The Scholar Group, Inc

His work as a co-founder of The Scholar Group includes SAT prep, college counseling, individualized mathematics instruction, and educational consulting and program development for schools. He also specializes in working with students with learning differences.

In addition to The Scholar Group, Drew has founded or co-founded several other successful educational endeavors, including the MBA Centre in Paris, the Cornell-in-Hollywood internship and mentorship programs, and the Visions Scholastic Academy, a WASC-accredited high school program housed at the Visions Adolescent Outpatient Counseling Center in Brentwood, where he served as Director of Education until 2005. At Mount St. Mary's University, where Drew served as adjunct faculty and graduate thesis advisor for 6 years, he was instrumental in the creation of the new MFA program in Creative Writing with a particular focus on working with students who are veterans of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Most recently, Drew spearheaded the Mirman School's overhaul of their signature mathematics curriculum (from kindergarten through multi-variable calculus) to better serve Mirman's unique population of highly gifted and twice exceptional students. The success of Mirman's program led to invitations to speak at conferences, including the CAG (California Association for the Gifted) Conference in Palm Springs, California and the 13th International Congress on Mathematics Education in Hamburg, Germany. Drew holds a BA from Cornell University and a masters' degree from The University of Birmingham in England, and is a current member of the mathematics faculty at New Roads School in Santa Monica.

deborah Puette

Deborah consulted privately for years before launching The Scholar Group with Drew Brody in 2007. Since then, she’s helped many, many students exemplify their best, most authentic selves on their applications to college and graduate programs through standardized test prep and essay guidance. She’s passionate about helping her students identify and gain acceptance at the colleges and universities that will challenge them and set them up for the very best opportunities in their chosen fields.

In addition to college and graduate school admissions guidance, Deborah works with writers grade five through twelve who are looking to improve their academic and creative writing skills well beyond grade level by focusing not just on the mechanics of writing but also developing each writer’s unique voice. Every student’s program is tailored to their age and specific strengths and challenges. She’s also passionate about teaching her students how to diagram complex sentences, a lost art and skill that she’s determined to bring back into fashion. Without a deep understanding of “why” words work together the way they do, it’s very difficult to know how to wield them in our own writing for maximum effect.

Deborah received her Bachelor of Science in Finance from the Carroll School of Management at Boston College and worked in the creative department at Ogilvy & Mather (now Ogilvy) Chicago. She’s also a produced screenwriter in Hollywood.

Collectively, Drew and Deborah have worked with hundreds of students who have subsequently gone on to study at some of the nation’s best colleges and universities, including Amherst, Bard, Berkeley, Boston College, Brown, UCLA, Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth, Duke, Georgetown, Harvard, MIT, Michigan, NYU, Northwestern, Oberlin, University of Pennsylvania, Pepperdine, Pomona, Princeton, USC, Stanford, Tufts, Wellesley, Wesleyan, Williams, Yale, and many more.