My name is Mike Rose. I graduated from Concordia College in 2014 with degrees in Biology and Chemistry. I am currently in my final year of medical school at the University of Minnesota and recently completed a Master's in Public Health at Harvard. I plan to become both a primary care physician and policymaker.

My four years at Concordia made me the person and professional I am today. The combination of the small class sizes, faculty dedicated to their students, and caring, dedicated classmates were what made me into an excellent student. 

Concordia expanded my world view, challenged my beliefs, and took a student who had never heard the term social justice to one who sees it as his central life mission.

In my five years since graduation, spent studying medicine and public health - in clinics, hospital rooms and lecture halls - I have not come across a colleague who had better preparation than my peers and I received from Concordia.

My name is Corey Horien. I am a 2013 graduate of Concordia. After college, I spent a year at the University of Oxford as a research assistant in a basic science lab, and I am currently pursuing a combined MD-PhD at Yale. My career goal is becoming a physician-scientist and using computational tools and machine learning techniques to better understand psychiatric disease.
My experience at Concordia was second-to-none. The dedication of the faculty to my learning was amazing. From receiving personalized feedback on essays and exams, to being taught the basic lab techniques, these experiences have helped me get to where I am today. Simply put, the faculty go out of their way to help your learning, development and advancement.
Concordia is an amazing place. You will carry relationships you form with both classmates and faculty members with you for the rest of your life. I met some of my best friends in freshman chemistry, and I still keep in touch with members of the biology and chemistry departments. I feel extremely fortunate (and humbled) to have attended. It was one of the best choices of my life.

I am a proud 2014 graduate of Concordia and attended medical school at the Mayo Clinic School of Medicine in Rochester, MN. I am currently a first-year pediatrics resident at Mayo Clinic and plan to pursue pediatric cardiology as my specialty.
I can say without a shadow of a doubt I would not be the doctor I am today (or probably a doctor at all...) if it weren't for the experiences and people I encountered at Concordia. The liberal arts education at Concordia provided me with a solid bedrock of scientific knowledge but also challenged me to think critically, improve my writing, engage in collaborative learning experiences, and learn how to learn from different people, styles and environments. Concordia's faculty were invested in our learning and our future. I had multiple faculty mentors who took time to meet with me, talk through career discernment, provide guidance on how to put together a successful medical school application, help with study strategies for the MCAT, and much more.