<p>I love this discussion board. I just found this recently when I was looking to sign up for MCAT. I am a sophomore. I have signed up for August 6 MCAT. I am planning to take junior year fall off and do health related volunteer/research field work abroad. I did quite a bit of lab research in hight school. One paper was published last year and the other one will be sometime this year. I did not get involved in lab research in college because I was not too crazy about it - I like instant gratification ;). My question is will the paper publication count for med schools even though the research for it was done in high school ? Also, not doing research work against me @ schools that are big in research.</p>