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Certified Tutor
10+ years
Nicholas
Linguistics training at Penn sharpened exactly the skills the ACT English and Reading sections reward — spotting structural patterns in language, parsing rhetorical intent, and moving through dense text quickly. Nicholas pairs that with a 1570 SAT and 33 ACT composite, giving him genuine fluency acr...
Middlebury College
Masters, French Linguistics and Pedagogy
University of Pennsylvania
Bachelors in Linguistics and Deaf Studies

Certified Tutor
4+ years
Neuroscience at Columbia trains a specific kind of thinking — pulling signal from noise in dense, data-heavy material — and that's essentially what the ACT Science and Reading sections demand. Sarah scored a 35 composite and applies that same analytical rigor across all four sections, teaching stude...
Columbia University in the City of New York
Bachelor in Arts, Neuroscience
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Richard
Having spent a year as a course assistant in Harvard's math department while majoring in Government, Richard is genuinely comfortable on both sides of the ACT — the quantitative reasoning that dominates Math and Science and the rhetorical analysis that drives English and Reading. His 36 composite me...
Harvard University
Bachelor in Arts, Government
Certified Tutor
6+ years
Sharan
Growing up across India, Singapore, and Buffalo gave Sharan an adaptability that shows up in how she preps students for the ACT — she reads each student's score breakdown and builds a structured, goal-oriented plan targeting the specific sections dragging the composite down. Her 36 composite and pre...
Cornell University
Bachelor of Science, Human Biology
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Dana
Dana's public policy training at Brown means she spent years dissecting dense arguments and pulling evidence from complex texts — the exact muscle the ACT's Reading and English sections test, and a skill most prep courses gloss over. Her perfect 36 composite means she's equally sharp on Math and Sci...
Brown University
Bachelor in Arts, Public Policy and American Institutions
Certified Tutor
9+ years
Justin
A PhD in Computational Mathematics from the University of Chicago paired with dual bachelor's degrees in physics and math means Justin doesn't bluff his way through any ACT section — the Math and Science content is second nature, and his literature, philosophy, and essay editing background keeps the...
Washington University in St. Louis
Bachelor's in Physics and Mathematics
University of Chicago
Doctor of Philosophy, Computational Mathematics
Certified Tutor
Liz
Running a tutoring program at a Boston charter school taught Liz something most ACT tutors miss — students with learning differences like ADHD and dyslexia need section-specific strategies built around how they actually process timed material, not generic pacing advice. Her 34 composite and special ...
Simmons College
Masters, Special Education: Mild to Moderate Disabilities 5-12
Washington University in St. Louis
Bachelor of Arts in History (minors in Humanities and Anthropology)
Certified Tutor
14+ years
William
A 34 ACT composite paired with a perfect 1600 SAT means William knows standardized testing inside and out — the pacing traps, the answer-choice patterns, and the specific reading and grammar concepts that repeat across sections. His English degree gives him a particular edge on the English and Readi...
Boston University
Bachelor in Arts, English
Certified Tutor
5+ years
Vivian
Vivian's Juilliard training might seem unrelated to the ACT, but the discipline of mastering a performance — breaking complex material into precise, repeatable steps — is exactly how she approaches all four sections of the exam. Her perfect 36 composite means she's solved the timing and strategy puz...
Yale University
Bachelor in Arts
Certified Tutor
Michelle
Most ACT prep zeroes in on content review, but Michelle's approach leans heavily on the structural side — teaching students how the Reading section builds answer choices from passage details, how English questions cycle through the same handful of grammar rules, and how to treat Science as a speed-r...
Yale University
Bachelor in Arts
Certified Tutor
5+ years
Aaron
Columbia's pre-med biochemistry track means Aaron is neck-deep in the same science and math content the ACT tests, but it's his 36 composite — a perfect score — that signals how well he understands the exam itself, not just the material behind it. He teaches each section's specific logic, from the R...
Columbia University in the City of New York
Bachelor in Arts, Biochemistry
Certified Tutor
10+ years
Charles
A 35 ACT composite means Charles knows what it takes to perform at the top of every section — but his real strength is the Science reasoning portion, where his neuroscience and biochemistry training lets him break down dense data passages faster than most test-takers think possible. He teaches pacin...
University of Cambridge
Masters, Biochemistry
Amherst College
Bachelors, Neuroscience
Certified Tutor
13+ years
Scoring a 34 on the ACT means Yocheved knows how to perform across all four sections under real testing conditions — from pacing the Science passages to catching tricky grammar rules in English. She breaks the exam into repeatable strategies for each section, teaching students to recognize question ...
University
Bachelor's
Certified Tutor
Robert earned a perfect 36 ACT composite, but what makes that score useful to students is how he reverse-engineers it — identifying the exact pacing mistakes and content blind spots that separate a 30 from a 34 across all four sections. His teaching range spans everything from elementary math to col...
University
Bachelor's
Certified Tutor
8+ years
Solange
Having worked in Harvard's admissions office while earning her degree, Solange understands the ACT not just as a test but as a gatekeeping tool — and she teaches students to game its structure accordingly, from the predictable grammar patterns on English to the passage-ordering decisions that save m...
Harvard University
Bachelor in Arts (Sociology & Women's Studies)
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