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Liz Ghini

Liz Ghini Chicago, Illinois

New Orleans born, schooled in NJ, California and Illinois, Liz now lives in Chicago with her husband, three daughters, and a very aloof house cat. Liz’s first attempt at the GMAT earned her a score of 780 and an MBA scholarship to the University of Chicago GSB. She enjoyed business school so much that she decided to get a PhD so that she could become a professor and never leave.

By day, she is in the process of completing her PhD dissertation in healthcare decision making. By night (and weekend) she teaches for Manhattan GMAT. She has many hours of experience as a TA working with students in the full time, executive, and international MBA programs at the GSB and helping them to master their course materials. She loves teaching students how to maximize their GMAT scores through the use of superior problem solving techniques rather than the more commonly employed brute force and guessing tricks.

Before graduate school, Liz earned a degree in Math from Stanford University and then worked as a computer programmer at Apple Computer and several high tech start-ups in Silicon Valley. She observed that even computers work faster when the programmer devises an elegant algorithm to solve the problem rather than have the processor waste time on brute force computation. This is something she always tells her students in order to encourage them to think before jumping into calculations.

Liz enjoyed the challenge of the GMAT and likes helping students discover that they can master it. She encourages students to be patient and persistent. There is a lot of material to master, but achieving a top score is worth the effort and can pay off many times over.

For fun, Liz enjoys figuring out how to pair wines with food, bicycling, attempting to speak various European languages, and chasing her children.

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