HELPING ACQUIRE COLLEGE KNOWLEDGE WELCOMES YOU

Helping Acquire College Knowledge (H.A.C.K) was founded to provide students in Chicago’s underrepresented communities with tutoring, starting with free SAT prep.

Our SAT Clinics

HACK SAT™ clinics are taught in New York and Chicago. We seek to motivate students by educating them about the unique role that the SAT can play in their admissions process, disproving common myths around how the highest standardized test scores are reached, and providing the students with the strategies that will help them reach their goal scores.

About the Founders

Being Mexican American, we hope that this project will ensure that the potential of students who want to succeed is not limited by a lack of any type of resource, and keep our cities places of equal opportunity where heritage is celebrated as further strengthening a person's identity.

Isabella Graham

I was born in Venezuela and lived in Miami and Mexico City before I moved to Chicago in 2015. I am now a junior in Lincoln Park High School's IB program. I created this program after increasing my test score from a 1370 on the October 2016 PSAT to a 1550 on the December 2017 SAT and improving my Math score from a 620 to 790. I was nominated for the National Hispanic Recognition Program by the College Board in 2018. In college, I want to study Computer Science and Economics, specifically the impact of technology on inequality.

Cecille Graham

I increased my score from 1200 on the October 2016 PSAT to 1450 on the December 2017 SAT, with a perfect score of 800 in Reading and Writing. In February of 2018, I was invited into the National Hispanic Recognition Program based solely on my high test score.