Clare's 5.0 rating speaks to her versatility across reading comprehension, literary analysis, and written expression. She unpacks texts by teaching students to identify rhetorical strategies and track how an author builds an argument or develops a theme, then coaches them to articulate those observa...

As a bilingual Colombian who has lived and taught across five countries, Esteban brings a cross-cultural lens to English that sharpens how students think about voice, tone, and audience. He digs into the mechanics of clear writing — thesis construction, paragraph cohesion, grammar in context — while...

College essays and essay editing make up a chunk of Andrew's tutoring load, which means he spends a lot of time diagnosing the same issues — buried thesis statements, vague evidence, and grammar errors that undermine otherwise solid ideas. His finance and math background at Boston College's Carroll ...

Reading a novel and actually analyzing it are two different skills, and the gap between them is where most English students get stuck. David's history and literature training means he digs into texts the way a historian examines a source — asking what the author is arguing, what context shaped the w...

Reading, writing, and literary analysis each demand different muscles, and Jennifer's background as both a reader and writer — she lists books, reading, and writing among her core interests — means she teaches all three with genuine fluency. She's especially effective at walking students through ess...

From phonics and decoding at the elementary level to literary analysis and thesis-driven essays in high school, Arielle covers the full arc of English instruction. Her Master's in Literacy gives her a diagnostic edge — she can pinpoint whether a struggling reader needs vocabulary support, fluency pr...

Taylor's English instruction pulls from an unusually wide writing life — he's authored short stories, poetry, and academic research papers, giving him firsthand experience with the range of genres students encounter. Whether the task is close-reading a passage, strengthening grammar mechanics, or bu...

I am an interdisciplinary educator with an Ed.M. from the Harvard Graduate School of Education and a B.A. from Dartmouth College. My background is primarily in integrated arts learning and museum education and I specialize in visual arts, history and art history, and object-based learning. In all su...

I'm not tutoring or buried in my textbooks, you will either find me rock climbing at the Triangle Rock Club, playing Ultimate Frisbee, working on my car, or enjoying the great outdoors (beaches, mountains, forests--you name it, I love it). On rainy weekends I enjoy tinkering with computers and old e...

I am a recent graduate from a masters program in biostatistics at Columbia University. I received my Bachelor of Arts in biological sciences, with a focus in neurobiology at Northwestern University. In August, I will be starting a doctoral program in biostatistics at NYU. I was a teaching assistant ...

I am a graduate of Wesleyan University, where I received my Bachelor of Arts in Sociology with High Honors. With eight years of experience working in education, I've tutored students in math, science, history, and English, as well as helped students prepare for standardized tests. I've guided adults...

I am a junior Mechanical Engineering major at Yale, and I hope to become a Naval Aviator after college. I am also a varsity sailor, and enjoy playing music with friends when I can get some free time. I have been tutoring my fellow students throughout my entire academic career, and I would best descr...

I am a graduate of Washington University in St Louis, where I received my Bachelor of Arts in History with minors in Humanities and Anthropology. Since graduation, I have worked as a tutor, teacher, and director of tutors at a charter public middle school in Boston. During this time I also received ...

I am proud to be a part of Varsity Tutors! I am originally from San Antonio, TX; I completed my undergraduate education at Rice University in Houston where I received a bachelor's degree in Biochemistry and Cell Biology. Currently, I am in my second year of medical school at Baylor College of Medici...

I'm Solange - a recent graduate from Harvard where I studied Sociology & Women's Studies. I've been tutoring for eight years now, and have worked with a wide range of ages and in a wide range of subjects. Some of my specialties are college prep/test taking II worked in the admissions office on campu...