About Jack
I am a UC San Diego graduate, former EMT, and an MS1. I scored a 518 on the MCAT and was accepted to 9 MD and DO programs.
Background
I know how easy it is to waste time on bad advice, vague study plans, and application edits that sound polished but do not say much. My job is to help students get specific: what is weak, what is working, and what to do next.
That applies whether we are reviewing a full-length exam, fixing a personal statement, or deciding which schools actually belong on your list.
By the numbers
Two cycles, because the first one didn't go the way I wanted. I didn't give up. I found the way to tell my personal story in a way that made me stand out. We all have a unique story. We just have to know how to tell it.
How I got here
Three Kaplan full-lengths, then four AAMC full-lengths, and I finished at a 518. What moved the score was not more content. It was changing how I reviewed a question after I got it wrong.
My original study plan was not perfect, which is exactly why I did not get a perfect score. I spent weeks on things that felt productive and were not. Rewatching content I already knew. Doing questions without reviewing them, which is the single most common way I see students waste a summer.
I know what that wasted month feels like from the inside. Saving you from it is most of what I am actually selling.
Here is the full breakdown, weak section included:
CARS was my weakest section and I am not going to pretend otherwise. I had not solved it when I sat for the exam. I have since. Two years of teaching it to students at every level, from people clawing out of the 480s to people pushing past 510, turned it into something closer to a science. It is now the part of the test I most like teaching.
Tutoring style
A low score can come from content, timing, stamina, review habits, or the way a student reads passages. We find the cause before we chase fixes.
For science classes and MCAT passages, the goal is not just getting this question right. It is learning how to recognize the same pattern later.
Good writing should sound like a person. Good advising should lead to decisions, not more anxiety.
Fit
I would rather be straight about this up front than take your money and have it go nowhere.
Do the work between sessions. That is all I ask.
Want to talk it through? Bring your test date, your latest score, or nothing at all. Fifteen minutes, no pitch, and you will leave with something useful either way.
Book a free 15-minute score strategy session