Private Tutoring, Test Prep & College Admissions Counseling in the Washington DC Metro Area

Yes. The DC metro is one of our in-person markets. We run in-home and library sessions across close-in Montgomery County and Fairfax, Arlington and Falls Church, subject to tutor availability. Families who prefer live online sessions work with the same senior tutors.

It depends which side of the river you are on. Virginia’s HB 410, effective July 2026, requires school divisions to offer the SAT during school hours to juniors and seniors starting in the 2026-27 school year, in a fall or spring window, with participation optional for the student. Maryland has no equivalent program, so Montgomery County families register and pay for a weekend administration themselves.

Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology is a regional application magnet operated by Fairfax County and serving Fairfax, Arlington, Loudoun, Prince William, the City of Fairfax and the City of Falls Church. Eligibility runs through Algebra 1 in eighth grade and a 3.5 GPA, and the process uses a blind holistic review with seats allocated proportionally across feeder middle schools. Because eligibility is set in middle school, the real preparation starts in sixth and seventh grade.

Montgomery Blair hosts the countywide Science, Mathematics and Computer Science Magnet plus the Communication Arts Program, Richard Montgomery runs a countywide IB Diploma magnet, and Poolesville runs application houses in Global Ecology, Humanities and Science/Math/Computer Science. All are application-based and draw from across the county, so a family’s zoned school and their child’s actual school are often unrelated.

For Georgetown, at the very top: its submitted middle 50% runs roughly 1390 to 1550. UVA sits around 1410 to 1540 and Virginia Tech around 1280 to 1450. In-state status does a lot of work at UVA and Virginia Tech and very little at Georgetown, so a Langley or Whitman student aiming at Georgetown needs a score at the top of the UVA band while the same score is comfortably above Virginia Tech’s.

Neither does at the moment. Virginia Tech has extended test-optional through Fall 2028 entry, and UVA is test-optional for Fall 2026 with no reinstatement announced. Because both are optional, submitting is a strategic decision, and we plan it school by school rather than as one call.

Our families come from Whitman, B-CC, Churchill, Walter Johnson, Einstein, Blair and Richard Montgomery in Montgomery County, Langley, McLean, Madison, Oakton, Marshall and TJ in Fairfax, the Arlington and Falls Church City schools, and the independent schools including Georgetown Prep, Holton-Arms, Landon, Stone Ridge, St. Andrew’s, Potomac School and Madeira.

Yes, and most families use both. Counseling covers college list construction with acceptance probability modeling, the Common App personal statement with unlimited revisions, every supplement, activities positioning, early decision strategy, financial aid and mock interviews. DC-area lists need the in-state math run carefully, since a Maryland family and a Virginia family living four miles apart have completely different public university options.

Yes. Our instructors are trained in ADHD, CAPD, dyslexia and executive function support, and we handle College Board and ACT accommodations requests for you, including extended time, breaks and separate settings. We also coordinate with a school’s existing IEP or 504 team so the prep plan matches the supports already in place.

For the class of 2026, the most recent year with officially confirmed cutoffs, the DC Metro area required a Selection Index of 224. The Selection Index runs from 48 to 228 and is calculated from the PSAT/NMSQT taken in October of junior year, doubling the sum of the Reading, Writing and Language, and Math section scores. Cutoffs are set separately for every state and shift by a point or two each year, so treat 224 as a planning benchmark rather than a guarantee. Cutoffs for the class of 2027 are announced each September.

The the DC Metro area average was 1112 for the class of 2025, with 48% of graduates tested. The participation rate matters more than the number. A state that tests nearly every graduate posts a much lower average than a state where only college-bound students sit the exam, so comparing raw state averages without participation is misleading. For students in the competitive districts we work with, the relevant benchmark is the admitted range at their target colleges, not the state mean.

Virginia students now get a school-day SAT, which tilts the default toward the SAT on that side of the river. Maryland students have no such date and build the calendar from scratch. Either way we diagnose both, and for Georgetown applicants the target sits at the very top of the UVA band regardless of residency. The two tests are scored differently but weighted equally by colleges, and every US college that accepts one accepts the other.