Raphael Montes

Background

About Raphael Montes

Ridge has eleven years’ experience tutoring students at the world’s most selective secondary schools and universities. Recently, his students have matriculated to the University of Pennsylvania, Cornell, Duke University, Northwestern, the Sorbonne, and Emory University. Ridge’s career advisees have also obtained summer internships in finance and real estate at UBS, Carlyle, Piper Sandler, TD Securities, and Newmark. Ridge is a MBA candidate at Columbia Business School and a JD candidate at Columbia Law School. He was a 2019 SEO Law Fellow at Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz and a recipient of the Columbia Fellowship from Columbia Business School. Ridge completed his undergraduate degrees in Applied Mathematics and Classics at Columbia University, and he graduated with Distinction in Classics from Phillips Exeter Academy. Ridge speaks French, and he reads Latin and Greek fluently.