Melissa
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I am a PhD Candidate in History at the University of California, Berkeley but am currently living in New York while finishing my dissertation on the British Empire in India in the late 18th Century. I am originally from New York City and attended a very academically oriented private school, so I have first-hand experience with the stresses and concerns many students face, regardless of the school they attend. I benefited from private tuition myself and would like to consider my story a successful one, therefore I hope to carry on the benefits of tutoring to my own students.
I have 7 years experience private tutoring a diverse range of subjects in New York and London, and 6 years experience as a teaching assistant of History and Italian at the University level. I've worked with a range of students from high-achieving undergraduates to students at pressure-cooker college preparatory schools to children with high-functioning Autism. My specialty subjects are History, English, Latin, essay-writing, exam preparation, and I have extensive experience preparing students for exam prep (PSAT, SAT, ACT, GRE to name a few) and university applications in the USA and the UK. I chose to go to graduate school and continue working in the field of education because I am passionate about both learning and teaching whether this takes place at home, in a classroom, or at an international conference.
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Undergraduate Degree:Vassar College- Bachelor in Arts, History, Italian, Latin
Graduate Degree:University of California-Berkeley- PHD, History
- SAT Verbal: 770
- SAT Writing: 740
I love to cook, but hate bakingI just started knittingBollywood DanceI played Jazz Trombone for 10 yearsI love to travel
- Advanced Placement Prep
- AP Comparative Government and Politics
- AP U.S. Government & Politics
- AP United States History
- AP US History
- College English
- College Essays
- College Level American History
- Comparative Literature
- Conversational Italian
- English
- English Grammar and Syntax
- Essay Editing
- European History
- Graduate Test Prep
- GRE Analytical Writing
- GRE Verbal
- High School English
- High School Level American History
- History
- HSPT Prep
- HSPT Language Skills
- HSPT Reading
- HSPT Verbal
- ISEE Prep
- ISEE- Lower Level
- ISEE- Middle Level
- ISEE- Upper Level
- Italian
- Languages
- Latin
- Latin 3
- Literature
- Other
- PSAT Critical Reading
- Reading
- SAT Reading
- SAT Subject Test in Latin
- SAT Subject Test in United States History
- SAT Subject Tests Prep
- SAT Writing and Language
- SHSAT Prep
- Social Studies
- SSAT Prep
- SSAT- Elementary Level
- SSAT- Middle Level
- SSAT- Upper Level
- Study Skills
- Study Skills and Organization
- Summer
- Writing