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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]All I can say is I agree with you! So many doctors educated abroad, but American kids with the academic qualifications for American medical schools are pushed aside because their college wasn’t physically located close enough to a hospital for them to get the volunteer hours. Absolutely insane choices by the medical profession. And then they wonder why they’re losing public trust. [/quote]

If you at all thought you wanted to be a doctor/anything medical, you should pick an undergrad that has volunteer opportunities nearby (with 30-40 mins away).

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Most schools have volunteer opportunities on campus and have lists and lists of premed clinical opportunities on the premed websites. It is not true that you have to be wealthy to do it: many do it during the semester! No premeds need to take summer classes, those are for grade re-do or spreading out courses. Kids should be able to get the grades the first time around. You can manage premed and spend 10-15hrs per week for the other stuff and get it all done without summer. Or you can decrease to 5hrs a week in the semester and use the summers. You can get a job as an EMT and get paid in the summer. Or a nurse assistant. There are hundreds and hundreds of paid research experiences for college kids, if the home college does not have funds to pay students for lab work with professors in summers. MCAT studying is done at night in the summer while working a full time job (medical or nonmedical) or in the semester in addition to a full course load, adequately using winter and spring breaks for study too. That is what every successful premed we know has done. Med schools want to see that you use your weekends and evenings to accomplish goals: they have to see you are ready for the sacrifice medicine brings. No summer work(paid or not) multiple summers in college is a red flag. It is false that you have to be rich to do it all. [/quote]

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