Introduction
Elizabeth Drumwright, M.A., M.F.A. brings twenty-six years of experience to the fields of English instruction, standardized test prep instruction and college counseling. Her services are in high demand as an independent English tutor, college counselor, and private day school and boarding school application counselor. Since 2007 when she began to work with clients in the Princeton area she has built up a strong reputation for improved student performance and college admission. Selective parents trust her to use her expertise to help their students reach their highest potential in writing. She has taught SAT Writing Test Prep, TOEFL Prep and College Application Essay Writing to students at the Honors Review Learning Center in Plainsboro and at the Quakerbridge Computer and Learning Center in Lawrence.
Experience
Ms. Drumwright worked most recently as College Counselor and English instructor at Doane Academy, a historic Episcopal K-12 college preparatory school in Burlington, New Jersey. Previously she worked as College Counselor at the Ross School in East Hampton, New York. Formerly she served as Director of Guidance at Valley Forge Military Academy in Wayne, Pennsylvania where she wrote the book Mastering the New SAT Essay and taught AP Language and Composition. She taught Composition at Eastern University in St. David’s, Pennsylvania and at Delaware County Community College in Media, Pennsylvania. She also taught English to middle school students at the Agnes Irwin School in Rosemont, Pennsylvania. When Ms. Drumwright lived overseas in the U.S. Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, she chaired the English Department at Marianas High School. Earlier she served as Director of Northern Marianas Academy, a high school for the gifted and talented in which students graduated with their Associate’s degree and transferred as juniors into competitive U.S. colleges. When Ms. Drumwright lived abroad in Colombia, she taught AP Language and Composition and British Literature at Colegio Nueva Granada, an American International School in Bogota.
Education
Ms. Drumwright graduated with her B.A. in English and American Literature and Language from Harvard and Radcliffe Colleges in 1985. She earned her M.A. in Theology and the Arts at the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley, California in 1988. She completed her M.F.A. in Creative Writing at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada in 1993. Ms. Drumwright also completed a year of full-time coursework for the M.F.A. in Writing for Children & Young Adults at Vermont College.
Awards
Ms. Drumwright has won a number of awards for her teaching, counseling and writing. In 2008 she was voted Teacher of the Year at Doane Academy for her English instruction and college counseling. In 2006 the Office of Admissions of Bowdoin College gave her the Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Award for excellence in writing letters of recommendation on behalf of her students. Her recommendations placed in the Top 10 of 11,000 letters submitted for college applicants that year. While at the University of British Columbia she was awarded a University Graduate Fellowship for two years and won a spot as a Fiction Fellow in the May Studios program of the Banff Centre for the Arts. In 1985 she won 3rd Prize in Harvard College’s LeBaron Russell Briggs Fiction Competition.