No statewide requirement
Finance often gets squeezed into a short unit or skipped. Students feel it later in college economics and business classes.
Massachusetts · Wellesley and Newton
Private finance tutoring for families in Wellesley, Weston, and Newton.
Massachusetts doesn't require a personal finance course to graduate, so plenty of strong students leave high school without ever learning how interest, credit, or investing work. Families here tend to fix that before college, not after.
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.
Wellesley High, Weston High, Newton North and South, Dana Hall, Rivers, Nobles
Day and independent schools teach their own economics and finance electives. We work from your student's actual syllabus.
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 BC, BU, and colleges across the country 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.
Wellesley and Newton · Massachusetts
Where students get stuck.
Starting college behind
Students who never took finance meet it for the first time in a college course that moves fast. A few sessions beforehand make a real difference.
Packed schedules
Between classes, sports, and activities, days are full. Zoom sessions fit into evenings and weekends.
Compounding
Growth over time is the idea students underestimate most. Once they see the math, saving and investing questions get much easier.
For parents
Parents usually book, and your student joins on Zoom from Wellesley, Weston, Newton, or a boarding school anywhere in New England. 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.
- 03
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.
My student's school doesn't offer a finance class. Can you still help?
Yes. We can build a foundation in personal finance and corporate finance so college classes feel familiar.
Do you work with boarding school students?
Yes. Sessions are on Zoom, so students can join from campus around study hours and sports.
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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