Achieve Tutorials is a small group of select tutors who have an average of more than 10 years of teaching experience each. Before moving on to Achieve Tutorials, many of us taught in the classroom, tutored independently, and designed courses and wrote materials for national companies such as The Princeton Review™. With undergraduate degrees from schools such as Princeton, Yale, Duke, and UC Berkeley, as well as a myriad of graduate degrees, we have a history of academic success that we can pass along to our students.

We consider ourselves to be more than tutors. We are Academic Mentors who help our students improve not only their grades, but also their overall study skills. We know how to help kids become better students so that they work more efficiently and more effectively. They'll take these lessons into the classroom now and into the lecture hall in college.

We offer two different levels of Academic Mentor:

Elite Academic Mentors are the best, most experienced tutors available. With their wealth of experience, these Academic Mentors can handle just about anything thrown at them in their area of expertise, and most can help with virtually any school subject.

Master Academic Mentors have at least five years of teaching experience in their subject area of expertise, and are exceptional tutors in the subjects they cover. Each of these highly experienced educators would be the highest level tutor at any other tutoring services company.

Elite Academic Mentors:

Pete Edwards	Adam Rodgers	Jay Mitsch

Master Academic Mentors:

Raf Green	Florina Rodov	Albert Lee	Audra Crane	Amy Lucas	Rob Watt	Sandra Williams	Christina Segeler	Karla Perez

Pete Edwards, Founder of Achieve Tutorials

Pete's passion for teaching led him to found Achieve Tutorials in 1997. Pete has more than 20 years of tutoring experience and has worked with thousands of students. Pete is the author of Maximum SAT. He holds his undergraduate degree from Princeton University and a Masters of Professional Writing from USC.

Pete is available for: path to college mentoring, SAT, ACT, SAT II Math, SAT II Literature, GRE, LSAT, GMAT, ISEE, HSPT, SSAT, US and World History, Math through AP Calculus BC, Physics through AP Physics C, Chemistry, Biology, Earth Science, Geology, Grammar, Civics, Social Studies, Spanish 1 and 2, French 1 and 2, and, of course, surfing.

Adam Rodgers, Elite Academic Mentor

Adam has been teaching and tutoring high school students for more than 15 years, covering a broad range of academic subjects and standardized tests. He also manages our college application essay coaching service, which allows Adam to apply his unique, personalized, story-telling approach to the challenges students face when completing their college application essays. ?In 1996, he co-founded MBA Applicant, which has grown to be one of the nation's leading web-based Business School application consulting services. As Senior Editor, Adam has helped hundreds of Business School applicants with the development of their essays and applications for Harvard, Wharton, Stanford, Kellogg, and dozens of other top MBA programs. Adam earned his undergraduate degree from Duke University and holds an MFA in writing from New York University.

Adam is available for: college application essay coaching, path to college mentoring, SAT, ACT, SAT II Math, SAT II Literature, GRE, LSAT, GMAT, ISEE, HSPT, SSAT, US and World History, Math through Algebra II.

Jay Mitsch, Elite Academic Mentor

Jay has nearly 10 years of experience as an educator, including classroom experience as a high school mathematics and science teacher. Although he specializes in high school subjects, especially math, he also works with younger children. He has experience with elementary, middle and secondary school children with learning and development issues. He attended Muhlenberg College in Allentown, PA where he received his BS in Mathematics and was also in a Dual Elementary and Secondary Certification Program with a specialty in Math and Science.

Jay is available for: Math through AP Calculus, Statistics, Physics, Chemistry, SAT II Math

Raf Green, Master Academic Mentor

Raf has more the fifteen years experience as a teacher and tutor. He began as an SAT instructor in Chicago and soon moved on to work with students on nearly all of the college and grad school admissions tests. He is also a television writer and screenwriter. He has enjoyed transmitting his experiences as a writer into a wide variety of writing classes. He has worked with students on many different kinds of writing, including: college and grad school essays, history and English papers, poetry, story writing and screenplays. He loves working with all kinds of students from first graders to senior citizens. Raf holds a BA from Brown University. In his free time he can be found on his surfboard somewhere off the coast of Malibu.

Raf is available for: AP English, AP Literature, AP US History, SAT, SAT II Literature, GRE, GMAT, LSAT, Math through Geometry, Earth Science, Social Studies

Florina Rodov, Master Academic Mentor

As a New York City Teaching Fellow, Florina taught high school for four years in Washington Heights, where her students scored off the charts on the high-stakes English Regents Exam, an almost all-essay test.  Her expertise is in working with teenagers on writing in all genres and styles.  She taught a much-lauded memoir class which led to the realization that memoir writing was, in essence, college application essay writing.  Thus was born her unique approach to the admissions essay, which elicits students’ most personal and thematic writing.  Florina has tutored application writing extensively.   Her students have been accepted to Columbia, Cornell, Skidmore and Colgate.  She holds a BA in English from Columbia University and an MA in Teaching Adolescents from Fordham.

