Jacob B.

At Swarthmore College, Jacob was inducted into Sigma Xi and was selected as a David Baltimore/Broad Foundation Endowment Fellow. He also earned the Harold E. ’29 and Ruth Caldwell Snyder Premedical Scholarship and the Robert A. Barr Jr. ‘56 Scholarship. Jacob came to medicine through research. He spent two years as a research associate at NYU Grossman School of Medicine, where he studied axon biology. His research has been published in the Journal of Neuroscience, Experimental Neurology, and Molecular Therapy Nucleic Acids. His PhD work now focuses on why neurons in the central nervous system fail to regenerate after injury.

Jacob’s approach to MCAT tutoring centers on understanding over memorization. He believes that the MCAT rewards students who can reason through unfamiliar passages, not just recall content, so he focuses on the underlying logic of each concept and the strategy that turns knowledge into points. He tailors every session to wherever a student is actually getting stuck, and builds study plans that fit real schedules.