Barbara Snow Bryant

I started my career in the finance business where I did really well and became a senior vice president of my firm, writing their economic newsletter. But as an English major in college, I really missed that kind of work and my literature. So I said, if Harvard will take me, I'm going back to school, and they did. I taught in the classroom for about 20 years, and while it was scary at first as a new teacher getting the most difficult classes and working around the clock, after a couple years I was very much appreciated and moved to much nicer classes. Kids would literally just come in the morning to talk about things and work things out. I had to leave teaching in the classroom because I had sick parents and was getting calls from doctors all the time. For the past 10 years, I've been doing private tutoring, which has been amazing. Individual tutoring allows me to work with kids on their college applications and SATs and see their individual accomplishments. I work with Wise Ant Tutoring under contract, and I have kids on both coasts and even some in Europe now. One student went up 200 points on their SATs and posted a thank you, and now I could never fulfill all the requests I get because people are asking for help every single day. I have a number of kids who still keep in touch, which is wonderful. I've gone to a restaurant and found out a former student paid for my meal, and once someone I hired to assemble furniture said they couldn't charge me because the kids at school would kill them.