Prep the Scholar

Our Approach

Prep the Scholar offers personalized tutoring and essay coaching that adapts to each student’s style, is flexible to their availability, and helps students build consistent study habits.

Why Families Choose Prep

Prep the Scholar’s program enables students to stop reling on AI to write essays or build study plans, and instead, enables students to rely on themselves and their abilities. We begin with assessing where students are today and develop a plan for growth.

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Our Tutor

Milan Varia

Milan Varia is a breaking and explanatory journalist published in The Philadelphia Inquirer, PennLive, Lehigh Valley News, and more.

Varia uses his experience as a journalist to strategize his tutoring strategy and enable students to strengthen their best skills, grow areas needing support, and identify what study habits work best. Varia won the Provost’s Award at Penn State and won other scholarships that covered about 90% of his college costs, including tuition, room, and board.

Varia’s recent work as a journalist includes his coverage of Subramanyam “Subu” Vedam before national outlets and a 13-month investigation into privatized Bureau of Indian Affairs boarding schools at The News Lab at Penn State.

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Reviews

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Our daughter’s grades and confidence soared; her tutor broke concepts into manageable steps and celebrated every win.

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Prep the Scholar transformed my college essays from generic to memorable and helped me earn multiple scholarships.