Nick Mu.
Nick holds a BA in Earth Sciences from Boston University and a PhD in Hydrologic Sciences from UC Davis. He is currently a groundwater scientist.
Benjy F.
Benjy completed his Bachelor's and Master's degrees in Mathematics at Harvard University, where he graduated summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa. He is currently pursuing his PhD in Mathematics in MIT.
Marcus
Marcus holds a Master's in Liberal Studies from Columbia University. He previously graduated summa cum laude from the University of Minnesota with a BA in American Studies.
Serena S.
With a Bachelor's degree from Hamilton College and a Master’s Degree in Chinese Language Pedagogy from Middlebury College, Serena specializes in teaching Mandarin Chinese, Spanish, and American Sign Language.
Meena
Meena studied computer science with a focus on theory at Harvard College. After working in the education technology industry, she doubled down on her passion for teaching. Meena earned her master’s in education (MEd) from the Harvard Teacher Fellows practicum at the Harvard Graduate School of Education in 2020.
Talia
Talia holds a BA in Visual Studies from the University of Pennsylvania and an MS in Quantitative Economics from UCLA. She will next pursue a PhD in Cultural Economics.
Ashvin
Ashvin earned his BA in Mathematics at Harvard, receiving early election to Phi Beta Kappa, graduating summa cum laude, and winning the David Mumford prize. He also holds a PhD in Mathematics from Princeton.
Ilana
Ilana graduated summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa from Middlebury College with a Bachelor’s in Psychology. Currently, she is a fifth-year PhD candidate in Clinical Psychology at Teachers College, Columbia University, where she is actively involved in research and clinical work.
Zain
Zain holds a PhD in History from the University of Pennsylvania and a JD from Yale Law School. She has held academic positions at Berkeley, Harvard, and the University of Pennsylvania, and is a barred attorney in Pennsylvania.
Stacy S.
Stacy is an experienced college admissions counselor who has worked with hundreds of students. She has worked in admissions at Princeton University and UC Berkeley Haas School of Business.
Patrick L.
Patrick is a recent JD graduate from Yale Law School. He previously received his BA in Economics from the University of Chicago and now works as a Trial Attorney at the Public Defender Service for the District of Columbia.
Danielle J.
Danielle majored in English modified with African and African American Studies at Dartmouth College, where she graduated cum laude with high honors. She is currently a PhD candidate in English Language and Literature at the University of Chicago.
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.
Hannah L.
Hannah earned her BA from Yale University, where her undergrad poetry thesis won her Yale’s Frederick Mortimer Clapp Fellowship. Hannah got her MFA from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop in 2015 and is currently an English PhD candidate at the University of Virginia.
Andrew S.
Andrew received a BA from Columbia University, where he graduated magna cum laude and double majored in American Studies and English. After earning his MFA in Poetry at Brooklyn College, Andrew is now an adjunct lecturer at CUNY.
Anne Claire
Anne Claire is a Clinical Psychology PhD candidate in the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis. Her research focuses on how to use technology to improve youth mental health.
Dana
Dana earned her bachelor’s degree from Johns Hopkins University in Political Science and Economics, graduating cum laude. She continued to the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies to earn her master’s degree in International Relations and Economics, where she graduated with high distinction and served as a teaching assistant for Theories of International Relations.
Isaac J-F
Isaac is a doctoral student at Yale University in the Departments of African-American Studies and American Studies. His research interests include black studies, phenomenology, psychoanalysis, queer theory, and sound studies. Previously, Isaac earned his BA from Columbia University in Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, graduating cum laude.
Chris B.
Chris received his AB from Princeton, where he studied History and American Studies. After earning his Ed.M. at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, he’s been teaching in Boston for the past decade.
Michael T.
Michael is a current JD Candidate at Harvard Law School. He previously graduated from Brown University with BA degrees in Economics and International Relations (magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa).
Anna TW.
Anna holds an MFA in Acting from the Shakespeare Theatre Company/George Washington University and an MA in Acting from the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. Previously, she earned her BA in Creative Writing from Stanford University.
Josh V.
Josh is a PhD student in Physics at MIT, supported by a National Science Foundation GRFP and a Dean of Science Fellowship. Previously, he worked in industry as a Data Scientist and graduated from Harvard with an AB in Physics.
