What are our tutors like?

Our tutors are experienced, positive, warm, and committed to your child's success. They are extremely intelligent, driven, committed, and compassionate. With our guidance, our students have gained admission into top colleges like Amherst, Columbia, Brown, Colgate, Boston College, Barnard, Villanova, Johns Hopkins, Vassar, UC Berkeley, Wesleyan, Harvard, NYU Stern, MIT, Cornell, Emory, Princeton, University of Michigan, Boston University, Cooper Union, and Juilliard. They have attended highly-ranked schools such as Hunter College High School, Brearley, Horace Mann, Dalton, Collegiate, Bronx Science, and Stuyvesant.

Some of our staff:

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EMILY

Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Doctor of Medicine, expected 2021

Williams College
B.A., Political Science

Originally from Westchester County, Emily is familiar with the rigorous demands of a independent school in New York: academic, extracurricular, social, emotional, and beyond. She attended the Masters School in Dobbs Ferry, NY, where she chose AP classes in Calculus BC, US History, Biology, English Language and Composition, and English Literature. Having studied the viola for many years, she was a member of the orchestras at both Masters and Hoff-Barthelson Music School. She also played Varsity Soccer and was a member of the model UN. Emily went onto attend Williams College, where she was just as driven…

RICHARD

Teachers College Columbia University
M.A., Mathematics Education

Binghamton University
M.A., Economics

Born in South Korea, Richard came to the United States when he was a baby. He grew up in Queens, New York with his family who stressed the importance of education. He worked hard in Stuyvesant High School where he started the Guitar Club to find others that shared his interest in music and teaching others. He started his path as an educator in high school when he volunteered to teach Korean to younger children at his church, and as a tutor to help junior high school students prepare for the SHSAT exam. During his years at Binghamton University, Richard continued to teach by working as a Teaching Assistant for his professor, as well…

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karl

Havard University
B.A., Studies of Women and Gender, Secondary Field in Music, Language Citation in Chinese

Originally hailing from Chapel Hill, North Carolina, Karl is a STEM and test prep specialist. He was a star student at Chapel Hill High School, where he was the President of both the Science Olympiad and Latin Clubs. Karl was a leader in the arts community there, involved in theater, a cappella, and chamber chorus. He used his musical talents to found Songs for Smiles, an organization that provides music to those in need. In addition, he also worked for the United States Environmental Protection Agency. His academic and artistic strengths brought him to Harvard University in Cambridge, MA, and he graduated in 2015...

JENNY

Weill-Cornell Medical College
Doctor of Medicine, expected 2021

Cornell University
B.A., Biology, Minor in Music

Jenny comes from a globetrotting international background. She was born in Beijing where she spent some of her elementary school years before moving to Toronto then Houston, Texas. She attended Bellaire High School, a prestigious magnet program in Houston, next moving to New York to attend Cornell University upstate in Ithaca. At Cornell, Jenny led TA and tutor groups for the Evolutionary Biology courses for three years. This was when she discovered that she had a gift for teaching, conveying complicated material in a way that students can...

DAVID

Weill-Cornell Medical College
Doctor of Medicine, expected

Cornell University
B.A., Human Biology

Originally from Missoula MT, David moved to NYC in 2015 to begin medical school at Weill Cornell Medical College. He is nearing graduation and plans to pursue residency training in emergency medicine starting in Summer 2019. David began his involvement science education as an undergraduate student at the University of Montana. After receiving high marks in his undergraduate Anatomy and Physiology course (considered one of the hardest classes on campus), David was selected to be a teaching assistant for the class. As a TA, he designed…

JEFF

Columbia University
B.A., Economics

Jeff has been tutoring in New York City for approximately half his life. As he attended Riverdale Country School, he began tutoring younger students in middle school and continued to tutor throughout high school and college. He was a Scholar in the prestigious Albert G. Oliver Scholars Program, a rigorous private/boarding school preparatory program. The teachers at the program recognized his exceptional academic talent, and one of them promptly hired him to work for his company, Strategem Academic Consultants. There, he tutored high school students in a wide variety of subjects including Calculus, Statistics, SAT…