<p>For those of you who were, or know somebody that was accepted to a summer research program, I have a question for you.</p>
<p>Most of these programs are geared toward and/or prefer pre-PhD applicants. How do I skirt around the issue of me planning to attend med school without explicitly saying "I wanna go to med school." I do want to go to med school, but I'm planning to pursue a research oriented career at this point.</p>
<p>I am filling in some summer research applications during this break so I have the same question.
Please some help will be appreciated!
Thanks!</p>
<p>^^ LOL. Now you have come to the realization that a premed is a second-class citizen in the eyes of those high power professors. I remember a joke NCG once made up (likely for the fun of it) a few years ago: I am a premed so I am ashamed while I am walking to the class on campus.</p>
<p>If the summer job is in your school, it may help (that is, the deal may be more juicy to the PI) if you commit to the PI that you will continue to work in his/her lab next year after the summer. DS got his research job in summer in this way. The PI hates it when a laborer (oops…I meant a student researcher) is trained and can start to contribute something and then he leaves.</p>
<p>just say you want to pursue MD/PhD</p>
<p>I already have an assured spot in the summer research program I am participating in, so I might not have to best advice. The program that I will be going through is not as exclusive with pre-PhD’s; I know of plenty of pre-meds that have gone through it. I think there are programs that aren’t as exclusive with the pre-PhD aspect, so I would recommend looking for more of those. If you have specific programs in mind that are geared more toward people looking at getting their PhD’s, then I would just say that you are either pursuing MD/PhD or looking at doing medically based research later on, or something along those lines.</p>