Max S.
Max has a BA in French from Washington University in St. Louis and a PhD in French Literature from New York University, where he also taught undergraduate language courses. He currently teaches French at St. Andrew's School.
Austin T.
Austin attended Harvard College, and graduated summa cum laude with a double major in Chemistry and English. Austin deferred her admission to Harvard Law School to write and her debut novel, NOTES ON INFINITY, is forthcoming summer 2025.
Tarika
Tarika graduated with dual degrees in Philosophy and Biochemistry from The University of Texas at Austin. She then spent a year as a research fellow at the Mayo Clinic Biomedical Ethics Research Program in Rochester, Minnesota before moving to Boston to pursue her MD at Harvard Medical School.
John T.
John studied Biology and Environmental Health at the University of Southern California. He holds his MD from the Duke University School of Medicine. He is currently a resident in Internal Medicine at Duke University Hospital with plans to pursue a fellowship in cardiology.
Nic
Nic found graduated from Princeton University in 2018 with a degree in Molecular Biology and Creative Writing, cum laude. Then, Nic completed a research year at Princeton Neuroscience Institute prior to starting at Harvard Medical School, where they are currently an MD candidate. They have received Harvard’s Presidential Public Service Scholarship and the REACH Scholarship.
Jenny M.
Jenny currently teaches English literature at St. Johnsbury Academy. She holds degrees from Dartmouth College, Trinity College at the University of Oxford, and the University of St. Andrews in Scotland.
William N.
William is a PhD candidate at NYU, writing a dissertation on the philosophy of logic. He previously majored in political science and film production at the Macaulay Honors Program at Brooklyn College, he. His thesis film, “Sugar Packet”, was selected to screen at the Brooklyn Academy of Music and won two awards.
Michael S.
Michael graduated with honors from Swarthmore College with a Bachelor of Arts in Computer Science. He next acquired a PhD in Computer Science at the University of Virginia, specializing in parallel and distributed systems. He completed his post-doctoral studies at the RENCI Supercomputing Center at UNC Chapel Hill.
Sam C.
Sam graduated with a degree in Physics from Princeton University. After graduation, she taught physics at a high school in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. She's currently pursuing her MFA in fiction at the Iowa Writers' Workshop.
Diane H.
Diane is a MD/MS candidate at Columbia University, where she has recently published a first author manuscript in cardiothoracic surgery research. Previously, she studied Molecular and Cell Biology at the University of California, Berkeley, where she graduated magna cum laude and was inducted into Phi Beta Kappa.
Ellen Z.
Ellen is a MD candidate at Harvard Medical School, where she is Editor-In-Chief of the Harvard Medical Student Review and Executive Director of the student-run free clinic. She studied life sciences and creative writing at Harvard College. Currently, she serves as a Harvard non-resident tutor and Harvard Alumni interviewer.
Carmi
Carmi attended Duke University (Go Devils!) on the Benjamin N. Duke Merit Scholarship. Before graduating, Carmi was accepted into the Harvard Business School 2+2 program, and she recently graduated with the Class of 2020.
Joshua A.
Josh is a JD Candidate at NYU. He previously completed a Master's of Public Policy and an undergraduate political-science degree from the University of Maryland, where he graduated cum laude.
Isabel T.
Isa designed an independent major at Williams College titled “Critical Health Studies,” combining philosophy, sociology, and anthropology with the goal of complementing her science-oriented pre-medical education with a humanist and critical exploration of health and medicine. After graduating with Highest Honors, she is now an entering MD-PhD student at the University of Michigan where she will complete her doctoral work in sociocultural anthropology.
Eddy Y.
Eddy graduated summa cum laude from the University of Pennsylvania with a degree in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics and a minor in Marketing/Psychology. Eddy went on to get his teaching certification in secondary mathematics from Penn’s Graduate School of Education and currently works as a middle and high school math teacher in South Philadelphia.
Yen
Yen majored in Biology with a minor in Chemistry and graduated Magna Cum Laude from Duke University with a 3.93 GPA. Currently, she is a DMD candidate at the Harvard School of Dental Medicine and is passionate about reducing oral health inequities.
