Why Choose an MCAT Tutor?

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The decision about how to prepare for the MCAT is an important one.

After all, if nothing else, it will dictate how you spend a precious several months of your life!

Do it right, and the med school of your dreams awaits—but do it wrong, and you’ve wasted several months, and possibly put your chances at med school off by at least a year. What’s more, doing it right the first time (or the next time) can help you avoid the anxiety and agony of simply not knowing if you can.

Here at Cambridge Coaching, we don’t just believe you can, we believe you will—with the right preparation. Obviously, as a company who provides smart people with smart tutors, we believe in our product. But we’ve got lots of good reasons why!

First, an MCAT tutor is a teacher. Her knowledge and skills she imparts upon her students.

What makes a tutor a better learning tool than, say, a lecture-based course or a book? Lectures and books are static, impersonal, and inflexible. A tutor, on the other hand, can adapt to you. She can figure out who you are, how you learn, and what you want out of your experience.

But a good tutor can be so much more than that.

A tutor serves as an extra set of eyes—someone who can help you see the things you may not be seeing yourself. Your tutor serves as coach of sorts—and as Atul Gawande, Harvard surgeon and essayist with the New Yorker writes, “Coaching done well may be the most effective intervention designed for human performance.” In that capacity, your tutor can help guide you through repeated mistakes in reasoning, difficult problems, or even the anxiety of test prep.

A tutor is also a mentor—ideally, he or she is someone who has traveled the road to medical school before, helping guide you through the dimly lit turns of medical school admissions, and alerting you to potholes and roadblocks along the way.

Mentorship goes well beyond the exam—a good tutor helps you situate yourself with respect to your future, long after you’ve aced the exam. Mentorship, we believe, is a crucial part of the process—that’s why we hire our tutors from among the top medical schools in the country so that we can be sure that they’ve done this before, and can help our students do the same.

Finally, a tutor is a companion and a friend along your test-prep journey.

Your tutor will be right there with you as you prepare—through thick and thin, celebrating your victories, and lamenting your setbacks (which will, no doubt, be fewer because you have a tutor).

If you’re like most students, the MCAT is one of the most daunting experiences of your educational career. As a teacher, a coach, a mentor, and a friend, a tutor can make it that much easier. Try us out!

 

Sophie holds an MPA in Public Administration from NYU and a BA in Comparative Literature from Dartmouth College. Outside of teaching, Sophie has spent her career working at the intersection of the public, private and nonprofit sectors to promote access to healthcare, education and employment.

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