Bootstrap Tutors are professionals with an advanced degree and/or significant teaching experience. All of our tutors have passed a MA CORI background check and completed our in-house collaborative training. Here are a few of our top tutors:

Ryan Judkins, the founder of Bootstrap, holds a Ph.D. in English and has over sixteen years of experience as a college professor, teacher, and tutor. He has taught at Ohio State, UMass Boston, UMass Lowell, and Salem State, and he is licensed in Massachusetts for English and Latin for grades 5-12. His tutees ace their classes, conquer their standardized tests, and write compelling essays that help them earn admission into the best schools in the country. Several of his clients have achieved perfect or nearly perfect scores, and he has helped students gain entrance to Harvard, U Penn, Yale, Dartmouth, U Chicago, U Michigan, Carnegie Mellon, Notre Dame, the Naval Academy, the Air Force Academy, and many other top schools. For test-prep and admissions, Ryan emphasizes core academic skills as well as the structure and intent of these processes in order to help students excel. Pedagogically, he helps students to distinguish the relevance of texts within their historical contexts and to the broader human condition, to find that process engaging and rewarding, and to develop core ethical and intellectual qualities. An avid hiker, Ryan’s most memorable trip is spending one July hiking 140 miles in 10 days solo on Scotland’s Southern Upland Way and Fife Coastal Path. He tutors for the verbal portions of the GRE, GMAT, LSAT, SAT, ACT, SSAT, and HSPT exams, for college and graduate admissions (especially for the essays), for English literature and language, for all levels of Latin, and for introductory French. He is based in Swampscott.

Patrick Weiser is a medicinal chemist who earned his Ph.D. in Organic Chemistry from Northeastern University and his Bachelor’s in Chemistry from Worcester Polytechnic Institute. Patrick has been instructing students on and off since 2006, whenever he hasn’t been chained to his lab bench. With numerous presentations and publications under his belt, he has been able to effectively communicate his ideas, which he believes is the key to transferring knowledge. As a tutor, he uses these skills to help his tutees not only improve their performance but also broaden their overall understanding of the field. In his free time, he enjoys camping, reading, and playing overly complicated board games. Patrick is available to tutor for general chemistry, organic chemistry, mathematics (through pre-calculus), AP Statistics, AP Physics, introductory college physics, and the math portions of the SAT, ACT, GRE, and GMAT. He is based in Gloucester.

Daniel Blash holds degrees in neuroscience and psychology. As a researcher at Harvard University, he examined the physical representation of memory in the human brain within healthy individuals as well as within individuals with Alzheimer’s dementia. Daniel has a passion for diverse communities. He recently relocated to Tijuana, Mexico, where he founded the Centro de Educación — a community education center which offers classes for K-12 grades in under-resourced areas. Daniel is available to tutor high school math/science, cognitive science and psychology, as well as Spanish. He is based in Tijuana, Mexico.