Udodiri
Udodiri is a PhD Candidate in History of Science at Harvard University; she previously earned a BA in the same field at Harvard College. Her honors thesis on the biomedicalization of Civil Rights Protest in the 1960s and 1970s received the Thomas T. Hoopes Prize.
Sarah R.
Sarah graduated Phi Beta Kappa and Magna Cum Laude with an Honors English degree from Bates. After taking her Fulbright Scholarship to teach ESL in the Czech Republic, she completed her Masters of Arts in Teaching at Harvard’s Graduate School of Education.
Dmitry K.
Dmitry studied French, German, and Political Science at Middlebury College, graduating magna cum laude and a Dana Scholar. Three semesters studying abroad in Paris and Berlin solidified his lifelong love of Europe. Subsequently, he completed a Master’s in Development Economics at the Sorbonne in Paris.
Simran
Simran is pursuing a combined MD/PhD in the Harvard-MIT MD program and Immunology PhD program. Previously, she was a research technician at Fred Hutch, where she helped design novel protein-based cancer therapeutics and a SARS-CoV-2 vaccine.
Emily F.
Emily is a PhD candidate at Columbia University in Religious Studies. She teaches Western and East Asian philosophy classes at SUNY Purchase, where she earned her BA in philosophy.
Karishma
Karishma graduated from Tufts University in 2013 with a major in Political Science and History. More recently, she graduated from Penn Law where she focused on Health law and Policy.
Kellen H.
Kellen holds a BA from Princeton in History & African American Studies, and a PhD from Columbia in History. She was a Predoctoral Fellow at UPenn’s McNeil Center for Early American Studies, and is now working on her Postdoctoral Fellowship at Penn State University.
Adam Y.
Adam holds a BA in Politics (Pomona College) and is a third-year student at the Harvard School of Dental Medicine. He is heavily involved in the American Student Dental Association and is interested in leveraging his ASDA connections and non-traditional path to dentistry to help pre-dents.
Trinh T.
Trinh holds a BA in Political Science from Yale and an MSc in Refugee and Forced Migration Studies from the University of Oxford. She is an incoming JD candidate at Yale 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
Peter T.
Peter earned his BA in Chemistry and Biochemistry and a minor in Mathematics at Connecticut College. He is now a 4th year medical student at The University of Vermont. He will be applying for a residency in Orthopedic Surgery.
Jonathan L.
Jonathan holds a PhD in History from the University of California, Berkeley. He previously completed an MA in the Social Sciences at the University of Chicago and a BA in History at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, where he graduated summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa.
Grey A.
Grey received his BA in English from Reed College, and his MA in French and his PhD in History from Yale. His dissertation, published in French in 2018 and under contract in English with Verso Books, examines the military coup that returned General Charles de Gaulle to power.
Cecilia L.
Cecilia has lived in 8 different countries and speaks 4 languages fluently. She attended SciencesPo in Paris, where she received an undergraduate degree in Political Science and a dual graduate degree in Finance and Strategy. She's now pursuing an MBA in Tech & Strategy at Columbia Business School.
Allegra S.
Allegra spent 5 years working in commercial and investment banking at JP Morgan in New York, Houston, and London. She completed a Master's in Education Policy & Management at Harvard, and then pursued her MBA at MIT Sloan, where she's now working on a fintech startup.
Cristina A.
Cristina holds a PhD in Linguistics from Harvard, an MS in Cognitive and Decision Sciences from University College London, and BAs in Applied and Computational Mathematics and Linguistics from the University of Southern California. Currently, she works as a forensic linguist.
Bill K.
Bill is the bestselling author of seven books. His undergrad degree is from the University of Chicago and his doctorate from Johns Hopkins. History and biography are his fields, but he's helped improve both student and adult writing for twenty years across a wide range of subjects.
Rebecca P.
After graduating magna cum laude from Barnard College, Columbia University with a degree in History, Rebecca served as a Teach for America corps member. She earned a Master's in Education at Fordham University before attending NYU School of Law. She is currently a civil rights attorney in New York.
Raj
Raj holds a BA in Applied Mathematics with a minor in Global Health and Health Policy from Harvard (magna cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa). He is now an MD/PhD student at Harvard-MIT.
