Andrea T.
Andrea graduated magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa with a BA in Biology and a minor in Biochemistry. She is now pursing an MD at Columbia Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons in NYC.
Alexa Z.
Alexa graduated cum laude from Harvard College with a Bachelor of Arts in Social Studies and a secondary degree in Psychology. She earned high departmental honors in Social Studies, and her thesis on political myths, critical theory, and female social mobility received magna distinction.
Gift
Gift graduated with a 4.0/4.0 GPA from the University of Texas at Austin, where she majored in Honors Biology and obtained a certificate in creative writing. Toting a Dean’s Distinction in research and multiple recognitions in academics, Gift is now an MD candidate at Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons.
Hudson B.
Hudson holds a degree in International Politics from Washington and Lee University. After scoring a 180 on the LSAT, he is now pursuing his Juris Doctor at Harvard Law School.
Alyssa R.
Alyssa studied Government and East Asian Studies at Harvard University, where she graduated magna cum laude and received the Eric Firth Prize for her senior thesis. She is looking forward to attending law school in the fall of 2022, and she has been accepted to Yale Law School and Stanford Law School.
Juliet R.
Juliet studied Playwriting and Biology at Northwestern University with a focus on Biochemistry and Biophysics. She worked for several years as a research scientist after graduation, eventually pursuing an MS in Biomedical Engineering at Northwestern
Alicia C.
Alicia is a PhD student in Linguistics at NYU. She graduated magna cum laude from Washington University in St. Louis, with a BA in Linguistics and Data Science and a BA in Spanish with a minor in Music.
Izzy
Izzy graduated from Princeton with a BS in Chemical & Biological Engineering and minors in Statistics & Machine Learning and Creative Writing (poetry). She is now a PhD student in Biostatistics at Harvard University.
Connie
Connie holds a BA in Neurobiology from Harvard (summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa), an MSc from Oxford, and an MD from Harvard Medical School. She will be doing her dermatology residency at the Harvard Combined Dermatology Program.
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