About Tom Fraatz, Ph.D.

Since 2006, I have tutored hundreds of students from across the Greater Boston Area, helping them achieve their academic goals, whether that means getting a National Merit Award, pushing the reading score over 600, or turning that B+ in Trigonometry into an A.  During 2014 and 2015, I worked with a Cambridge-based educational tech start-up building their SAT and ACT platforms as a consultant and director of content and curricula. 

With almost two decades of experience, I've guided dozens of students through the academic admissions process. My goal is to make "reach" schools a little less of a reach and make dream schools a little more possible. By building up not just your test-taking skills, but larger academic strategies for success, I focus not just on getting you to college but helping you achieve once you’re there.

I received my Ph.D. from Boston College in 2017, and now teach at liberal arts college in northern New York. I have graded hundreds of essays, final exams, reflection papers, and book reports; from publishable papers to Wikipedia-researched last-minute Hail Marys, I have seen it all.

I have a rigorous background in both the humanities and STEM materials. I received a BA from Gettysburg College in both Classics and Physics, where I worked my way through school as a teaching assistant for introductory lab courses for majors and classroom and homework assistant for "physics for non-scientists" courses.