Naama
Naama holds a BA in Near Eastern Languages & Civilizations from Harvard (magna cum laude), an MPhil from Oxford in Oriental Studies and an MFA in Acting from DePaul. She has over three decades of tutoring experience.
Alice
Alice earned her PhD at MIT in Mechanical Engineering on the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship. She received her Bachelor's in Physics from University of Chicago. Currently, she teaches Engineering at MIT.
Ari
Ariana holds a BA in International Relations and Asian Studies (Dartmouth College). Next, she worked as a paralegal in international trade remedy litigation before pursuing her JD at Columbia Law. She currently works in International Capital Markets.
Justin
Justin is a Computer Science (CS) PhD candidate at Carnegie Mellon University, where his work is focused on problems at the intersection of machine learning, statistics, and data privacy. He earned his BA in Math & CS from Columbia.
Justin
Justin graduated from Yale Law School in May 2023 and is now working for the federal judiciary. He previously graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2018, where he double majored in Peace, War, and Defense and Economics, graduating with highest distinction and highest honors for his thesis on the effects of superhero movies on individual political views.
Ivy
Ivy graduated with a BFA in Fine Arts and BAs in Comparative Literature, Anthropology, and French from Cornell University. She's presently a PhD student in Comparative Literature at Harvard.
Shivangi
Shivangi is an MD candidate at Harvard Medical School, conducting research in Cardiothoracic Surgery. She graduated from MIT with a BS in Biology (GPA 4.9/5.0, Phi Beta Kappa).
Alex
Alex graduated from Skidmore College with a BA in English Literature and a minor in Fiction Writing. He has worked as a Linux systems admin, a full-stack software developer, and a software consultant.
Natalia
Natalia received her BA in History from the City College of New York. She went on to earn a Master's of Science in General and Special Childhood Education at the Bank Street College of Education.
Emily R.
Emily graduated from Yale, where she majored in English and was a varsity athlete. She then worked for a technology startup and a human rights nonprofit before pursuing her MD at Columbia University.
Abigail
Abigail majored in Spanish & Latin American Cultures with a specialization in Public Health and a minor in Chemistry at Barnard College. She is now an MD candidate at Harvard Medical School.
Musa
Musa earned her PhD from Columbia University in Early Modern English Drama. She has taught at Columbia University and Washington University in St. Louis, where she was an Assistant Professor of English.
Bryan
Bryan graduated magna cum laude from Princeton, where he majored in English and Creative Writing. After teaching for several years, he is now the English Department Chair at a nationally recognized charter school in St. Louis.
Anna
Anna graduated from Harvard University with a BA in English and a minor in Linguistics and Language Theory. While at Harvard, she was a curriculum editor for the Mamelodi Initiative in South Africa.
Greg
Greg graduated with a double major in Physics and Math from Harvard (summa cum laude). He is now pursuing a PhD in Math at MIT, where his research focuses on the interaction between geometry and physics.
Maggie
Maggie earned her BA in History and minor in Education from Darthmouth. After graduation, she served in AmeriCorps at a charter school in Boston while pursuing her MA in Effective Teaching. She now teaches 8th grade US History.
Betty
Betty earned her BA in History and Science from Harvard, and holds an MA in History from the Universiy of Chicago, and a PhD in History from Yale. She has been teaching at Phillips Exeter Academy for almost a decade.
Florene
Florene is a law student at Harvard Law School. Previously, she worked as strategy and operations consultant at Deloitte. She earned her BA in Political Science at Brown University.
Julia
Julia attended St. John's College in Annapolis, MD where she fell in love with classical languages. She is currently a Linguistics PhD student at Harvard, focusing on the phonology and verbal morphology of ancient Greek.
Shara
Shara is an MA student in Jewish Gender and Women's Studies at the Jewish Theological Seminary. She holds a BA in Theatre from Northwestern with minors in Creative Writing and Gender and Sexuality Studies (summa cum laude).
Ian
Ian earned his BA in Economics from Bucknell. He then worked as a teacher and administrator in charter schools in New Orleans. He is currently pursuing his MBA at Columbia University as a Columbia Fellows Scholar.
