My name is Max, and I’m a medical student at Western Michigan University. I graduated from Dartmouth College with a Neuroscience degree and grew up in Northern Michigan. I have played the trumpet in jazz bands, marching bands, and symphony orchestras, and my other hobbies include playing soccer and wake surfing. My passion for teaching started early because I had two younger sisters and was often tasked with helping them with their homework.
I started tutoring professionally via Zoom when COVID sent everybody’s school online, and I have been coaching students on test prep (MCAT, SAT/ACT), math, science, and pre-med topics since 2020. I also create lessons and carry them out at local school visits, introducing middle and high school students to neuroscience topics through a program at my medical school.
My path to medicine requires standardized tests every few years, so I have to keep my test-taking skills and knowledge base sharp, and I love how tutoring allows me to simultaneously share these skills with others while further mastering them myself.
College:
Education: Dartmouth College
Undergrad Major: B.A. Neuroscience
Other Degrees/Minors: Western Michigan University - MD (current medical student)
High School:
Class Rank: Top 1%
Awards & Honors: Tompkins Scholarship for Academic Achievement, Varsity Soccer Most Valuable Player, Varsity Track Regional Champion 1600m
Interests & Activities: Model UN, Varsity Soccer, Varsity Downhill Skiing, Varsity Track and Field, Trumpet player in Wind Ensemble (Concert band), Symphony Orchestra, Jazz band and Marching band, NHS, Sci-Ma-Tech Science Symposium, Internship at Teter's Custom Orthotics and Prosthetics
SAT Scores: 1550 (780 Reading & Writing, 770 Math)
ACT Scores: 35 Composite (36 Math, 36 Science, 35, Reading, 34 English, 30 Writing)
AP Exams: 5 Chemistry, 5 Calculus BC, 5 Government, 5 Psychology, 5 English Language and Composition, 5 Computer Science Principles, 4 World History, 4 Literature
SAT Subject Tests: 790 Math Level 2, 730 Physics
Other:
Other Awards: Robert N. Leaton Prize for Best Neuroscience Thesis, Citations for Academic Excellence: PSYCH 51.01 (The Mind-Body Problem) and COLT 66.1 (What is Psychoanalysis), Merit Scholarship Western Michigan Homer Stryker School of Medicine.
MCAT scores: 524 (Chem/Phys 130, CARS 130, Bio/Biochem 132, Psych/Soc 132)
Other Interests & Activities: At Dartmouth, I was involved in Club Soccer, Club Ski Team, Lead Co-ordinator for Dartmouth Feeding Neighbors (a volunteer organization combating food insecurity).
In Medical School, I am involved in several men's and co-ed adult soccer leagues; I volunteer with a middle school science/pre-med education group called Brain Explorers; and with both Kalamazoo Street Medicine and Gospel Health Ministry, performing community health screenings; and I am pursuing distinctions in Public and Global Health and in Medical Ethics.
Location: Other
