A Sincere Note

My name is Seth Miller, and I’ve been tutoring students both for the SAT and for their regular classwork since 2021 as a part of a larger tutoring agency, which I left in 2025 to establish Silver Spectacles Tutoring. After completing my Bachelor of Arts degree in English and Philosophy in 2020, I had originally intended to enter a doctoral program to further study philosophy, but decided instead to enter education, and to continue my private studies apart from the university setting, as I found education, which I had only intended to be a way of my spending a gap year between my undergraduate and graduate studies, to be not only worthwhile, but deeply meaningful, and a project I would enjoy for the rest of my life.

My own high school experience was fraught with anxiety and depression, which was compounded by the (mostly self-inflicted) social exclusion and isolation I experienced. High school was easily the worst time of my life, and while I wanted to put it behind me as soon as I graduated, never to think of it again, I’ve found great value in getting to help students that are similarly struggling with the issues I no longer experience, but remember vividly. In addition to privately tutoring, I also hold a part-time position as an educator at Rochester High School where I teach a bit of everything, but I mostly aim to teach students that they are capable of overcoming whatever difficulties they might be facing, academic or otherwise.

As an SAT tutor, I balance a results-oriented approach of diagnosing and treating whatever issues might be holding a student back from achieving their goal score, while also accepting a student’s current position relative to the test. I enjoy the puzzle of determining what specific areas a given student needs to improve in, whether directly related to the test (as in, a student needs to learn how to factor quadratic equations), or indirectly related (as in, a student needs to learn how to trust their instincts), and helping to guide that student in the direction of their achieving the score they deserve.

I often end my tutoring sessions with a little line I’ve found helps, and so I’ll end this note here too—

Study hard, but study peacefully—you will get the score you’re meant to.

Sincerely,

Seth Miller—founder & owner, Silver Spectacles Tutoring LLC