Results that speak for themselves.
Over the past six years, our founder and team have guided more than 100 students into medicine.
How we count
We count every student we've guided through a medical school application, including students whose cycle isn't over yet. Over the past six years, before and since founding Ascent in 2026, our founder and team have guided more than 100 students, including students applying this cycle.
Of all those students, 97.4% have received at least one interview and 95.6% have been accepted to medical school. Students not counted as accepted either chose a different career after interviewing or are still waiting on interviews in the current cycle. These figures will update as the cycle continues.
Every outcome depends on each student's own work and circumstances, and past results don't guarantee future ones.
Students start from very different places.
We've guided students with GPAs from about 3.0, with most between 3.3 and 3.6, as well as students with much higher GPAs. MCAT scores have ranged from 489 to 520.
For students rebuilding their record, that often meant two to four semesters of upper-level science and prerequisite coursework to show a strong upward trend. For the MCAT, it meant work on study habits, test-taking skills, and time management.
We're now tracking every student's practice and official MCAT scores, so we can publish measured score improvements soon.
Student stories.
Your help was the absolute best decision I made in college. My science GPA wasn't terrible, but it definitely wasn't blowing anyone away for the Utah schools I wanted, and I was completely lost trying to figure out how to talk about my hours at the clinic. Having someone look at my primary and tell me straight up what committees actually care about took so much weight off. Plus the secondary essay feedback saved me from totally burning out while trying to pass upper-divs.
I got my acceptance letter this morning and I'm still kinda shaking. I remember our very first Zoom call, when I had no clue how to write my personal statement and was freaking out over my practice MCAT scores. Your guidance helped me figure out how to explain my volunteering and research without sounding like a robot checking boxes. Mock interviews were super helpful too, just for getting me to slow down and talk like a normal person instead of rambling.
Being a non-traditional applicant working full-time in biotech while trying to finish prereqs and deal with apps was an absolute nightmare before we started working together. Your guidance kept my timeline from completely falling apart, so I didn't miss deadlines while working 40+ hours a week. Having someone who actually knows how AMCAS works for career changers made all the difference.
Coming from a smaller school in Idaho, I felt pretty intimidated looking at national stats and wondering if my app would even get looked at next to kids from massive state schools. Working together really highlighted my rural health volunteering as an actual strength instead of stressing about what everyone else was doing. Your edits on my secondaries made my writing way sharper and actually sound like me.
I ended up with a couple of acceptances to pick from, which still feels surreal. When we first started, my personal statement read like a boring résumé bulleted list, and I had no idea what to say about a terrible sophomore semester. Your feedback forced me to dig way deeper and tell my real story. That ended up being huge, because interviewers brought it up on almost all my interview days.
Shared with each student's written permission and lightly edited for length. Individual results vary.
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