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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Kid who went to Ivy now in medical school.

It was NOT easy to get research positions. [/quote]

I have kids at a T10 and an ivy currently, and I went to a different ivy. The current situation at their schools is anyone who wants research gets it. You just ask faculty in any basic sciences and if they do not have openings they know a lab who does. Med schools do not require that it is strictly medical research, it can be any rigorous science research. Many labs with profs are work-study. That is what I did 27 years ago: work study as a sophomore that led to summer job, paid, and eventually published. My alma mater has 10x the support for financial aid kids now, many more work study spots and other paid research that did not exist then. The clinical experience is much easier now: multiple EMT groups on campus and in the community, medical assistant roles in the hospital, all done during the semester. There are some trips that are funded by the school though I believe you can only do one per student. Some are spring or winter break, 9 days, but yield 75 hours of service and clinical experience. 
There is no need to be wealthy to get the experience in fact many labs prioritize the work study kids as they should. 
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Hopefully you can imagine that this might not be the case for all schools, even Ivy.

And agree with PP…my kid needed to work in the summer for pay, so volunteering was limited.

Shadowing was a bit easier for her, but can imagine that could also be very difficult. Without connections, many of these “requirements” that seem easy, are not.[/quote]

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