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About Us

Empowering Every Aspect of Your Child's Education

Personalized Educational Solutions is a boutique tutoring firm that specializes in working individually with students to facilitate a seamless and successful educational journey. We are committed to making your child’s education as meaningful and rewarding as possible, and we are here to help every step of the way

Our Founder

Sims Yun

Founder and COO/CFO

Our staff

Amanda Murphy

Operations Manager

Brian Purcell

Associate Director

Josh Arriola

IT Technician

Frequently Asked Questions

Here are some answers to the questions we receive the most about our services.
If we missed anything, please do not hesitate to contact us. We’ll be happy to help

We have expert tutors in a variety of subjects and all levels. They are specialists in their fields: economists, mathematicians, elementary school teachers, university professors, medical doctors, lawyers, accountants, and more. We match these professionals to our student’s needs in order to best support them. 

Our tutoring plans are developed for each individual student and vary based on the assignment, class, or area of improvement.

Our tutors work individually with your student and are prepared to make any accommodations necessary. We build a unique tutoring schedule for each student and work with any learning style or pace.

Yes, we offer comprehensive academic services for college students, from developing a week-by-week study plan to reading and note-taking support to direct academic tutoring. Our tutors for all undergraduate work are either highly educated experts in their fields (medical, legal, finance, etc) or college professors who are actually teaching those subjects and have decided to join our team.

We do! Please contact our office by calling (508) 589-7088 to learn more about this option.

Please note there is an additional fee on top of the SSAT exam fee for a FLEX test to be administered on our premises.

Our instructors undergo a rigorous vetting process and initial training. They are content knowledge experts that come from a variety of backgrounds and are prepared to teach your student in any subject.

Our vetting process for new instructors is thorough and involves multiple steps. Our team seeks out individuals who display deep content knowledge, have experience teaching and/or tutoring, and demonstrate the ability to instruct. Prospective instructors are asked to come in (or meet online) for an instructional interview session with our Founder and Director of Academic Services and Tutoring, Sims Yun. Applicants are expected to prepare a lesson plan on a given topic and “teach” it. Typically, a locally recruited high school student is present during the lesson so they can give feedback and share thoughts from a student’s perspective. This plays a large role in our decision-making process. 

Counseling

There are many reasons why students choose to take advantage of college counseling resources. 

Considering the cost of college, students and their families must be certain they are applying to the right schools and preparing the strongest applications possible to maximize opportunities for admission and (when applicable) for scholarships. 
As the college process continues to become increasingly uncertain and competitive, the advice and guidance of an admissions expert can make all the difference. 
The guidance that high school college counselors offer, although excellent, is oftentimes not as personalized as a private college counselor because of large institutional caseloads and responsibilities. 

College counselors can be helpful in guiding students through the scholarship and financial aid application processes as they work with students to research various opportunities and complete all scholarship requirements.

Private college counseling involves every aspect of the college process–from list creation, strategizing regarding early admissions plans, writing the application, essays, supplements and resumes, dealing with specific aspects of the college process that require individualized attention–like building a balanced college list, strategizing around early admissions plans, interview prep, organizing information including deadlines, dates, etc…interfacing with admissions officers/reps, following up with missing information, assisting in scholarship search work (if applicable or desired), assisting with final decision making, waitlist follow up, deferral follow up, etc. For all of these specific aspects of college counseling, an individualized approach is ideal. Your college counselor meets with you weekly or as often as needed in order to coach you through every aspect of the college process. 

College Process Workshops and Bootcamps are offered through Education Station and follow our small-group model (classes limited to six students). Students work with admissions counselor and co-founder, Christine Chapman, in a small-group setting to tackle various aspects of the application process. However, we are aware that there are students who prefer one-on-one college counseling. In this case, we recommend students take advantage of our private college consulting services offered through our parent company, Personalized Educational Solutions. Students work privately with our seasoned college counseling team. This option is for students who have a unique profile, an extensive college list, or simply prefer the one-on-one, customized aspect that private, individualized sessions offer.   

Most of our students who have transitioned from in-person to online tutoring report that there is no difference between their online and in-person experiences. Our instructors have been working with students online since before the start of Covid-19. They are trained to adapt their methodologies and techniques to work with students online in the most efficient ways possible. Our instructors are comfortable working with students through online platforms like Zoom and utilizing the various features such as the white board. This allows instructors to make the transition from the physical classroom to a virtual one as seamless as possible. For test prep courses, we will send recordings of the Zoom sessions that students can access whenever they would like. The online platform also allows us to connect our students to our tutors and content experts from all over the country!

Prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, Personalized Educational Solutions was offering online tutoring and college consulting services to students all over the country and world via Skype, FaceTime and Zoom. Our founder has deep and extensive experience working online, and we have serviced thousands of students and their families through numerous online platforms, including Zoom, which one of our founder began using in 2016. All of our tutors have been using Zoom since the beginning of their tutoring experience with us. Our team is extremely comfortable using online platforms and we feel very confident that the quality of instruction is just as effective as our in-person sessions.