rathan Colophon

I tutor economics and mathematics, and I teach high schoolers the quantitative and procedural skills a research lab hires for.

$1,110 a month for subject tutoring, at $185 an hour · $2,400 for the eight-week lab course · the first conversation is free. Why those numbers.

Rathan, the person who teaches these sessions. The same face as in the sample lesson.

Econ + neuro undergraduate at Stanford · research intern

Book a 20-minute call Or send a note instead.

What I won't sell you

I don't sell lab placements, and I won't sell an illegitimate publication.

Programs that promise those are the reason ProPublica, the nonprofit investigative newsroom, went looking: journals accepting four out of five submissions from a single service, paid fast-track review, quiet arrangements between the service and the journal publishing its clients. Admissions officers have noticed. What I teach instead is the prerequisites: statistics you can defend in a lab meeting, AI powered data analysis (R code), human-subjects research certification (CITI), and how to write the cold emails to Bay Area labs.

See how I teach

Before you decide anything, here are four minutes of me teaching.

One worked problem, run through the sequence I teach in: Verbalize, Visualize, Mathematize. Four minutes of video, about ten in total. No account, no email, no download.

Sample lesson · 4 min of video How much should you make? Profit maximization. You find the optimum before I derive it.

What I teach

  • EconomicsAP Micro and Macro, Dual Enrollment.
  • MathAlgebra through AP Calc BC.
  • Get into a labEight weeks on what a lab actually needs from you: statistics you can defend in a lab meeting, AI powered data analysis (R code), human-subjects research certification (CITI), and how to write the cold emails to Bay Area labs. For juniors and seniors who want research experience they can talk about like someone who was there.

What it costs

  • Get into a lab $2,400eight-week course

    Comparable programs run $2,500 to $12,000, and many of them promise a publication instead of the skills that earn a legitimate lab placement.

  • Economics or mathematics $1,110a month
    • A reserved weekly slot. Four ninety-minute sessions a month, at $185 an hour.
    • A week's notice moves a session. A month's notice ends the retainer. Both pro-rated.
    • In person across Palo Alto, Stanford, Menlo Park, Los Altos and Mountain View.
    • Online when either of us is travelling.
  • First conversation Free20 minutes

    You tell me what's going on. I'll say if I'm not the right person.

Book a 20-minute call Or read on. Who I am is below.

Who you'd be working with

Economics and human biology undergraduate at Stanford, on a neuroscience concentration, and a research intern. I work on the neural predictors of risky choice, which is most of why I find the economics worth teaching.

  • The sample lesson needs no account, no email, and no payment
  • Every number on this page is on this page

Two ways to start

Pick a time Or write, and I'll reply myself, usually the same day.

For parents and guardians. I don't collect anything about your student beyond the grade and subject above.