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Knowledge is powerful tool that can change your life and the lives of others. As a tutor my goal is to teach my students how to wield knowledge through embracing their mistakes and teaching them how to learn. I expect my students to approach sessions with an open mind and a willingness to learn. ...
University of Chicago
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Purdue University-Main Campus
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2+ years
My academic credentials include a Bachelor of Mathematics degree from the University of Texas at Arlington and a Master of Aeronautical Engineering from Stanford University. I am retired from 40+ years of engineering. The last thirty years was working in the flight simulation industry. I had re...
Stanford University
MS
The University of Texas at Arlington
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Certified Tutor
2+ years
I am a graduate of Princeton University and Louisiana State University (LSU). I received an undergraduate degree in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology from Princeton and a Ph.D. in Biology from LSU. As part of my doctoral work, I completed all coursework for a Ph.D. minor in Experimental Statistics. ...
Princeton University
PhD
Certified Tutor
2+ years
I am a graduate of Duke University( undergrad) where I majored in Philosophy and minored in Theater Studies. During my summers in college, I worked with EducationUSA Nairobi, an advising center for Kenyan students who wish to pursue higher education in the US. When I worked for them, I tutored high ...
Duke University
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Certified Tutor
2+ years
Sara
I'm a rising sophomore at Columbia University, majoring in Mechanical Engineering. My journey as a tutor began in 10th grade when I ran volunteer tutoring labs in math, physics, and chemistry. I had classmates struggling with stoichiometry, peers needing an algebra refresher, or a group of panicked ...
Columbia University
Bachelor's (in progress)

Certified Tutor
2+ years
I'm a student at Yale University majoring in both Economics and Global Affairs. Over the past 4 years, I am lucky to have worked with students of all ages and helped them reach their full potential. I offer tutoring services in all subjects, and I'm particularly interested in English, Economics, Go...
Yale University
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Certified Tutor
2+ years
As an experienced tutor, I see myself in an important supporting role: there to help the student shine! Whether looking for help completing homework, preparing for tests, or building solid foundational knowledge to build upon in the years ahead, I am ready to tailor my support to your particular nee...
Yale University
Bachelor

Certified Tutor
2+ years
Erik
I am a graduate from the University of Florida, University of Pennsylvania, and University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. I have graduated with scholarship honors in Chemical Engineering with a Bachelor of Sciences from University of Florida, Masters of Computer and Information Technology from UPenn,...
University of Pennsylvania
MMG

Certified Tutor
2+ years
I am a current student of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where I am studying biology and Spanish primarily. I've tutored for many years under school programs in a variety of subjects, but I am most passionate about biology, math, and history. I like to use my personal experience in thes...
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Bachelor

Certified Tutor
2+ years
Hello, I hold two soon-to-be three Ivy League degrees, an undergrad and graduate degree from the University of Pennslyvania and I am currently getting a second Masters from Harvard in Education Leadership. I know what it takes to write an essay or application to get into your dream school and specia...
Harvard University
MED
University of Pennsylvania
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Viswanath
Pre-Algebra Tutor • +35 Subjects
I am a bioengineer who has experience working in the biotech startup industry. I received my Master of Science in Engineering in Bioengineering from the University of Pennsylvania and a Bachelor of Science degree in Neuroscience from the University of Pittsburgh. While at the University of Pittsburgh, I started to tutor my fellow peers in Engineering Physics I: Mechanics and Engineering Physics 2: Electricity & Magnetism, and it was then that I discovered my passion for tutoring. Seeing a student not only understand physics, but actually enjoy learning about it was easily the most rewarding aspect of tutoring. Their enjoyment led to success and further study of the material, and I was very happy to have contributed to that. From my experiences, I observed that a teaching philosophy based on constant questioning, student participation, and interdisciplinary learning provided the greatest enjoyment and success for students. Relating the material in a manner which the student understands has always been a priority of mine, and combining this approach with a logical, building-block type style has yielded strong results for me and the student. While I do tutor mathematics, usually ranging from Calculus I all the way to Differential Equations, I am most passionate about teaching physics. It is rewarding to see how a student who learns physics understands and appreciates the world around them on a deeper level. In the end, I wish to help students not only learn physics, but also enjoy learning physics, and I hope to spread this appreciation to all my students. Outside of work, I greatly enjoy going to museums, playing and watching all kinds of sports, hiking and other outdoor activities, reading philosophy, and playing guitar.
