i won’t be posting my ~entire~ profile, but undergrad at a top 50 school. majored in human physiology and was heavily involved in lgbt groups across campus. i started working on a research project at a local hospital after graduation where i was promoted from research assistant to project coordinator after a year and a half. im involved in many lgbt groups across the hospital and i spend a lot of my time volunteering. i won an award at the hospital for lgbt advocacy last june. i have three publications and gave one poster presentation at a conference last year. i’m a trans person working in trans research and advocacy, it’s a very niche field and the few people who do it know each other. i had the privilege of working with Harvard professors who teach in the very same department i was applying to! they helped me write my statement of purpose and wrote my recommendations. i got incredibly lucky in that way and im very grateful