Matt Y.
Matt attended Rice University as a Trustee Distinguished Scholar, where he graduated magna cum laude with a degree in Biosciences. He is now pursuing an MD at Harvard Medical School.
Lake
Lake graduated summa cum laude from the University of Kansas with a degree in Ecology. After graduating from the Yale School of Medicine, he matched into an Emergency Medicine Residency in Denver, Colorado.
Taylor Y.
Taylor is an MD Candidate at Duke University School of Medicine. Previously, she majored in Chemistry with a Neuroscience focus at Bowdoin College.
Emmett K.
Emmett attended Amherst College, where he majored in English. After college, Emmett spent five years working as a journalist and television producer. Next, he received an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Montana.
Amalia GR
Amalia completed her undergraduate degree at the University of Michigan in Biology (Honors) where she graduated with High Distinction and Phi Beta Kappa. She is currently pursuing an MD/MBA at the University of Michigan and will apply into the field of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery.
KC
KC holds a BS in Aerospace Engineering and is currently an MD Candidate at Yale Medical School. Professionally, KC has worked in the fields of renewable energy and research management before he transitioned to pursuing a career as a physician.
Quinn
Quinn works at Columbia University as the Director of South Asian Studies MA program and as a Lecturer in the Religion Department. He received his doctoral degree from Columbia University’s Religion Department.
Adrian
Adrian self-designed his MS/BS in Structural Biology and Molecular & Cell Biology at UConn. He then spent three years researching virus structure and antiviral therapies at Harvard, and is now pursuing an MD/PhD at Harvard-MIT.
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She mainly helped me improve my Verbal on the GRE.
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Admitted early to Georgetown University.
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