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A boutique advisory practice for ambitious premeds, medical school applicants, and medical students preparing for the residency match. Founded by an AOA Feinberg graduate (Step 2: 276) with five years engaged in the Feinberg admissions process — four as an Ambassador and one as a student interviewer — and incoming resident in internal medicine and cardiology at a top academic medical center.

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276
USMLE Step 2 CK
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Alpha Omega Alpha
5yr
Feinberg Admissions Engagement
5+
Years Tutoring
#1
Match Outcome
Harris Avgousti, MD
Harris Avgousti, MD
About

An advisor who has walked the path — and sat on the other side of the table.

I'm Harris — a newly minted physician beginning residency in internal medicine and cardiology at a top academic medical center. The honest reason I founded this practice is simple: I have walked the entire premed-to-residency pipeline at the highest level, I have spent five years walking next to other students as they did the same, and across five years at Feinberg I was directly engaged in the admissions process — first as an Ambassador, then as a student interviewer.

For four years I served as a Feinberg Admissions Ambassador, talking with prospective applicants and answering their questions about the school and the admissions process. In my fifth year I served as a student interviewer on the admissions committee, conducting interviews with medical school applicants. I have not read application files or participated in committee deliberation — but I have conducted dozens of interviews and have a direct view of what makes one work.

I studied at the University of Pennsylvania for my undergraduate education, attended the Feinberg School of Medicine at Northwestern for medical school, was elected to Alpha Omega Alpha, scored a 276 on USMLE Step 2 CK (well above the 99th percentile), and matched at my first-choice residency program.

I am opening this practice because too many talented, hardworking students do not receive the quality of strategic advice that materially changes outcomes. Generic admissions advice, pre-health offices stretched too thin, and large consulting firms that route students through junior advisors are not enough when the stakes are this high. My clients work directly with me.

Undergraduate
University of Pennsylvania
Pre-medical track. Lived the modern Ivy premed pipeline first-hand.
Medical School
Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern
Alpha Omega Alpha. USMLE Step 2 CK: 276. Top-of-class clinical performance.
2021 – 2024
Feinberg Admissions Ambassador
Four years engaging with prospective Feinberg applicants and answering questions about the school and admissions process.
2024 – 2025
Student Interviewer · Feinberg Admissions Committee
Conducted interviews with medical school applicants in a fifth year of engagement with the Feinberg admissions process.
Residency
Internal Medicine · Cardiology Track
First-choice match at a top academic medical center.
2020 – Present
Five Years of Private Tutoring & Advising
Premed sciences and MCAT one-on-one work with dozens of students. Avgousti Advising is the natural evolution of that practice.
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Five years engaged in the Feinberg admissions process. Four as an Ambassador. One as a student interviewer. Dozens of conversations with prospective applicants on both sides of the table.

It is the difference between speculating about what an admissions interview is looking for and having actually conducted those interviews. Most premed consultants can offer the former. I can offer a direct view of the latter.

Feinberg School of Medicine · Ambassador, 2021–2024 · Student Interviewer, 2024–2025
Services

Three tracks. One advisor.

All consulting engagements begin with a single 60-minute Zoom consultation. Tutoring engagements are recurring sessions billed hourly. Click a track to explore.

Premed & Medical School Admissions

From a college freshman with a vague interest in medicine to a name on a medical school class list.

Strategic consulting across the entire admissions cycle — school list construction, application architecture, secondary triage, interview preparation, and decision strategy. Every recommendation is grounded in proprietary datasets curated from AAMC MSAR, NRMP, Texas STAR, and four years of direct admissions-committee experience.

This is the longest-engagement track in the practice (typically 9–18 months) and the largest cohort of clients. Capped enrollment per cycle.

