I just finished the Altius long-track program at the University of Kansas but I would definitely NOT recommend Altius even to my worst enemy! TERRIBLE EXPERIENCE. For starters they claim to give you 2 weeks to try out Altius and if you don't like it you can get a full refund. What they DON'T tell you is that this 2 weeks starts from the date of purchase - my tutoring sessions didn't even start until a month after I had purchased the program so this guarantee is basically worthless. They also didn't have a tutor for me and tried to get me to change programs to online tutoring (I specifically wanted in-person tutoring because I learn better that way). So it took them a month to figure it out. Fast-forward to the actual program. My tutor was not knowledgeable of all of the topics presented in the Altius materials - instead he would just pick two or three concepts from each lesson that he felt comfortable with and wouldn't teach any of the other information. The altius materials emphasize that the students constantly should ask their tutors in-depth questions about the topics. When I did this my tutor would just respond "just memorize it" - NOT HELPFUL AT ALL. The tutors are extremely inconsiderate of student's time and do not honor their commitments - I had three tutoring sessions where I prepared the lesson, drove to the site to meet, and received an email 5 minutes before our meeting time from my tutor that they had to cancel. Many of my friends in the program had the same experience of constantly having their sessions being cancelled. The tutors were also not responsive to messages - it would take me a week to reach my tutor to schedule a session when I would text AND email them (not exaggerating). I was so fed up that I contacted management and they were extremely rude and not helpful - but they did happily point out that there are NO REFUNDS for any services not received. I cannot tell you how many times they stressed that they do not provide refunds instead of actually correcting the problem. Even after they supposedly talked to their tutors the scheduling conflicts continued. I was so disappointed in the services that I contacted my credit card company for a refund (which I got thankfully). But what can you expect from a company that is run by 4 people online with no real offices (their 'headquarters' address is the founder Lauren's home).
Now I want to talk about their test prep materials. You are given a print manual in addition to an online version of their lessons, questions, answer keys, and practice tests. There are SO many mistakes in their materials - not just printing mistakes but actual conceptual mistakes. Every lesson has a mistake (if not multiple mistakes) and multiple mistakes on the practice test. The answer keys also DO NOT MATCH the numbering of the question set in the manual so you have to go through and manually figure it out (waste of time). The practice tests also have incorrect explanations and answer keys, which makes the scoring unreliable (for example it will say answer C is correct then the explanation will say answer A is incorrect and give reasoning that doesn't match).
Overall I obviously would NOT recommend Altius to anyone (especially at The University of Kansas). Save your money and buy more materials or go to a bigger company like Kaplan.
Now I want to talk about their test prep materials. You are given a print manual in addition to an online version of their lessons, questions, answer keys, and practice tests. There are SO many mistakes in their materials - not just printing mistakes but actual conceptual mistakes. Every lesson has a mistake (if not multiple mistakes) and multiple mistakes on the practice test. The answer keys also DO NOT MATCH the numbering of the question set in the manual so you have to go through and manually figure it out (waste of time). The practice tests also have incorrect explanations and answer keys, which makes the scoring unreliable (for example it will say answer C is correct then the explanation will say answer A is incorrect and give reasoning that doesn't match).
Overall I obviously would NOT recommend Altius to anyone (especially at The University of Kansas). Save your money and buy more materials or go to a bigger company like Kaplan.