I started my test prep career in 1999 with the Princeton Review of Austin, Texas, helping students prepare for the LSAT. Soon after, I transferred to the Princeton Review in Boston, Massachusetts where I taught the LSAT, SAT, GMAT, GRE and MCAT Verbal. In that capacity, I also trained and evaluated new teachers in addition to my classroom and tutoring responsibilities. I received the highest evaluations of any teachers in the Boston area, and my students consistently saw score improvements well above the national averages.
Later that year, I traveled to South Korea and taught LSAT preparation to students eager to attend American law schools. I stayed in Korea for 6 months before returning to Boston, with valuable experience working with non-native English speaking students. In 2002, I returned to Korea for 4 months, to work with high school students on the SAT, increase their vocabulary and improve their writing skills.
The following year I joined a small, struggling international high school in Seoul to help them develop a summer SAT and college preparation program. My contributions included hiring and training teachers, developing SAT, vocabulary, literature, and writing classes, speaking with hundreds of parents about American universities and the SAT, and writing a comprehensive SAT verbal manual designed for Korean students. My experiences in Korea had made me a better teacher, strengthening my ability to effectively communicate complex information to my students.
After returning to the US, I moved back to Austin, where I worked full time for Dell as part of their technical support team. But I missed teaching tremendously, and in 2004 quit my job to return to teaching. I am currently living in Austin, helping high school and college students prepare for a variety of standardized tests, teaching a GMAT preparation course for the McCombs School of Business at the University of Texas, and providing admissions consulting and application essay editing services.