Anna Walsh

Anna Walsh is one of our SAT consultants. She enjoys talking to high school students about their testing experiences and helping them with their entire admissions process.

Anna took the SAT in 2011 and got a 1570; scoring a perfect 800 on the verbal section and a 770 in math. Her experience with standardized tests has given her insight into both the strategies that the test-makers use to write questions and the tactics students should use to meet them. She also scored 5 on seven AP exams including Calculus, Statistics, Biology, World History and Literature and had above-770 scores on the Biology and Math II SAT IIs.

On the strength of these tests, her academics, and her extra-curricular activities, Anna went to M.I.T. and graduated in 2016 with two Bachelors of Science: one in Computer Science and one in Literature. Torn between her love of humanities and science for as long as she can remember, she was glad M.I.T. allowed her to pursue both. On campus, she did research in satellite launches, graduated from the Gordon Engineering Leadership program, led her co-op as house manager, and helped reduce the school’s carbon footprint on the Sustainability Committee. She received the Peter S. Donaldson prize for her work in the Literature department and was recognized as a Burchard Scholar.

After graduation and through summer 2018, Anna worked as a software engineer at the New York Times, writing code for the high-traffic comments system and helping to incorporate machine learning moderation methods into the comment moderators’ workflow. About a year into her tenure there, she began taking pre-med classes at Columbia University in the mornings and evenings. She is now enrolled in these classes full time, and expects to head to medical school in either fall of 2019 or 2020.

In the meantime, she enjoys reading too much, soccer leagues (both playing in a local one and watching the Championship League), cross-stitching while watching medical dramas and woodworking.