Some families plan to skip the busy part of summer and start focused in August. Others decide to join after the June program is already running. Either way — the fast-track covers the same foundation in about 3 weeks, and we build your personal plan within a day or two of enrolling.
Available through early August · same curriculum, same price as the June program
The path is compressed, not compromised. Here's exactly what it looks like.
Every teaching lesson from the summer is recorded. Watch them at your pace — binge a few in a week to catch up, or spread them out. Same content, same instructor, no live session required.
Practice sessions run multiple times every week through the summer. Show up to two or more a week and you're on pace. More sessions are available if you want to move faster.
Within a day or two of enrolling, we set up a personal plan — the same way we do for all our students. You'll know exactly which lessons to watch and which sessions to hit each week.
This isn't a workaround. The program is built in a way that makes late start genuinely viable.
You're not missing live sessions — you're watching them on your own schedule. Same explanation, same examples, pause and rewind as many times as you need.
We don't teach new material in August — that month is consolidation and review. A student joining in late July is catching up on recorded lessons while August practice sessions drill the same content. No new material is passing them by.
Sessions run multiple times every week. Attend two a week to match the normal pace, or hit more to move faster. Flexibility to compress the timeline is built in.
Late-start students cover the exact same curriculum as the full summer program.
Motion, velocity, acceleration, and the mathematical tools behind them. This is the foundation that every later unit builds on. Students who own kinematics going into the school year have an enormous advantage.
Newton's laws, free-body diagrams, and how to apply the problem-solving process to force problems. Together with kinematics, this covers roughly the first two months of AP Physics 1 class.
AP Physics 1 is a sequential course — each unit feeds the next. Students who arrive at school already solid on Units 1 and 2 don't just start ahead; they stay ahead, because the foundation never cracks under them.
Two practice sessions a week plus recorded lessons. Manageable alongside a busy summer.
After you enroll, we look at when your teen is starting, what their summer schedule looks like, and when school begins for them. From there we map out which recorded lessons to watch each week, which practice sessions to attend, and roughly how many sessions per week to stay on track. It's the same kind of plan we build for all our non-AP Physics 1 students — tailored, not a template.
Completely. Some families want to start in August because the earlier part of summer is too busy, or they just prefer a shorter, more focused push right before school. The fast-track is designed for that. August is review month in the program, so there's no new live content your teen would be missing before they join. A student starting August 1 with two practice sessions a week finishes the full Unit 1 and Unit 2 foundation before the first day of school.
Two things. First, the recordings are paired with live practice sessions — the sessions are where most of the actual learning happens, because an instructor watches your teen work and catches mistakes in the moment rather than after five homework problems have drilled in a wrong habit. Second, we build a plan and a success coach checks in if your teen goes quiet. It's not drop in and figure it out; it's a structured catch-up path.
Yes — and summer students lock in the best rate. If your teen wants to keep going, school-year support continues the same way: teaching lessons, practice sessions, and drop-in office hours for schoolwork, labs, and tests. Month-to-month at $400/mo (fall joiners pay $450), or 25% off if you prepay the year. Only summer students can access the prepay option.
No issue — sessions run multiple times every week. If they miss one, they can make it up at another time that week or double up the following week. The recordings keep them current on the content; the practice sessions are flexible enough to work around a busy schedule.
Late-start enrollment is open through early August. Enroll and we'll have your teen's personal plan ready within a day or two.
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