The ACS exams is used by many colleges as a measurement of the learning levels of their students. Assuming she did well in the class and has a firm understanding of the material, she should have passed with flying colors. The test is designed that way—most students pass.
Passing the ACS has no correlation with being able to score well on the MCAT.
ACS is an achievement exam which measures past performance. The MCAT is an aptitude exam which measure a test-taker’s potential to learn new skills in the future.
Plus the structure and formats of the two exams are completely different.
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If she wants tutoring jobs, she needs to network, network, network…
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I know you are looking for tutoring jobs that pay more than minimum wage…but if your daughter really wants to earn more than minimum wage, perhaps she should consider thinking out of her box. Look for jobs on her campus that pay more. At most colleges, lifeguards (for example) earn more than minimum wage. One of my kids worked in the admission office and made $20 an hour…in 2006-2010. She also worked at the call center where they got bonuses for getting a certain amount of donations on a shift.
She tutored also, but the tutoring jobs were as needed…not consistent income like her other jobs in college. IOW, there were times when she had zero tutoring jobs.
Just a thought.
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https://sites.rhodes.edu/studentemployment/sear
Student Employment listing
No tutoring, but pretty easy jobs like library check out desk or office assistant for various departments.
All pay above TN’s minimum wage of $7.25/hour
Rhodes even pays students to take off campus jobs with local non-profits. (Jobs require having transportation and are reimbursed at higher rates than on-campus jobs.)
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Did all of the above. Please stay on topic of tutoring.
Your student does not live in your home area while in college.
Since she had success doing online tutoring for a cost that must have been OK….with a HS student in the past, why not reach out to the HS and see if anyone needs her tutoring help? If it’s all being done remotely, that should work.
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I asked around this week out of curiosity- and because everyone was out and about with mild holiday weather.
The highest paid Chem and math tutor in my town is a retired HS teacher (he was a legend). He works on a sliding scale, but $60-125/hour is his range. It is all face to face- kids kitchen table if necessary. Parents pay for his “presence”, and for making sure their kid is “present” (i.e. no music in the background, no cellphone under the table while the zoom camera is on).
Next down are moonlighting adjuncts (they teach at a few local CC’s) and professors. $50-$75 an hour. Some will do Zoom, they report that parents prefer face to face. The sliding scale allows for kids who only need a few sessions (that’s the top end) if they missed two weeks of school for pneumonia, vs. the kids who need an entire semester of support.
College students range from $30-40 an hour. Face to face preferred which limits availability.
Nobody reported that they prefer Zoom…that’s always the backup. Feeling was the Khan or another open source curriculum-- free- is about as useful as Zoom tutoring.
Important to realize that these HS kids who need chem tutoring spent middle school on Zoom- and for many, it was a total waste. Hence the attitude that “If I’m writing checks, I want someone who shows up”.
YMMV.
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What your D gets paid is location dependent. She needs to set realistic expectations about her payments according to local job market.
She doesn’t live in Maryland right now and is not subject to MD’s minimum wage laws. She lives in TN and subject to TN minimum wage laws.
If she want to earn Maryland level money, she needs to sell her services in MD, not TN.
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On a completely unrelated note–people may think the physicians are exempt from the ups and downs of the local job markets. It’s not true.
Different locations pay doctors at different reimbursement levels and under different reimbursement schemes.
Talked to one of my daughters last night and she commented that all 6 of her partners in hospital-affiliated private practice were sent notices in December that the method of calculating their reimbursement (i.e. salaries) is being totally–and unilaterally-- changed by the hospital. Instead being compensated by the amount of RVUs generated–aka productivity, they will now be paid a flat rate salary that does not consider productivity, years of experience or seniority within the hospital system. Some of her partners will take 30% or greater pay cuts. When the partners asked to negotiate their new contracts, they were told to “take it or leave it.”
All 6 are very seriously considering leaving the state.
