The short answer
Yes. That range is actually one of our specialties. I scored a 36 more than a dozen times. Allison went 31 to 35 with us. Meredith went 30 to 35. Generic content courses can't move that range because the missing skills are advanced, not foundational.
Most prep can’t help your student, and it’s worth being precise about why — because the reason is exactly why coaching can.
The high-score problem is a different problem
Getting from a 24 to a 30 is mostly subtraction: find the careless errors, the timing leaks, the two or three content gaps, and remove them. Broad courses do this reasonably well, which is why they produce their biggest gains in the middle of the range.
At a 33, the easy points are gone. What’s left is a small set of genuinely hard questions, and moving two points means winning most of them. That work is surgical — it requires someone who can look at your student’s specific misses and know which patterns the test uses at the top of the scale. Generic content review at that level isn’t just inefficient; it’s practicing what your student already knows.
Who does that work here
The people who’ve done it themselves. I scored a perfect 36 more than a dozen times, and every coach on the Boosted Brains team scored a 34 or higher. Meredith went from a 30 to a 35. Allison went from a 31 to a 35 — with a science section that went from a 27 to a perfect 36. Gagan came in at a 33 with a tutor already in place and needed a 35 for BS/MD programs that admit around 4% of applicants; four weeks of ceiling-specific work got him there.
Why two points is worth a sprint
At the top of the scale, small moves carry outsized weight — a 35 against a 33 changes how a file reads at the most selective schools and where merit thresholds land. It’s a short program for a student who’s already strong: the gaps are few, so the sprint is fast. The work is just different work, and it’s the kind we specialize in.
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