<p>Like work 20 hour weeks?</p>
<p>^^^</p>
<p>Personally I think that would be too much during each semester. I think your pre-med pre-req grades would suffer.</p>
<p>However, that doesn’t mean that you can’t compromise…work 10 hours per week during the tough semesters…work a bit more when your semesters are lighter…and working full time during the summer.</p>
<p>If the goal is med school, don’t mess that up by trying to work so much. The semesters that my son took OChem, he only worked about 5 hours per week…seriously…very little.</p>
<p>Why do you need to work so much during the school year? Keep in mind that your EFC will go up once you earn about $5k or more each year.</p>
<p>Depends on the job. If it’s workstudy, you’ll likely get a lot of opportunity to read and study depending on the job. If it’s something like the Rhodes student associate program, you’ll be working your tail off 15 hours per week, but you’ll be doing it in an area where you can apply what you’re learning in class and you won’t have to commute, which can save a lot of time over the course of a week. If you’re going to try to work 20 hours off-campus, that can get pretty heavy.</p>
<p>That depends on you and what kind of trade-offs you want to make. Some students manage it quite well, for others it’s a stretch. S was pre-med and a student athlete so games and training were easily 20 hrs/wk during the season, and 10+/hrs week the rest of the year (when he did other sports, but less intensely). Work would no doubt be similar. The trade-off for him was that he wasn’t able to do any research with faculty or volunteering in a medical environment during the school year because of his training and game schedule. It all got done during summers and breaks. </p>
<p>If you are working because it’s the only way you can afford a school, make sure you take into consideration the cost of medical school. Even in-state will run you at least $40k per year, so you don’t want to be carrying a lot of undergrad debt on top of that.</p>
<p>If it’s workstudy, you’ll likely get a lot of opportunity to read and study depending on the job.</p>
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<p>Well, yes, it depends on the job…many W/S jobs do not give you the opportunity to read and study on the job. Don’t count on getting one of those…especially for all 4 years.</p>
<p>If you can have a job that offers some flexibility with hours, that can be a life-saver when needing to minimize working hours when tests are coming up.</p>
<p>Thanks for the replies. I was hoping to have a job to help pay for college while I was there but I think 20 hours would be a stretch.</p>
<p>Thousands of students do it: work 20 hours a week and do premed. Easy? No. Doable? Absolutely.</p>