Julia Gilley

In addition to her LSAT expertise, Julia brings a strong background in education and competitive academics. While studying at the University of Toronto, Julia worked as an undergraduate researcher at the Princess Margaret Cancer Research Centre, building machine learning pipelines for cancer biomarker detection. She currently serves as the Head Debate Coach at Havergal College, a historic independent school in Toronto, where she works with some of Canada's top under-16 debaters. 

Teaching has been a throughline in Julia's life, beginning with years spent tutoring peers in her high school and university coursework. This combination of competitive reasoning and one-on-one instruction informs the way she breaks down the logic at the heart of the LSAT. Julia found that studying for the LSAT felt like solving an interesting puzzle that she genuinely enjoyed. That experience shaped how she now teaches: she believes the LSAT rewards curiosity and careful thinking, and students who learn to see it that way are the ones who improve the most.

Julia’s tutoring philosophy is simple. She believes that the test is meant to be learned, not a test of innate aptitude. Julia teaches students to build genuine intuition for the logical frameworks underlying each question type, rather than relying on shortcuts that collapse under pressure.

When she isn’t tutoring, Julia can be found running, sewing, or playing League of Legends. A fun fact about her is that everyone in her immediate family speaks Chinese except for her.