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    MCAT Strategy
    Calendar architecture, score-target calibration, and resource selection. Strategy — not tutoring.
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    School List Construction
    A defensible list calibrated to your stats, mission, geography, and preferences — built using MSAR + the proprietary engine.
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    Application Architecture (AMCAS)
    Personal statement, work and activities, and meaningful experiences — reviewed with the eye of a former medical school interviewer.
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    Secondary Strategy
    Triage, theme reuse, and prompt-by-prompt strategy for high-volume secondary cycles — with deadlines that hold.
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    Interview Preparation
    Mock MMI, traditional, and CASPer/PREview prep. Conducted by a former medical school interviewer with direct experience in the role.
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    Acceptance & Decision Strategy
    Final school selection, waitlist strategy, financial aid negotiation, and gap-year strategy when applicable.

Residency Match & Step Strategy

From a first-year medical student to a name on a residency program's rank list.

End-to-end residency strategy: Step planning, specialty fit, research and away-rotation calibration, ERAS architecture, signaling, interview preparation, and rank list construction. Particular depth on competitive subspecialties and the internal medicine and cardiology pipeline.

For MS3/MS4 clients who want strategic counsel from someone who matched at a top academic program in the cycle they are applying in — not advice from a decade ago.

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    Step 1 & Step 2 CK Strategy
    Resource selection, calendar building, and milestone calibration informed by a 276 score and current best practice.
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    Specialty Selection & Competitiveness Audit
    Honest assessment against NRMP and Texas STAR benchmarks — before you commit.
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    Research, Away Rotations, & Letters
    Publication strategy, away rotation selection, and letter portfolio architecture.
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    ERAS Application Architecture
    Personal statement, experiences ordering, and program-by-program signaling within MyERAS limits.
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    Interview & Rank-List Strategy
    Mock interview cycles, program intelligence, and a defensible rank list informed by data — not gut feel.
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    Competitive Subspecialty Pipelines
    Specialized advising for cardiology, gastroenterology, and other competitive internal medicine subspecialty fellowship applications.

Pre-medical Sciences Tutoring

Foundational science mastery for the courses that shape your medical school application.

One-on-one content tutoring in the foundational sciences that determine the cGPA and sGPA on a medical school application. Five years of private tutoring practice with premed undergraduates — the practice predates the consulting work and remains a core service.

Tutoring is distinct from the strategic consulting tracks: rates are hourly, sessions are recurring (typically weekly during a course), and the goal is course mastery. Many clients begin with tutoring as undergraduates and transition into Track I admissions consulting in their application year.

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    General Chemistry I & II
    Atomic theory, stoichiometry, equilibrium, kinetics, thermo, electrochemistry. The foundational quantitative course for medical school.
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    Biology I & II
    Cell biology, genetics, molecular biology, physiology, ecology. Critical for the BB section of the MCAT and biochem prerequisites.
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    Organic Chemistry I
    Structure, mechanisms, stereochemistry, alkenes, alkynes, alcohols. The course that historically separates premeds.
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    Organic Chemistry II
    Aromatics, carbonyls, amines, biomolecules, pericyclic reactions. Mechanism mastery is the deliverable.
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    Biochemistry
    Metabolism, enzyme kinetics, molecular biology, biochemical signaling. The single most-tested topic on the MCAT BB section.
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    MCAT integration (optional)
    Tutoring naturally bridges into MCAT preparation as students enter the application cycle. Tutoring + MCAT strategy can be packaged together.
Why Avgousti Advising

A small practice, by design.

Seven reasons clients choose us over the larger firms. Click each to expand.

Five years engaged in the Feinberg admissions process — four as an Ambassador talking with prospective applicants, and one as a student interviewer conducting medical school admissions interviews. I have not read application files or participated in committee deliberation, but I have conducted dozens of interviews. Most premed consultants speculate about what an interviewer is going to look for. I do not have to.
Larger firms route most clients through advisors who have not themselves matched into competitive programs. Every Avgousti Advising engagement is conducted directly with me, every session, every cycle.
USMLE, ERAS, residency match strategy, and the medical school application have all changed materially in the last five years. My experience is current. My clients benefit from a system designed for the cycle they are actually applying in.
The consulting tracks are strategy: what to do, in what order, against what target, on what evidence. Tutoring is offered separately, in the foundational pre-medical sciences, where five years of one-on-one work has produced a track record of pre-med course outcomes.
Most premed consultants stop at the medical school door. Most residency consultants started there. I have just walked the full path — Penn premed, Feinberg medical school, AOA, 276, first-choice match. That continuity is rare and it is the value proposition.
Every recommendation is grounded in publicly available data — AAMC, NRMP Charting Outcomes, Texas STAR, MSAR — cross-referenced through proprietary datasets we curate on top-30 schools, specialty competitiveness, and cardiology fellowship pipelines.
If you are reaching, I will tell you. If you are underselling yourself, I will tell you. The most expensive thing I can do for a client is agree with them. I do not.
Methodology

Strategy backed by data, not lore.

