Tutor name
Took AP Chemistry and AP Calculus BC with the same teachers your student probably has. Patient with kids who freeze up on timed tests.
ChemistryCalculusAlgebra 2
One-on-one tutoring for middle and high school students in the San Gabriel Valley, from UCLA undergraduates who sat the same courses and remember exactly which part is hard.
How it works
You talk to me directly. I match your student myself, because I know all of our tutors personally.
Which class, which teacher, and what's actually happening — a bad test, a subject that never clicked, or getting ahead before an AP exam. Five minutes on the phone.
Someone who took that course, ideally at that school, and did well in it. If the fit isn't right after the first session, I'll match you with someone else and you won't be charged for it.
Usually an hour or two a week, same time each week, in person or over video. You get a short note after each session about what they worked on.
The tutors
There is no roster you get rotated through. Your student works with the same person every week, and I can tell you their name, their major, and where they went to high school.
Took AP Chemistry and AP Calculus BC with the same teachers your student probably has. Patient with kids who freeze up on timed tests.
Works mostly with middle schoolers and genuinely likes it — good with students who have decided they're "bad at math."
Essays, reading comprehension, and the writing sections of the SAT. Will actually mark up a draft rather than just talk about it.
Pricing
You pay by the hour for the hours your student actually has. That's the whole pricing model.
Who runs this
I'm Thadeus, a senior at UCLA studying electrical engineering. I started tutoring in the San Gabriel Valley a few years ago, and when I had more families asking than hours in the week, I started bringing in classmates I'd studied with and knew were good.
That's still all this is. I'm not building a learning center and I'm not trying to enroll your student in a program. I know every tutor personally, I match every student myself, and if something isn't working you text me and I pick up.
The reason it works is that our tutors are close enough to the material to remember being confused by it — and close enough in age that a fifteen-year-old will admit to them what they don't understand.
Questions
They have to be a current UCLA student, have earned an A in the course they'd be teaching, and be someone I know or who comes recommended by a tutor I know. I meet everyone before they take a student. I care more about whether they can explain something patiently than about their own transcript, so the last step is always a real session I watch.
Tell me after the first session and I'll match you with someone else, and I won't charge you for the session that didn't work. This happens occasionally and it's nobody's fault — a match either works or it doesn't, and it's better to find out in week one.
Either. In person around Arcadia, San Marino, Temple City and nearby, usually at your home or a library. Over video works well for most subjects and is easier to schedule around a college student's timetable — a lot of families end up doing a mix.
You're billed once a month for the sessions that actually happened, and you can pay by Zelle or card. No deposit, no package to buy up front, and nothing charged for a week your student didn't have a session.
No, deliberately. One-on-one produces better results than a small group, and in a group a tutor's attention naturally drifts toward whoever is furthest behind. If your student is doing fine and wants to do better, that's exactly the wrong dynamic for them.
Most students do an hour or two a week. For a specific problem — one bad unit, an upcoming AP exam — a few weeks is often enough. For a class that's been hard all year, plan on the semester.
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