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Alex Yum

Alex graduated from Wissahickon High School in Ambler, PA as the valedictorian of his class and is currently a junior at the University of Pennsylvania. He took the SAT once, scoring a 1580 (800 Math, 780 Reading) and is also a National Merit Finalist having scored a 1490 out of 1520 on the PSAT. In high school, Alex took 13 AP classes. He boasted a 3.96 unweighted and 5.94 weighted GPA after his four years.

Alex loves the SAT and standardized tests. He believes that anyone can do well on these exams, but not everyone recognizes the patterns that make the test so much easier. His goal as a tutor is to make the SAT less stressful by guiding his students to find these patterns, and he hopes that his students will be able to enjoy standardized tests as much as he does.

Alex is available for tutoring the SAT examination, ACT examination, AP exams [Calculus AB, Calculus BC, English Language and Composition, English Literature, U.S. History, Physics 1], and any honors or academic level class (feel free to inquire).

Academic Career:

Alex is a part of the class of 2025 at the University of Pennsylvania, a top-10 Ivy-League school in the United States. On both the pre-medicine and pre-law track, he is pursuing a major in Health Policy and Law as well as a second major in Communication with a concentration in Politics and Policy.

As surprising as it may sound, Alex has a life outside of school. In high school he was extremely involved in several school clubs: Science Club (president), Brain Psychology Club (founder), National Honor Society (webmaster), Spanish National Honor Society (president), Jazz Band (section leader), and varsity tennis (captain). In college, he’s a beatboxer in his a cappella group, a member of a pre-law fraternity, and an editor for several student-run academic journals across different subjects and disciplines (medicine, law, culinary, bioethics). Perhaps his most important attribute, he enjoys mint chocolate chip ice cream, which means that he’s more biologically evolved than his peers.

Whatever you do always give 100% unless you’re donating blood

Tutoring Experience and Philosophy:

Alex is an experienced tutor.

From the age of 14, he worked as an instructor at Kumon Math and Reading Center, teaching math and reading concepts and strategies to students in K-12. He also has experience tutoring privately in all subjects. One of his students went from being a C-student to a straight-A student after receiving intensive tutoring. Fluent in Korean, Alex has also taught students the Korean language and culture since 9th grade. He’s currently employed at the University of Pennsylvania’s Weingarten Tutoring Center where he works as a physics tutor for both undergraduate and graduate students taking physics.

With his vast tutoring experience, Alex is very comfortable with all students.

He also believes that the best tutors aren’t the ones who throw information at their students; instead, he knows that tutoring must be student-centered. The students must decide what they are capable of achieving, set their own goals, and determine how much they gain from class. In reality, the students are doing all of the work, and the tutor is simply the guide for this work.

Academic and Testing Career:

13 AP classes taken: Statistics, Calculus AB, Calculus BC, English Language, English Literature, Biology, Physics 1, Physics 2, Environmental Science, Psychology, Spanish, Microeconomics/Macroeconomics, and U.S. History

Class Rank: 1/360

3.96 unweighted and 5.94 weighted GPA

SAT (August 2019): 1580/1600 (800M, 780RW)

Math II Subject Test (June 2019): 800/800

PSAT (October 2019): 1490/1520