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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]A negative of Cornell is the difficulty of accumulating shadowing/volunteering hours for pre-meds as the hospital in Ithaca isn't big enough to provide enough opportunities. Some have to do it in NYC during summer, others have to do it back home during breaks. Baltimore has more than just Johns Hopkins Hospital---it also has the UMD hospital system. In this regard, JHU is similar to WashU in having hospitals downtown St. Louis (e.g., Barnes-Jewish, St. Louis Children's Hospitals), which Cornell unfortunately can't match.[/quote]

How often do kids do that during the school year though? [/quote]

+1.  Most kids use summers and a gap year or two to get their clinical, lab and shadowing hours and take MCATs for med school apps.  While a few hours a week in an on-campus lab is doable (and my kid did that at Cornell) he and other premeds he spoke with, thought it was counterproductive to risk your GPA by spending the necessary hundreds of hours working and volunteering during the school year (unless you don't plan to do anything else during your years on campus)[/quote]

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