Talia
Talia holds a BA in Visual Studies from the University of Pennsylvania and an MS in Quantitative Economics from UCLA. She will next pursue a PhD in Cultural Economics.
Katherine T.
Katherine graduated cum laude from Dartmouth College with a major in Computer Science modified with Film and Media Studies and a minor in Theater - a mouthful! Upon graduation, she accepted a role as Engineering Analyst at Accenture.
Sam
Sam holds a BS in Physics (Cornell) and a PhD in Physics (Harvard). He's now a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Pennsylvania, studying physical systems and machine learning applications.
Lauren
Lauren is a published poet and English tutor. She earned her Master's in Creative Writing at Oxford and her BA in English at Amherst, where she was a Davis Scholar.
Erin
After Erin graduated with a BA in Environmental Studies (University of Michigan), she received a Fulbright to teach English in Rwanda. She went on to earn an MA in Teaching (Mt. Holyoke), and currently teaches 3rd grade.
Ezra
After Ezra graduated from Harvard with a BA in Social Studies, he received the Trustman Traveling Fellowship and went to Peru to study the Chinese diaspora. He is now the Artist-in-Residence at the Signet Society at Harvard.
Helena
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“I am currently doing an 'SAT Bootcamp' with Helena. She is the best teacher I've ever had. She explains everything so clearly; I can already see progress. I like working with her so much. It's strange that I'm finding SAT tutoring fun.”
Nesha, SAT Student -
“Helena is very smart, affable, and approachable. I enjoyed working with her.”
Sara Ziff, GRE Student -
“Helena was very good at explaining the different things to look for in each type of verbal question on the GMAT. The techniques she gave me were extremely helpful on test day, and she taught them in a way that was very easy to understand.”
Katie Flanagan, GMAT Student -
“Helena was great at motivating my son. She encouraged him to prepare rough drafts of essays, and did an excellent job guiding him through the polishing revisions.”
Cindy Calder, Parent of a College Applicant -
“Right from the start, Helena made me believe that I could succeed. She figured out my learning style right away and steered me to pracitce problems and workbooks suited to my learning style. The way she organized and planned my study left me free to focus on the content. Helena built up my confidence and explained everything well. She was terrific!”
Claire, GRE Student -
“Helena is an exceptionally approachable, supportive, and understanding tutor. She is empathetic and willing to go above and beyond to help her students. She helped me improve my Verbal score on the GRE.”
She mainly helped me improve my Verbal on the GRE.
Jay, GRE Student -
“Helena was always prepared and knew a lot around the field of study. She's very kind, supportive and approachable.”
Admitted early to Georgetown University.
Nesha, College Applicant