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Liz Ghini

Liz Ghini Chicago, Illinois

Born in New Orleans and schooled in NJ, California, and Illinois, Liz now lives in Chicago with her husband, daughters, and 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 Booth School of Business. She enjoyed business school so much that she decided to get a PhD so that she could become a professor and never have to 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 loves working with students and teaching them 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 computers work much faster when the programmer devises an elegant algorithm to solve the problem and avoids brute force computation. This is something she always tells her students in order to encourage them to think and be sure they fully understand a question before jumping in to solve it.

Liz enjoyed the challenge of the GMAT and really likes helping students discover that they too can master it. She encourages students to be patient and persistent. There is a lot of material to cover, 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 wine with food, bicycling, attempting to speak various European languages, and chasing her children.
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