Eric is a second year medical student at the University of Pennsylvania. Eric grew up in Albuquerque, NM and graduated from Harvard College in 2018 with a degree in Chemical and Physical biology. Eric believes that no applicant’s dreams of entering medicine should be denied because valuable information was locked behind paywalls. Eric was inspired to start the UpLIFT project in his first year of medical school after realizing that he and his fellow medical students could address these major disparities in access to critical information about medical school admissions by creating an open-source guide.