What makes
Cultivate the Scholar different?
Cultivate the Scholar provides one-on-one coaching for students. Founded by award-winning journalist Milan Varia, our team uses professional reporting techniques to help students uncover their strongest ideas, build your story and character, and write with clarity and confidence. From college admissions essays that reveal what a resume cannot to English class assignments that build lasting writing skills, our coaching helps students develop authentic, compelling work in their own voice.
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Cultivate the Scholar’s Mission
Growth, Success, Skill Building Focus
Through our planning, we focus on building skills that help you excel now and support your goals beyond our time together. These skills are transferable, so you can keep using them in school, duringcollege, and in everyday life long after we have accomplished our goals.
One-on-One Tutoring Built Around You
No cohorts. No templates. Every student gets a customizable plan that works with where they are today. We work at your pace and offer solutions to help you excel. The plans will be adaptable if things change, or if you want to increase your workload.
Stand Out from AI with Ease and Comfort
The best study habits and writing strategies are the ones where you are relying on yourself, not an AI. Prep the Scholar builds real skills that will are applicable beyond our time together. There are no shortcuts. With your hard work, we can achieve the goals we set.
Plans
Essay Counseling
College applications are overwhelming. Essays are challenging. The best applications demonstrate growth and don’t rely on AI to get your message accross. We go beyond AI and will use your voice with confidence.
SAT Tutoring
Tackling the SAT alone is difficult. Together, we’ll build a step-by-step plan, create a schedule, and use targeted drilling so you take it apart on your own terms. Along the way, you’ll build the right habits to succeed on test day.
The Method
Step One: Starting with You
Before anything else, we figure out where you are, what’s not clicking, and what you actually need. The free consultation will answer your questions and will help me understand what your needs are.
Step Two: Working Together
After we figure out what plan is best for you, we will set up a schedule flexible to your availability, make a plan for success, and execute actionable steps.
Step Three: Leave and Succeed
After our time together is done, you’ll leave with an increased SAT score, the skills to succeed in class, or an essay you can feel confident submitting to the your college of choice.