Cambridge Coaching
Alex Valente is an accomplished academic tutor and pianist with extensive experience in educational and musical settings. Currently serving as an Academic Tutor at Cambridge Coaching since August 2019, Alex specializes in GMAT and GRE preparation as well as general Math instruction. Simultaneously, Alex has been with Livius Tutoring since January 2014, providing guidance in SAT, ACT, and AP Calculus. As a self-employed pianist since January 2008, Alex offers musical entertainment throughout the Greater Boston Area, including piano accompaniment for vocalists. Previous roles include Interlibrary Loan Assistant at Widener Library, Assistant Music Director for the Arlington Catholic High School Drama Club, and Accompanist for the Arlington Children's Theatre. Alex holds a Master of Studies in Musicology from the University of Oxford and a Bachelor of Arts in Music and Mathematics from Harvard University.
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Cambridge Coaching
Cambridge Coaching began as a group of friends who also happened to be Harvard and MIT PhDs. We have never been a large corporation. Rather, we are a cooperative of physicists, historians, economists, literary critics, business scholars, chemists, sociologists, lawyers, linguists, biologists, and mathematicians who provide exceptional one-on-one tutoring, academic support, and admissions coaching to our students. We do not advertise heavily and most of our business still comes by word of mouth. We like our students, and we think our students like us. Many of the students with whom we work have been with us for years. We believe in academic mentorship. We also believe that the best mentors are inspirational role models: scholars, thought leaders, and world changers. Cambridge Coaching is the cumulative achievement of academics who care about professional pedagogy. We do not hire undergraduates because we believe that teaching requires expertise, as well as enthusiasm. Our tutors are PhD candidates at Harvard and MIT, as well as other top graduate programs. We hire MBA, law and medical candidates for standardized tests and subject areas where their expertise is invaluable. Our team also includes college graduates who received a BA or BS with distinction, and who display exceptional accomplishments and promise as teachers. We pay our tutors the majority of the fee we earn, our financial processes are consistent and transparent, and we are constantly striving to be more fair to our tutors. We are known among doctoral candidates at top graduate programs as a company run by academics for academics. We are part of the extended academic family. Consequently, we are able to recruit and retain outstandingly talented tutors. We are proud that our staff is composed of PhD candidates, members of Phi Beta Kappa, summa cum laude graduates of top undergraduate institutions, Rhodes Scholars, Marshall Scholars, McKinsey Scholars, and countless other amazingly talented teachers.