ACT Tutoring: Your Path to Higher Scores and College Success

ACT Tutoring: Your Path to Higher Scores and College Success

Navigating the road to higher education feels much like a race — every step, every decision, matters. Among these, the ACT stands as a prime milestone. More than just a standardized test, the ACT serves as a gateway, influencing not just college admissions but also decisions on scholarships, loans, and other financial aid. But it’s […]

LSAT Tutoring: Boost Your Scores and Maximize Your Potential

LSAT Tutoring: Boost Your Scores and Maximize Your Potential

Is the LSAT standing between you and your dream college like a huge medieval castle wall? Standardized tests, while they are fantastic for shaping futures, often carry overwhelming challenges with them. The LSAT stands out among them, well-known for its thorough examination of logical reasoning, analytical thinking, and writing capabilities. This castle wall is huge, […]

ACT Math Prep: Top Strategies to Ace Your Test

ACT Math Prep: Top Strategies to Ace Your Test

For many students, the math section of the ACT is a formidable foe. It demands swift and precise solutions in algebra, geometry, trigonometry, and statistics. Nail this section, and you’re not only signaling to colleges your readiness for advanced math courses but also setting the stage for potential STEM careers. Yet, achieving excellence in the […]

How to Find the Right SAT Tutor for Your Success

How to Find the Right SAT Tutor for Your Success

Standardized tests like the SAT are difficult to navigate. Especially if you’re alone. With the pressure to perform well coupled with the challenge of locating the right resources and strategies bearing down on you, preparation feels overwhelming. So, what do you do? Get personalized SAT tutoring — one that fits your unique learning style. We’ve […]

The AMC vs The Usual Tests and Grades

This blog, also hosted on Substack, is where I share what I’ve been discussing, writing, and reading in the realms of academic and cognitive development for gifted high schoolers in specific, and education in general. My tutoring and coaching practice is centered around the idea that gifted students usually get the short end of the […]

Recent AMC changes

…and how some ambitious students can reap huge benefits There have been some major shifts in the college admissions landscape over the last few years. These shifts have changed the value of the AMC for certain students, and they have also changed how a student should prepare. Brief recap: what’s the AMC? It’s an annual […]

A few thoughts about the ACT/SAT

If you’re heading to college, you’re almost certainly going to take the ACT or SAT at least once. I’d like to set the record straight on a few things so that we can all minimize unproductive time and effort, especially in light of the fact that most students take these tests during school years that […]

Three things I’m grateful for today

Pretty much everyone I talk to these days has a higher-than-usual level of difficulty and frustration, but we’re all working hard to keep that stuff from leaking into our conversations unwittingly. I really appreciate that emotional effort.  I’m also grateful that being on the receiving end of that effort helps me do my part on […]