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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]How do you find a doctor to shadow?
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Best path is to ask people you know. Can send blind emails if you really don't know any doctors but that's a tough road. [/quote]

This is why URM and lower income kids have such a hard time.  They do not have these connections.[/quote]

My niece is a doctor and says she gets cold emails all the time from college students to shadow her, and that’s fine.  Seems totally unnecessary for HS.[/quote]

It’s very necessary for HS kids because they need to decide on their college major and if they want to be a doctor then they shouldn’t wait until college to decide to major in chemistry or biology and start taking the prereqs.[/quote]

You don’t need to major in chemistry or biology.  I was a philosophy major.  You just need to take the pre-reqs.  [/quote]

Yeah you don't need to major in chem or bio... if you for some reason want to make your life unnecessarily harder, go ahead and major in a humanities subject  :roll: [/quote]

You will be a more attractive applicant if you do.  I promise that majoring in humanities while taking pre-med courses is more attractive than shadowing.  
And if you aren’t prepared to do something difficult that you find interesting and exciting, this really isn’t the path for you.

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Agree shadowing can help figuring out if the career is the right one. Major does not matter at all. Our T10 parents weekend had a talk on interest in premed and what the school advises and all the resources on campus: research is the most important difference-maker in getting in to T25 med schools. All med schools want clinical experience and volunteering, all want an above-average MCAT and all use science /stem gpa as the main gpa that gets you in. Major is put in context—engineering and difficult majors are allowed a lower gpa.  This school gets over 90% accepted to US med schools and about half of them get accepted to T25 med schools. The avg MCAT at the school is much higher than the national average—they almost all good test takers. [/quote]

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