SAT & ACT PrepAP & SAT Subject Test PrepAcademic TutoringOnline ClassesSummer Camps History Established in 2000. Ivy Bound was started out of a desire to give students the best preparation for the SAT. Mark Greenstein Founded Ivy B ound in 2000, after working 13 years with 3 other test prep organizations. His first classes were held in South Central Los Angeles, and the students were exclusively “first-generation college” (parents had not attended college). Mark’s first class was met by skeptical administrators at the students’ high school. Indeed they were often denied rooms for after-school sessions. But the students and teacher were resourceful, commandeering a place on the nearby USC campus and occasionally in a quiet library. Though Mark only sought out 1st-generation students, word of his good work spread, and he was getting calls from parents in tony suburbs like Encino and Beverly Hills requesting private tutoring. Mark returned to New England in 2001 and began to hire tutors throughout the northeast.
