Academia

During her high school years, Lauren S. Cohen (founder of Turnberry Tutor) consistently ranked at the top of her high school class and became a semifinalist in the National Merit Scholarship competition. She was accepted to Princeton University where she obtained her bachelor’s degree in Molecular Biology in May 2000. During her junior and senior year at Princeton, she conducted independent research that led, respectively, to her Junior Paper and Senior Thesis. Her Junior Paper (Understanding How Nurture Affects Nature: The NMDA Receptor May Mediate the Enhanced Performance of Mice Reared in a Stimulating Environment) focused on the neurobiological basis of learning and memory. Her research indicated that rearing mice in a nurturing and stimulating environment contributed to overexpression of the gene encoding the NMDA receptor, which has been linked to learning and memory formation. For her Senior Thesis (Hereditary Nonpolyposis Colorectal Cancer (HNPCC): Melding Genetics and Medicine), Turnberry Tutor investigated the role of mismatch repair genes in the formation of a hereditary form of colorectal cancer.

Throughout high school and college, Turnberry Tutor tutored students grades K-12 in a variety of subjects. What initially began as a way to earn extra pocket money for college soon became a successful venture with a large student following. Turnberry Tutor found out early on in her tutoring career that she had a knack for communicating with students. As a student herself when she began instructing others, she could easily relate to her students’ confusion in ways their teachers could not understand and knew from self-taught experience exactly how to demystify puzzling topics and clarify perplexing material. While the extra income was certainly a motivating factor to continue private tutoring despite her own rigorous academic schedule, Turnberry Tutor found the intangible, internal reward that came with helping others improve their academic performance and, consequently, their self-esteem even more fulfilling. Recognizing that she could impact the way a student felt about himself or herself simply by improving his or her grades and test scores, Turnberry Tutor joined the Student Volunteers Council at Princeton to provide tutoring help to underprivileged students from surrounding urban communities.

Beyond Academia

During a planned year off after graduation, which was initially intended to serve as a break prior to applying to medical school, Turnberry Tutor took a job as a marketing associate for an internet retailer (www.homeandbeyond.com) and wholesale manufacturing company (www.snowjoe.com). She excelled at her job and soon moved up in the ranks. Flourishing in the business world, she decided that her life’s path had taken her on a new venture, one that no longer included medical school, and she was prepared to go along for the ride. Over the course of eight years, she rose to marketing director for Homeandbeyond.com and Snow Joe, LLC, a demanding role that required her to initiate and execute tactical marketing strategies for two different companies with two different agendas.

Despite long hours at the office, Turnberry Tutor continued to find time to keep up with her students, many of whom she had built an ongoing tutoring rapport over several years. She had propelled the academic progress of some all the way from elementary to middle school to college acceptance. Tutoring also proved to be a welcomed break in her grueling work schedule. She enjoyed the hours she spent instructing students after her regular work hours and found tutoring time a relaxing respite from the daily grind.

Return to Academia

After eight years of climbing the corporate ladder, Turnberry Tutor decided to switch gears and wholeheartedly devote herself to tutoring full-time. Turnberry Tutor has achieved remarkable success with her students over the past 12 years and continues to make significant strides in the advancement of academic excellence.

Contact Turnberry Tutor directly at 1.305.336.0274 to find out how she can start your child on the path to academic success.