Mark Greenstein – Education Resume Expertise: SAT Prep – Since 1987 LSAT Prep – Since 1988 SSAT and ISEE Prep – Since 2004 GRE and GMAT Prep 1988 – 1995 Experience: Founder and Lead Instructor, Ivy Bound SAT Prep Founder and Curriculum Overseer, Rising Stars Academic Tutoring Franchise Director (metro New York), College Nannies & Tutors Inc. Founder and Human Resources Director, New York Nannies Taught for Kaplan, TestMasters, privately, and for the West Hartford (CT) public schools prior to founding Ivy Bound / Rising Stars. Education: The Loomis Chaffee School, 1982 Dartmouth College, B.A. 1986 Univ. of California Berkeley (Boalt Hall) Law School, J.D. 1992 Mr. Greenstein has taught test prep since 1987 and has been a speaker on college admissions, vouchers, choice in schools, and education reform. He is author of the upcoming 101 Stupid Things Schools Do To Your Kids and co-author of the Rising Stars’ Heart of Darkness, an annotated version of Conrad’s novel, designed for SAT Prep. His work in SAT Prep has helped over 3000 students raise their scores, enhancing their college admissions and scholarships. He is especially passionate about discussing testing and admissions issues, like: * Is the SAT fair, is it coachable, is it culturally biased? * Don't grades count anymore? * Where does the SAT fit into the college admissions scheme? * What else are colleges looking for? * What should students be looking for in a college? * Are Elite colleges really worthwhile? * How can parents help prepare their kids for college? Ivy Bound holds SAT Prep classes throughout the Northeast. Ivy Bound instructors are primarily college and grad students who have all scored among the top 2% on the SAT and have a zeal for teaching. Ivy Bound is often invited to hold classes in schools that have been underserved by some of the larger test prep organizations.

Patricia Clark Metzner 35+ years academic and professional experience. Magna Cum Laude -- University of Connecticut, Storrs CT Master of Education -- Trinity College, Hartford CT J.D. University of Connecticut School of Law, Hartford CT. Instructor -- Ivy Bound / Rising Stars SAT Prep, U.S. History, European History, Reading, Essay Writing Adjunct Professor -- (U.S. History) Post College, West Hartford Adjunct Professor - (Constitutional Law) University of Connecticut, West Hartford Adjunct Professor -- (Business Law) St. Joseph College, West Hartford Developer, Women and the Law course at University of Connecticut. Developer, Gifted & Talented Program, East Granby High School Attorney -- Aetna Insurance Attorney -- The Hartford Attorney -- MetLife 10 years classroom experience -- East Granby High School, English and Social Studies.

My name is Aryeh, and I'm a tutor with Ivy Bound and a student at Dartmouth College. During high school, I scored a 2370 on the SAT I as well as 800, 790, and 770 on three SAT Subject Tests. Based on my 4s and 5s on twelve AP exams, I also earned National AP Scholar designation. I have experience working with students of all ability levels, and my approach combines patience with enthusiasm to build both understanding and confidence. I look forward to helping more students achieve success.

I currently live in New York, and am working as a tutor while also pursuing a career as a composer, musician, and actor. I am just starting out in the tutoring business, but I have a good deal of teaching experience, especially as a participant in the Yale Summer Session in Swaziland (teaching kids about HIV/AIDS treatment and prevention through theater and lecture) and as musical director of my singing group in college. I have high scores on SAT I, SAT IIs, and APs, and I am a National Merit Scholar and an AP Scholar With Distinction.

Hi! I recently graduated from MIT (in 2007) with a B.S. in political science. I am also interested in a wide range of other topics, such as math, philosophy, computers, and music. I love teaching, and have been doing so for many years. At MIT, I was a philosophy teaching assistant for three semesters. Also, through an experimental program, I was allowed to develop and teach several of my own for-credit courses for other MIT students. You can view one of them, a Current Events seminar, online at: http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Special-Programs/SP-246Fall-2004/CourseHome/. I also volunteered as a teacher through a program designed to encourage local middle school girls to study math and science. When I was in high school myself, I spent over 200 hours as a volunteer tutor through the National Honors Society. I helped other high schoolers in subjects ranging from calculus to writing to SAT prep. I also taught piano lessons to about five young children (ages 4 through 12) throughout high school. My last summer before college, I taught music full-time to elementary students at a summer camp in Florida. Now that I have graduated from college, it is more important to me than ever to remain connected to young people through teaching. I look forward to (virtually) meeting you soon!

Lucas Baradello is a native of Marin County, California and the son of Argentinean immigrants to the United States. He is an undergraduate student at Princeton University, concentrating at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs and earning certificates in East Asian and Near Eastern Studies. As a student in high school, Lucas participated in Proyecto Plata, a program designed by Motorola and the Global Discovery Education Fund to provide information and communication technologies (ICTs) to underprivileged communities in Latin America. In 2003, Lucas was a liaison for Motorola at the Nuestra Señora de la Misericordia Hogar de Niñas (orphanage for girls) in Ancón, Perú. In 2004, Lucas, his brother, Federico, and Shawn Kothari, a friend at Princeton, founded Juvenis, a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization in California that serves underprivileged youth in the United States. Today, Juvenis is developing a web portal that seeks to be a premier source of high-value academic and professional resources to youth in the US. More recently, Lucas has interned for the International Air Transport Association (IATA) in Geneva, Switzerland and Global Action Foundation (GAF) in Freetown, Sierra Leone. Lucas speaks native Spanish, proficient Chinese, and possesses a working knowledge of French and Modern Standard Arabic. He is a National Merit Scholar Finalist, a Presidential Freedom Scholar, and a National Coca-Cola Scholar.