The Princeton Review

Happy to be the first to write a review! I took the Group TPR Hyperlearning MCAT Classroom Course starting December of 2011. I thought my Chemistry instructor was awesome. His lectures were clear and to the point. His name was John, but I don’t know if he teaches there anymore. It’s a crapshoot how experienced your MCAT instructors will be. Some will be first time teachers. One big negative was during my course Princeton was scrambling to find a Physics tutor to teach our course. I thought that was really unprofessional. I was starting to sweat as I knew that would be my most difficult section to master.
I think out of all the MCAT prep companies, I think the Princeton materials are the best. The online test and question bank is amazing. They give you so many practice tests including all the AAMCs. Since, the MCAT is taken on the computer, I found it most helpful to do questions and practice tests online. The review books are pretty good, except I think the biology prep book is WAY too detailed and you should probably go with a shorter book like Examkrackers. The questions and passages in the big TPR book are plentiful and I recommend you do all of them. The TPRH verbal book practice I think represents the MCAT passages the most out of all the other prep companies.
Overall, I recommend TPRH’s MCAT course over the rest of the prep companies. Mostly because they have the best materials. If I could do it all over again, I would have opted for the online video course and saved a few bucks and still get the benefits of the question/​test bank. The quality of the instructors is probably more consistent. Most of my classmates also stopped attending some of the classroom sessions because they got lazy or found studying on their own more useful. Overall, your MCAT score will mostly depend on your self study and practicing problems rather than passively attending a course. The big plus you get with a course is just the materials, which might be hard to get a hold of otherwise.
One extra tip: If your online Princeton materials are about to expire you can extend your access for about 100 bucks if you decide to push back your test date.