Kathryn Tschirn, Master Tutor/Instructor

Kathryn has been “The SAT Guru” to hundreds of students over the past 25 years of her teaching career. Parents on the West Coast rave about her, and Kathryn’s name is starting to carry some weight on this coast too since she moved from San Diego to Atlanta in 2011. The Lovett School hired her to work with struggling students in the Academic Resource Center, where she teaches how to cultivate a Growth Mindset. Kathryn helps students develop their intellectual abilities through dedication and hard work, rather than falling for the fallacy that a person’s academic ability is limited. Her love of learning is reflected in her students’ academic achievements.

Kathryn became obsessed with learning how to learn during the summer prior to her senior year of high school, when she taught Writing and Environmental Science to challenged fifth graders from New Orleans’ inner city through a program called Summerbridge. After graduating from Metairie Park Country Day School, where she attended from Kindergarten through twelfth grade, Kathryn headed north for her undergrad education. Choosing Boston College due to its Division I status, Kathryn enjoyed playing collegiate volleyball and thrived academically, making Dean’s List all four years. Kathryn was also an International Ignacio Volunteer while at BC, which gave her the opportunity to teach math at St. George’s College in Kingston, Jamaica. The first Boston winter after graduation, she headed to the coast of Southern California to shake the shivers and play beach volleyball! There she worked for The Princeton Review, teaching the SAT and ultimately becoming TPR’s Master SAT Teacher. Kathryn trained the tutors for teaching SAT test prep and stayed with The Princeton Review for over a decade. She has seen the SAT undergo several major revisions through the years, so she is not at all daunted by the “New SAT”.