Their employer doesn’t seem to care they will be losing 6 experienced physicians with strong patient bases in a speciality that is very high demand. (In summer 2023, the non-profit healthcare system that employs them had 14 unfilled physician positions in this specialty. The employer still hasn’t filled them.)
BTW, D wasn’t sent the same notice because as a more recent hire, she is still within her 3 probationary employment period and never had a productivity-based reimbursement agreement. She’s on a flat-rate salary.
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MD has $1000 minimum income level to trigger tax reporting for dependents. Your D will only pay state income tax if she earns more than that. $1000 is a lot of tutoring hours even at $15/hour.
RE: Sales tax TN’s sales tax rate is 7%; Maryland’s is 6%. That’s a fairly negligible difference unless your daughter is making large purchases in TN…
Paying a higher state sales tax while attending an OOS state-- you have to consider this is just one more cost of attending an OOS college. Just like it costs more for her to travel to Memphis than College Park.
Anyway, I’m done here.
You’ve gotten some excellent suggestions in this thread for how your daughter can find supplemental employment while attending college.
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As much as I like CC, it always amaze me how people ask one question and get dragged into conversations in totally unrelated things. (Ex. ask about online tutoring and get suggestions how to find a job or how to tutor professor’s kids in person… etc…)
If my cursory questions in my area (urban Northeast) had yielded any suggestions of online resources I would share them with you. I was told- repeatedly- by parents “no more online” or “my kid already proved he can’t learn effectively via remote”. So these are the folks paying upwards of $100 an hour for an in-person tutor for math, chem and sometimes physics.
The small tutoring rooms in the public library I mentioned above are constantly booked- morning through closing- with students and their in-person tutors.
So if any of us knew of a silver bullet for remote tutoring- I’m sure you’d have heard about it by now. The trend (at least in my area) is back to physical, sit next to me and watch me instruction. Folks use Khan academy if they want an online instructor…
Don’t shoot the messenger!
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Agree this is less than ideal, especially for a pre-med.
There were a number of good ideas above about how to get her name out there as an independent tutor…has she done any of that?
How about contacting Chegg or Varsity Tutors, which are larger online tutor providers? Or how about tutoring for SAT/ACT? If that’s of interest I would start by contacting the larger companies like Applerouth (also provides chem tutoring) and Compass Prep. There are plenty of people still paying for online tutoring. Note that any independent/contractor work will result in her paying double FICA taxes on her income.
Since you mentioned she is working 3 jobs…is she really just wanting to maximize income? If so, and can’t find an online tutoring gig, what about waiting tables at relatively higher end places, especially on weekend nights?
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Thanks for suggestions. Please stay on topic of tutoring.
Contact her former high school in MD….and find out if any students there would like and need online tutoring.
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Do a search on a job board like Indeed for “chemistry tutor.” Plenty of remote gigs come up. Just make sure these are not scam ads by checking the company’s site for the advertised positions.
Thanks. We were doing it too!
I’m curious as to what does being a petit girl have to do with waiting tables? If she is concerned about safety walking to her car, a manager or co worker would gladly escort her to the parking lot.
You have been given several viable options from experienced posters and you seem to knock them all down with flimsy excuses. Good luck to your daughter.
Eta. My daughter waited tables on all breaks throughout college in her hometown, and that came up frequently at medschool interviews.
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My 5’5" 108lb, size 00 daughter worked as a server for years. The size of server has little relation on how well they can do their job. Also good restaurants work hard to insure the safety of their workers–including escorting female employees out to their cars at night. D worked at all levels of food service hospitality–eventually working in a very high end restaurant where she once helped wait on George Clooney. (Incredibly nice guy who tipped each of the waitstaff in the restaurant–even those who didn’t serve his party-- at least $100.)
Servers at established restaurants can bring home several hundred dollars a night.
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Scribing doesn’t have to done in person. The big national scribing companies have all-virtual positions.
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For my D too. Every single interview.
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