Our Teachers

Our belief is that teacher quality directly impacts student performance so we hire the best teachers, train them intensely, and equip them with a superior curriculum. All of our teachers have extensive past teaching experience and a 99th percentile score on an official GRE® exam section, with a total score of 336 or higher out of 340. Our teachers are superb, and we would love for you to meet them; check out their bios below!

Roman Altshuler

While growing up in Providence, RI, Roman started teaching in high school when he landed a gig as impromptu coach of the debate team, and he liked it so much he decided to make a living out of it. After a four-year stint studying...

Chris Berman

Once upon a time in America, Chris Berman graduated from Northwestern with honors in European diplomatic history, a field both unfashionable and tedious to his listeners. He then first took the GRE, back when it was on papyrus. . .er, paper. However, despite 99th percentile scores...

Michael Bilow

Michael has taught in inner-city schools, the mansions of Saudi sheikhs, and a few places in between. He brings passion and a breadth of experience to teaching the GRE, along with folksy Midwestern charm. Michael has over five years of experience teaching test prep...

Brian Birdwell

With 99th percentile scores on the GMAT, LSAT, and GRE, plus a decade's experience teaching these and other standardized tests, Brian has been around the test-prep block...

Jane Cassie

Jane has loved standardized tests ever since taking the IOWA tests in first grade. Probably not coincidentally, that is also the year she decided to become a teacher...

David Chong

Growing up in Los Angeles’s San Fernando Valley, David first realized that he had a knack for standardized tests in the 7th grade, when he received an unexpected award for his score on the SAT. Despite his academic potential, David was hounded by a nagging boredom, prompting him to leave high school at 16 and join the United States Army the following year...

Jesse Cotari

Jesse’s first independent science experiment was performed in his kitchen, at age eight. Having seen some explosive science on television, he decided to investigate what happened when vitamins were mixed together in a glass of water. Despite the disappointingly non-explosive results (wet vitamins), his curious nature was unchecked, and led him eventually into the field of research science...

Jen Dziura

Jennifer has scored a perfect 1600 on the GRE twice, and loves helping aspiring graduate students aim high. She taught Manhattan GRE's first-ever classes in 2009, and is currently...

Chris Gentry

Chris is a devoted teacher, and is thrilled to be working with so many people equally devoted to this profession. Chris realized years ago that he loves teaching; especially standardized tests, and now prepares students for the GRE, GMAT, and LSAT tests. The material is approachable for all students (unlike, say, differential equations), and all of the students are committed to the learning experience. He loves that moment when a student realizes that he or she knows exactly how to answer a problem!

Jessica Hanzlik

Having decided that the best way to hone her teaching skills is on the malleable minds of the nation’s youth, Jessica Hanzlik is completing her first year of Teach For America, teaching math, science, and social studies to 8th graders on the southwest side of Chicago. Prior to entering the enthralling world of middle school, Jessica spent two years at the University of Oxford in England, studying particle physics and social policy.

Ian Jorgeson

Ian has been helping students prepare for the GRE for 10 years. During this time Ian has worked with hundreds of GRE students in Austin, Boston, and Seoul, South Korea, both in...

Stacey Koprince

In addition to her teaching duties, Stacey runs her own consulting business in Montreal, specializing in comprehensive corporate strategy. As with all management consultants, she is an expert in...

Liz Moliski

Born in New Orleans and schooled in NJ, California, and Illinois, Liz now lives in Chicago with her husband, daughters, and very aloof house cat. Liz enjoyed business school so much that she decided to get a PhD so that she could ...

Devin Powell

By day, Devin writes for a science magazine in Washington, D.C. At night, he tutors for Manhattan GRE. Both pursuits have honed his ability to make seemingly complicated material easy to understand...

Chris Ryan

Chris earned his teaching stripes the hard way -- in the classrooms of America’s high schools. A five-year physics and chemistry teacher and a veteran of Teach For America, Chris helped...

Michael Schwartz

Michael Schwartz is a big fan of the philosopher Derek Parfit, the novelist T. Coraghessan Boyle, and the singer Miss Peggy Lee. Or maybe he prefers David Hume, John Lanchester, and Shawn Colvin. He does not like piña coladas or getting caught in the rain. He doesn't even like that song...

Emily Sledge

Emily began teaching as an undergraduate at Cornell University, where she was a teaching assistant for a freshman lasers and optics lab and a math tutor...

Alex Smith

Alex distinctly remembers the palpable excitement he felt as he drove to take the SAT on a sunny Saturday morning during high school. At the time, he didn’t fully grasp exactly how uncommon his affection for the SAT – and standardized tests in general – was. Not surprisingly, it was easy for him to fall head over heels for the GRE...

Julia Van Dyke

Julia is thrilled to integrate her fascination with language and her strength at standardized testing with her interest in how people learn and her desire to give people the tools they need to pursue their goals. A transplant to the East Coast, Julia was born in...

Tommy Wallach

Tommy is a huge fan of standardized tests, as evidenced by his 99th percentile scores on the GMAT, GRE, and SAT (once upon a time). He has tutored both the GRE and the GMAT for years, and is excited...

Daniel Yudkin

Daniel is thrilled to be among the ranks of teachers at Manhattan GRE after a hefty and much-needed respite from academia. After graduating from Williams College in 2008 with a double major in Psychology and Philosophy, Daniel moved to Paris where he worked as a semi-professional...