Physics with Alvaro V.

I’m an enthusiastic student of liberal arts and am comfortable tutoring any high school course in math, science, English, and the social sciences. Math and the physical sciences are areas of expertise which I also tutor at the undergraduate level, but part of what I enjoy most about tutoring is the variety of topics on which I work. I try to emphasize each topic’s relevance to a student’s life and suffuse all my teaching with the joy I get from learning. I have been tutoring the SAT and ACT since my own senior year of high school, and have refined my techniques for identifying and helping rectify weaknesses. I have tutored for ten different AP exams; the majority of my clients have scored 5, and none have scored below 4. I also tutor the GRE for students pursuing graduate admissions. I try to make standardized tests as painless and low stress as possible while assisting the student to reach their target score. I have advised about two dozen students over the past three admissions cycles on undergraduate applications and graduate admissions. My mentees have enjoyed success, having earned admission to universities such as Columbia, UC Berkeley, UPenn, Cornell, NYU, and Duke. Keeping a small stable of advisees also allows me to give each student the attention needed to best tell their story. I have worked with a handful of international applicants to US undergraduate and graduate programs and am happy to help more international students navigate the US admissions system.