Boutique Private Tutoring and Test Prep
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Is there an alternative to SAT tutoring?
Some students in Great Neck, NY thought so. They paid someone to take the SAT for them. They got caught.
Nassau County District Attorney Kathleen Rice announced that six Great Neck North High School students had paid 19-year-old Samuel Eshaghoff thousands of dollars to take the SAT for them. [...]
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As I write this, it’s a week before Labor Day, which means you don’t have much time to get your best SAT score possible, and give yourself the best possible chance you can to get in to the college or university of your choice.
So what SAT score do you have to get? The one that [...]
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I just got off the phone with an overwhelmed parent.
As I’m writing this, it’s August 24. She signed up her son to take the ACT on September 11. She was calling back to cancel his lesson. He was so busy with other school work that he wouldn’t be able to see me until the [...]
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Now that it’s early April, my students have started getting back to me to let me know what schools they got accepted to. There’s a lot of happiness, a little disappointment, and some decisions to make from among more than one good option.
How I Chose
It brings me back to the time when I had to [...]
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I saw two articles today that really shocked me.
Brown Alumni Monthly reported that applications rose 20% this year, from 25,000 to 30,000 applicants. Just a few years ago, in 2002, there were “only” 14,612 applicants.
That’s a 50% increase in 8 years. All competing for the same 1,500 freshman slots. It works out to [...]
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