Raymond V.
Private tutor in Houston, TX
Education
Graduated with degrees in Chemistry and History from Rice University 2012, 3.9/4.00 GPA, currently a third year medical student at Baylor College of Medicine pursuing a residency in general surgery.
Experience
I started a tutoring program for children in the Umland Park neighborhood in south Houston in 2010. Additionally, I was an academic fellow at my residential college at Rice University for two years in organic chemistry and biochemistry, including being Head Academic Fellow in my senior year which. I was also the Biochemistry 301 teaching assistant where I held a weekly review session for the students in the class. I also helped run an anatomy tutoring session for the first year medical students when I was a second year student. I want to be a tutor because I know I have a great facility for certain subjects, such as chemistry, biochemistry, biology, history, and writing to name a few. Because I know I can help others who struggle in these areas increase their understanding, I feel that I have a responsibility to help them. That was why I became an academic fellow at my residential college, which is a prestigious and unpaid position; I knew I could help my classmates increase their understanding of the material. Because I knew I could, I felt like I had the responsibility to act on it. That is the same reason why I started a tutoring program for kids in the Umland Park neighborhood. I had done work for Habitat for Humanity in the area and saw the need for a tutoring program. Because I knew I could implement such a program, I had the responsibility to do so. I scored a 2250 on my SAT (Reading 750, Math 770, Writing 730), I scored a 34 on my MCAT (Verbal 10, Physical Sciences 11, Biological Sciences 13), and I scored a 5 on the following AP exams: Biology, English Language, World History, US History, Calculus BC, Macroeconomics, Government. I scored a 4 on the English Literature and Spanish Literature AP exams. I received an award from the Rice History Department for demonstrating excellence in the study of British history in spring 2011. I also received an award from the Community Involvement Center at Rice the same spring recognizing my work in the Umland Park neighborhood. I spent two summers and a good part of my junior year working in the Colvin lab at Rice, which focuses on nano-chemistry. I learned how to operate the atomic force microscope and won a poster session with my work characterizing nanoparticles. I also received a publication with the work I did on quantifying PEG-coated nanoparticles. Currently I do research in the congenital heart surgery department of Texas Children's hospital where I have one publication about the success rates in operations for recoarctation of the aorta and have another project about the outcomes on the congenitally corrected transposition of the great arteries in the TCH experience.
Subject Expertise
MCAT Biological SciencesCLEP Social Sciences and HistoryCLEP Western Civilization I: Ancient Near East to 1648CLEP Western Civilization II: 1648 to the PresentCollege EssaysCOMPASS ReadingEssay EditingEuropean HistoryGeneral ChemistryHistoryHonors ChemistryIB History HLIB History SLCLEP HumanitiesMCAT Critical Analysis and Reasoning SkillsMCAT Social and Behavioral SciencesPSATSAT Subject Test in ChemistrySAT Subject Test in United States HistorySAT Subject Test in World HistorySAT VerbalTest PrepUS HistoryWorld CivilizationWorld HistoryWorld LiteratureAP English Literature and Composition11th Grade12th Grade6th Grade7th Grade8th Grade9th GradeAmerican HistoryAnatomyAncient and Medieval HeritageAP BiologyAP ChemistryAP English Language and Composition10th GradeAP European HistoryAP United States HistoryAP US HistoryAP World HistoryBiochemistryBiologyChemistryCLEP BiologyCLEP ChemistryCLEP History of the United States ICLEP History of the United States II: 1865 to the Present
Availability
Weekdays in the evening, Saturday in the morning, Sunday in the morning
Can Meet
Up to 30 minutes away at my regular hourly rate
Hobbies
I play ultimate frisbee and am about to wrap up my college ultimate career with a trip to nationals in Wisconsin with the Rice team as we placed first in the South Central Region tournament this past April. I also play for the Houston club team Space City. Additionally, I ran cross country and track in high school, with my best time in the mile being 4:58. Beyond sports, I am an avid reader. I starting reading Game of Thrones years before it was ever a TV series. Dune by Frank Herbert and the Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn series by Tad Williams also rank amongst some of my favorite books. My second longest-running hobby next to reading has to be playing video games. I play all kinds of video games, including the Call of Duty series, Skyrim, Battlefield 3, Dragon Age: Origins, Final Fantasy VII, Baldur's Gate, Starcraft 2 and many others. My interest in building things probably runs longer than either my interest in reading or video games now that I think about it. I was playing with K'nex as early as pre-school, building model rockets when I was eight, helping my father with various construction projects around the house as I grew up, and the summer before I started at Rice I built a working, twelve-foot tall trebuchet, which is a variation of a catapult. I also have a deep passion for writing and was lucky enough to have my speech selected to give for the ceremony honoring the incoming first year students this past fall at their White Coat Ceremony.
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