hey premeds Options

[Melissa]

I'm going to talk to my premed adviser about this, of course, but I want to get other opinions from people who've gone through this or are going through this.

My general adviser told me that it might be a good idea to take a lag year between senior year and med school - that way, my junior year wont be cramped with orgo, physics, and advanced bio (for neuroscience, too) and I could take my mcats senior year, then apply to med schools during my year off.

My cousin's doing this and is doing research at Columbia Presby during her year off, but my uncle thinks it's a really bad idea.

I mean, I guess the pros would be to have a year off - 15+ years of school/residency/internships/etc in a row is extremely intense. Another pro would be the med school interview process - flying off for an interview in the middle of school must really suck.

I'm not sure. I'm not discussing this with my parents until I talk to the premed advisers, though.

[Just_Dream]

Oh yea I forgot to mention that you should talk to some people from clubs at your school.

My college, UCSD, has a pre-dental society that I joined and they have a lot of connections as well as advice. We also have pre-pharm clubs and other clubs geared toward students aiming for med school and whatnot.