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Steven Jupiter
Steven likes walks on a deserted beach, ginger cookies hot from the oven, reading by the fire on a rainy night, and devising new uses for noble gases. When not prowling the streets in the guise of his hard-boiled gumshoe alter ego, Jack Vendetta, Steven can be found grooming puppies and kittens in the pet salon he runs in his home bathroom. Don’t worry if his fingers are all bitten up; he swears it doesn’t hurt!
Steven has been teaching since time immemorial. He taught Eve to eat apples, Noah to build arks, Caesar to make salads. After scoring a 760 on the GMAT, he began teaching the GMAT for another test-prep company in Paris in 1998. In 2000, he returned to New York (his hometown – go Knickerbockers!) and joined the curriculum staff at this other test-prep company, working on the team responsible for writing the LSAT, GMAT, and GRE courses. A year and much disillusionment later, Steven bade a dry-eyed farewell to this other test-prep company. He embarked on a freelance writing career, turning out educational materials for publishing companies, before joining the Olympian staff of Manhattan GMAT, which, back in 2002, was still operating out of a tool shed in Central Park. Students have remarked that Steven's "calm but confident demeanor was relieving and a huge help in alleviating the stress when studying and approaching the test." Steven has been praised for his ability to give "great, student-specific tips on how to prepare for and conceptualize the test."
Steven majored in linguistic anthropology in college and spent his junior year in Paris. After graduation, he spent a year teaching English in Madrid (¡Hola!), a year in a PhD program in sociolinguistics (the less said, the better), and two years back in NYC working as a literary agent and then as the foreign-language editor at Dover Publications. At this point, he decided his life wasn’t complicated enough, so he went to law school, which was a lot more fun than being an actual lawyer. Having endured a stint at a firm, Steven returned to Paris for a year. This is the part where he gets a job teaching GMAT for another test-prep company and now the circle is complete. Neat! Steven has published a translation of a collection of short stories by Guy de Maupassant, as well as an article in the Fordham Urban Law Journal. He is currently trying to break into screenwriting – his first script, a dark comedy, made the finals in the Sundance screenplay competition last year. Steven is also a visual artist and has sold several works to total strangers!
Feedback From Stevern’s Recent Students
“As a student Steven immediately built confidence in me that he was 100% secure in the content that he teaches. Every time he would explain the content he would refer to the actual content on the GMAT making it almost feel as if he takes the exam each year.”
“Steven is great at coming up with examples on the fly; at times, he would mention a related problem to the one we were doing and then automatically he would generate an example of that second problem.”
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