Harleen
AP Statistics Tutor • +151 Subjects
I am a Molecular Engineering major at the University of Chicago, I am currently taking time off to focus on other aspects of my career but I don't want to stop tutoring outside college campus!. I am a child of immigrants and have spent my life tutoring my siblings and younger students, and I loved working with them! See y'all in class!
Kevin
AP Statistics Tutor • +60 Subjects
I am interested in working for Varsity Tutors because I enjoy helping others learn new concepts and progress in whatever they are struggling with. I have significant experience tutoring with a variety of age levels and would be delighted to have an opportunity to work with students through this opportunity.
Megan
Pre-Algebra Tutor • +55 Subjects
Hello parents and future students! I've been tutoring for more than six years now and have tons of experience working with learners of all ages. My teaching focuses on building confidence and encouraging vulnerability- we all make mistakes and tutoring helps us fix them! As for some background on myself, I'm a recent graduate of the University of Florida with a BS in Microbiology and Cell Science as well as two minors, one in history and one in Spanish. I'm currently pursuing an MS in Biomedical Sciences from Vanderbilt University before attending medical school in the future. I hope to get to know each and every one of you to help you reach your goals and achieve your dreams!
Baljinder
Biology Tutor • +20 Subjects
I have a rich and extensive teaching history, including many years of high school-, polytechnic-, university-, and post-graduate-level teaching experience. This includes my years as a Teaching Assistant at the University of Alberta, Canada, and as a Scientific Officer in Singapore. I can also point to my time as an instructor for Kaplan Certified Education Provider in Tokyo, Japan, where I taught classroom and private sessions in SSAT, SAT, American College Testing (ACT), GMAT, GRE, and TOEFL preparation. These and other teaching experiences have helped me become an adept and very effective instructor. I truly enjoy teaching and this has come across clearly in both larger classroom settings and in one-to-one sessions. It might surprise many that I have been teaching, in one form or another, since I attended what would be the equivalent of junior high school. During those junior high school years, my family was undergoing some economic hardships and I became a private tutor for several younger students as a means to improve our domestic situation. It was then that I first recognized that I was good at teaching others, and further, that I enjoyed it. When I was concomitantly but separately completing two distinct undergraduate programs, in Biochemistry and Zoology, at the University of Otago in New Zealand, and later, a graduate program in the Department of Zoology at the University of Alberta in Canada, I became a teaching assistant and, in this role, was exposed to teaching, in an official, professional capacity, at the university level. During this period, I confirmed what I'd learned earlier: that I was very proficient at the whole business of teaching, and also that I very much enjoyed it. Over the intervening years, I have had the opportunity to teach in many different situations and settings involving a variegated assortment of teaching companies and institutes, and students of all ages and needs. Hence, I've trained adult students taking courses as disparate as Business Mathematics and Engineering Physics, and also those preparing for standardized tests such as TOEFL, GMAT, and GRE, as well as Biomedical, Biotechnical, and Public Health professionals. In addition to the undergraduate university students alluded to above, I have also had the opportunity to train students attending various Polytechnics. Finally, I have had a lot of experience teaching various cohorts of elementary, junior high school, and high school students, primarily on SSAT, SAT, and ACT preparation. I am extremely qualified to teach Biology at many different levels. For example, with two master's degrees in different Biology disciplines, I possess a very comprehensive repertoire and background of academic, research and professional expertise strongly anchored in various disciplines of Biology and Public Health. This has necessarily afforded me a great deal of knowledge of, and familiarity with, many aspects of the Life Sciences, including the Biomolecular Sciences, Molecular Medicine, Transfusion Medicine, Hematology, Serology, Immunology, Anatomy, Physiology, Marine Biology, Zoology, Ecology, and Environmental Sciences. I am familiar with the curriculum and assessment requirements of biology concepts across all school levels. Moreover, as part of my graduate program in Zoology at the University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada, I taught a variety of university laboratory courses in Introductory Biology, Zoology, and Anatomy. Students taking these courses were in the first, second, and third years of their respective undergraduate programs. The teaching responsibilities included creating, organizing, running, and grading all tests and final laboratory examinations. I was also called upon to grade essays, reports, and final lecture examinations. Ms. Maggie Haag was the coordinator of senior zoology courses at the University of Alberta during this period. I have included, in my resume, an assessment, by Ms. Haag, of my teaching performance, which is representative of my teaching ability for all of the courses mentioned above. During my tenure in Singapore, I worked for nearly six years as a Scientific Officer in the Centre For Transfusion Medicine one of several governmental health departments that, at the time comprised the Health Sciences Authority (HSA), a multidisciplinary scientific and regulatory collective bringing together a multiplicity of expertise from medical and scientific professionals. What is most relevant for our purposes here is that I designed, developed, and managed several