After Q1's active-user decline (1,930 → 1,034 → 535), April held at 367 active users but discussion roared back: 59 contributors (up from 10), 46 posts (up from 18), 91 comments (up from 5). Lead attribution settled at $21,213 monthly after a heavier March.
2025 baseline shows the full prior year; 2026 partial line shows what we've recorded Jan–Apr.
The MCAT 2026 shape is unusual. The student-and-alumni curves are a clean ramp — 578 students last January, 9,186 this April. 3,638 alumni → 10,715. The cohort is several times larger than it was, and growing every month.
The active-user curve is the opposite. January 2026 logged 1,930 active users — a single-month high. February dropped to 1,034. March to 535. April further to 367. That's not a community-engagement issue; it's a cohort-cycle issue: pre-MCAT students front-load activity around test-prep windows, then go quiet between cycles.
The April surprise is the discussion bounce. Contributors went from 10 in March to 59 in April. Posts: 18 → 46. Comments: 5 → 91. That's not a steady signal — it's likely a single thread or two driving a burst (the physics-formulas pattern from earlier in the year), but it confirms that organic, content-driven discussion still works for this audience when the right thread shows up.