a week ago
Two of the three schools asked about her essay at interview. We started it in July, which is the part I would tell any other parent.
Danielle W.
English & Writing
Sylvia Pruitt
AP English Literature and the college essay
Teaches high school and adults, AP and honors
Online or at your table, from Boston
5.0(89)
From $62/hr
A fifty-minute lesson
First thirty minutes free
Ways to book Sylvia Pruitt
A first lesson
The first half hour of any lesson is free. No card to hold it.
Free · 30 min
One lesson
Booked around the week. Nothing repeats, nothing renews.
$62 · 50 min
A weekly slot
The same hour every week, held until you give it up. Skip any week.
$62 · 50 min, weekly
A 10-lesson pack
Paid once, used whenever. 10 lessons for the price of 9.
$558 · 10 lessons
In Sylvia’s words
I read essays for a liberal arts admissions office for six years.
The draft that works is rarely the impressive one, and I will tell a seventeen-year-old that in the first session.
10min
Bring last week's quiz, the homework that stalled or the syllabus. It gets read before anything else.
15min
You pick a question out of that pile and the two of you finish it together, out loud.
5min
A plan with the number of lessons written down, and no card asked for to hear it.
Who checked Sylvia
Five checks, and the file says what each one found
About 11 applicants in a hundred clear all five. Open any of them to read what was actually on the paperwork.
Run on Sylvia
Cleared
Photo ID
The person on the call is the person on the profile.
- On file
- Massachusetts license, name matched
- Run by
- Persona, at application
- Method
- We match a government photo ID to the legal name on file.
Subjects and levels
What Sylvia teaches, and what a month of it costs
Every rate on Saal is the tutor’s own and the site adds nothing to it. Move the sliders to the shape your week actually has.
Subjects
What it comes to a month
Opens at Sylvia’s own rate, and a pack is 10 lessons for the price of 9.
Lessons a week
Lesson length
Your tutor’s rate
$62/hr
$592/mo
8 lessons a month, at $74 each — a 60-minute lesson against a rate quoted for 50. A ten-lesson pack takes $74 off that.
Reviews
How Sylvia scores, and what the tags keep saying
Only a student who booked and sat the lesson can leave a review. 89 of them have.
3 of 89 shown
5.0
89 reviews
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Every one of them left after a lesson with Sylvia
2 weeks ago
My daughter writes fast and edits nothing. She reads a paragraph out loud now before she keeps it, and her grade moved from a C+ to a B+.
Amara O.
English & Writing
4 weeks ago
The timed essay was the part I kept failing. We built one outline I could write in four minutes, and the exam essay came back a 22 out of 24.
Priyanka S.
English & Writing
Book a lesson
Sylvia’s open hours for the next three weeks
Pick a slot, say what the lesson is for, and confirm. The first thirty minutes cost nothing and no card is asked for to hold them.
Sylvia Pruitt
5.0 (89)
- Time
- June 8, 9:00 AM
- Length
- 30 minutes
- Goal
- Catch up
- First thirty minutes
- Free
- Any lesson after that
- $62/hr
- Charged today
- $0
- No card is asked for until you book a paid lesson.
- A paid lesson is refundable for 24 hours after it ends.
June 8 – 14
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