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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I guess research is a factor for premed and if you know you want a PhD…but I find the DCUM fascination with it strange.

Most college research is quite honestly…not exciting or groundbreaking.  It frankly sounds tedious and kind of stupid.  Is it learning the best practices that is more important vs what anyone is working on?

For the kids studying anything where they will work in private industry, the running joke is the kids who can’t get an internship do research because you have to do something productive.  [b]It’s not a positive thing…even the kids doing the research know that.[/b]

Carry on now with your arguments over SLAC vs R1 research.[/quote]
Uh. No. 
You clearly do not have a recent student who has applied to medical school, vet school, or to any stem summer internships(non-premeds). Research as an undergrad is central part of the resume for MD programs as well as anyone w[b]ho wants the best stem internships that will lead to top industry offers. 
The students who got top industry summer internships all had research at DC's ivy. [/b]They ask about it in all the interviews. 
DC's ivy they usually start research sophomore year, some earlier. Hopkins is the same. Other ivy the same. We know lots of stem students at top schools, research is key these days. 
If they want Masters or phD of course research becomes even more important. Even top law schools look for research backgrounds now(often not stem research but it could be). Over half the humanities students DC's ivy do research, during the semester with professors. Art history, sociology, public policy, practically every major! 
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Utter, complete, and total bullshit.  I mean, what's your definition of a top summer internship for STEM?  My Ivy kid had offers for Meta Super Intelligence and Apple's AI group and never even remotely thought about doing research.  None of his friends working for FAANG, hedge funds et al did any research.

Literally, the only Ivy kids in practical STEM fields doing Summer research are the ones who can't get real summer internships.  Again, these kids are even bummed about it...but again, it's better than nothing.

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