Most premed and residency advice circulating online is anecdote dressed up as wisdom. Our work is grounded in defensible, public-data benchmarks — cross-referenced and kept current.

  1. Stat-based positioning

    MCAT, GPA, Step 2, research output, letters, and clinical hours mapped against AAMC, NRMP Charting Outcomes, and Texas STAR benchmarks for your target specialty or school tier.

  2. School-specific intelligence

    Curated data on every top-30 medical school: median MCAT/GPA, mission, research orientation, secondary essay archetypes, interview format (MMI vs traditional vs hybrid), CASPer requirements, and class composition — informed by five years of direct engagement with the Feinberg admissions process.

  3. Specialty & fellowship competitiveness

    Application benchmarked against NRMP and Texas STAR distributions for matched applicants. Step scores, publication count, away rotations, and signaling strategy calibrated against the data — with depth on cardiology and internal medicine subspecialty fellowship pipelines.

  4. Iterative, transparent strategy

    You see the spreadsheets. You see the source citations. You leave each session with concrete next actions and a clear understanding of why we are doing what we are doing.

Sample — specialty competitiveness benchmark

Source: NRMP Charting Outcomes, 2024 Match (matched U.S. MD seniors)
SpecialtyMean Step 2Mean PubsMatch Rate
Plastic Surgery (Integrated)25723.6~70%
Dermatology25714.2~85%
Orthopaedic Surgery25711.5~88%
Neurosurgery25223.0~85%
Internal Medicine2485.8~96%
Family Medicine2373.4~94%
The full proprietary engine adds: school-specific match patterns, cardiology fellowship pipelines, secondary essay archetypes, interview format mapping, and five years of direct engagement with the Feinberg admissions process.
AAMC MSAR NRMP Charting Outcomes Texas STAR Cardiology Fellowship Data Interview-room observation
The Proprietary Engine

A calculator your competitors do not have.

Built privately over eighteen months. Powered by clustered datasets covering thirty top medical schools, twenty-two residency specialties, and five years of curated public data. Available only to engaged clients.

What it does

Your stats in. Your strategy out.

Submit a client's MCAT, GPA, undergrad, state, mission, and target specialty interest. The engine returns a defensible school list with every school classified as Reach, Target, or Likely — calibrated against the client's specific profile, with mission-fit and selectivity adjustments applied.

For Track II clients, the engine performs a competitiveness audit against NRMP and Texas STAR distributions for the target specialty — gap-to-mean on Step 2, publications, research, and aways — and produces a composite score with a recommended program-application volume.

  • 01.PCA + k-means clustering identifies four school archetypes and four specialty competitiveness clusters — the basis for every recommendation.
  • 02.Calibrated scoring with a logistic transform produces a 0–100 competitiveness score for residency targets and a Reach/Target/Likely classification for school lists.
  • 03.Source-cited outputs — every recommendation traces to a specific number from AAMC MSAR, NRMP Charting Outcomes, or Texas STAR. Defensibility is the moat.
See it in your initial consultation →
Avgousti Advising · Strategy Engine v1.0
Internal
Premed audit · sample preview
76
MCAT %ile
68
GPA %ile
12
Target schools
5
Reaches
School classification (preview)
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  • University of PittsburghLikely
  • Mount Sinai (Icahn)Target
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Full output revealed in your initial consultation
Sample preview · actual output is personalized to each client and is part of every paid engagement.
30
Top medical schools
22
Specialties benchmarked
5
Curated datasets
8
Features per school
100%
Source-cited
How An Engagement Works

A clear, low-friction process.

