Our Tutors
We handpick the top 3% of tutors at top 10 universities, selecting only those who are particularly gifted at teaching. As of April 2020, 140 prospective tutors from top 10 universities have applied to teach at Transform, with only 5 selected.
Your Student’s Tutor….
Has at least 5-8 years of experience teaching. Most tutors have taught for 300+ cumulative hours.
Is an alumni, student, or PhD from Stanford, Yale, Harvard, MIT, Hopkins, or another top 10 university. In the Bay Area, higher education is difficult. Classes move quickly, cover advanced subjects, and often leave students behind. We’ve found that mentorship from a tutor with a history of academic excellence helps inspire students. Our tutors are also able to provide college guidance alongside academic teaching.
Can teach your student for multiple years, if it’s a good fit. We've found students strongly prefer continuity in their tutors, particularly with tutors they absolutely love. For this reason, we’d aim for a perfect, long-term match, rather than a continual cycle of changing tutors.
Will address fundamental study skill problems they notice in your student, and work on improving them. Quite frequently we notice our kids have study habits which, if improved, can save them hours of energy and time in high school and college. Although it may seem bad for business, our goal as tutors is to eliminate our students’ need for us. We want them to eventually independently reach their academic goals; we achieve this by teaching them study habit & time management skills alongside academic content.
The Transform Team
Alex | UPenn
Sarah | Stanford
Josh | Princeton
Ilana | Brown
Candace | Stanford
Alex | UC Berkeley
Cam | Stanford University
Ayush | Stanford
Sierra | Stanford
Brianna | Stanford
Fosse | Loyola Marymount
Declan | UC Davis
Divyan | Stony Brook
Janavi | Brown
Mariya | UChicago
Maya | UMich
Megan | Stanford
Rachelle | Brown
Teo | UC Berkeley
Trisha | Stanford
Sample Writing Tutor
Sarah is an undergraduate junior studying English and International & Public Affairs.
She is experienced with essay-writing strategies and techniques for writing-intensive literature and social science college courses.
She has 3 years of experience tutoring high school and middle school students in essay writing and reading comprehension across academic disciplines, ranging from English and history to science research papers. Her one-on-one sessions with students emphasize clear essay structure and organization in order to provide a writing foundation that fosters logical, well-supported papers.
Sarah worked at his school’s writing center for two years, taking weekly classes in tutoring strategy while workshopping students’ college essays, creative and academic writing as well as tutoring students on SAT/ACT grammar, writing and reading sections
At her university, she spent three years working as a professor-nominated Writing Partner at her university’s Writing Center, where she helped students one-on-one with essays at all stages of the writing process. She served as a senior editor at The New Journal.
In these capacities, has provided rigorous feedback on scholarly articles written by both undergraduate students and renowned subject matter experts, communicating with authors throughout the editing process
Sarah has also worked with students independently as a writing and college guidance tutor. Students she has advised have gone on to receive recognition from the National YoungArts Foundation and other writing competitions, and have been admitted to Yale, the University of Pennsylvania, Bowdoin College, and other top schools.
She took AP English Language and AP English Literature in high school, receiving A/A+s in both classes and 5s on both AP tests. Received perfect scores (36) for the English and Reading components of the ACT, and also earned 5s in AP English Language and Composition, AP United States History, and AP European History
Sarah has had a lifelong passion and appreciation for writing. She believes that every student can build strong writing skills that will help them not only in their immediate academic career, but in the long term as well.
Sample Math Tutor
Mike is currently a math major at Stanford, studying analysis, differential equations, and game theory, among other topics
He has experience teaching every course in the standard math curriculum from algebra to calculus BC plus statistics and linear algebra
Mike learned math in an exploratory manner, discovering principles by playing with examples rather than memorizing rules. Internalizing that method, he focuses on guiding students to recognize patterns and develop mathematical skills with their own insight
He was involved in math circles and competition math in middle school, but statistics and finding the applications of math in natural sciences became his true focus. He always grounds his teaching of mathematical principles in terms of their applications in the real world
Solving puzzles from a mathematical perspective has allowed Mike to make meaningful contributions in research settings in synthetic biology and materials science despite having less specific domain knowledge
Mike enjoys helping students recognize the patterns in mathematical structures for themselves, and that thrill of discovery is what makes him passionate about math
He has aced every SAT and AP test on math and is familiar with the style of question and can teach the proper way of tackling the problems they contain