2000 founder zeke vanderhoek headquarters new york city key people dan gonzalez president chris ryan vice president website manhattangmat.com manhattan gmat mgprep inc. is an american educational preparation company . the company was founded in 2000 in new york city by zeke vanderhoek founder of the tep charter school and a former new york public junior high school teacher . 1 it focuses on preparation for the gmat exam graduate management admission test a prerequisite for many mba programs . in 2009 kaplan inc. acquired manhattan gmat . 2 as of 2011 the company has been operating under the name manhattan prep . contents 1 test preparation 2 instructors 3 references 4 external links test preparation edit manhattan gmat offers both on site and virtual preparatory programs for gmat students worldwide . its curriculum is based on a content based approach that teaches the material covered on the exam rather than test beating strategies . 3 they have also expanded to include sister companies manhattan lsat formerly atlas lsat and manhattan gre which focus on law school and graduate school entrance exams respectively . they also prepare students for sat exams . their study guides are published by simon & schuster . 4 instructors edit manhattan gmat instructors must score at the 99th percentile currently a 760 overall on an official gmat exam in order to be considered for employment . 5 in addition every member of the manhattan gmat teaching staff must have extensive prior experience teaching classes or tutoring students before beginning work with the company . 6 references edit gootman elissa . at charter school higher teacher pay the new york times . mar. 7 2008 . di meglio francesca . seeking shelter in business schools washington post . aug. 19 2010 . schweitzer karen . 1 businessmajors.about.com . 2 publishersweekly.com . ventura michael p. 3 the village voice . oct. 22 2008 di meglio francesca . 4 bloomberg businessweek . external links edit company website retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title manhattangmat & oldid 647098167 categories standardized tests in the united statestest preparation companies navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 14 february 2015 at 13 28 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view