Ivy Li

Ivy Li

Ivy Li

City of Residence: Taipei
School: Putai High School
Intended major: Medical Science
Age during program: Grade 12

Ivy is a medical student who wants to be a doctor. She has previous volunteer experience in the medical field, where she observed and assisted doctors. She has taken part in a number of Medical Science Summer Courses/Camps and this led to her growing interest in this area.

Matched professor:

★ King’s College London

What challenges did she face?

  • Despite having some medical science background, she needed to deep dive and study about a specific hormone – cortisol – in order to complete her research paper.


Matched professor:

The mentor is a health psychology lecturer who holds a PhD in Psychology from UCL


How did our program help her?

  • Her mentor taught her how to write a scientific article with citations, something she had never done before.
  • Her mentor wrote her a letter of recommendation, which aided her application at King’s College London.


Below is part of an example work done during the program:

Program objectives outlined by the professor
Excerpt from the student’s Final Research Paper on the topic of “Stress perception, coping and cortisol sampled from hair during naturalistic academic stress exposure”.
Excerpt from the student’s Final Research Paper on the topic of “Stress perception, coping and cortisol sampled from hair during naturalistic academic stress exposure”.
Excerpt from the student’s Final Research Paper on the topic of “Stress perception, coping and cortisol sampled from hair during naturalistic academic stress exposure”.
Excerpt from the student’s Final Research Paper on the topic of “Stress perception, coping and cortisol sampled from hair during naturalistic academic stress exposure”.
Email communication between the professor and student. Ivy had requested for a letter of recommendation. Later part of the communications showed Ivy got into King’s College London!
Student’s positive reflection on the mentorship program

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