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.
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