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Who is Dr. Edgar Huang?

Dr. Edgar Huang is a tenured professor at Indiana University. He graduated from The Institute of International Relations in Beijing in 1984. In 1988, he earned the very first master's degree in Photojournalism from the People's University of China in Beijing. In 1995, he got an MFA degree in Visual Arts and graduated with a GPA of 4.0 from University of California San Diego. In 1999, Huang was granted a PhD degree in Mass Communication from Indiana University.

In late 1980s and early 1990s, Huang taught TOEFL and GRE at what is now famously called New Oriental in China. In 2006, Dr. Huang started to teach SAT/PSAT English in Carmel, Indiana. In recent decades, some of this New Oriental students found out Dr. Huang's SAT English class and sent their kids to it. His SAT/PSAT English Enhancement Class (SEEC) has enjoyed an extremely high reputation in North America and beyond. Apart from teaching SEEC, Dr. Huang has coached many students in national and international essay competitions, and many students won highly prestigious awards. Every year, he has also coached high-school students to prepare for applying to top U.S. colleges. Many of this students have got into Harvard, Princeton, Yale, MIT, Stanford, UChicago, UPenn, etc., each year.

Dr. Edgar Huang is the only instructor of SEEC and coaches all the students in his college counseling program and college application support program.

Dr. Huang is known among his students for his unique English placement testing strategies and English foundation enhancement strategies. SEEC covers four connected areas in language art in the SAT/ACT test:

1. essay writing,
2. critical reading,
3. grammar, and
4. vocabulary.

Dr. Huang’s modular design in teaching these four areas makes learning fun, exciting and memorable. His students truly love the rich online environment in which they can be engaged in peer learning and self-discovery.

Dr. Huang's teaching in SEEC has not only helped those highly self-motivated students to achieve their dreams but has also successfully converted some students who have not cultivated a good learning habit into active and responsible learners. His “No Child Left Behind” policy, appropriated from President G. W. Bush, has helped SEEC students gain self-confidence and self-esteem, thus much better school performance and SAT/PSAT performances.

Dr. Huang’s SEEC has become highly popular in the United States and beyond over the years. Since its inception in early 2006, many students from 6th grade to 12th grade have benefited from his rigorous, insightful and humorous SAT strategy teaching and have boosted their SAT/PSAT performances in the English sections and boosted their school English/language arts performances. Typical course evaluations for Dr. Huang given by his students are “knowledgeable,” “enthusiastic” and “humorous.” It is not uncommon that parents reported to Dr. Huang, "My child does not likely to take any tutoring class except for Dr. Huang's class."

Both SEEC students and their parents are enthralled by Dr. Huang’s teaching quality and have highly recommended his class to other students. Dr. Huang rarely advertises the SEEC services. SEEC could develop strongly over the years almost exclusively because of the parents' and students voluntary word-of-mouth spread of the SEEC reputation mainly with the intention to help other students.

More facts about Dr. Huang

1. Apart from tutoring TOEFL, GRE, and SAT/PSAT, Dr. Huang taught English classes to undergraduate students and graduate students in Florida and in Indiana for several years.
2. Dr. Huang received rigorous training in English language in college with a B.A. degree in English. He has the English language knowledge, especially in-depth grammar knowledge, that many English tutors do not possess.
3. With his senior researcher's insight, Dr. Huang has studied College Board questions very carefully and has come up with a systematic approach to tackle those questions. As a result, his students are trained to get to the right answers with speed and precision.
4. Dr. Huang is an established author. His research articles have been published in highly prestigious journals, such as Journalism and Communication Monographs and Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies. Dr. Huang has served as a reviewer for college application essays, graduate school application essays, grant applications, conference papers, journal manuscripts, and book manuscripts numerous times since 1998. He is a tough reader who rigorously controls the quality of any final product. He may make a student feel frustrated in the process of preparing for SAT or preparing for college applications, but such frustrations are very likely to be rewarded with the congratulations from his/her dream schools, as many of his high school students in the past have demonstrated.
5. Dr. Huang has taught in seven universities from China to the United States since 1984.
6. Dr. Huang and his wife have raised three children. The first child graduated from Rice University and is now an attorney serving in the U.S. Air Force. The second child graduated from Stanford University and is now a software engineer. The third child graduated from Harvard University and is now earning her MD and MBA degrees.
7. Taking time out of his very busy university teaching and SEEC tutoring/counseling schedule, Dr. Huang has been actively engaged in volunteering activities on a routine bases. He has served as the President of the Indiana Chinese Photography Club since 2013. He served as the President of the Asian-Pacific American Faculty and Staff Council at his university twice. He served as a simultaneous interpreter at his Chinese church in Carmel for more than 10 years. He has established in 2014 and since maintained one of the largest educational WeChat groups (sjin504) in North America to help parents from all around the world and their children learn how to prepare for applying to top U.S. colleges.