I went through Brown University's BS/MD Program (PLME), then helped run it.

Why I built Bridge2MD

I applied to Brown's combined medical program as a first-generation student. No one in my family had been through it, so I was working from guesses about what mattered. I got in. For a long time I took that to mean I had understood the process. Reading these applications years later, I learned that I had not.

By then I was on the other side of the table. I trained as an emergency physician, I taught medical students, and for four years I was an assistant dean inside the same program I had once applied to. I read hundreds of these files, and I know what separates a strong application from a weak one. What stayed with me, though, was not the files. It was the students. I watched some of them thrive and some of them struggle, and I worked alongside deans who treated every one of them as a person they were responsible for, not a number in a class. The difference between thriving and struggling was rarely talent. It was usually whether someone had given the student an honest read, early enough to act on it.

What I saw outside that room is what pushed me to build this. Families were spending thousands on help their student did not need, steered toward the biggest package by people who were never going to tell them the truth. Bridge2MD is the honest read I wish my own family could have found. A clear answer about where a student stands, from someone who has read the file from the inside. Sometimes that answer is that you are already on the right path and do not need to spend another dollar. I will tell you that too.