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Inquire

Submit the form below with a few details about where you are in your training and what you are working on.

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Initial Consultation

A 60-minute Zoom session. We define the scope, your timeline, and whether the engagement is a fit on both sides.

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Strategic Plan

Within 72 hours, you receive a written plan with a defensible school list or specialty strategy and a calendar.

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Ongoing Strategy

Ongoing support is structured by what you need — not pre-packaged hours. We meet on the cadence the cycle requires.

Client Outcomes

Five years. A track record built one student at a time.

★★★★★

Harris has been excellent coaching me through MCAT preparation and the medical school admissions process. Hearing his perspective on my application, his advice on essays, schools, etc. has made me a better candidate. I would highly recommend him as a coach to prospective med students.

Anonymous
Premed applicant · Accepted to Brown University
★★★★★

Harris is extremely hardworking and passionate about science and medicine. He was the best Teaching Assistant I encountered at UPenn and has continued to coach and mentor students that want to pursue a career in research and medicine. Highly recommend him — there's no one better.

Uday T.
University of Pennsylvania
★★★★★

Harris worked with me for both Orgo I and II. He explained mechanisms and key concepts in a way that was clear and easy to understand, often getting topics to click that I had not fully grasped in lecture. Beyond academics, he was always supportive and gave me helpful advice as a pre-med student. I would highly recommend him.

Isabella H.
Premed undergraduate · Organic Chemistry I & II
Frequently Asked

Common questions, answered directly.

For four years I served as a Feinberg Admissions Ambassador, talking with prospective applicants at events and answering their questions about the school, the curriculum, and the admissions process. In my fifth year I served as a student interviewer on the admissions committee, conducting interviews with medical school applicants and assessing candidate aptitude through conversation. To be clear: I did not read application files, and I did not participate in committee deliberations or admissions decisions — those responsibilities sit with faculty members and the Dean's office. What I have is direct experience conducting medical school interviews, and a view of what makes one work that few consultants can offer.
Engagements are priced based on scope, timeline, and the level of ongoing involvement required. Listing fixed packages tends to push clients toward whatever fits the package rather than what they actually need. After an initial consultation, you will receive a clear written quote. Tutoring engagements are billed hourly at a fixed rate disclosed at the inquiry stage.
Not directly. The MCAT and USMLE Step exams are best supported through a strategic engagement that includes calendar architecture, score-target calibration, and resource selection. Foundational pre-medical science tutoring (Track III) is offered separately and frequently bridges into MCAT strategy as a client transitions into the application cycle.
All sessions are 60 minutes via Zoom. Materials are exchanged in a shared folder, and clients can reach me between sessions for time-sensitive questions during active application cycles. Tutoring sessions are also conducted via Zoom, typically weekly during the academic term.
No. I will help you architect the narrative, pressure-test the structure, and edit your drafts — sometimes line by line — but the essay must be yours. Admissions committees have become very good at recognizing a ghostwritten essay, and the reputational risk to my practice is not one I will take on.
Yes — provided the engagement is a fit on both sides. Some of the strongest client outcomes have come from non-traditional applicants and those with stats below typical thresholds. What I will not do is take on a client whose goal is, in my honest assessment, not achievable in the timeline given. We will have a candid conversation about that during the initial consultation.
A small number, by design. The premed admissions track is capped at a level that allows me to be substantively involved through the entire cycle. Once a cycle is full, prospective clients are placed on a waitlist for the following year.
Avgousti Advising's niche depth is in the internal medicine and cardiology pipeline. We maintain proprietary data on cardiology fellowship match outcomes and top program internal pipelines. Clients targeting competitive internal medicine residencies and cardiology subspecialty fellowships work with an advisor who has just entered that pipeline at the highest level.
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What to expect

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  • Response Within 2 business days
  • Sessions Zoom, 60 minutes
  • Cycle Limited slots per intake
  • Format Strategic, data-driven, direct
Submitting this form does not establish a professional relationship. Avgousti Advising provides advisory and tutoring services only; we do not guarantee admission to any program, examination score, or other specific outcome. Engaged clients sign an engagement letter setting forth specific scope and terms.