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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Reading this with interest.  I have a sophomore at a [b]top 10 school doing premed[/b].  The academic requirements are really the least of it.  And she is a total workaholic with no social life so the commitment isn’t an issue.  She was lucky to get a funded research spot in a lab and is working 10-20 hours a week there in addition to her heavy premed load.  
We really have no idea how she is going to get the clinical hours.  She can’t get them at school.  What are the kids doing for that?

She’s talking about skipping a semester abroad because she’s stressed about the premed requirements but I feel like spending a semester in a different culture solidifying language skills would be really useful for a doctor!

I’m also a little irked at the person saying oh just spend your first two summers meeting those requirements. [b] How are 18 year old kids supposed to find these positions?  None of the kids I know that finished freshman year were able to find anything beyond camp cohnsellr, lifeguard,[/b] etc.

My kid would be a phenomenal doctor — so smart, really caring, great with people, curious, hard working, doesn’t care much about money.    But I feel like this whole process is designed to weed her out.  She might just get a PhD and go work for a biotech or pharma company or something.  [/quote]

For goodness sakes, she won the lottery, she is at a top 10 school! She needs to use the resources. Her premed advising will know what is needed from that school to get in, and often below average GPA is just fine from a T10. 
My premed is at an ivy, got into multiple T10/ivy, and we researched the heck out of all premed options in the T50  even though I went to T10 and am a physician. Kids at T10 with a hospital on or near campus have it made. Every one I know that has a medical school lists clinical programs on the premed websites. Summer can be spent on research(T10 has the funds), which is essential if they want to try for Top20 med schools like all their classmates will. They can volunteer in the hospital affiliated with the school, they can get a CNA and get a job: there is a nursing/medical assistant shortage. They can get their EMT at community college and get a job. They can do volunteer work for opioid addiction clinics or planned parenthood in addition to research the first summer, or go abroad on a medically-related summer program offered by the T10. T10s have many summer-abroad experiences open to freshmen. That is just a quick list of the things kid and her premed friends do at her ivy as well as her premed friends at the state school, which does not have a hospital yet they figure it out. 
Every premed kid my kid knows got some sort of medically-related or volunteer or research experience after freshman year. Maybe their school has more resources, but that is not likely as yours is at a T10! Even without that first summer, there are 400 more hours the summer after sophomore year and another 400 after junior year. That is plenty of time left to get it all done. Most science majors cannot go abroad for a semester; that is common and part of the sacrifice. They can however go on medical missions in the summer and T10s are the most likely places that provide these experiences. 
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