Testimonials

Hi, my name is Daniela Semino. I go to St. Brendan, and I’m a Senior. For years now, I was told that I never needed tutoring, so I always went into SAT and the PSATs without anything and got a pretty average score.

And then finally junior year hit, and I took the actual SAT, and it was way lower than I expected. I realized that I desperately needed tutoring. My score was a 400. Math had always been my weakness. Not only did I not improve at all, I went backwards. 

My mom had done tutoring with Peace of Pi with my sisters and she said it was the best thing ever. So that’s obviously the decision I made for myself when I got my score. 

I’d describe Peace of Pi as very understanding. It’s the perfect amount. You learn the lesson, and then the rest of the week, no matter how you distribute your homework, you’ll get it done no matter what. Just as long as you have a system. The only way this program works is if you yourself are committed to improvement. They gave me everything to succeed. There’s nothing they miss out on, and there’s no other service that I could imagine would be better. 

I would definitely recommend the summer program. It gave me plenty of time to balance studying and having fun. The Sunday’s, when we’d do the mock test, I would always circle which problems I got wrong and I’d write down the concept. And right before the major SAT test, I went over the biggest concepts I’ve struggled with. And that’s it. I wouldn’t study everything because when you go problem by problem looking over what you did, you get lost and you do things that you find easier instead of doing the things you struggled with.

For other students on their SAT journey, definitely don’t stress. Definitely be organized. Always save every single thing they give us. I used everything. There’s not one thing they gave me that I was like, “Oh, I’m not gonna need that much of you today.” 

My final score on math was a 700. And then in total, that got me up to a 1360. I got 100% Bright Futures! And, I got admitted to FIU. That’s all I needed. It made me happy. It made me appreciate math because I always hated math. The actual test itself was stressful, but I knew I had everything I learned at Peace of Pi to support me.