St. Augustine is a Catholic boys’ school in North Park whose junior English year builds toward a full research paper on American literature. Our tutors are UC San Diego students who took many of the same courses not long ago, from chemistry to AP Calculus BC.
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We help Saints students keep up in their classes, prepare for the SAT and ACT and work on their college essays. Sessions are one-on-one, at your home in North Park, Mission Hills or Kensington, or online.
Meet our tutors.
Samantha
Pursuing a Ph.D. inBioengineering
Tutors Biology · Chemistry · Math
- Research in deep learning for assistive robotics
- President’s Undergraduate Research Award
Raquel
StudiesBiology
Tutors Math · Spanish · Writing
- AP Scholar with Distinction
- Bilingual teaching experience in Spanish
Anna
StudiesNeuroscience
Tutors Biology
- Research internship in Hamburg, Germany
- Governor’s Scholars Award recipient
Daniel
StudiesElectrical Engineering & Computer Sciences
Tutors Math · Physics · Computer science
- High-school valedictorian
- STEM education minor and after-school tutoring
Preston
StudiesApplied Mathematics
Tutors Math · Calculus · Computer science
- Mathematics research fellow
- Presented at the Young Mathematicians Conference
Evan
StudiesPhysics & Applied Mathematics
Tutors Math · Physics · Calculus
- Independent research in machine learning for quantum computing
- 4.0 GPA in Physics & Applied Mathematics
Lesly
StudiesMathematics & Computer Science
Tutors Math · Computer science · Spanish
- Java and Python programming
- Game development and interactive software projects
The junior research paper
Written during the year’s American literature course, the research paper is the longest thing most juniors have ever written, and length is what makes it hard. A five-paragraph essay can survive on a good thesis. A research paper needs a plan, sources that actually support the argument and paragraphs that keep pointing back to it. Our tutors work with your student from topic to final draft: narrowing an idea into a claim, deciding what each source is for, and noticing when a paragraph has wandered. Learn more about our English and writing tutoring.
Calculus BC without AB first
On Saints’ honors track, students go from Honors Precalculus straight into AP Calculus BC in senior year. BC is a fast course, and the hard part is rarely the calculus itself: it’s the trigonometry and algebra inside every problem. When a BC problem stalls, a tutor works out with your student which piece of algebra or trigonometry tripped them up and practices that piece until it’s automatic. Learn more about our math tutoring.
Our high school tutors, in parents’ own words
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Dissection labs in Anatomy
Anatomy and Physiology at Saints includes lab dissections, and a structure that looked obvious in the textbook diagram is much harder to find in a real specimen. Before a lab, a tutor goes through the diagrams with your student so they know what they’re looking for. Afterward, they connect each structure to what it does. Learn more about our science tutoring.
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