Zoë
Zoë majored in Neuroscience with a double minor in Spanish and Global Health at UCLA. She graduated summa cum laude and earned highest departmental honors in neuroscience. She is now an incoming MD/PhD student in the Medical Scientist Training Program (MSTP) at UCSF.
Evan K.
Evan graduated from MIT in 2024 with a 4.8 GPA, majoring in Biology and minoring in History. He received a 522 MCAT score (with a perfect CARS section) for the first time he took the exam, and he plans to attend medical school in 2025. During his gap year, he plans to continue his research on DNA damage and repair at MIT and run his outdoor science program for low-income kids.
Jessika
Jessika is an MD/PhD student at Harvard Medical School and MIT, researching deep learning applications in drug discovery. She previously graduated summa cum laude from WashU on a full-ride scholarship where she studied Computational Biology with minors in Computer Science and Mathematics.
Harry D.
Harry graduated from the University of Richmond as the valedictorian with a 4.0 GPA (Phi Beta Kappa) and four first-authored publications. Finding medical research inescapable, he is getting a combined MD/PhD degree at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, desiring to pursue orthopedics surgery with research in targeted drug delivery.
Jared S.
Jared is an MD candidate at Harvard Medical School (HMS), where he will also be pursuing a PhD in Bioengineering or Electrical Engineering/Computer Science. He previously graduated with a BS in Bioengineering from UC Berkeley.
Helen W.
Helen is an MD Candidate at Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons. Previously, she studied Arabic and graduated from the University of Michigan with a major in Middle Eastern Studies and minor in Biology.
Emily Y.
Emily is now pursuing an MD degree from the Harvard-MIT Health Sciences and Technology (HST) program. Previously, she graduated from The University of Texas at Austin with a BS in Biomedical Engineering (4.0/4.0 GPA, Research Honors) and was selected as her program’s 2020 Outstanding Leader and Scholar.
Angela R.
Angela attended Duke University, double majoring in Global Health and Biology with a Chemistry minor; she graduated magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa. She is pursuing her interests in health in the MD program at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine.
Pallavi
Pallavi attended the University of Pennsylvania, where she received a BA in Biology, a BSc in Economics, and an MS in Biology. She graduated summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa, and she is now pursuing an MSc at Oxford University.
Brian Do.
Brian is a PhD student at Columbia University studying Chemical Engineering. Previously, he earned a Bachelor of Science in Chemical Engineering, Statistics, and Chemistry, with a minor in Accounting at the University of California San Diego.
Alex W.
Alex graduated from UCLA with a degree in Molecular, Cell & Developmental Biology. She's currently a National Health Service Corps Scholar at the Harvard School of Dental Medicine (HSDM).
Abdullah
Abdullah is a Marshall Scholar pursuing a Master’s in Engineering at Oxford. Previously, he graduated Washington University in St. Louis with a double major in Biophysics and Chemistry. He will next matriculate at the Harvard-MIT Health Sciences and Technology (HST) program.
Max Y.
Max is currently working on his MPhil in Population Health at the University of Cambridge on a Marshall Scholarship. He previously earned a degree in Biochemistry from Montana State University.
Lois
Lois earned her BS in Biochemistry, Honors at the University of Texas at Austin. Lois is currently pursuing her MD at Harvard Medical School. Through medicine, Lois aspires to improve the health of rural communities (like the one that raised her).
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.
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.
Lilly MS
Lilly majored in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at Yale. She graduated in 2019 with a 4.0 GPA (Phi Beta Kappa and summa cum laude) and was awarded for her research contributing to saving endangered Galapagos tortoise species. She is now an MD candidate at Harvard Medical School with an interest in queer and adolescent health.
Haley V.
Haley went to Bryn Mawr College, double majoring in Mathematics and Chemistry and completing an AB/MA degree in Chemistry. She was recognized as a 2018 Barry Goldwater Scholar for her efforts in and out of the laboratory. Her dual passions for biophysical and chemical pathogens research led her to the Harvard-MIT MD/PhD program, where she is currently a NIH-funded MSTP student in the Health Sciences and Technology track.
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.
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.