<p>If you apply to med school, is research done in high school necessary? Do you have to do research in high school or can you do it when you're in college? Will not doing research in high school affect you in a negative way?</p>
<p>I would imagine that it will only affect which undergraduate college accepts you ...or doesn't. Med school is more concerned with what you have done in college.</p>
<p>Medical schools do not care about HS accomplishments unless they are so out of the ordinary that they warrant recognition. If you were published in JAMA or NEJM or Nature or Science or another Journal on the same level as those (of which there are few) then you might include those. That said the AMCAS application specifically asks for POST SECONDARY experiences. Any thing you did in HS would have to be put into you personal statement which is now asking the question "Why do you wish to become a physician?" from what I've heard. So if you can't point to a experience (research or otherwise) which helps answer that question, I wouldn't even include it...</p>
<p>Personally, I didn't even do research in college and still was accepted to medical school. Granted, there was one school which rejected me for reasons that I believe to be related to lacking research experience, but the two schools I was accepted to did not seem to mind.</p>
<p>Not doing research in HS will not affect you ever. Colleges may be getting more and more competitive where things like that matter, but I believe that medical school is competitive enough and has been competitive for a very long time that they won't ever begin looking that far back because the admissions committees are used to making their decisions with the information they currently ask for.</p>
<p>Thanks, everyone.</p>
<p>bigred, what medical school do you attend and which university did you go for undergrad?</p>
<p>Good luck and thank you for the help?</p>