in-house and external training programs on various aspects of hematology, transfusion medicine, and biotechnology. The external programs were primarily for Singapore Polytechnic and Temasek Polytechnic students but lecturers from the Temasek Polytechnic Biotechnology program as well as from the Nursing program in Nanyang Polytechnic were sometimes enrolled for training as well. Please find, embedded within my resume, an employment letter from the HSA indicating that I enjoyed teaching, which represented a relatively significant part of my responsibilities as a Scientific Officer. While in Singapore, I married a Japanese national and eventually resigned from the Scientific Officer position to join my wife in Japan, where I began working at the RIKEN-Brain Science Institute (RIKEN-BSI). My main responsibilities at RIKEN-BSI were research-oriented, and my investigative efforts were very fruitful. I produced two first-author publications detailing genetic and biochemical research on several types of epilepsy, co-authored a research paper on ataxia, registered a scientific patent, and completed numerous collaborative efforts, all in less than four years. During this period, I applied for Permanent Residency (PR) in Canada and was advised that I would have to be ready to arrive in Canada on very short notice. Because this strict requirement created too much uncertainty around timelines that would have severely impacted the types of international collaborative research I was undertaking, I decided, after nearly four years of cutting-edge scientific investigation at RIKEN-BSI, to resign from my position and find other employment on an informal, ad hoc basis until my PR application process was completed. Consequently, I began working as an instructor for Kaplan Certified Education Provider in Tokyo. At Kaplan, my very strong teaching skills and abilities were quickly recognized, including in the form of sterling student appraisals, and I then became the primary SAT and GMAT instructor at the firm. I was also often called upon to teach private sessions in SAT II Subjects (eg. Math II level), and, less frequently, in SSAT, GRE, TOEFL, and ACT preparation. The SAT classrooms included not only Japanese students preparing for applications to North American and European universities but also very large numbers of children of expatriates, particularly Americans and Canadians, living and working in Tokyo. Most of these students were applying for prestigious schools on the Eastern and Western coasts of North America, which, at that time, required high SAT scores for admittance. In addition to teaching large classrooms for the SAT, I also conducted one-on-one sessions with students requiring specific attention and assistance, whether it was for quantitative, English, reading comprehension, or writing aspects of the SAT. Because I have complete, expert fluency in the English language, including an exceptionally high level of writing ability, I have also had many years of experience training students and scientific colleagues on the standard approaches to effective writing, as well as in the more nuanced aspects of writing in various formats and levels. My writing ability has figured prominently in the pursuit of my extensive academic qualifications, as well as in all my professional activities, including my many years of professional experience as a freelance writer, editor, rewriter, proofreader, and ghostwriter. For example, I worked with RIKEN, on a freelance basis, as a scientific writer, for the RIKEN Public Relations Office, before organizational changes and attendant budgetary cuts altered the situation. Ms. Saeko Okada headed the program, and her testimonial can be found in my resume. My comprehensive writing experience has encompassed not only writing, editing, and rewriting scientific, technical, and academic materials, but also a wide variety of other forms of English composition. Whatever distinct domain such written materials occupied, or whatever purpose they served, the quality of all such renderings has always been greatly augmented by my deep understanding of the conventions of formal written English, and English grammar rules. As a published researcher who is very familiar with the AMA style, and who has worked closely and cooperatively with numerous colleagues on many scientific manuscripts, including as a rewriter, editor, and proofreader, I understand the vital need to craft research articles that effectively, clearly, and consistently communicate the specific scientific findings at play, all while ensuring that the particular and peculiar nuances of the research field and the central message and voice of the authors are retained. As a scientist privy to large bodies of important knowledge, I also feel very strongly that I must endeavor to engage with the wider public and community and make constant contributions to societal well-being. To this end, I have been providing voluntary scientific feedback to the Canadian Federal and British Columbia Provincial governments on changes to environmental laws and regulations, assessments of large natural resource extractive projects, etc. I have also been spending considerable time, effort, and energy, volunteering as an expert external reviewer for the UN's Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES), a sister grouping to the better known as IPCC. The IPBES prepares regular summary policy reports and assessments to advise the UN and the world's governments on the dangers we face from the loss of natural ecosystems and what we can do to minimize our collective risks. From my many years of experience teaching students, of all backgrounds, in a variety of subjects, I know firsthand just how important it is to have the requisite talent and passion for teaching. I believe that the combination of experience, skills, and energy I have always brought to my teaching activities has served me very well, and I have been deeply gratified by the overwhelmingly positive feedback I have received from my students everywhere.
