In the Class of 2025, you’ll find …
- A fashion model, a phlebotomist, a farmer and a physical therapist.
- A public health worker, a medical device developer and a molecular genetics researcher who studied coronary artery disease.
- A first-generation college graduate and a soon-to-be first author on a research paper.
- An artist who drew caricatures and another who does chalk murals.
- An immigrant from Bulgaria and interns from NASA and the U.S. House of Representatives.
- Baristas, bartenders and ballerinas who danced the Nutcracker and Swan Lake.
- Volunteers who staffed a suicide hotline, hurricane relief and the security team for Kevin Hart’s Irresponsible tour.
On their way to medical school, they …
- Served as EMTs in Seattle during the pandemic, as head scribe in the UVA emergency department, as a COVID-19 case investigator and on L.A. County’s Skid Row providing wellness checks and COVID-19 tests.
- Created a charcuterie and luxury picnic company, watched every Harry Potter movie in one day and turned at least one apartment into a mini-jungle with more than 40 houseplants.
- Survived the bite of an Australian paralysis tick, an encounter with grizzly bears and Ewing’s sarcoma of the pancreas.
- Flew on a flying trapeze, rode an ostrich in Aruba and a camel in the desert.
- Performed with a sketch comedy group, played the flute at Carnegie Hall and traveled the country as a science rapper.
- Jumped out of planes over the Caribbean, off cliffs in Cancun and into a 32-degree Lake Michigan.
- Swam with sharks and through seven million jellyfish, fostered kittens and trained a wild horse.
- Hiked the Grand Canyon, trekked through the mountains of Nepal, solo backpacked in Thailand and climbed the highest peak in the Rocky Mountains.
- Lived nearby in Richmond, far away in West Africa and on a boat in the South Pacific.
In four years …
- Several will be the first physicians in their family.
- And at least one will have mastered the ukulele.
The Extraordinary Class of 2025
The Extraordinary Class of 2025