Meet our tutors
All Ivy League graduates
10+ years of elite tutoring experience in every subject taught
Unmatched commitment to the success of our students and communication with their families — plus the track record to prove it
Bonnie Antosh (Founder)
Alma Mater: Yale University, Class of ‘13
Tutoring Experience: 10 years
Subjects: SAT, ACT, SSAT, ISEE, College Consulting, College Essays, Writing & Reading Skills
Recent Student Admits: Oxford, MIT, Brown, Dartmouth, Georgia Tech, Harvard, US Naval Academy, Berkeley
Claims to Fame: Presidential Scholar, Sloan Foundation & NC Arts Council Grantee, Key Lime Pie Aficionado
Bonnie is a double Carolinian — raised in the Hub City of Spartanburg, SC and now living in the mountains of Asheville, NC. Over the decade since graduating from Yale, she’s cultivated teaching relationships and lifelong friendships with families and students on three continents.
Bonnie founded Mountain & Ivy to open doors for curious learners in WNC and Upstate SC. In the spirit of her own teachers, she believes that all students can thrive when they’re empowered and nurtured. She loves watching learners discover their own potential.
In addition to teaching, Bonnie works as a playwright and screenwriter. She especially enjoys mentoring young artists as they cultivate unique, precise storytelling voices. Outside of business hours, you’ll find her planting collard greens, listening to Fleetwood Mac, and hosting Sunday night feasts for family & friends.
Digital & In-Person (Asheville & Spartanburg)
Michael Mount
Alma Mater: Brown University, Class of ‘12
Tutoring Experience: 11 years
Subjects: College Consulting & College Essays
Recent Student Admits: Columbia, Cornell, Brown, Duke, Harvard, UPenn, Princeton
Claims to Fame: MacDowell Fellow, Featured on NPR, Mandolin & Guitar Powerhouse
Michael is a grantwriter, speechwriter and personal statement consultant whose clients have received the Stanford DCI Fellowship and the Guggenheim Fellowship. In crafting personalized college admissions essays, he looks to braid character and narrative together in order to create compelling insights into an applicant's life.
His own travel and fiction writing has appeared in Longreads, in Pacifica Literary Review, and on NPR. He’s received honorable mentions in Best American Travel Writing and for the James Hurst Prize for Fiction, which celebrates North Carolina writers. Michael has also received fellowships from Brown University's Granoff Center for the Arts, The Orchard Project, and MacDowell. He is a graduate of Brown University, where he was formerly an admissions ambassador.