Senior Year Activities?

Pre-Med & Medical School Pre-Med Topics
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<p>I am heading into my senior year of college and I have thankfully received a handful of II's already for medical school. Basically, I was wondering how much of an emphasis medical schools put on senior year activities since you will have already applied.</p>

<p>I ask because I've been doing research for the past few years but my professor left the school so if I were to continue, it would have to be in a different lab on a different topic. I enjoyed my time in the lab, but I wouldn't necessarily continue my lab work unless I had to. Since research had been my biggest extracurricular in terms of time commitment the past few years, will medical schools look down on the fact that I did not continue with research my senior year? Would it be acceptable to invest that time into other activities that would probably make for a lighter senior year (intramural sports, some volunteering, etc)?</p>

<p>Any advice would be great.</p>

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<p>if your PI hadn’t left I would say it would definitely be bad to stop, but in your case it’s tricky because you could reasonably justify not starting over for just one year left. They will take your senior fall into account since you’ll be asked about it on your interviews but how much of a role it plays I don’t know.</p>

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<p>Yeah if my PI hadn’t left then I definitely would have continued but it almost gives me a reasonable “excuse” to stop. </p>

<p>Another possible issue is that other PI’s wouldn’t even want me to work for them. There would still be a learning curve for me even though I have some experience and I’ll only be there for an academic year, excluding breaks. Throw in the fact that I’ll be away a lot for interviews and they may think I won’t have the time to commit to a project, particularly since there are plenty of people who could devote 2-3+ years to a project.</p>