Award-Winning Graduate Test Prep Tutors serving Portland, OR

I am a classroom instructor, one-on-one tutor, and academic coach with over a decade of experience working with elementary age students (K-6), undergraduate and graduate students in the Northeast and on the West Coast and across seas. I look forward to working with you to achieve your academic, personal and professional goals.

...in various not-for-profit programs and at the University of Connecticut, including as a reading tutor for the nonprofit Connectikids, as a classroom assistant in English/Composition courses at a local high school, and as a Writing Center tutor and tutor in-residence at a local library for the entirety of my academic career. The majority of work I tutor in writing varies vastly, spanning from helping students brainstorm a short-length research paper to manuscript consultation for students...

...earned through this on-campus job to Vietnam where I helped Vietnamese students prepare to apply to boarding schools and colleges in the U.S. I served as a teaching assistant for English and test-prep classes, from intermediate and advanced writing to SAT classes, TOEFL tutoring, and college essay consultations. It was a joy to put my ESL training to use and to learn how to identify talent in a student and make sure that individuality is...

...read well, and reading well has less to do with speed than with patience and focus. Now more than ever young people need practice in slowing down and thinking critically about written texts. This discipline, essential both to democratic discourse and the negotiation of private choices in one's life, can be fostered in a language arts classroom and in private tutoring. I want to help students comprehend the musical and connotative range of literary language,...

...students. Personalized, effective, and passionate tutoring is my guarantee! I am an alumna of The Williams School in New London, CT. I attended undergrad at Middlebury College in Middlebury, VT as a Molecular Biology & Biochemistry major. I am currently completing a dual Ph.D/Pharm.D. program at the University of Connecticut. My graduate work focuses on medicinal chemistry and pharmacology. Ultimately, I try to make science approachable and achievable to motivated students! I have flexible hours,...

...and composition in Spain. Additionally, I am a Teaching Assistant for Biochemistry and Cell Biology at the University of Connecticut. At university, I also volunteer with English as a Second Language to help adults better their language skills. Prior to that, I worked with high school students on college essay writing and International Baccalaureate English and Biology exams. As such, my favorite subjects to tutor are Biology and English because I feel like I have...

...things simple, but not simpler." By Albert Einstein. My goal is to be an expert at what I do, spread knowledge, influence others with good values and compassion. As a tutor at Varsity, I am honored to use my best knowledge, use analogs to help students to learn in a simple and more memorable way, to help them pass the NAPLEX exam in the next try, and become a healthcare professional that will serve for...

...history and legacy of Christian monasticism. I taught for four years at Yale Divinity School and currently serve as a high school substitute teacher. My areas of teaching specialty include the humanities, religion, history, English, Latin, and Greek. Right now, I am seeking employment as a history teacher at the secondary level and am passionate about teaching and tutoring students. I particularly enjoy helping students with all elements of writing and research assignments.

I completed my PhD in mathematics in September 2017. I'm an expert in most of undergraduate level mathematics courses, including calculus, linear algebra, ordinary differential equations, real and complex analysis, etc. I love sharing my mathematical knowledges with other people, and encouraging young students to pursue their academic careers.