<p>Does anyone know about any summer medical programs that are still accepting applications? Preferably near Chicago-land?</p>
<p>Uhmm National Youth Leadership Forum on Medicine is nice.</p>
<p>It’s sort of a pay your way through that doesn’t show that you have academic merit, and it costs about 4000, but it’s an awesome experience!</p>
<p>Plus, I hear they give away 1000 scholarships for those students that have above a 3.5 GPA.</p>
<p>Oh I received one of their e-mails but I wasn’t sure if it was one of those “rich kid” programs that mean little to colleges. Do you know any more specifics about NYLF?</p>
<p>Well it gives you A LOT of insight into the medical field, I won’t lie about that. I think you even get to assit (hand tools) during a surgery.</p>
<p>It’s really hands-on and you get to shadow a bunch of different physicians.</p>
<p>It helps you decide if you WANT to attend med school and what speciality you want to be.</p>
<p>It is definitly a “rich kid” program.</p>
<p>Another one is Brown’s Medical school seminar thing. I think you get to take a bunch of med school related classes and recieve credit for them. Another program that doesn’t require outstanding academic achievements.</p>
<p>Vanderbilt Gifted Youth Program has a Med School 101 program that is more prestigious than Brown and NYLF programs. It has minimum SAT or PSAT score reqs though.</p>
<p>^ Probably a way better program than my options because it requires some sort of academic achievement:)</p>
<p>Ehh, not necessarily. It could be the exact some program for all I know. I just happen to know that the one runs admissions by nomination meaning most people are accepted versus one where there are more stringent admissions requirements (but not fantastically hard).</p>
<p>Thank you both for your advice, I really appreciate it. I just have one last question though: is the Vanderbilt program still accepting applications? I saw the deadline was somewhere in February?</p>