AREAS OF EXPERTISE
ESSAY COACHING - CONTESTS
Dr. Benson’s essay mentees have earned honors from the New York Times, the JFK Profiles in Courage Contest, the Gold Key scholastic awards for excellence in journalism, the Boys’ State Award and the Bill of Rights Institute Fellowship, the Harvard High School Economics Essay Competition, the NCTE Achievement Awards in Writing, and many others.
ESSAY COACHING - COLLEGE AND PROGRAM APPLICATIONS
Competitive Summer Programs: Dr. Benson has coached students into programs at top-tier universities including Harvard, Stanford, Notre Dame, and UCLA.
College & Graduate Admissions: Her coaching expertise in college, graduate, and medical school essays has led students to prestigious institutions such as Yale, Scripps, Georgetown, Emory, Northeastern, Purdue, UCLA, UC Berkeley, Harvey Mudd, the Mayo Clinic, and Georgetown.
AP EXAM PREP
Dr. Benson works with students throughout the academic year on the following AP classes:
AP US History
AP European History
AP World
AP Human Geography
AP Language and Composition
AP Literature and Composition
AP Research
ACT with Writing
The majority of Dr. Benson’s students earn A’s in their AP classes and 5’s on their AP exams.
COLLEGE COURSEWORK HELP
Dr. Benson’s PhD required a command of history, legal anthropology, cultural anthropology, and gender studies, as well as a strong research and composition skills.
She has assisted college students with papers, projects, and test prep in classes that include the History of Hip Hop, Ethnomusicology, Intro to World Religions, Mediterranean History, Western Philosophy, Medical Anthropology, English 101, Comparative Religion, Latin American History, History of the Cold War, Portuguese History, Intro to Crisis Management and Public Relations, Jewish Mysticism, Sociology of Health, Intro to Cultural Anthropology, and more.
