Amy Y.
Amy attended Dartmouth, where she graduated summa cum laude with a double major in Economics and Psychology. She is currently pursuing a dual MBA-MPA degree at the Wharton School and Harvard Kennedy School
Vanessa D.
Vanessa holds an MBA from The Wharton School at University of Pennsylvania and a BA in Sociology and African American Studies from Harvard College. She is a first-generation college student and first-generation masters student.
Sean B.
Sean graduated from Yale University with a degree in American Studies. After teaching in Oklahoma City at Odyssey Leadership Academy, he went on to earn his MFA in Poetry at Boston University.
Camille
Camille attended UChicago to earn her BA in Psychology and Economics. She's currently pursuing a dual Master in Public Policy from Harvard Kennedy School and Master of Business Administration from the Wharton School of Business.
Karishma
Karishma graduated from Tufts University in 2013 with a major in Political Science and History. More recently, she graduated from Penn Law where she focused on Health law and Policy.
Ya Sheng
Ya Sheng is currenly a JD candidate at Yale Law School. Previously, he received an MPhil in Political Thought and Intellectual History at KingŐs College, University of Cambridge and a BA in Politics from Princeton.
Jonathan
Jonathan graduated with a dual-degree from Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania with a BA in International Studies and a BS in Economics. He is now an MBA candidate at the Harvard Business School.
Justin
Justin earned an MBA with honors (Wharton, UPenn) and a BS in Finance and Management (NYU). He began his career as an M&A Investment Banker for Credit Suisse in NYC. Currently, he is the Co-Founder and COO of aavrani.
Nikita
Nikita earned her BA in Biomedical Engineering at Tufts (summa cum laude, Tau Beta Pi) and her MD at Boston University. She is now a senior resident at the Boston Combined Residency Program in Pediatrics.
Lucy
Lucy is an MBA student at Wharton, where she is a Forte-Fellow. Prior to business school, she earned her BBA in Finance and Accounting at NYU, and was on the founding executive team of the non-profit, Women In Network.
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.”
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“Helena is very smart, affable, and approachable. I enjoyed working with her.”
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“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.”
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“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.”
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“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!”
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“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.
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“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.
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