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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]No, but I do with they didn’t need hundreds upon hundreds of hours in clinical, research, and volunteering to prove worthiness requiring a new norm of gap years. Mine doesn’t need one, but as the age increases worries it’s a negative not to even if ready. It’s a long path, don’t want it to be longer.[/quote]

Anyone worth the admission to med school can do all of the prereqs as well as research, volunteering, clinical/shadowing and apply summer after junior year of college, taking the MCAT once in the late spring. MCAT prep is not hard for capable students who are at rigorous premed programs.  ECs are easy to knock out during the school year at colleges with a med school on or close to campus, plus the summer after freshman year and the summer after sophomore year. Gap years are only necessary for those who cannot balance it all and still get 3.9+. Our ivy does not encourage gap years for anyone unless they need to spread out courses or they decide to be premed later (and miss the ability to start the ECs as a freshman, which makes a gap necessary).  [/quote]

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