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SAT Language Instruction

All language instruction will be in the hands of a career professor who currently works at an R1 University. His PhD granting institution is consistently ranked in the top 10 programs in the country. He has over 20 years of teaching experience, and was awarded a teaching pedagogy award at the college level after only 1 year. The award was given to only one out of over 150 teachers in the department. In addition, he has been published in peer reviewed journals, achieved perfect scores, and has attended top conferences in his field. The year he earned perfect scores on the GRE, over 700,000 people sat for the exam, with only 5,000-7,000 people in the U.S. earning a perfect score. He has always had a passion for standardized tests and how they can be life changing.

SAT Math
Instruction

Dr. Marquez received his PhD at the University of California, San Diego in Structural Engineering and has taught at UCSD as well as worked in private practice. Dr. Marquez has presented at various conferences such as the World Conference of Earthquake Engineering showcasing his research in Seismic Base Isolation. Dr. Marquez has obtained the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Program (NSF GRFP) which is one of the most prestigious national fellowships. With various conference research, teaching at the R1 University level, and achieving the highest fellowship distinctions in his field, he has shown the ability to provide students at GTP with the tools he learned throughout his career for succeeding in Mathematics.

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Expertise

Experience

Excellence

Crafting a successful application for college is an art and a science. It is like assembling a complex puzzle, creating a beautiful mosaic, or painstakingly engineering a building that may be an impressive whole but is comprised of countless parts. It takes complementary skill sets, a balanced vision, and access to experts who possess these

complementary skill sets. Gateway Test Prep is anchored by the two owners who

have spent their lives honing these opposing skill sets, and together we can help

you build the application that opens countless doors. One strength is not sufficient.

Having excellent test scores but weak essays with no vision is not going to move

an admissions committee. Having excellent extra curriculars without any

objective evidence of your intellectual acumen is not going to serve you

during this complex process. We can help you navigate this

complexity because we have already travelled the path and

found our way through this often daunting process. We

don't want this process to feel daunting for you; we want

it to be invigorating. We want it to feel like the

triumphant experience it can and should be for

you. The admissions process is not always fair, and

just like many spheres of life it is marked by a

measure of inequity. But the owners and founders

of GTP are proud of our own efforts to achieve

within the bounds of this system, and achieve

with a sense of purpose and drive. Our purpose

now is to widen the circle, and through hard work

create a ripple of success that reaches you.

As you reach your own success, you

will find passion, purpose, and freedom.

Grit

Gumption

Goals

It takes grit to earn a 99th percentile score. The public discourse on standardized tests increasingly minimizes and diminishes their importance, but public discourse does not dictate what happens behind closed doors in the admissions office. Universities still need common measures because it is impossible to compare students from completely different academic backgrounds without a universal metric. We have experienced first hand what top scores can do. We have been recruited by the finest PhD programs in the country. We have won top national fellowships. We have forged successful careers inside academia and the private sector. All of these accomplishments began with beating the admissions game, and that game starts with a standardized test.

We don't believe these test are perfect measures by any means. They are not. But they are the measures currently used, and you have to accept the rules of the game to play aggressively and successfully. The owners at GTP love test prep because the process is about so much more than just achieving a number or score. It is about mastering a process of learning, and through that process you learn to master yourself. That trust in your own ability to learn, set goals and meet them, and pursue a path of excellence is profoundly uplifting and transcends the utility of any test.

We were able to open the door to amazing opportunities, and we want that for you, too. While some denigrate the SAT and undermine its importance, we believe that even with all its flaws, it offers a unique opportunity to develop gumption and surprise yourself on the way to a future full of purpose, opportunity, and the freedom to make career choices that will fulfill your potential.