“I’ve wanted to be a doctor since I was 10,” begins Taylor Brothers (Pre-Health ’24). That was the year she dislocated her knee in basketball practice and had an awe-inspiring trip to the orthopedic. “I thought, ‘This is so cool!’” she recalls. The challenging path to a medical career had begun. Following a planned break that she took after college, Taylor searched for a post-baccalaureate pre-health program that would serve as an academic refresher and GPA boost to strengthen her medical school application.

Applied econometrics and dynamic predictive modeling; Financial market volatility; Business cycle and macroeconomic monitoring; Empirical network modeling; Climate change; Statistical machine learning

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Jerry Ratcliffe is a professor of practice and faculty director of the Master of Applied Criminology and Police Leadership in the Department of Criminology at the University of Pennsylvania. He is a former police officer, a scientific advisor to the International Association of Chiefs of Police, and host of the popular Reducing Crime podcast. After an ice-climbing accident ended an 11-year career with London’s Metropolitan Police, he earned a PhD from the University of Nottingham.

When Jason Wang wakes up in Geelong, Australia and attends classes in his first year of medical school, he’s a world away from his previous life as a civil engineer in Canada. “I had my path laid out for me and never thought about different careers or going to universities abroad,” he recalls. Once the idea of pivoting to a career in medicine took root, it took a few years before he was ready to commit to the change—and then he was all in.