Teaching the DAT for Kaplan?

[oae]

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Hey everyone,

So I will soon be offered a teaching position with Kaplan to teach one of their DAT prep courses since I scored high on my DAT.


However, I have been hearing some negative stuff about teaching for them from people? Does anyone know have any input?

 

[userah]

would you care to elaborate on the "negative stuff"? I teach for them and it's decent pay. It pretty much depends on which center you're working at and the staff present. They can either make working there pleasant or pretty ****ty but in the end, it's all about the students. The only time you'll be dealing with the staff is when you're getting paid haha; fill it out properly and they won't really be an issue. Other than that, I can't really comment unless you give me some specifics

 

[oae]

i was on some forums (not SDN), looking up information on the audition process. Some of the people were just vaguely saying how Kaplan was horrible to work for an stuff.

I personally think its a great opportunity, but was wondering why some people were vaguely hating on Kaplan.

One thing I know is that some were comparing Kaplan to like Testmasters and/or Princeton Review, and how they pay realllly good. But that doesnt really matter for the DAT I realized since those two companies dont even teach the DAT.


So I passed the audition and will be getting an interview. Any advice/suggestions?

 

[userah]

haha they put me on the speed track for training, so once I passed the audition they just passed me on into training. Either way, I don't expect the one on one interview to be too intensive. You should be fine. Good luck

 

[AskJeeves]

i was on some forums (not SDN), looking up information on the audition process. Some of the people were just vaguely saying how Kaplan was horrible to work for an stuff.

I personally think its a great opportunity, but was wondering why some people were vaguely hating on Kaplan.

One thing I know is that some were comparing Kaplan to like Testmasters and/or Princeton Review, and how they pay realllly good. But that doesnt really matter for the DAT I realized since those two companies dont even teach the DAT.


So I passed the audition and will be getting an interview. Any advice/suggestions?

Everyone passes the audition and interview. The biggest pain in the ass is the training, that's where they cut people. I have been told that Kaplan is a little overstaffed so there is a good chance that they cut everyone who trains due to their overcapacity.

 

[userah]

I guess that's where I got lucky. I cross-trained for SAT first because that's what they needed. And once my first SAT class was over, I said no more, and moved over to the DATs.

 

[oae]

What a waste of time to audition and interview people only to end up cutting them during training?!

Well, Im going to hope for the best, but will be pretty disappointed if I get cut for a stupid reason. Plus I hear they pay real shhitey during training period (like $8 per hour or something)

 

[Maygyver]

Anyone ever teach for the Princeton Review course?