Every advising office has them: capable students carrying an MCAT score that does not reflect what they know, deciding between a retake, a program, or a different road. Pillar Prep works exclusively with that population, more than 800 retaking students since 2017, and this page exists for the people who advise them: honest data for your conversations, free diagnostic tools your students can use whoever they prep with, and a scholarship program that puts funded seats in your hands for the students who cannot pay.
The mechanics are simple and published in full in the FAQ below. You receive a personal link, and any student who enrolls in the Retaker Course through it pays 15 percent off, no codes to remember. Once five of those enrollments clear our 7 day refund window, we email you a scholarship seat automatically: one complete Retaker Course enrollment with UWorld included, a $1,945 value, as an activation link you hand to any student you choose. No nomination forms, no approval from us, and the count resets so every five enrollments earns the next seat. You know better than anyone which student is one funded seat away from a real retake, and that judgment is the entire reason this program exists.
Advising a family rather than a student? Our parents section covers the same ground for the people funding the process.
You sign up and receive a personal share link. Students who enroll in the Retaker Course through it pay 15 percent off automatically. Once five of those enrollments have cleared our 7 day refund window, we email you a scholarship seat: one full Retaker Course enrollment with UWorld included, as an activation link you can hand to any student you choose. There is no approval process on our end, the count then resets, and every additional five enrollments earns the next seat.
Retaker Course enrollments made through your link, counted once the 7 day fit check window passes without a refund. The 15 percent advisor discount does not affect eligibility. Tutoring purchases and the paid diagnostic do not count toward the five.
Any student, at your sole discretion. It does not need to be a student who came through your link, or even a student at your institution. The activation link asks the student for their own name and email, they activate the account themselves, and the seat includes the full course plus the UWorld add on, a $1,945 value. Scholarship seats do not expire and cannot be exchanged for cash.
Participation is free. What we get is straightforward: advisors reach exactly the students we built this course for, and a program that funds seats for students who cannot pay is better marketing than any advertisement we could buy. Your students pay less through your link than they would arriving on their own, so there is no version of this where a student is worse off for it.
The only MCAT course built specifically for Retakers, students preparing for a second or third attempt. The program analyzes the trap patterns behind a student’s actual wrong answers and retrains them with personalized drills on a spaced repetition schedule, built around a plan with the official AAMC practice questions at its core. Across more than 800 retaking students since 2017, 96 percent improved their score and the average gain is 9.7. The course is $1,795 with a 7 day unconditional refund window and a completion based Score-Back Guarantee.
Yes, and we would prefer you did. The free Retaker Diagnostic is open to anyone, no account required, and shows exactly the analysis your students would receive. The full refund terms, results data, and the resource articles on this page are all public. If you want a walkthrough of the course itself, email sean@pillartestprep.com and we will set you up with access.
No. Students who enroll through your link are our customers like any others, and we never represent your link as an endorsement. Your name and institution appear nowhere in our marketing. What you receive from us is a short monthly briefing for advisors, which you can leave anytime, and a notification when a scholarship is earned.
We email you when a scholarship is earned, and you can reply to any email from us to get your current count. A live advisor dashboard is on our roadmap, and until it exists, a human answers those replies quickly.
The free Retaker Diagnostic is exactly what your students would experience, and it requires no account. Judge the quality of the analysis before you share anything with a student.