521 MCAT Scorer | Get Unstuck & Study Smarter with AI

Nikhil M.

I graduated summa cum laude from UC Santa Cruz with a B.S. in Human Biology and a minor in Bioinformatics. I scored a 521 on the MCAT, was admitted to USF Morsani College of Medicine, and was waitlisted at Stanford School of Medicine and Mayo Clinic Alix School of Medicine. I spent four years researching immunology at UCSC's Boyd Lab, studying immune responses to influenza. My work includes a peer-reviewed publication in the American Journal of Respiratory Cell and Molecular Biology and a second-author manuscript currently in revision at Nature Immunology.
During my undergrad, I was a Supplemental Instruction Leader for over 2 years at UCSC, leading group and individual tutoring in physics, chemistry, and biology for college students. I helped teach complex concepts but also focussed on helping students develop better studying and problem-solving skills.

I want to help focus on helping you understand where you're getting stuck and build a personalized plan to improve. Whether your MCAT score has plateaued, difficult problems slow you down, or you aren't sure what to study next, we'll explore your reasoning and identify specific gaps in your understanding. Sessions can focus on challenging problems, passage reasoning, foundational concepts, or building a study system that fits your needs and schedule.
I also build AI tools and can help you incorporate AI into your learning strategies. Together, we'll use targeted questions and practice problems to uncover weak points, explore explanations from different angles, and turn knowledge gaps into focused practice. You'll learn how to use AI to quiz you, prompt you to explain your reasoning, and revisit concepts through active recall and spaced repetition. The goal is to strengthen your understanding and ability to solve unfamiliar problems independently.