Melissa graduated as Salutatorian of her high school class in Long Island. She was also an Intel Talent Search Semifinalist for her scientific research on the diets of lemon sharks in the Bahamas. She graduated from Princeton University with a bachelor's degree in History and a certificate in Values and Public Life, a program that combined politics and philosophy courses. Melissa is in her second year at Columbia Law School. She enjoys going to comedy shows and Yankees games.

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Melissa can ride a unicycle.

Charles has a somewhat unusual but uniquely qualified background for a tutor. Armed with a BFA degree in Drama from The Juilliard School, Charles didn't have much of a math background and had never taken the SAT or ACT before he decided to pursue a business degree and was forced to confront his test-taking nerves by studying for the GMAT. After endless hours on the math portion of Khan Academy, Charles scored in the 96th Percentile and is now an…

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As an actor, Charles has appeared in over twenty television shows and films as well as over a dozen plays on Broadway and off. Some of his favorites include playing Captain Rockland in Season 2 of House of Cards and Antonio in Twelfth Night at Shakespeare in the Park.

Mark graduated Cum Laude from Duke University’s Engineering School with a double major Electrical/Biomedical Engineering degree and a minor in French; then graduated Summa Cum Laude from the Tulane Graduate School of Science and Engineering, where he earned two Masters in Engineering (Biomedical and Electrical), plus an “ABD” (all but dissertation) towards a PhD in Robotics Engineering. Mark began his career designing robots for factory automation with a specialty in computer vision with Texas Instruments. Subsequently, Mark graduated Summa Cum…

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Mark builds his own super computers from scratch and is a self-taught pianist.

Cecilia has worked full-time and part-time for various tutoring agencies and learning centers, both one-on-one and in a classroom setting, for the past five years. She specializes in test prep, languages, and writing. Born and raised in Washington D.C., with a mother from Argentina, she grew up fluent in Spanish. In fact, she is trilingual in English, Spanish, and French, having taken French classes for twelve years. She graduated from Wesleyan University where she double majored in Theater and Psychology.…

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I grew up with a pet rabbit that I walked on a leash around D.C.

Jennifer works as a clinical research assistant with HIV vaccine trials at the Columbia University Medical Center. Before starting her job, she recently graduated with honors from a master's program in human nutrition from Columbia University. Prior to that she received a BS in Biology and a BBA in Business from the University of Michigan (Go Blue!). During her undergraduate career, she started a volunteer organization, worked in a vascular biology lab, and volunteered with the American Cancer Society. She…

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Jennifer once went shark diving in South Africa.

Deepa is a fourth year medical student at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. Born and raised in the suburbs of Washington, D.C., she graduated magna cum laude from Brown University with a degree in Neuroscience. At Brown, Deepa coordinated a science enrichment program for Providence high school students and was on a fusion dance team. After graduating, she spent a year working at a charter high school in Boston teaching science and math. In her free time,…

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"Lady Bird" is my current favorite movie!

A cum laude graduate of the University of Pennsylvania (B.A. in Politics, Philosophy and Economics) and Phillips Academy Andover, Esther is a theatre director working in new play development. She is a patient, enthusiastic tutor committed to tackling her student's most challenging subjects and building their confidence levels. After seeing her own standardized test scores sky-rocket from great tutoring, Esther is especially passionate about tutoring SAT, SSAT, and SHSAT math and teaching effective test-taking strategies. As an alumna, she interviews…

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Esther has seen over 50 Broadway shows. Ask her how to get the cheapest tickets!

Barbara is currently a medical student at the Donald and Barbara Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra. She is a NYU graduate, cum laude, with a major in Psychology, minor in Sociology. In high school, Barbara was an International Baccalaureate candidate and graduated top 1% of her class. She scored 98 or above on all of her NYS Regents exams, including Biology, Physics, Chemistry, Algebra 2, Trig, Geometry and Algebra 1. Barbara has an individualistic approach towards teaching and seeks…

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Barbara has a past history in sculpture and poetry. She participated in a 3-year sculpture program in high school and hopes to publish a book of poetry one day.

Teresa is a born and bred New Yorker who is familiar with going to school in the city, having attended Stuyvesant. After graduating from Brown University, she moved to the U.S. Virgin Islands to work in education for the next 14 years. Currently Teresa is a PhD candidate in Developmental Psychology at Teachers College Columbia, where she is focusing on the social and neurocognitive processes of learning. She has helped countless students find success in everything from learning how to…

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Teresa is a proud left-hander who once had the pleasure of teaching an entire class of left-handers (there were only three students)!

Yasmin graduated from Columbia University with a BA in comparative literature and society in May 2015. She is currently working at a flagship media publication. Yasmin comes from a diplomatic background and grew up in Haiti, Saudi Arabia, Belgium, London and Singapore. attended a private school in London where she took the International Baccalaureate. She is fluent in French and speaks conversational Spanish. In college, she served as Residential Advisor for three years and worked with Admissions leading campus tours…

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Her parents live in Wimbledon, right near the tennis courts.