Meet the teachers

This team is the very best.

In their words:

It may sound like a common story. “We started the company because we thought we could do a better job of putting students first.” We don’t doubt that many a company started with that sort of intention, but we’ve seen far too many fail in practice.

In our private practices, we started noticing a trickle (soon to become a stream) of dissatisfied graduates of existing SAT prep programs. Our plan for handling these students hasn’t changed much since we started Bodsat Prep in 2006: pool our expertise, and deliver a fantastic experience that respects both our students’ extreme ability and their over-packed schedules.

Our motive is simple: we’ve loved teaching all our lives. And we’ve found that we particularly love teaching this stuff to these kids.

Justin Sigars (Cofounder and Master Tutor)

Teaching gifted students since 2000
Teaching the SAT, training SAT teachers and writing SAT curricula since 1996
Graduate, UC Berkeley (English) 1995
Grad Student Teacher, UCB, composition 1998-2003

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Megan deVries (CEO and Master Tutor)

Teaching gifted students since 1995
Tutoring privately since 2002
Designing ACT and SAT curricula and training teachers since 2002
Graduate and Regent Scholar, UC Davis (Managerial Economics) 1995

DJ Quinn (Master Tutor)

Preparing students for the SAT since 2003
Helped write one of the first "New SAT" guides in 2003, used by tutors and students around the country
Teaching gifted students and their tutors since 2005
Helped Wes and Justin put together the Bodsat student manual, A Perfect Score and Beyond
Lecturer in Composition and Rhetoric at the University of San Francisco, 2012-2014
Currently pursuing a PhD in Education at the University of California, Davis

Michael Schwartz (Master Tutor)

Preparing students for the SAT and other tests since 1985
Training teachers since 1987
Writing curricula since 1989
Graduate, UC Berkeley (Philosophy)
Graduate Student Instructor or Associate Instructor (Philosophy, Economics, Veterinary Medicine), UC Davis
Multiple perfect scores on the SAT, GRE, LSAT, and GMAT

Nina Iyengar (Master Tutor)

Tutoring since high school
Teaching the SAT/ACT and training SAT/ACT teachers since 2010
Worked with a wide variety of students
Graduate, Boston University (Psychology, English, Women's Studies) 2003
Graduate, UCLA School of Law (Juris Doctorate) 2010

Owen Bradley (Master Tutor)

Teaching gifted students since 1994
Teaching the SAT, ACT, GRE, and GMAT since 2007
B.A. Hampshire College 1983
Ph.D. Cornell University 1992
Professor of History, University of Tennessee, 1993-2004
Chair of Honors and Advising programs (UT)
Freshman Writing Instructor at Cornell, 1991-1993

Wes Carroll (Cofounder)

Wes Carroll, our cofounder, left us in 2015 to concentrate full-time on math enrichment, math competitions, and Math 2 and Physics Subject Test preparation.
If you'd like to connect with Wes, visit http://www.wescarroll.com/services/.