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Dylan

Current Undergrad Student, Mathematics
Cornell University, Cornell University

About Me

I am currently enrolled at Cornell University where I will be a sophomore in the fall. I am pursuing a double major in Mathematics and Economics, which I hope to use to go into finance. I have been working as a tutor since the 10th grade and have since taught a wide array of subjects ranging from middle school English to Mathematics to AP Physics. I have always enjoyed working with students and there are few experiences more rewarding than getting a child over his or her fear of a subject that they find difficult. It was not easy, but I have even managed to convince people that math is not some bizarre form of torture. It can even be fun. I promise! As a tutor my primary goal is not to teach towards specific problems. Rather, it is to establish strong foundations and to teach methods to figure out how to apply those fundamentals to any problem the student might encounter. I try to really drive home, on a conceptual level, why things are done the way that they are. Over the course of my tutoring career I have found this approach to be far more effective in the long run. If you give a students a robust base of knowledge and the tools to build off of it, you empower them to learn new topics by themselves, tackle test questions that they haven't seen before, and leave them with broadly applicable skills that will help them long after their class is finished. I am involved in multiple finance clubs at Cornell and I usually spend my free time there practicing my moves with the Thai Boxing Club and going to see movies with friends. At home, if I'm not working, odds are that I'm cooking, playing chess, or spending a day at the beach.

Education & Certifications

Cornell University
Current Undergrad Student, Mathematics
Cornell University
Current Undergrad Student, Economics

Test Scores

Perfect Score
SAT
Composite
1550
Math
790
Verbal
750
Writing
750
ACT
Composite
35
Math
35
English
34
Reading
36
Science
35

Q&A with Dylan

The core of my teaching philosophy is that you can't teach people things that they have no desire to learn. Therefore, the key to teaching is always to spark a student's interest in the subject that you're working on.

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