Amanda
Amanda is the Religion Department chair of a private school in the Boston area. She holds a BA in Religious Studies (University of Michigan) and an EdM in Mind, Brain, and Education (Harvard Graduate School of Education).
Johnny
Johnny, originally from Greensboro, North Carolina, is an MD candidate and Knight-Hennessy Scholar at Stanford University School of Medicine. He graduated cum laude from Harvard University with a bachelor’s degree in chemistry and a minor in psychology.
Joy
Joy is an MD/PhD candidate at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. She earned a BS (Biochemistry, Molecular Biology) and BA (Anthropology) from Brown, and completed a postbacc fellowship at the National Cancer Institute.
Michael
Michael is currently pursuing his dermatology residency training at the Harvard Combined Dermatology Residency Training Program in Boston, MA.
Mickey
Mickey is an MD/MPH candidate at Columbia University's Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons and the Mailman School of Public Health. He holds a BA in Biochemistry and English (Drake) and an MS in Narrative Medicine (Columbia).
Tess
Tess earned her BA in International Relations and Education from Tufts University. After graduation, she taught in Madrid, Spain on Fulbright, and went on to earn her MA in Special Education at CUNY.
Deirdre
Deirdre holds a BA in Classical Language (Holy Cross), MA in Classical Languages (Villanova), and MA in Differentiated Instruction (Concordia). She has been teaching Latin and ancient Greek for over 20 years.
Manasa
Manasa is an MD student at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. She earned her BA in Biochemistry & Molecular Biology at the University of Georgia (Phi Beta Kappa, summa cum laude).
Becca
Becca holds a BA in Philosophy from Dartmouth (summa cum laude) and an MPhil in the History and Philosophy of Science from the University of Cambridge. She is currently finishing her PhD in Philosophy at Harvard.
Anne
Anne was a double major in Linguistics and French at Wellesley, and earned an MA from Middlebury School in France. She is now a PhD student in French at Harvard, and specializes in 20th and 21st century French and Francophone Lit.
John
John earned his BA in Literature from Harvard (magna cum laude), and his PhD in Philosophy from Princeton. After teaching at several major universities in the US and abroad, John is now pursuing his MSW at Simmons University.
Brielle
Brielle earned her Bachelor's in Psychology and minored in Chemistry at CUNY Brookyln. She is currently an MD candidate at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and plans to pursue a residency in Psychiatry.
Suleman
Suleman graduated summa cum laude from the UC Berkeley Honors Program with a BA in Integrative Biology. After receiving acceptances to both MD/PhD and MD programs, he is currently an MD student at Stanford Medical School.
Neil
Neil is a JD student at Yale. Before law school, he graduated summa cum laude from Harvard College with a BA in Social Studies, and went on to earn his MPhil in International Relations from Oxford, where he was a Rhodes Scholar.
Beth
Beth graduated magna cum laude from Washington University in St. Louis with a BA in Philosophy, Neuroscience, and Psychology. She is currently an MD candidate at Boston University School of Medicine.
Parker
Parker is a PhD student in Anthropology at Harvard. Prior to graduate school, he attended Bard College for Anthropology and Literature, and was then a Fulbright-Garca Robles Scholar in Mexico.
Sean
Sean graduated from Cornell with a degree in Chemistry. He taught high school math for three years before going on to earn his MBA at Columbia Business School. He will soon begin is postgrad career in management consulting.
Justin
Justin earned his BA in Math with a minor in Computer Science at Boston College. After spending a few years working as a web developer, he moved to New York, where he is now an MBA candidate at NYU.
Claire
Claire graduated with a BA in History and minor in Mathematics from Barnard College, where she won the the Ellen Davis Goldwater prize for excellence in History. Currently, she is a Graduate Writing Fellow at Barnard.
Dennis
Dennis earned his Bachelor's from Northwestern, worked for a large supply chain management firm, and then earned his MBA from Dartmouth. After his MBA, he joined McKinsey, and now works for an advanced analytics firm in New York.
Jim
Jim holds a BA in Economics with a minor in Math from Oberlin, and an MA in Economics from Cornell. After traveling the country working on political campaigns, he now works as a software consultant and is based in Cambridge, MA.