Philadelphia born and raised, Kate graduated from the University of Pennsylvania with a BA in sociology and minors in music and cognitive science. A life-long learner and teacher, she got her first paid tutoring job in middle school. She really began honing her teaching skills in high school, when she passed chemistry mainly because she had to learn the material well enough to teach it to her friends at lunch the next day. Since then, she has worked in pre-kindergarten, elementary, middle, and high school classrooms, teaching lessons on many subjects including reading, math, history, and nutrition. Kate has also written and edited hundreds of DSAT questions for use in the Testive application and other teaching materials.

Kate has spent a lot of time on college campuses—she traveled annually to all seven northern Ivies as a member of the Penn Band (Go Quakers!), spent hours in Rice’s library during her years living in Houston, and taught her first SAT classes to Philadelphia high school students on the campuses of Drexel and Temple Universities—and knows that there are many different factors that go into making a specific school a great fit for a particular student. Test preparation and college applications can feel overwhelming, but Kate believes that a small amount of focused attention and effort can go a long way. Working on a few math problems daily or spending five minutes with a thesaurus to refine an essay’s hook could be the difference between falling short of a goal and surpassing it.