Today’s guest post is written by Alexandra N.  You can view her tutor profile and inquire about hiring her for tutoring sessions in Spokane, WA by clicking here.
While studying and practicing can help improve test taking scores, there is something more important, especially for success on the SAT.  Because a large part of the test focuses [...]

About two months ago we rolled out a new billing system on UniversityTutor.com which allowed online payments for tutoring.
This was also a big change to our business model.  While in the past we charged tutors a monthly fee of $10/month to keep a profile on our site (after trying it for free and getting 3 [...]

Here is an email we got from a tutor the other day. I thought it was worth re-printing in case others have a similar question:

I am a tutor at universitytutor.com. I really love your website and the recent innovations you have made including client rating and profile updates.
I just saw an email in regards to [...]

Over the weekend we added a new feature to UniversityTutor.com that we hope you’ll like! It was the second most popular request in our user feedback forum: online payments for tutors!
Now you can get invoices by email and pay your tutor securely online by credit card. Tutors will receive funds either by direct deposit right [...]

If you’re in job hunting mode, this website could be a great resource for you: Krop.com.
It’s designed mostly for creative professionals, but has some great features that are applicable to a variety of fields. For instance, if creates a beautiful PDF version of your resume that you can download, and gives you a personalized URL [...]

Reprinted from edufire.com.
I’ve spent thousands of hours teaching in my life. A good chunk of that time has been focused on helping to prepare people for various exams including the SAT, the ACT and the GMAT (while working for Kaplan) and for various technology exams while working at a Microsoft training center. In addition over [...]

Textbooks can be surprisingly expensive for many students.  The problem is made worse by university professors who publish their own textbooks and require their students to buy them to drive sales.  Worse still, they may come out with new versions of the book every few years that contains little new content but entirely different page [...]

The essay below is from an actual student who applied and was accepted to NYU.
Even if you decide to do something a bit more tame, I think there are a few very important points we can glean from this essay:

You need to envision the person reading these essays.  They have a huge stack of them [...]

In the past we’ve only allowed current university students to become tutors on UniversityTutor.com and it has created some issues (to put it mildly).
For example:

We verify enrollment by asking students to enter their .edu email address.  But some universities only issue .edu emails to faculty, not students.
Some schools issue student emails under a different domain [...]

We launched a new feature on UniversityTutor.com recently: map based searching of tutors!
This is using Google Maps technology underneath to integrate with the tutor database. Hopefully it will make it much faster and easier for people to find nearby tutors.
Check out the screenshot below or click here to try it for yourself:

We are still [...]