My name is Mark Lyon, and I'm the owner and director of Lyon Prep Academy. We are a small business, located here, out of my home in Palo Alto, California, about a mile from Stanford University. Operating at this location has allowed me to teach some of the brightest students in the country, helping them build their confidence, improve their writing ability and SAT scores and to gain admission int
o some of the America's most prestigious universities. Although it is easy for many test prep companies to raise the scores of students who are new to the test-- students whose scores would rise naturally, just from familiarization with the test questions -- Lyon Prep has taken on the far more challenging task of raising the scores of students who are already great scorers, many of whom have already gone though other programs or have studied independently -- students who often feel that their scores have already plateaued. As a near-perfect scorer myself, I have raised these students' scores by an average of well over 300 points, transforming them from simply being 'great' scorers into scorers whose scores stand out even in the Ivy League. With very rare exceptions, students who have gone through the Lyon Prep program have consistently achieved final scores well into the 90th percentile, with roughly half of them achieving scores within the 99th. Amazingly, Lyon Prep students, on average, score significantly better on the SAT's than do even the instructors in some of the most popular SAT prep programs.
