Sage Hill, Corona del Mar High, Newport Harbor, St. Margaret's, JSerra, Mater Dei
Public, independent, and Catholic schools all handle business and finance differently. We work from your student's own course.
California · Newport Beach
Private finance tutoring for families in Newport Beach and Corona del Mar.
Orange County families plan for college early, and finance is one of the subjects students most often wish they'd started sooner. California will require a semester of personal finance for public high school students in the class of 2030 to 2031.
Private 1-on-1 on Zoom · $250 / hour
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The courses
What we work on.
Bring your slides, problem sets, and your last midterm. We work from your actual course.
California's personal finance requirement
A one-semester personal finance course becomes a graduation requirement for public high school students in the class of 2030 to 2031.
AP® Business with Personal Finance
The newest AP course, with the first exam in May 2027. I've mapped all 5 units and 31 topics and built 940 practice questions.
Corporate finance over break
Students home from college often bring their hardest class with them. Winter break and summer are the best time to fix corporate finance before the next exam, and I teach it at the level their course expects.
Newport Beach · California
Where students get stuck.
Business class, harder than expected
Business electives sound light until the finance unit arrives. We get ahead of it.
Real estate questions
Mortgages and property values come up constantly in Orange County. We use them to teach interest, leverage, and risk.
Credit versus debit
Interest, minimum payments, and credit scores are easy to mix up. We make each one concrete.
For parents
Parents usually book, and your student joins on Zoom from Newport Beach, Corona del Mar, Irvine, or anywhere in Orange County. Send me the course and what's giving your student trouble, and I'll tell you honestly whether I can help.
How a session works
Diagnosis first. Then the fix.
- 01
Before we meet
Send me what you're stuck on: a problem set, slides, your last midterm, a practice exam, last week's quiz.
- 02
On Zoom
You walk me through a problem out loud. It usually takes a few minutes to hear where the reasoning goes sideways. We fix that piece and rebuild from there, so you know why each step works.
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Before we finish
The real test: a fresh problem with new numbers and different wording, the way a midterm would ask it, and you solve it yourself. I don't complete assignments or hand over answers. You leave able to do the work.
Your tutor
Studied it. Worked in it. Now I teach it.
I’m Chi Odogwu. I have a B.S. in Business with a finance specialization from Liberty University, earned summa cum laude in three years, and a Master’s in International Economics and Finance from Brandeis. I tutored IB students in grad school, did valuation and private equity consulting at PwC, taught MBA finance at Florida State, and spent three years as an adjunct professor teaching Business Finance.
Questions
Before you book.
What time zone are sessions in?
Sessions are scheduled in Pacific time, usually evenings and weekends.
Can you help with a Catholic school's economics course?
Yes. I work from your student's own syllabus, whatever the school.
Will tutoring get in the way of my student's teacher?
No. I work from the teacher's materials and never complete graded work, so sessions support the class instead of replacing it.
Is tutoring allowed under my school's honor code?
Tutoring on concepts and practice problems is generally fine, but policies on graded work vary by course. I don't complete graded assignments. Check your syllabus's collaboration policy, and if you're unsure, ask your professor.
Get started
Bring the problem you’re stuck on.
Tell me your course and what isn’t clicking. I’ll tell you honestly whether I can help.
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