Guaranteed Success Through Proper Test Prep 98% of Mindspire students reached or exceeded their target score in 2018.Established in 2011.Established in 2011 by Shahar Link, who had been tutoring the SAT and ACT part-time for the previous 15 years.Shahar started Mindspire in 2011, after 15 years in a variety of roles in the test prep world. He also has a Masters degree in the History of Science from Stanford University, where he studied the history of intelligence testing. Before founding Mindspire, Shahar taught History and Economics at several private high schools in New York and California.