Florina is available for: English, all levels of Writing, and college application essay coaching.

Albert Lee, Master Academic Mentor

Albert graduated UC Berkeley with a BA degree in molecular and cell biology with a neurobiology emphasis. He has been a private tutor for over seven years and has helped hundreds of students improve their scores in the math and sciences.  Students tend to gravitate toward his teaching style because he has the ability to simplify difficult concepts. Students who work well with him and improve their scores are generally extremely motivated and intellectually curious.

Albert is available for: SAT, ACT, all SAT II Math and Sciences, all Math through AP Calculus, AP Biology, AP Physics, AP Statistics, and Organic Chemistry.

Audra Crane, Master Academic Mentor

Audra has nearly 20 years experience as an educator. She started out as a classroom English and ESL teacher, and has dedicated herself to tutoring for the last eight years. In her tutorials, Audra shares her enthusiasm for learning while focusing on the student's goals. She completed her undergraduate work at the University of California, Santa Cruz, where she was awarded a Bachelor degrees in Comparative Literature and US History. She maintains her California single subject (7-12) teaching credentials in English and Social Sciences as well her multiple subject (K-6) teaching credential. An avid world traveler, she has taken opportunities to observe foreign classrooms, guest teach and give one-on-one tutorial aid to students from such diverse nations as Australia, China, Indonesia and Burma among others. She has also published several nonfiction travel tales.

Audra is available for: SAT, ACT, SAT II History, SAT II Literature, ISEE, HSPT, SSAT, AP US History, AP World History, AP English, Social Studies (Government and Economics), grammar, college application essay coaching

Amy Lucas, Master Academic Mentor

Amy has been tutoring and teaching children for nearly twelve years in a variety of academic disciplines, particularly standardized test preparation.  After graduating top of her class at UCLA with a BA in Theatre, she put her flair for the dramatic to good use by applying it to the field of education.  Amy has extensive experience teaching students with learning challenges and enjoys helping students improve their grammar, organization, and writing style, and educating students in proper writing techniques, organizational formats, and more appropriate sentence structures.

Amy is available for: SAT, ACT, SAT II Literature, ISEE, HSPT, GMAT, GRE, AP English Language, AP English Composition, Math through Algebra 1, all English and Literature courses, Writing, and all K-8 Subjects.

Rob Watt, Master Academic Mentor

Rob began his tutoring career early - in high school and college - and has continued his love for tutoring since graduating from Loyola Marymount University's Premed program with an additional degree in Theatre Arts. Coming from a long line of doctors, he is currently preparing for the MCATs before attending Medical School. Rob has experience working with home-schooled students, covering their entire curriculum, and has traveled with his students for extended periods of time. He has also worked with young adults through various outreach programs, including YMCA, Bread and Roses, and Special Games. Aside from teaching, his passions include playing guitar, painting, surfing, horseback riding and filmmaking.

Rob is available for: AP Biology, AP Chemistry, Math through Calculus, Physics

Sandra Williams, Master Academic Mentor

Sandra, a native to Los Angeles, is an avid and eager student of many disciplines including math, science and, her great passion, languages. She completed two semesters at L'Univerisité Rennes II, including the F.L.E. curriculum (Français comme Langue Étrangère) on how to teach French as a foreign language.  Exposed to the Spanish language at a very young age, she continued to study Spanish and French at Occidental College.  In 2004, she was awarded her Bachelor's degree in Liberal Arts with an emphasis in French Literature.  She currently works as a tutor for students of all ages while she pursues her studies of the Korean language, and trains for long distance cycling tours.

Sandra is available for: AP French, Spanish, Math through Geometry, Biology

Christina Segeler, Master Academic Mentor

Christina has been tutoring for over 7 years. She began tutoring junior high and high school students when she was attending college at Pepperdine University. She has worked closely with students of all levels, including those with special needs and disabilities.  She has also coached students through their college application process. Her love for learning and working with students is inspiring. Outside of tutoring, her passions include traveling, photography, art, skiing, and anything outdoors.

Christina is available for: Math through Algebra, Earth Science, Social Studies, English, French 1 and 2, grammar, and college application essay coaching.

Karla C. Pérez, Master Academic Tutor

Karla has been teaching and tutoring for nearly ten years. She has experience teaching K-12, high school and university students. She enjoys teaching Spanish, her native language, and French, perfected during her studies in Paris. In her experience as an AP Spanish teacher she developed many effective strategies to teaching language and maximizing students’ performance on the AP Spanish Language and Literature Exam and the SAT Spanish Subject Exam. She is currently working on her PhD in Education.  In her free time she enjoys, traveling, running, swimming and simply hanging out with family and friends.  

Karla is available for: Spanish I-IV, AP Spanish Language, AP Spanish Literature, SAT Spanish Subject Exam,  French I and II.