As college prep season starts, some high schoolers — or their parents — are probably thinking about hiring private tutors to help boost their SAT scores.
It makes a difference: Research shows that private tutoring can help improve SAT scores by roughly 37 points, which can make a difference on college applications.
The 34-year-old is the CEO and founder of Paper, a Montreal-based virtual learning platform he launched in 2014 to try making private tutoring more financially accessible.
He quickly learned that wealthier students often performed better in school, even before they hired private tutors.
Over the last five years, the startup has made some of its biggest strides in "large, urban districts," Cutler says.