Alice is in her third year of studying chemical and physical biology (i.e., science in general) as a Harvard undergrad. Hailing from the heart of Cajun country in Louisiana, she honed her standardized testing prowess during high school and scored quite well on the SAT and SAT IIs. After many years of tutoring her younger brother, she has furthermore developed a keen interest in sharing her knowledge, continuing to assist high schoolers with Science Olympiad and helping fellow students overcome the tribulations of organic chemistry. When not teaching, studying, or gallivanting with cells and Drosophila in a research lab, Alice may be found practicing archery or chilling on tennis courts. An avid cook, she also enjoys experimenting with various cuisines and sampling the countless restaurants around Boston. She invites anyone to contact her for information or advice, as she looks forward to supporting students through the college admissions/testing process.

Originally from Watertown, MA, Allie is going to be a senior at Harvard College this year. She concentrates in Environmental Science and Public Policy, with a secondary degree in music. She graduated from Watertown High School in 2005. Outside of classes, Allie sings in the Collegium Musicum, a co-ed choir, and serves as vice-president of this organization. She loves vacationing with her family up in Vermont, which prompted her interest in environmental science.

Andrew is a rising senior at Harvard, orginially from Pella, Iowa. Since coming Harvard, he has developed a great love for Psychology. He is a proud Psychology concentrator, with a secondary field in Health Care Policy also on its way. He hopes to go onto graduate school in Psychology to work toward his goal of becoming a Clinical Psychologist someday. Outside of academics, he enjoys sports of many kinds, and he is actually not that bad at soccer, frisbee, and volleyball. Andrew is a fairly laid back guy and doesn't like to get stressed out about things too much, but he is a diligent worker when he sets his mind to a task.

Derek Wetzel is a junior at Harvard College and hails from the Boston area. A Social Studies concentrator, he spent time during a gap year before college as a piano entertainer aboard a cruise ship in the Caribbean. He has worked at Let's Go Publications for the last two years, working as a Managing Editor for this year's series of travel guides. In addition to composing and performing music on piano and saxophone, he enjoys playing tennis and soccer and spending time in the outdoors, including leading trips for Harvard's Freshman Outdoor Orientation Program.

Irene is a rising senior at Harvard, concentrating in English and minoring in Economics. On campus, she’s been involved with a variety of organizations, ranging from serving as Fundraising Director for Harvard Undergraduate Women in Business to teaching English to senior citizens from Boston's Chinatown. She’s also very involved with a fashion show on campus called Identities; she helped launch the show two years ago, as the first Asian-American fashion show on campus, and this past year she was one of the creative directors for it, which consumed a LOT of time and resulted in many sleepless nights, but she absolutely loved it. Her personal interests include shopping (obviously), reading--especially poetry, traveling (especially in Asia!), going to museums, dancing, watching movies, having good conversations, eating ice-cream.

Originally from New York, Jade is a rising senior concentrating in psychology. Her specific track within psychology, social-cognitive neuroscience, really just implies that she is pre-medicine. In her spare time she enjoys photography and would love to take another course in the darkroom. Other hobbies include lacrosse, reading, a variety of arts and crafts, and sleep.

Lara is an English and American Literature and Language A.B candidate from New Zealand. At Harvard she enjoys writing and drama and has received both the Edward Eager Memorial Fund Prize for short stories and the Boylston Elocution Prize. She works both as a research assistant in the Psychology Department and tutors online. She is also active in the Harvard College in Asia Project and various other organizations on campus. When not studying, Lara loves to hike and travel.

Margaret is a senior English concentrator with a passion for biology. She came to Harvard in order to pursue poetry and entomology simultaneously. In addition to studying insects, she enjoys studying moles and rodents, particularly star-nosed moles and naked mole rats. She was raised in New York City and attended Stuyvesant High School.

Yi is a junior concentrating in Social Studies and getting a secondary in Music. She’s doing a 5 year program with the New England Conservatory, majoring in Percussion Performance. Besides music, she loves traveling, dancing, thrift store shopping, and learning new languages. Recently, most of her travel has been in Latin America and Asia, but she’s looking forward to branching out to Europe and Africa. On campus, she’s active in the Harvard College in Asia Program, Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra, IOP Citizenship tutoring, and off-campus, she works for tutoring agencies and a language-learning software company called Fluenz, helping them write their Mandarin program.

A National Merit, National Achievement and Ron Brown scholar, Samere hails from sunny South Florida, where she completed the International Baccalaureate program at one of the nations top magnet schools before coming to Harvard. She recently graduated with honors in the field of Anthropology, but while she was an undergraduate, she spent her time outside of classes working at the Harvard Law School Phonathon and in her house library. Throughout her Harvard career Samere was involved extracurricularly with the Harvard Health Policy Review, the Harvard Political Education Program, the Small Claims Advisory Service and the Harvard-Radcliffe Caribbean Club.