Kevin
AP Calculus BC Tutor • +27 Subjects
I am a graduate from the University of Pennsylvania where I received a Bachelor of Arts in Chemistry. I started peer tutoring in high school, staying after school to help fellow students with AP Chemistry content before major exams and quizzes. I currently tutor in math (up to AP Calculus BC/Calculus II), chemistry, physics, biology and offer test prep for the SAT and several SAT Subject tests. However my favorite subjects to tutor involve chemistry, due to the various real world examples that make the subject more comprehensive and ultimately enjoyable for students. My hobbies and interests include dancing, solving crossword puzzles, binging Netflix TV shows and hiking.
Danielle
Applied Mathematics Tutor • +206 Subjects
I am an entrepreneurial travel-loving media professional living in New Orleans. I have a Master in Business Administration from Tulane University and I love teaching all sorts of subjects, especially math. In terms of hobbies, you can find me long-distance running, studying data science, exploring new restaurants and traveling the world.
Elias
Pre-Algebra Tutor • +99 Subjects
I am attending the University of Pennsylvania where I am majoring in Bioengineering on the premed track, with my goal after graduation to become an orthopedic surgeon. My passion for tutoring stems from a genuine love for helping people discover their strengths and succeed in their learning journey, much like guiding a friend through a challenging but rewarding adventure. My teaching philosophy centers on adaptability and personalized instruction, tailoring each session to meet the unique needs of my students. As a tutor, I find immense joy in helping students navigate the field of STEM, while also sharing my enthusiasm for French and Arabic languages. Beyond academia, I am an avid explorer of the world, and I relish the beauty of cultural diversity. In my free time, I enjoy immersing myself in outdoor adventures, savoring diverse cuisines, and partaking in various athletic activities.
David
AP Calculus AB Tutor • +21 Subjects
My expertise is in classroom, small group, and one-on-one instruction in physics of the first year. I have, however, taught at all levels from non-science major courses through the graduate physics curriculum. My education includes a bachelor's degree in physics from Amherst College and a doctorate from Stanford University. During my career I spent time at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, the University of California, San Diego, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the California Institute of Technology, and Brandeis University, where I worked for nearly 40 years. I am a firm believer that students learn in STEM fields only by doing, not by merely listening. Thus the core of any tutoring experience with me is working on problems. The most formative experience a student can have is to work through a problem, explaining each step to the tutor as he or she goes through it. Only by explaining the concepts and skills to someone else can one be sure of his or her own understanding. My goal in any tutoring interaction is to assist the student in gaining the necessary skills, knowledge, and confidence to attack any conceivable problem set to him or her by a classroom teacher.
Pauline
Pre-Algebra Tutor • +30 Subjects
I am a PhD student at UT Southwestern Medical Center. I have received my Master's in Biotechnology at Johns Hopkins University and my Bachelor's in Biochemistry at Southern Methodist University. I've tutored middle school, high school, and college students in math (Algebra I & II, Geometry, Calculus I-II) and science (Biology, Chemistry, Organic Chemistry). I have the most experience with and enjoy teaching Algebra I & II and Chemistry though. I grew up as a athlete myself (figure skater) and so am aware of the strenuous schedule student athletes have and work to be as flexible as I can with my own schedule so that I can accommodate these students.
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