EXCELLENT RESULTS

Top School Placement & Performance

HIGH SCHOOL COURSES

  • All long-term 8th graders in 2026 are headed to their top-choice high schools: Branson, Nueva, and Andover. They placed into 2nd or 3rd year honors math!

  • All students who began once/weekly school-year coaching by 6th grade thrived in honors Calculus by 10th grade!

  • A short-term 8th grade student successfully passed out of Algebra 1 at Branson.

  • All 8th graders in 2024 placed into honors math courses at their top choice high school and earned A’s!

    • Honors Algebra 2 at Branson (Ross, CA) x2

    • Honors Geometry at Marin Academy (San Rafael, CA)

  • Current 10th grade students:

    • 2 passed AP Calculus BC at top independent school (and were the only 10th graders in their classes)

    • 2 are earning A’s in Algebra 2 Honors at Marin Academy

  • All long-term students lately, including those mentioned above, have been girls!

HIGH SCHOOLS

All my three 8th graders in 2026 are headed to their top choice (amazing) schools!:

  • Andover (Andover, MA)

  • Nueva (San Mateo, CA)

  • Branson (Ross, CA)

Students I coached in middle school thrive at these high schools:

  • Andover (Andover, MA)

  • Branson (Ross, CA)

  • Cate School (Carpinteria, CA)

  • College Preparatory School (Oakland, CA)

  • Convent High School (SF, CA)

  • Drew School (SF, CA)

  • Marin Academy (San Rafael, CA)

  • Saint Ignatius College Preparatory (SF, CA)

  • San Domenico (San Anselmo, CA)

  • University High School (SF, CA)

  • Urban School (SF, CA)

COLLEGES

Students I coached in middle and/or high school excel at these colleges:

  • Yale University

  • University of Pennsylvania

  • Boston University

  • Santa Clara University

  • UCLA

  • UC Berkeley

Math Olympiad Success

Students who take the Elementary and Middle School Math Olympiad are regularly recognized for high scores among all participants.

A recent 6th grader scored top of her class/school with high ranking nationally.

Meaningful SSAT Improvement

7th/8th grade female students increased their SSAT scores by an average of 40 percentile points in one season.

Students who had begun coaching at the start of 7th grade earned an average of 92 percentile points. Many earn near-perfect scores.

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Improved Wellbeing

  • Students often go from “completely confused” to “confident” after a single coaching session.

  • After one semester, their teachers report greater resilience with challenge and productive class participation.

  • Less time working on homework or feeling stressed out grants more time for other activities.

  • Reduced stress levels result in greater calm for the entire family.