Tutoring

Students who demonstrate a pattern of insufficient academic performance may be eligible for school-sponsored tutoring. Eligibility is determined by Academic Affairs, in collaboration with the Course Director and Educational Resources.

Students who are eligible must go to the GSDM Portal and complete a “Request Tutoring” form. Students receiving school-sponsored tutoring must submit Progress Reports after every tutoring session via the GSDM Portal.

Eligible students are allowed two hours per week, per subject, of school-sponsored tutoring.

Your tutor will be another student who has already taken the course and excelled in it. They know the challenges in the course and are suitable to help other students succeed. Tutors may be a current dental student or GMS student and are vetted and approved by the Course Director.

Your Course Director will assign your tutor.

  Contact the Course Director to request a different tutor.

  School-sponsored tutoring begins after your first exam in September.

Course directors recruit tutors. If you are interested in becoming a tutor, please contact the relevant Course Director.

Once selected by the Course Director, you must register as a tutor via the GSDM Portal under the Tutoring Tab. Students who are not GSDM students must email sdmtutor@bu.edu with the following information to request access to the GSDM Portal.

• Name
• Email
• Graduation year
• School affiliation(medicine, etc.)

You will receive an email from sdmtutor@bu.edu with specific instructions on how to complete the hiring process. If you do not complete the hiring process with Student Affairs, you are not eligible to receive compensation for tutoring.

You cannot begin tutoring unless you are officially registered and hired by the university. Any student who tutors prior to being officially hired will not be compensated for those sessions.

Once you have been registered and hired as a tutor, you are required to do the following on a weekly basis for your payments to be processed:

1. Log in your tutoring hours weekly via the MyBU Student Portal.
2. Submit a progress report after every tutoring session via the GSDM Portal.

School-sponsored tutoring is limited to two hours per week, per subject, for every tutee.

Tutor registration begins mid-August of each academic year.

Tutors are paid $16.50 an hour for one-on-one tutoring, and $30.00 an hour for group tutoring (two or more student).

Tutors are initially hired at the one-on-one rate of $16.50 per hour. Depending on the number of tutees assigned, a tutor can decide to conduct group session and request the group rate of $30.00 per hour.

Course directors assign tutees to tutors.