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\"May<\/p>\n

B.S. Human Biology, Health and Disease Track
\n<\/em>B.A. NGOs and Social Change
\n<\/em>Attending: Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA)<\/em><\/p>\n

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“I switched into the Human Biology major early on at USC, and I’m so glad I did! The program is
\nincredibly supportive, with amazingly responsive, helpful, and kind advisors who helped me
\nFrankenstein my courseload together so I could graduate on time with two degrees. For
\npre-health students, this program also offers unmatched flexibility by overlapping core
\nrequirements with all the major prerequisites you’ll need to apply to medical school. My courses
\nwere the right amount of challenging and interesting, and I loved how professors integrated their
\nresearch interests into class: Dr. Polidori’s love for nutrition made her classes directly applicable
\nto real life, and Dr. Borner always made sure to explain the connection between complex
\nmetabolic pathways and the cutting-edge research he was conducting. In my Health and Disease
\ncapstone class, we even got to create a poster presentation using Dr. Schier’s own
\nrecently-collected data! Exploring trends within real data and learning to summarize it gave us
\nskills we’ll carry into conducting and presenting our own research down the line.<\/p>\n

Last but not least, I got to take the coolest lab classes at USC! We explored exercise physiology
\nby testing on our favorite subjects – ourselves! We learned how to take glucose and insulin
\nsamples, operate a metabolic cart, analyze nutrition intake, and so much more that I’m probably
\nforgetting right now. Dr. Kiki was one of my lab instructors, and he walked us through each lab
\nwith incredible detail and support. I later took Endocrinology and Metabolism with him, and the
\ncare he took to make sure we understood every step of a metabolic process turned what could
\nhave been a nightmare class into one of my favorites at USC.<\/p>\n

I highly recommend Human Biology to anyone at USC with an interest in medicine and\/or the
\nbiological sciences!”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n <\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":916,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2647","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nMay Wu (May 2025)<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/heb\/2026\/08\/19\/may-wu-may-2025\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"May Wu (May 2025) - Human and Evolutionary Biology\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/heb\/2026\/08\/19\/may-wu-may-2025\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Human and Evolutionary Biology\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2026-08-19T19:36:50+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2026-08-19T19:36:51+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"jcarlos6\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/dornsife.usc.edu\\\/heb\\\/2026\\\/08\\\/19\\\/may-wu-may-2025\\\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/dornsife.usc.edu\\\/heb\\\/2026\\\/08\\\/19\\\/may-wu-may-2025\\\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"jcarlos6\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/dornsife.usc.edu\\\/heb\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/865b7916e2cb4ba63ff358543e330a55\"},\"headline\":\"May Wu (May 2025)\",\"datePublished\":\"2026-08-19T19:36:50+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2026-08-19T19:36:51+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/dornsife.usc.edu\\\/heb\\\/2026\\\/08\\\/19\\\/may-wu-may-2025\\\/\"},\"wordCount\":3,\"commentCount\":0,\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/dornsife.usc.edu\\\/heb\\\/2026\\\/08\\\/19\\\/may-wu-may-2025\\\/#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/dornsife.usc.edu\\\/heb\\\/2026\\\/08\\\/19\\\/may-wu-may-2025\\\/\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/dornsife.usc.edu\\\/heb\\\/2026\\\/08\\\/19\\\/may-wu-may-2025\\\/\",\"name\":\"May Wu (May 2025) - 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