<p>I currently go to Berkeley, but my home is in socal. So I was wondering if I could get a research position at UCLA or UC Irvine over the summer. How can I make this possible? Should I email the professors.</p>
<p>It's not too late, is it?</p>
<p>My son applied to several summer research programs around the country in Feb. He received notifications in March / April. These were 10 week paid fellowships. Your best bet is to contact the Bio. depts. at each school which can put you in touch with individual professors who will likely be running experiments this summer & looking for help. I wouldn't waste any time. Good luck.</p>
<p>Would it be better to do research with a professor at the college which I am currently attending at the expense of not going home this summer?</p>
<p>It's too late to get a position now unless you know a prof who can guarantee you something. It is probably best to do research at your current university so you can continue on during the school year and increase your chances of publishing something. However, you should be fine going home and doing some lab work there. It's better than nothing and you may get lucky and publish something there too.</p>
<p>so is it easier to get a research position if we major in biology or chemistry?</p>
<p>here are some. usually UCLA students have to take a course called SRP 99, but there are people in my lab who are volunteering. Email would be the best way.</p>
<p>For some professors, I sent emails but I didnt get any response. I was kind of expecting this would happen for some professors, but should I email them again. Because I'm really interested in working in their lab.</p>
<p>Move on. Email other professors. They're probably not interested. If you get anything above a 10% response rate, consider yourself lucky.</p>
<p>10% positive responses, or just responses positive or negative whatsoever?</p>
<p>ok this is exactly what happened to me when I was emailing professors frm that website I linked. This is what I did: After winter quarter, I basically checked the site every night before I slept. Eventually, an interesting lab became available, and I quickly emailed and set up an interview with the PI. It takes some work, but it's worth it. good luck!!</p>
<p>This one professor emailed me back. But he asked me to tell him what are my other major committments. What does this mean?</p>
<p>What are your other major EC's? He wants to see if you have enough time to devote to research.</p>
<p>oh, i frgot to mention, an easy way to get a foot in the door at a lab is to email the professor and say "i'd love to do a SRP 99, but I wouldn't mind volunteering." a couple ppl i know have started by volunteering in the lab, and then moving to SRP. SRP will guarantee that you won't be doing scutwork (cleaning slides) but since its so hard to get SRP, volunteering for one quarter will basically assure you a SRP for the next quarter.</p>
<p>EDIT: oops, i frgot that you aren't a fulltime student at UCLA. SRP 99 is getting 1-2 units of P/NP credit for your research time. So you could do this and transfer the units to Cal.</p>