...Student Successes:- GMAT 40th percentile to 82 percentile and admission to MIT's Sloan- GMAT 80th percentile to 99th percentile (x2)- PhD student landed internship with top tech company and $180k job offer in NYCSolid experience in scientific and business communications across all organizational ... (read more)
...I grew up swimming competitively from age 9 through college, where I swam for Oberlin, a NCAA Division III team. I am also currently a swim coach for Arcadia Riptides Swim Club in Arcadia, CA and have taught private swim lessons for the last 2.5 years. I am Water Safety and Lifeguard Certified ... (read more)
...Control the things that you can (gaining knowledge and skills, effort, self-awareness) and ignore the things that you can't (grades, jobs, social perception)--principled pragmatism. Random facts: I've coached high school basketball, I'm a classically trained pianist, backyard trained BBQ pit mas... (read more)
...During my time at UCLA, I was part of the Learning Assistant program in the sciences, and eventually became Head Learning Assistant. My responsibilities included applying evidence-based learning techniques in UCLA STEM classrooms, as well as teaching other Learning Assistants on how to more effe... (read more)
...But then I met a couple of amazing grad students/TAs who were super supportive and served as excellent teachers and mentors. Through them, I learned that chemistry could be fun and exciting and ended up switching my major. My favorite chemistry course was quantum chemistry, which gets some inte... (read more)