Our availability varies week to week, but if you schedule a recurring appointment early on, then your appointment will take priority over other appointments.
If you think that you scheduled too much or too little time, don’t worry about it. We can work that out in a way that works best for you! You can schedule as many sessions as you’d like in one week. We will use the rate based on the total time per week that you schedule. For example, if you schedule 2 sessions that are 45 minutes each per week, the total is 1.5 hours and you will pay 1.5*$40 = $60 for the whole week.
The most popular (and recommended) time slot is 1 hour, although 1.5 hours works well too depending on where you are with your material and how frequently we meet. Some students who are newer to tutoring find it most effective to schedule an average of 3 hours every 2 weeks with 2 hours one week and 1 hour the next.
For the 2 hour sessions, we can take a 5-10 minute break in the middle that does not count as tutoring time. Because of the challenge in scheduling 2 hour sessions, please only schedule 2 hour sessions up to 10 days before an exam. During finals week, some students find it effective to schedule 2, 1 hour sessions in one day separated by a few hours. That way we can work on something for the first hour, then you can go practice on your own for some time, then we touch base again later in the day.
Based the information that we gather before and during our first meeting, we will recommend a meeting frequency and duration that is unique to you, but you certainly have the freedom to schedule however you’d like!
Cancellation policy: We do not ask to pay for sessions upfront, so we reserve the right to charge for no-shows and cancellations within 6 hr before the scheduled appointment time. We understand that life happens and therefore we will use it at our discretion rather than definitively.
Weekend and last minute appointments: please see the FAQ for policy
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