<p>If you're really smart, know how to teach, and live in an area with a lot of wealthy families, then tutor, especially for the SAT.</p>
<p>There are lots of kids who come from high-income families in my area but aren't bright at all. If you have a high SAT score (2300+), then people will take you seriously and their parents will be willing to pay you a lot for tutoring. As of right now, I'm tutoring about 5 juniors for the SAT on a regular basis, and I make $20/hour (which is less than a lot of SAT tutors get paid). Tomorrow, I'll be making $100 for tutoring for five hours. It surely beats flipping burgers or waiting tables (and, in my opinion, teaching is more rewarding)</p>
<p>So if any of you are worried about not having many summer plans or not finding a summer job, I definitely encourage you to tutor. Start talking to sophomores/juniors who plan to take the SAT or want to raise their scores. I wish I started doing this last year.</p>
<p>How do you begin? Do you just post an ad in the newspaper and wait for emails to flood in? Do you need to belong to a certain clique or have “connections” in high places? Will it affect how people look of you if you’re below Junior year and younger than most other people you tutor? Is it better or worse to tutor someone from your own school? </p>
<p>Sorry for these questions I’m just really underinformed… (2370 here)</p>
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<li>Where I live, people don’t give a damn about standardized tests and probably wouldn’t pay $20 an hour for much of anything.</li>
<li>I don’t want other people to get high SAT scores, at least not until I get into college safely. :D</li>
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<p>tomatox1: I posted an ad on Craigslist and got several emails from students/parents. Most of the kids that I tutor, however, are just people I know from school. If you’re an underclassman I’m sure you can still tutor (with a 2370 everyone will take you seriously). Don’t be afraid to ask random people or people you barely know if they need SAT prep. Pretty much everyone wants SAT prep and will pay lots of money (>$20/hr) for a good tutor if they can. You don’t need to be in a certain “clique”. Just get your name out there and ask friends if they know people who are trying to prepare for the SAT. </p>
<p>Around what times do you tutor? (ie 5:00 PM, 6:00 AM, etc.) Do you use your own review books like Barron’s and assign homework? Do they pay cash? How long commitment do you have for each student? (ie 5 weeks, 2 years, etc.) What do you do at each session, just sit around and do practice problems and explanations? How long is each session?</p>
<p>On weekends at any time
I ask them to buy the Blue Book and that’s all. I go through Direct Hits with them for vocab
Most pay cash, but I’ve received checks before ($100 checks after every 5 sessions)
As long as they need me
Do practice problems and teach them concepts they don’t understand (and provide useful strategies that most people who aren’t on CC aren’t aware of)
Each session is an hour, maybe 2 if they’re willing to stay for that long</p>
<p>$20 actually seems quite cheap to me for good tutoring. I was paying £35 ($55ish) an hour for math tutoring for a while. I guess it’s as much about your skill as a tutor as it is your knowledge/SAT skills.</p>
<p>I concur. Even a rather low wage ($15/hour) is good for me, as an SAT Tutor. My problem is that I can only really explain the math and the writing sections well. With critical reading I tend to say “that’s the answer because idk it is.” Also, no one ever wants tutoring for the writing section.
Also, I don’t expect much, since I don’t even have a high school diploma yet. Going in, the only proof people have of my ability is my SAT Score, and, even then, that doesn’t guarantee that I can tutor well.</p>
<p>Stop jumping to conclusions. I didn’t see that previous post and I am sorry for not being more careful about what I read. Also, it was just a point with no means of “derailing the thread”. </p>
<p>I think that it would work for you. As long as your clear and to the point, I don’t see why someone wouldn’t want a tutoring Freshmen who got a 2370.</p>
<p>I feel like some kids would be averse to the idea of being tutored by someone younger than they are, especially someone with an SAT score that amazing. Judging from what I’ve seen on this website, people who care a lot about getting a higher SAT score tend to develop inferiority complexes rather easily. But I don’t think there’s any harm in trying to find people to tutor.
(You don’t really have to give away your age, though…you could just say you’re a high school student with a 2370.)</p>
<p>I’ve been tutoring two kids for the SATs and my score is a 2190 (superscore). </p>
<p>Even though this isn’t the aforementioned 2300+, in my school, which is fairly competitive, people are much more motivated to get their score up. The two kids who I tutor have about a 1550 avg/2400 and, with the difference of our scores being several hundred points, there is definitely motive to get a peer tutor. </p>
<p>When I asked one of them the reason behind why they needed my help (they both came to me), one of them said, “Well, you can help, and the 45 minute SAT session for $200 a session doesn’t.”</p>
<p>Its as simple as being able to teach something and being accessible at a low(er) price. I make ~$60 a week doing this. You don’t even need astronomically high scores…</p>
(2370 here)</p>