GMAT tutor? Sure, why not.

March 29, 2008 3:29 PM

GMAT tutor in Los Angeles?

OK, so I was drunkenly and ironically bragging in this bar on Friday night that I was 28 and the only thing I was good at was standardized tests (based mostly on an SAT and ACT taken in, what, '96?).

Anyway, this guy from the bar got all excited (he seemed like an excitable guy) and started talking about paying me $40 to $60 an hour to tutor him for this GMAT thing. I tried to demure, being all like, "Uh… I met a guy at a party once who did that…" (true), but hell, I don't even know what the GMAT is until my girlfriend tells me on the way back to the car.

Longer story shorter: he wants to trade Dodgers tickets or pay someone to be his GMAT tutor for the aforementioned rate. I told him I'd ask around, and (not wanting to be someone who backs out of a drunken bar promise), I have been. What the hell, I'm also asking here.

Do any of you have recommendations for private tutors? Or maybe ten tips that I can parcel out to him?

posted by klangklangston to education (6 comments total)

I sent you MeMail with my friend's name who works for this tutoring company vaguely near there. Not sure if they do GMAT.
posted by jessamyn at 5:15 PM on March 29, 2008

I've worked for Veritas Prep, which is based out of Malibu. (But I'm in Canada.) You get more hours of class time than anywhere else. Can't tell you much more, as I haven't dealt with other providers. Veritasprep.com.
posted by acoutu at 9:33 PM on March 29, 2008

why don't you just tell him to put an ad out on craigslist for gmat tutors in the area? i'm sure if he's willing to ask you, some random person he met in a bar, he'd have no trouble with that idea.
posted by tastycracker at 7:32 AM on March 30, 2008

Because I told him I'd ask around.
posted by klangklangston at 11:17 AM on March 30, 2008

I can help you out. My company tutors the GMAT in LA, and our tutors are absolute experts. Check out the site: www.integratedlearning.net.

My name is Ian Simpson, I'm the founder of the company, and you can learn more about us and why I started it on the site.

Let me know if you have any questions.
posted by ian7777 at 7:54 AM on April 9, 2008

Sweet, Ian, I'll toss your info his way.
posted by klangklangston at 9:43 AM on April 9, 2008