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Selling Her Way to the Top Courtney Travin ’13 “I really had a great experience at Forman, I’m really grateful for it.”
Courtney Travin ’13 gained an appreciation for homes at an early age. Courtney’s mother is an interior designer and her parents flipped houses often bringing her along as they sought out their next project. Today, Courtney has found her own niche; she is among the youngest members of the Serhant Team, an NYC-based, bi-coastal real estate group that is consistently ranked the number one sales team in New York. Courtney was born and raised in New York with her early childhood taking place in New York City and later in Scarsdale, where she says “it was really nice to have a backyard.” When she was in high school, her family moved back to Manhattan, the place she still calls home. She attended middle school at Eagle Hill School in Greenwich, CT, an independent school for children with language-based learning differences. It was at the start of high school, however, when she faced challenges in the classroom. After Eagle Hill, Courtney went on to Edgemont High School, a public school in Scarsdale, but was quickly overwhelmed with its large class sizes. Realizing the need for a better environment for her learning difference, she visited Forman School, where several of her Eagle Hill classmates had been attending. After a tour of the School, she 18
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Courtney Travin ’13 with Ryan Serhant, real estate broker, author, and reality television actor.
“fell in love with Forman” and enrolled for the second half of her freshman year. “I definitely needed the small classes [and] the more hands-on approach to learning and Forman was all of that,” Courtney says. “They gave me the tools
to work with my learning disability.” Forman’s approach to learning was a welcomed change for Courtney. “All of the teachers were great, the leadership was awesome, and the classes being so small really helped me grow
