Late to the ACT/SAT Party? Why Junior-Year Students Still Have Time to Prepare and Improve Scores
Posted by: Ned Johnson on March 14, 2023
If you are the parent of a junior-year student who hasn’t taken the ACT or SAT yet, you…
Tests are standardized. Students are not.
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Aaron Golumbfskie
Senior Tutor & Education Director
Bio Aaron is the Education Director at PrepMatters and has logged more than 20,000 hours of one-on-one tutoring, helping teens change their self-images and achieve success, whether on standardized tests or in academic classes. He continues to tutor every day, but, realizing that individual efforts only scale so far, he…
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Allison Cox
Accounts Manager
Bio Allison was born and raised in Delaware, and she earned a B.A. in Theatre Arts from Bob Jones University in Greenville, SC. She is excited to serve as Accounts Manager for PrepMatters. In that role, Allison is able to combine a few of her favorite things from her theatre…
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Ana Laura Carignani
Senior Tutor
Bio Ana Laura Carignani has been working at PrepMatters since September 2000. She loves getting to work one-on-one with students to truly help them realize their academic goals. In addition to tutoring, she works with the materials development team, writing and editing the materials used by the entire PrepMatters staff.
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Ashley Newman-Owens
Tutor
Bio A happily-returned DC native, Ashley began college at Wesleyan University a resolute math major, but ultimately graduated instead from Washington University in St. Louis with a degree in English literature. It was either her dual penchants for words and numbers or her indecisiveness that led her to pursue graduate…
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Casey Waterston
Senior Tutor
Bio Growing up in the “Lone Star State,” Casey learned early on that she had a love for math and science. This passion led her to earn a Bachelors degree in Chemical Engineering from the University of Oklahoma, along with a minor in Spanish. Over the years, she’s involved herself…
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Cherie Boyles
Chief Operating Officer
Bio Cherie Boyles, a Virginia native, grew up loving school and envisioning herself as a kindergarten teacher so that she could instill in little ones the love of learning she had always known. At college, first at Lynchburg College and later at Liberty University, she majored in early childhood…
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