<p>I am a senior attending college next year and am thinking about summer jobs. </p>
<p>Have any of you tutored the ACT over the summer? Did you do it privately (what I am most concerned with), or with a big corporation?</p>
<p>How did you do it? How did you get clients? What did you charge? Would you do it again?</p>
<p>If you haven't tutored the ACT, but have been tutored in it, I'm curious to how you were tutored (practice tests, lessons, ect.), what you were charged, ect.</p>
<p>If I could do it well, I think this would be a good way to make some cash (along with a possible, low paying summer job)!</p>
<p>Penn students with 99th percentile test scores get $30-$50 per hour for private tutoring in the Philadelphia area. How much you can ask for depends on your qualifications, your location and your clientele.</p>
<p>manarius: How did you go about it? Did it work out well?</p>
<p>b@r!um: I scored 99th percentile and plan on attending Harvard. I am also considering Notre Dame, Duke, and Tufts at this time. I feel that I would be pretty good at tutoring. I was planning on working with the Princeton Review but the closest one is around an hour away. I also would like to work some hours at the Boys & Girls club I worked at last summer and being able to tutor privately would give me a lot of flexibility with that. Thanks for the price reference. </p>
<p>School will be expensive next year and I need to make some cash because my parents won’t have any to spare. Anyone have any advice to how to best tutor the ACT privately?</p>
<p>I’m doing the same thing this summer but my main problem is how to market my services. I’m thinking about just printing up like 3000 flyers and putting them in mailboxes around my town (targeting the wealthier neighborhoods). I feel like no one uses Craigslist for tutoring services.</p>
<p>I just put up an ad on Craigslist listing my credentials, location, etc. Within the first day I had multiple emails about it. This was for all purpose tutoring, though, and not limited to just the SAT/ACT.</p>
<p>Caillebotte: I’m thinking of doing something similar. </p>
<p>manarius: Wow, I guess craigslist works! I could offer all purpose tutoring as well, though I doubt it’d be popular during summer months. Any other insight? </p>
<p>How did you, or would you, go about doing the actual tutoring? Personally, I see practice tests as the best way to improve, but I think it varies greatly between score ranges (someone making a 17 probably needs some basic help in English, Math, ect.). </p>
<p>Any advice on someone who has tutored the ACT, or has been tutored would be great!</p>
I agree about the practice tests. I would first give the client diagnostic practice tests to determine which sections he is weak in and then develop an appropriate curriculum targeting those sections.</p>
<p>I have my own proprietary curricula and strategies but those are trade secrets and you’re the competition so I’m not telling :)</p>