Sawyer is a proven leader in university admissions, test prep tutoring, AP and IB curricula, and public and private education systems across the United States. He has spent more than ten years serving students in New York City and abroad. His students have been admitted to MIT, Princeton, Stanford, Yale, UC Berkeley, NYU, Cornell, UPenn, Johns Hopkins, Columbia, and more. Sawyer has been a high school teacher as well as a lecturer in literature and writing at JHU. He is a graduate of New York University (B.A.) and Johns Hopkins University (M.A.) and is an active member of his community, serving on numerous volunteer organizations in his home in lower Manhattan.