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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Based on my own going through it at an Ivy and their peer group it isn’t from connections. They all skipped intro bio/chem and so are taking high level courses early on. All are doing many, many clinical and research hours during the school year on top of holding leadership positions and volunteering. There is great opportunity for all of that so don’t know how that compares. Summers are spent adding to already big number of hours. My guess is it’s a proven track record of doing it all at once versus the ones that focus on classes and then use summers to get hours.[/quote]

Weird.

Stacey, premed is not high school anymore.  [/quote]

DP but what do you mean? The PP said  "(their premed and peers) all skipped intro bio/chem and so are taking high level courses early on. All are doing many, many clinical and research hours during the school year on top of holding leadership positions and volunteering. There is great opportunity for all of that so don’t know how that compares. Summers are spent adding to already big number of hours"

What about this is weird?
Mine is premed at a T10/ivy and I am also a physician. This is just what premeds do, with variation here and there. Plenty at non-ivies skip the intro classes, and at least half the ivies do not let the students skip gen chem or others.  
The basic schedule is 
Freshman: CalcAB or BC/Stats (or MVC/stats if placed out of calc,  but two math semesters); Gen chem 1&2; gen psychology maybe; rest humantiies/genEd course.  
Soph: Gen Bio/Cell Bio; Orgo1/Orgo2; classes for your major or distribution/genEd reqs
Junior: Phys1/Phys2; Biochem/ another upper level bio; 
Take MCAT after junior year.

You do not have to be at an elite/ivy to do the basic premed plan. STEM majors will have more than 2 stem courses per semester but nonsttem do not need to and they can still get the reqs done as above. Mine is an engineer premed so there are 5 courses a semester and 3-4 are stem.It is a harder path but many do it well and finish premed courses. Mine does not know a single person who has dropped premed. 
Even with all that it is "normal" at their school to do all the things: research in a lab, volunteering/clinical hours, club with leadership by junior year.
That is the normal grind for non-premeds too! Lots of phd-aiming peers and they do the same but more research or TAing instead of clinical hours. I doubt it is much different at other schools.
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