About Us
Synapse is built by THINK PREP GROUP INC..
Founded in 2001 as SOMYUNG USA LLC., we rebranded to THiNK PREP GROUP Inc. in 2022 under the leadership of Ethan. Now operating from our new location in Manhattan, New York, we uphold over two decades of prestigious education excellence initiated in Bayside, Queens.
At THiNK PREP, we are committed to evolving education and consultation services through self-examination, self-innovation, and continuous learning. We offer free diagnostic/practice tests and expert analysis, ensuring our approach is tailored and effective.
Our recent ventures include publishing innovative vocabulary books and launching online tutoring services, expanding our educational reach. Our goal is to cultivate world-class leaders who are culturally ethical, brilliant, and possess strong leadership skills. We value and actively seek the input of our students and their parents to enhance our educational offerings.
Why HAPintel
Building the right problem for each student, evaluating it, and connecting the right curriculum across levels is more than any one teacher can do alone. HAPintel automates that work so teachers can focus on what they do best: developing how they teach, building curriculum, and mentoring students directly. It's also built to give students something they often miss — real introspection and review, woven into the system as a habit rather than an afterthought. The goal, in the end, is to change the paradigm of education itself.
We believe intelligence isn't confined to a single subject. Fundamental disciplines — math, English, music, history — share underlying principles, and real understanding comes from carrying those principles across fields. Learn the word "principle," for example, and HAPintel helps a student see how it's used in math, in science, and in English, so it's learned comprehensively rather than in isolation. A learner, to us, is simply anyone seeking to acquire knowledge or a skill — whether the motivation comes from themselves or from someone guiding them.
That's what makes HAPintel fundamentally different from a typical practice platform: it's an adaptive, cross-curricular learning system. It adjusts problem complexity and difficulty to each student's level, connects curricula across subjects through a concept-map ontology, and uses spaced repetition to combine preview and review in a single loop.
We're building this because education needs a genuinely adaptive system for the AI era, not a superficial one. The era of the single-subject expert is ending, and even the generalist era is giving way to something new — the "general expert." Schools have adopted AI on the surface, but the underlying system of instruction hasn't changed. Teachers, often working with a wide range of student levels and years spent teaching the same subject, understandably develop a narrower view over time. HAPintel exists to open that view back up, for teachers and students alike.
Our Approach
- Differentiated Course Materials and Lectures
- Continuous Communication
- Development of Individual Learning Capability
- Responsibility for Each Student
- Improvement of Skills and Grades
- Careful Attention and Management for Each Student
- Successful Support for Entering Desired Schools