Our Instructors >> Liz Moliski

Liz Moliski

Liz Moliski Austin, Texas

Born in New Orleans and schooled in New Jersey, California, and Illinois, Liz now lives in sunny Austin Texas with her husband and daughters. She loves working with students and teaching them how to maximize their GMAT scores (hers was a 780, which lead to a scholarship at Booth) through the use of superior problem solving process, combined with solid content knowledge, rather than the guessing tricks more commonly employed at other test prep companies.

Liz has a PhD in Decision Sciences from Chicago’s Booth School of Business and a special interest in helping students overcome test anxiety. Her dissertation focused on why sequential tasks, such as taking standardized tests, are often so much harder than similar one off tasks, such as answering individual standardized test questions. After six years of study and more research projects than she can remember (including some particularly cool ones where she got to study the decision making performance of vascular surgeons) she now has pretty good understanding of why, and, more importantly, of what to do about it.

Before returning to school for her doctorate (and an MBA along the way), 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. Her area of expertise was performance optimization, which means that she figured out how to make computers run more quickly by solving problems cleverly, rather than by resorting to brute force computation. She sees her job as a Manhattan GMAT instructor as doing the same thing for people, who she has always found more interesting than computers.

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

Back to Instructor Bios