Meet Your Tutors

Eric has been teaching the SAT and ACT and providing college counseling since 1998. He has degrees in Communications and Music and is a financial aid expert. He contributed to the bestsellers Cracking the SAT, Crash Course for the SAT, and 11 Practice Tests for the SAT & PSAT. He once broke a toe playing laser-tag: when they say, “no running,” they mean it.

Laura has been teaching on the college and high school levels since 2003. She has a degree in Journalism, and helmed The Princeton Review’s Best 377 Colleges, Best Value Colleges, Best Professors, and The Portable Guidance Counselor. Laura hails from Alabama, but if you ask her where she lost her Southern accent, she’ll tell you: college.

Lauren has been teaching the SAT and ACT since 2017, and tutoring calculus, physics, and chemistry since 2012. She holds a degree in mathematics and expresses her love of learning in every subject she tutors. She also loves the intricate storytelling of Shakespeare and does advanced calculus at home for fun.

Sam has been teaching since 2004. He earned his Master's in Education from Rutgers and holds NJ Teaching Certificates in several disciplines including Special Education. He has experience differentiating instruction and designing classes to focus on each student’s ability. Sam believes in using diagrams, carefully showing work, and the healing power of tacos.

After graduating from MCVSD’s High Technology High School, Adam earned a Bachelor’s degree in English at Franklin & Marshall. He has written for medical magazines and regularly edits MIT aeronautics and astronautics research. Adam taught himself to play drums with couch cushions and a chest he found in the basement; the chest didn’t last long.

Melinda is a NJ certified teacher and MCVSD AAHS grad with a BA in Literature and MA in Secondary English Ed, but she's having the most fun when teaching math. Since 2011, she's taught the SAT, ACT, GRE, GMAT, and LSAT and even written an SAT textbook. If you invite her to a Star Trek or Doctor Who trivia night, she will come, and she will win.

Diane has an MS in School Counseling from Fordham School of Education and spent 24 years in school counseling, first at Monroe Twp High School and later as director of school counseling at FRHSD's Colts Neck High School. She has committed her career to helping students achieve their college goals. She can also name that tune in 5 notes; try her.

Mahmoud graduated from MCVSD's Biotechnology High School and The Cooper Union, with a degree in civil engineering. He tutors math from Algebra to AP Calc BC and all biology and physics courses, as well as U.S. and world history and English. He's been to almost every state in America and found something fun to do in each one.

Marc is a NJ certified math teacher with decades of experience teaching and tutoring math, from Algebra to AP Calculus. He holds a BS in Applied Mathematics and a master’s in Educational Leadership. Marc believes his students can achieve anything when they put in the effort. In his free time he enjoys building and painting tabletop wargaming models.

With Solution Prep since 2020, Kiri earned her master's degree from Rutgers Graduate School of Education and is a NJ certified teacher. By day she teaches Chemistry, Physics, Astronomy, and Meteorology, and by night (and weekends and school breaks) she teaches Math and English for the SAT. She's a great cook and a bad dancer, but loves doing both together.

With a bachelor's in English and a Master's in teaching, Danielle holds NJ Teaching Certificates for English and also Students with Disabilities. She's an avid reader who loves a good story and even advises her school's literary art magazine. Her quarantine hobby was learning to sing songs in both Spanish and French and teaching herself to play guitar (poorly).