I am a graduate of Yale University, where I earned my bachelor's degree in Psychology. I have extensive experience mentoring students through the college application process and in test prep, including the SAT and AP exams. I scored a 1560 on the SAT with a perfect math score, completed twenty AP courses, and earned a 5 on nearly all of them. On the GRE I scored above the 90th percentile in verbal reasoning and in the 98th percentile in analytical writing.
College application essays are my...
I am a graduate of Yale University, where I earned my bachelor's degree in Psychology. I have extensive experience mentoring students through the college application process and in test prep, including the SAT and AP exams. I scored a 1560 on the SAT with a perfect math score, completed twenty AP courses, and earned a 5 on nearly all of them. On the GRE I scored above the 90th percentile in verbal reasoning and in the 98th percentile in analytical writing.
College application essays are my strongest area. My own essays earned me admission to Princeton, Columbia, Yale, Dartmouth, and Cornell, and for the past five years I have used that experience to mentor high school students through the admissions process, working primarily with first-generation and low-income students. I met with them one on one across full application cycles, covering test preparation, course selection, and essay drafting. Students I have worked with went on to attend Johns Hopkins and Amherst, among other elite universities.
Currently I am a clinical psychology PhD student at Florida State University, where I work as a teaching assistant, leading lab sections of twenty-five undergraduates in study design, statistics, and APA-style writing.
My AP coursework covers nearly every subject a high school student is likely to take, including Calculus AB and BC, Statistics, Computer Science Principles, Biology, Chemistry, Environmental Science, Psychology, Microeconomics, Macroeconomics, World History, US History, European History, US Government, and both English Language and English Literature.
My approach starts with identifying what a student actually misunderstands rather than what they got wrong. On the SAT that means reviewing missed questions together and having the student explain their reasoning aloud, since most gains come from correcting a repeated habit. With essays I work through drafts alongside students rather than rewriting for them, so the voice stays their own — which is exactly what admissions readers respond to.
