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You will have to find a way to get 150+ hours (I prefer 200+ personally) of clinical experience and around 50 hours of shadowing before submitting your application. It is up to you if you are comfortable lengthening your timeline.
 
If you want it take it. It sounds like an incredible opportunity and medical school isn’t going anywhere. It also would give you valuable experience outside of academia which I believe many more premeds could benefit from. How many people get to work with the White House and learn/possibly influence policy? Not many I wager, so if it’s a dream internship take it and enjoy.
 
Take it if it's offered. This will set you apart from all the cookie cutter applicants who have all of the usual things and nothing unusual. This will make readers say, "I'd like to talk to this applicant!" and that is exactly what you want someone looking at your application to say.
 
Zdawg1303 said:
Okay, now there's been a change with this internship. Instead of working on health policy, they're planning to have me respond to the public's letters in their office of correspondence (no actual policy work). Is the prestige of the White House worth it to take a semester off to answer mail? I'm thinking "not really", but the networking opportunities and saying I'm a white House Intern might still be worth it.
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Having a role where you’re predominantly answering mail is likely not something you’re as excited about. If you would still like to be part of the White House environment and be in DC, you can do it.
 
Zdawg1303 said:
Okay, now there's been a change with this internship. Instead of working on health policy, they're planning to have me respond to the public's letters in their office of correspondence (no actual policy work). Is the prestige of the White House worth it to take a semester off to answer mail? I'm thinking "not really", but the networking opportunities and saying I'm a white House Intern might still be worth it.
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Not everything you do needs to be for the express purpose of improving your medical school application. An internship where you primarily manage correspondence is unlikely to provide a major boost to your application, but whatever. Take this opportunity if it will be personally fulfilling for you, don’t do it if it’s not.
 
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