Dr. George Tsai is a Philosophy Professor and Director of Graduate Studies at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa. He received his graduate education at Stanford (M.A. in Philosophy) and UC Berkeley (Ph.D. in Philosophy), and his undergraduate education at Amherst College (B.A. double major in Economics and Philosophy). Previously, he taught at University of Richmond, Scripps College, and UCLA. He has held academic fellowships in Germany and Australia.

At Amherst College, he received the Rhodes Scholar nomination, graduated Summa Cum Laude (top 2%), played on the Varsity Tennis Team (team captain during senior year), and worked in the Admissions Office.

After Amherst, he worked in the Investment Banking Division at Morgan Stanley in New York. After a few years as an Analyst, he left finance to pursue academic philosophy. While as an undergraduate and graduate student, he worked at The Princeton Review, teaching many different test-prep subjects: SSAT, SAT, GRE, LSAT, and MCAT. More recently. he was the co-head of the SAT Prep Program and tennis faculty at Punahou School.

As a first-generation college student, and an immigrant from Taiwan, Dr. Tsai draws on his own academic journey and many years of experience helping students get into the most selective educational institutions in the United States. He also draws on his personal experience as a nationally-ranked junior tennis player and NCAA athlete to guide student-athletes in their communication with college coaches during the recruiting process. Over the past 20 years, Dr. Tsai has worked with hundreds of students. He has been featured as a graduate admissions expert and speaker in Hong Kong, Taiwan, Singapore, and China.