. Within the mathematics section, instead of teaching calculus to a student who has not taken it, they offer certain formulas that will answer many of the problems.
Students are drilled again and again all week. “It’s a lot of tricks in time management,” stated Chase Zimmer, a senior at Covington Catholic High School. He is currently at the camp with Covington Catholic classmates Nick Ackley and David Moser. “I wanted to get my score up and I heard they were good,” David stated. “They’re kind of crazy, but they keep you interested.”
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