Craig Taylor

Shortly after graduating from Duke University in 1990, Craig joined The Princeton Review, where he was a star tutor for more than twenty-five years. Joining Inspirica Pros in 2016, he has successfully guided over 2000 students during his career, with unparalleled results. After earning his Certificate in College Advising from Columbia University, Craig has become a beginning-to-end solution for college prep and admissions - covering college profile development and mentoring (starting as early as 9th grade), ACT/SAT tutoring, formation of a targeted college list, college application strategy and logistics, and college essay guidance - and limits his roster to 15 students per year, so they are all guaranteed the personalized attention required for maximum results.

Over the last six years, over 85% of Craig’s full program students have been admitted to their ED/1st choice school.

With respect to tutoring, Craig has focused exclusively on private clients for the last twenty-five years, the last fifteen of which have been executed predominantly via remote classroom/Zoom. He possesses a breadth of experience in both test prep and distance learning that gives him the unique ability to quickly pinpoint, analyze, and diagnose areas of weakness and design approaches specifically tailored to each student. Whether it is the highest scoring students (Craig scored in the rarefied 99.6 percentile on the LSAT) or students with learning differences, test anxiety, or are just “too cool for school,” Craig has the experience and expertise to achieve the highest score improvements possible.

Over the last six years, Craig’s average result for students taking the SAT/ACT is a mind-boggling 97.23%, with 44% scoring in the top 1%.

Helping hundreds of students prepare both undergraduate and graduate school essays and applications for almost three decades, Craig has guided candidates through successful admission to Harvard, Wharton, Stanford, Yale, Duke, Cornell, UPenn, Northwestern, UChicago, Johns Hopkins, Columbia, Brown, Rice, WashU, McGill, Michigan, UT-Austin, USC, Wisconsin, WashU, NYU, Tulane, Maryland, Babson, Indiana, Wesleyan, London Business School, and IMD.

Craig also has extensive international experience with students from Great Britain, Japan, Germany, Mexico, China, Spain, France, Canada, Korea, Italy, Russia, India, Bangladesh, Hong Kong, Hungary, and the Czech Republic.

He has led in-house GMAT programs for Goldman Sachs and JP Morgan, among other corporations, as well as pro bono SAT programs for students in Harlem.

An accomplished musician, songwriter, and manager, Craig’s bands sold over 50,000 albums and shared the stage with acts such as Skrillex, Stone Temple Pilots, Incubus, Dr. John, and Rebirth Brass Band. He has also run multiple fundraising events & festivals, including The Great Big Bacon Picnic, Fat Friday, and A Midsummer Night’s Jam for the People.

One conversation with Craig will convince you that he is uniquely qualified to help you achieve the best possible scores and admission results.