Why Got It! Academics demands a two-pronged answer: 1) why I started it, and 2) why you should choose it.
After graduating from the globally-selective undergraduate international business program at the University of Pennsylvania’s Huntsman Program, I worked in finance for several years but came to believe that my calling is in children’s education and EQ development. Upon much consideration, I left my job in March 2012 as an analyst at a hedge fund to write my curriculum in guided communication and to teach seventh grade reading and writing at KIPP. After two years of teaching and witnessing students who were afraid to write see themselves as poets, resulting in them receiving the highest STAAR Writing scores in the KIPP Houston region, I left to work on an edtech idea that would allow students the space to give and receive feedback on their writing. I also joined Talent Unbound, a self-paced learning community, to serve as a guide and writing curriculum developer. While I work on these projects, I also want to share my experiences in applying to colleges and jobs with current students. I feel blessed to have received an excellent education at Penn and to have found opportunities to work at challenging and meaningful workplaces, and wish to empower students by helping them highlight their best to admissions committees.
I have taught SATs and TOEFL for summers in the past, one of which was at the internationally-renown Recas Academy in Seoul in the summer of 2007. The curriculum I use is a combination of the prep course I took as a student and the curriculum I devised while teaching. Unlike schools that focus only on preparing students for the SAT, I offer an integrated consultancy ranging from essay outlining and drafting to resume writing and interview coaching; some of my past students are now students at UT Austin, and others have graduated from Wharton, NYU, UCSD, Emory, Purdue, and Carnegie Mellon University. If you are a junior high school or high school student interested in going to college and affecting a change in the world, I hope to engage in a lasting mentorship with you and look forward to meeting you soon.
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