The Hunter exam asks a lot of a sixth grader. We help them get ready, calmly.

Here's what you're up against.

Picture a Wednesday morning in January. Your sixth grader sits down in an unfamiliar room for a long exam: reading passages, math without a calculator, and a blank page that asks them to write something original. No one can help once the clock starts.

Parents hear a lot of advice before that morning. Some of it is about a different school, some of it is years out of date, and almost none of it comes with honest notes on what your child actually wrote.

None of that is your fault, and none of it means your child is not ready. It means they deserve calm, steady preparation and specific feedback on their own writing, from people who know how selective admissions works.

We went through this. That's why we built it.

Growing up in Fairfax County, I applied to Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology, and my parents signed me up for a prep program. The instructor had never set foot inside TJ. There were 30 students in a single classroom, almost no feedback on our writing, and templates that had nothing to do with the real application. On test day, we realized we had been preparing for something else.

My friend Vishnu was right there with me, in the same classroom, with the same feeling that families deserved something better. We talked about it all through high school and into college. Vishnu passed away far too young, but his conviction never left me. EduAvenues carries his belief forward: if you are going to do this, do it right, and do it for the families who need it most.

So we built what should have existed.

After UVA's McIntire School of Commerce and five years in financial services, including time at Goldman Sachs and at Evergreen by Alpine Investors in private equity, I walked away because this mattered more. I also served on the Board of Directors of the TJHSST Partnership (Endowment) Fund. This isn't just work for me. It's personal.

Hunter families deserve that same honesty. A sixth grader's writing should sound like a sixth grader: curious, specific, and their own. Our instructors give notes on your child's practice Writing Assignment responses, and the reading and math practice is timed, so the real morning feels familiar.

Today our instructors include graduates of schools like Harvard, Stanford, Cornell, Columbia, and UVA, and our team has spent more than a decade helping families through selective admissions. Meet the EduAvenues instructors.

And we built it to fit into your family's life. Lessons are online and self-paced. Prep should work around school, sports, music, and family dinners, not replace them.