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Sheila is Signet's President & COO and our resident admissions and test prep expert. She has been preparing students for the SAT, ACT, and GRE for over ten years in both one-on-one and in classroom settings; she is quite experienced in tailoring standardized-test material to her students' particular needs. In tutoring, she draws from her multidisciplinary background in both mathematics and literature. She has also been able to leverage her significant writing and graduate school experience to aid students in the admissions process, in addition to running Signet's admission team. A former commodities trader on Wall Street, she enjoys teaching Math for the SAT, ACT, and the GRE, because doing so calls on her quantitative abilities, honed during her undergraduate pre-medical years at Harvard. Sheila enjoys helping students think and write about literature too, especially in ways that are meaningful to them. At Indiana University, she taught several courses in poetry, composition, and world literature. Sheila holds both a BA and an MA from Harvard University and holds two PhDs from Indiana University.
Sheila grew up in Michigan, Virginia, and Massachusetts and has lived in New York, Los Angeles, and Bloomington, Indiana. After graduating from Harvard in 2002, she worked on Wall Street for two years before returning to graduate school to pursue two PhDs.
September 13, 2021
Test Prep SAT & ACT: Frequently Asked QuestionsGet answers to the most common questions about the SAT & ACT. Read more
September 7, 2021
High School Checklist for Back-to-Remote-School PreparednessEvery student needs to be ready for a quick pivot back to online learning. Here's how to prepare for that transition as smoothly as possible. Read more
August 23, 2021
Academic Coaching How to Stay Out of the High School WhirlpoolDiscover the dangers of the high school whirlpool—and what you and your student can do to avoid it for all four years. Read more
August 16, 2021
Subject Tutoring How to Ace AP Classes—and the Exams, Too!Discovery why AP classes matter, how to choose the right AP classes, and how to do well on AP exams. Read more