"Instructor Eric G. began his scientific career as a research assistant for NASA at the age of 17. By age 21, he was a research scholar at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, a nuclear weapons lab in northern California, and subsequently received his undergraduate degree in Applied Physics from Columbia University with concentrations in optics/lasers and nuclear physics.

After working as a geophysicist in the oil industry, Eric received his graduate degree in Physics from the University of Chicago, where he specialized in relativity and cosmology, and as a graduate researcher at the Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics, theoretically predicted interactions between ordinary and dark matter. Upon receiving his honorable discharge from the United States Navy, Eric joined the faculty of Kaplan Test Prep, and soon became one of the company's most popular instructors in Chicago.

Kaplan students would later rank Eric higher than any other GRE/SAT faculty member in the entire New York - Washington, D.C. region, a position he held until leaving the company to found The Best Test Prep. Eric has authored several test preparation courses for other companies as well as his own, and continues to provide instruction for the SAT, ACT, GRE, and GMAT, as well as the ISEE, SSAT, and SHSAT. He has seen, worked with, and had success with every type of student and learning challenge, always maintaining the goal of target school admission with a scholarship. Around his busy schedule of helping students, Eric is an active member of the Triple Nine Society, Intertel, and Mensa, and has interviewed countless applicants for the Columbia University Admissions Department." less...