About this Service

I offer both remote and in-person tutoring for the SAT, ACT, LSAT, GMAT, and GRE, as well as help with applications and personal essays.

As a tutor, while I've worked with students of all abilities and
backgrounds, I have two specific areas of strength:
- First, focusing on working with students to figure out both what style of instruction helps them learn best and adapting my methods to that (I'm a firm believer that most people aren't "bad at math" they're just not attuned to how it's normally taught and so they've learned to check out) and what their internal incentives are to remain engaged (not always easy with standardized tests!).
- Second, working with already high achieving students to teach them how studying for a standardized test is different than the way they're used to studying, and helping them get inside the head of the test writers so they can achieve high levels of mastery of the content (and commensurate scores).

About this Lister

I've been teaching and tutoring since 2002, originally for Kaplan, where I taught SAT, ACT, LSAT, GMAT, and GRE. While I was at Kaplan, I was rated their top teacher in New York City and number 6 in the country for GMAT, specifically, and was near the top for all the other tests. In fact, for a while, if people signed up for a Kaplan course, I was one of two teachers whose video lessons were included with the course in case a student missed
a class session. I was also on their content development team, where I literally "wrote the book," contributing multiple chapters to their coursebooks as well as creating other commercial test prep products for them. One can never guarantee results, but I've regularly had students make gains of 20-30 percentile points from their initial scores (with some going even higher!) and my students have gone on to just about every top school
in the country, including every Ivy. I also worked for a couple of years as an admissions consultant, helping students weave a unified, compelling story from disparate life events and advising on the best ways to address and overcome deficiencies in their applications.

Background and Expertise

There's a lot of overlap between this and the previous sections, but other things that might be helpful to know include that I went to a private high school in the NYC area and have my own executive dysfunction issues I've worked to deal with, so I understand where a lot of high-achieving students who put undue pressure on themselves but still get stuck are coming from; I scored a 1550 on my own SATs a million years ago, along with a 780 on the GMAT and a 177 on the LSAT (I never took an official GRE); I did graduate school at NYU, where I was in a dual-degree program concurrently earning my MBA from Stern and my MFA in film production from Tisch; and the short answer to the question "if he's so great, why does he need recommendations?" is that after grad school I focused on my producing work, making movies and other filmed content, and really only tutored when someone came to me (usually based on a former student's recommendation), then during the pandemic when the film industry cratered, I took a consulting job, but I've left that to work on a startup as well as some artistic projects, so I'm looking to rebuild a student roster.

While this all doesn't necessarily paint a picture of someone who ascribes to the mission behind Listings Project, be assured that I very much do, and see this as a way to help share my skills with the broader community. Once someone is my student, I get very invested in their success (one reason I've never taken too many at a time), and I still keep in touch with many former students, in some cases over a decade later.