<p>DD14 is interested in doing lab reasearch during the school year... we have called Yale School Medicine's administrative offices and there are no formal programs for high school students....I am sure there are researchers who would be willing to "hire" a high school student as an assistant... she is not looking for pay... </p>
<p>I have read here on CC that many of you HS students have been able to garner a position such as this... how did you go about it? any advice on how my daughter can find a research opportunity? Would an email or sending a resume via snail mail be a good idea?</p>
<p>She has interest in medicine, is motivated, serious and her school is less than 5 minutes walk from the YSM/Yale New Haven Hospital.. </p>
<p>Any suggestions/advice you have will be so appreciated!</p>
<p>beg</p>
<p>grovel</p>
<p>cry</p>
<p>idk, seems like a far fetch to me.</p>
<p>I applied for an internship (and I will be a freshman this coming year), but I contacted a professor interested in the same field I wanted to research. She hasn’t exactly said yes or no. I actually would be surprised if I got the internship, because I’m only going to be a 9th grader.</p>
<p>There’s a bunch of summer programs she can apply to.
I don’t know about Yale’s programs, but the Research Science Institute (RSI) would definitely help her. There are many other programs. I just looked at the Summer Programs forum under the Pre-College area</p>
<p>4 easy steps:</p>
<h1>1 → figure out what you want to research.</h1>
<h1>2 → find the corresponding professors web page.</h1>
<h1>3 → print out professors published papers and read them.</h1>
<h1>4 → contact professor.</h1>
<p>Don’t simply e-mail professors at random without reading first ok?</p>
<p>That was over a year ago guys… I’m going to set out a jar and who ever pulls up OLD threads will have to place a dollar bill inside… ok? is that a deal? </p>
<p>and she has already found oppurtunities… a very long time ago!!!</p>