Our consultants are former voting members of medical school admissions committees who also have extensive professional advising experience. Because we have sat in the decision-making room, we replace speculation with institutional reality.
Founder
Stephen C. Frederico
Founder & Chief Admissions Strategist · Committee: University of Pittsburgh
Stephen is a fourth-year medical student at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine applying into neurological surgery. He brings four years of firsthand experience as a full voting member of his school's admissions committee, interviewing and evaluating applicants across traditional MD and combined BS/MD programs.
Before founding AdmitMD he worked with established consulting firms, where he saw how volume-driven, formulaic advising fails to reflect the realities of competitive admissions. He created AdmitMD to offer individualized, transparent guidance grounded in real committee insight.
MD, University of Pittsburgh (2027) · MMSc, Harvard Medical School (2025) · MS, Johns Hopkins (2021) · BA, College of Charleston (2019)
Admissions strategists
Every one of them sat on a committee.
Harvard, Stanford, Penn, Pittsburgh, Northwestern, Weill Cornell, Baylor, Mount Sinai, UT Southwestern, Sidney Kimmel, Rutgers. Physicians and trainees who reviewed and voted on files like yours.
Shwetabh Tarun, MD
VP of Consulting & Business DevelopmentCommittee · University of Pittsburgh
Pitt School of Medicine graduate with a focus on internal medicine and health policy. Admissions committee interviewer. Has guided students to Harvard, Stanford, Penn, Johns Hopkins, and top BS/MD programs.
Aaron Sandoval, MD
Medical School Admissions StrategistCommittee · Harvard Medical School
Dermatology resident at Johns Hopkins and Harvard Medical School graduate, where he served on the admissions committee. Marshall Scholar with master's degrees from Cambridge and King's College London.
Hector Gonzalez, MD
Medical School Admissions StrategistCommittee · Stanford University
Emergency Medicine resident and former member of the Stanford MD Admissions Advisory Panel. Raised in California's Central Valley; mentors underrepresented and first-generation applicants.
Nasir Stovall
Medical School Admissions StrategistCommittee · Harvard Medical School
MD/MBA student at Harvard Medical School and Harvard Business School. Fulbright and Schwarzman Scholar. Has guided numerous students to top medical schools.
Jason Shen
Medical School Admissions StrategistCommittee · Stanford University
Fourth-year MD candidate at Stanford, MS in Clinical Informatics Management, admissions committee member. Harvard College, captain of Division I men's volleyball.
Andrew Ahn, MD
Medical School Admissions StrategistCommittee · University of Pennsylvania
Interventional Radiology resident at Mass General Brigham. Strategy consultant turned physician through the Johns Hopkins post-bacc; voting member of the Penn admissions committee.
Zachary Sandoval, MD, MPH
Medical School Admissions StrategistCommittee · Baylor College of Medicine
Pediatrics resident at UCSF. Student co-chair of the Baylor admissions committee. Fellowships at MD Anderson, Children's Hospital Los Angeles, and the U.S. House of Representatives.
Arjun Mittal, MD
Medical School Admissions StrategistCommittee · University of Pittsburgh
Internal Medicine resident at Beth Israel Deaconess / Harvard. Full voting member of the Pitt admissions committee; published on the admissions process in Academic Medicine.
Aria Wei
Medical School Admissions StrategistCommittee · UT Southwestern
MD/MBA candidate at UT Southwestern, Johns Hopkins graduate. MCAT tutoring and TMDSAS strategy.
Lohit Velagapudi, MD
BS/MD & Medical School Admissions StrategistCommittee · Sidney Kimmel Medical College
Neurosurgery resident at Vanderbilt. Completed the Penn State/SKMC 7-year BS/MD and served on both the BS/MD and MD admissions committees for multiple cycles.
Hassaam Choudhry, MD
BS/MD & Medical School Admissions StrategistCommittee · Rutgers NJMS
Ophthalmology resident at Rutgers NJMS via the 7-year BA/MD program. Over 40 peer-reviewed publications; AOA research award.
William Borges
Early Assurance Program Admissions StrategistCommittee · Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
MD/PhD student at Mount Sinai, admitted through FlexMed from Brown. MS, Yale. Advises early assurance and MD-PhD applicants.
Manuel Torres Acosta, MD, PhD
MD/PhD & MSTP Admissions StrategistCommittee · Northwestern University
Physician Scientist Pathway resident at Penn. Northwestern MD-PhD graduate and admissions screener; co-founded the program's diversity and inclusion committee.
Shayna Mallett
MD/PhD & MSTP Admissions StrategistCommittee · Weill Cornell Medicine
MD/PhD student in the Tri-Institutional program (Weill Cornell, Rockefeller, Sloan Kettering). Computer science background; computational genomics.
Sammer Marzouk
MD/PhD & MSTP Admissions StrategistCommittee · Northwestern University
MD-PhD candidate in Northwestern's MSTP. Harvard College graduate; research in biomedical technology and health equity.
MD/PhD student in the Pitt-CMU MSTP and member of its admissions committee. AHA and NIH F30 fellowships.
Test prep and operations
Luzy Guañuna
SAT & ACT Strategist
Harvard College, Economics. Four-plus years tutoring students into Harvard, Columbia, Yale, and Princeton. Former Goldman Sachs summer analyst.
Aaron Tran
MCAT & Academic Success Strategist
Stanford BS/MS student and U.S. Presidential Scholar. 99th-percentile MCAT, perfect ACT. Teach For America Ignite Fellow.
Rachel Rozelle
Director of Operations & Client Experience
Five-plus years in higher-education administration and admissions consulting operations. Helped build the operating infrastructure of an education startup now valued over $1B.
AdmitMD is a member of the National Association of Advisors for the Health Professions (NAAHP) and the Independent Educational Consultants Association (IECA).
Frequently asked
Who are your consultants?
Every AdmitMD admissions strategist has served on a U.S. medical school admissions committee and has professional advising experience. We have sat in the decision room and evaluated thousands of candidates.
How many clients do you take?
A limited number each cycle. That is what keeps the advising personal. When the roster is full we say so.
Do you work with BS/MD applicants?
Yes. BS/MD is a dedicated track with its own strategy for the Common App and program-specific supplements, led by advisors who came through BS/MD programs and sat on their committees.
What about re-applicants and career changers?
Post-baccalaureate and SMP advising is a core service. We diagnose the previous cycle before touching the new application.
Do you offer hourly help?
Yes. Targeted hourly consulting (5–10 hours) for applicants who need help with one piece, such as a personal statement or interview prep.
Schedule your free consultation.
We work with a limited number of applicants each cycle. Tell us where you stand and we will tell you honestly whether we are the right fit.