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We are grateful to all the study participants for sharing their experiences and perspectives and to E. Macagno for help in recruiting participants. The summer bridge program was supported by the National Science Foundation under grant no. 1355045 and the Division of Biological Sciences at the University of California San Diego. We thank L. Warnock for conducting the pilot set of interviews and F. Contreras, E. Macagno, and members of the discipline-based education research journal club for feedback on the article. Research in this publication was supported in part by an award from the Academic Senate Grant Funding Programs for General Campus Research at the University of California San Diego (award no. 058396) and by the National Eye Institute and National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke of the National Institutes of Health under award no. R25NS119707. The content is solely the responsibility of the authors and does not necessarily represent the official views of the National Institutes of Health or the National Science Foundation. The authors declare no conflict of interest.

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