FIRST CHOICE ADMISSIONS
Bruce Hanson
Founder / CEO
CHAPTER 1:
The Early Years and Superpowers
As a kid, the superpower I wanted more than anything else was “flying.” Instead, I got “teaching.” That pissed me off for quite a while. I was always the kid in the back of the class explaining things to my confused classmates: ”All this really means is …”
Yeah, I was that guy. I was always able to take very conceptual ideas and break them down into small, intuitive steps. Other kids could throw footballs or run fast. I could teach you how to do calculus. You can imagine how cool all the girls thought I was.
CHAPTER 2:
College and Becoming a Rock Star
So I took the only reasonable path. I picked up my guitar and became a rock star. No, really! Okay, kinda. We were called Superman Curl and if you were into college radio in the ’90s you might have heard of us.
Otherwise we were just another of a thousand touring bands coming soon to a club near you! We sounded like this … 
CHAPTER 3:
Learning the GMAT
So I did what all my friends did and signed up for a GMAT prep course from a big national company. And it worked! Hardly at all! My score didn’t go up by much. But at least it was expensive.
So I applied my teaching superpower to the GMAT and taught myself how to beat it. I cleared 700 on my first attempt and was accepted to Wharton.
I couldn’t resist starting another band in Wharton. We were called The Fabulous Zeros and we sounded like this … 
CHAPTER 4:
Boring Post-Business School Jobs, Interesting Post-Business School Jobs
and Recession
After Wharton, I was recruited by 
and became a marketer. After a few years of that, I was ready for a new challenge and I moved to San Francisco and started a jazz club, in 2008, because opening a business that relied on disposable income during the Great Recession seemed like a fantastic idea at the time. (I obviously learned a lot in business school.)
CHAPTER 5:
Making Peace with My Superpower
I was able to sell the club and then I spent a few years in Silicon Valley doing marketing and finance consulting for startups. It was great fun but I realized it wasn’t really what I wanted to be doing with the rest of my life.
What I really love to do is to teach. And I thought back on my GMAT test prep experience and figured there just HAD to be a better way to breakdown these tests and teach people how to kick ass on them.
CHAPTER 6:
First Choice Admissions
So in 2014 I founded 
in a garage in Silicon Valley — I know, totally cliché. I soon moved to L.A. and the business flourished.
I’ve taught both privately and also at UCLA when they asked me to revise their GMAT, GRE, ACT and SAT programs, which was the genesis of the lesson plans and question sets you are about to … what? Enjoy? Endure?
I’ve spent thousands and thousands of hours teaching and refining my approach on the GMAT, GRE, ACT and SAT and I’ve helped hundreds of students hit their goals. And, in many cases, shatter their own expectations of what they could achieve on the tests. I’d love to help you as well!
And because everybody is different, we have different options.
Self-Study
If you want to self-study, most of the lesson plans and problem sets are available for purchase.
Semi-Private
If you want to be taught by a real, live, highly-trained teacher (which is often me) but are on a budget, you can sign up for semi-private classes, capped at 4 students, for very reasonable hourly rates.
Private One-on-One
If you want my want my complete, undivided attention, I also offer one-on-one sessions for the ultimate test-prep experience.