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Cristin McVey

Founded in 2000, College of My Choice has helped hundreds of students prepare for the SAT and ACT. At College of My Choice, lead instructor Cristin McVey gives students the opportunity to work with a "master" SAT and ACT instructor in private sessions and in small workshops at her office in Del Mar. Her advice on test preparation has been featured in the San Diego Union-Tribune and the San Diego Reader. Helping parents and teachers navigate the college admission process, especially the testing component, is her passion.

BIOGRAPHY Cristin McVey, PhD

Very few instructors in the San Diego area can claim to have intensively worked with students in the test preparation field for over fifteen years. But Cristin has. In 1995, she became an SAT instructor for a regional company in the Los Angeles area. When she moved to San Diego in 1996, Cristin continued to coach students privately and to teach group classes at Francis Parker, UC-Irvine Extension, and CAL-Soap. In 2000, Cristin founded her own business, College of My Choice. Over the past fifteen years, she has helped hundreds of students raise their scores, becoming one of the few "master" SAT and ACT instructors in the San Diego area. Every year she watches her students achieve their goal scores and go on to pursue their educational dreams. And that is what it is all about!

In addition to preparing students for the SAT and ACT, Cristin also lectures in the Dept. of Sociology at UCSD. Previously, she taught for the Sociology Department as a Regents Fellow and as an instructor for the writing programs at Muir College and Thurgood Marshall College at UCSD. In 2011, research from her dissertation was featured at the San Diego History Center in Balboa Park in 2011.

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