About
Built by People Who Have Sat Where You Are Sitting.
Project White Coat exists because of a gap we kept running into: applicants doing enormous amounts of practice, with nobody willing to read it back to them honestly.
Our story
The Gap We Kept Seeing
Almost every applicant we met had done the work. They had the grades. They had the volunteering, the research, the years of quietly building a case for themselves. Then they reached CASPer or the MMI, and everything they had built came down to a few minutes of writing or speaking that nobody had ever helped them with.
What was available was mostly volume: question banks, model answers, recorded lectures. Useful up to a point, and completely silent on the only question that matters — what is wrong with my answer? Applicants were practising in the dark and getting steadily better at their own bad habits.
Project White Coat was built to close that gap. Not with more material, but with someone reading what you wrote and telling you plainly what an assessor would see.
Our mission: make sure no applicant loses a place they were qualified for because nobody ever told them how their reasoning reads to someone else.
Philosophy
Why Feedback Beats Volume
Repetition makes a skill automatic. It does not make it correct. Whether repetition helps or hurts depends entirely on whether anything corrects it between attempts.
01
Specific
“Be less generic” is not feedback. Pointing at the sentence that is generic, and saying what it should have done instead, is.
02
Immediate
Feedback given while you still remember what you were thinking is worth several times feedback given a week later.
03
Repeated
One correction changes one answer. The same correction three times changes how you think.
04
Honest
Encouragement that is not accurate is not kind. Applicants deserve to know where they actually stand.
The team
We’ve Been on Your Side of the Screen
Project White Coat was built by people who have sat the tests, waited for the results, and know what the pressure of a competitive application cycle actually feels like.
Sami Sumaya
Co-founder
3rd-year dental medicine, Université Laval
Hi, I’m Sami! I’m in my third year of dental medicine at Université Laval. Between classes, clinic, and a few too many coffees, I’ve learned one thing: with the right method, 4th quartile gets a lot less intimidating. I’m here to show you how.
Oussama Karasad
Co-founder
2nd-year medicine, Université de Montréal · B.Sc. in Neuroscience
Hi, I’m Oussama! I’m in my second year of medicine, after a bachelor’s in neuroscience. I love playing soccer, and that’s how I scored 4th quartile twice.
Karim Sumaya
Co-founder
2nd-year dental medicine, Université Laval
Hi, I’m Karim! I’m in my second year of dental medicine at Université Laval. A big fan of team sports, I’m here to show you that teamwork can take you to 4th quartile too.
Values
What We Hold Ourselves To
01
Say the hard thing
Including telling an applicant that they do not need us, or that the timeline is too short.
02
Never promise an outcome
Admissions decisions are not ours to give, and anyone who implies otherwise is selling something.
03
Respect the test
We write our own scenarios. We do not traffic in leaked or reconstructed live test content.
04
Protect what students tell us
Responses, results, and identities stay private unless a student asks us in writing to share them.
05
Teach a method, not a script
A memorised answer helps once. A way of reasoning helps in every station you have not seen.
Your next step
You’ve Worked Too Hard to Leave Admissions to Chance.
Find out exactly what you should be working on before your CASPer test or interview.
No obligation. If we are not the right fit, we will tell you.