Bransen Vilardo, GMAT, GRE & EA tutor

Bransen is the only American we’ve ever met who speaks fluent Hebrew, Greek, and Arabic, in addition to scoring a 790 on the GMAT. As an undergraduate, Bransen graduated summa cum laude with a degree in Business Administration in just a year and half, with much of that time spent taking classes in Jerusalem.

Prior to joining GMAT Ninja, Bransen honed his math (read: excel) skills at a boutique investment bank where he helped connect emerging Israeli startups with US markets and sources of capital. Because banking can sometimes be repetitive and boring, Bransen spent his spare time running a Biblical Hebrew tutoring business, which deepened his passion for teaching. That experience, along with his knowledge of four languages, provides Bransen with a unique gift for guiding students through the GMAT verbal section.

When he isn’t helping students decipher GMAT RC passages, Bransen attempts to decipher an equally cryptic -- but much older -- text in his role as a Teaching Pastor at a Pentecostal church. He has found these pastoring skills to be surprisingly relevant as he helps students navigate the more frustrating side(s) of the GRE and GMAT, which often take a spiritual toll on test-takers.

In his spare time, Bransen is proud to be the only person in Florida who refuses to go to the beach, but he loves to travel, ski, learn languages, eat hummus, make hummus, and talk about hummus. If you begin speaking with him in Hebrew, Arabic, or Greek, he might smile and pretend that he speaks no English at all.

 Our favorite review of Bransen’s tutoring:

“Bransen… was a godsend. Bransen is honestly one of the smartest people I have ever met. He was able to quickly figure out what was preventing me from getting my dream score and taught me really good strategies to do well on the exam.”

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