Hi guys,
I just recently joined this site and was hoping to get some advice about my current situation. I hope that I am posting to the relevant forum. I'm a junior biomedical engineer, who just recently became interested in medical school. Since I am a little late, I plan on taking at least 1 gap year and working as an engineer to help pay, and at the earliest I'd be applying to medical school at the end of my senior year.
The major problem I have is that I do not have any experience in college that would help me. In high school, I had several medical related opportunities, but not in college. The only "extracurricular" I have is an engineering related on campus job. I have spent the last few weeks looking for shadowing opportunities that I could do this summer, since I figured clinical experience is my best shot at this point. However, I have not had any luck yet finding such an opportunity. I have spent the last year or so trying to find research at my university, but did not have any luck with that, either. I really want to find shadowing this summer, so if anyone knows of a good way to find a physician, I'd appreciate it.
Basically, the only thing I have going for me is a decent GPA (3.77), but that's not particularly high either, I figure. I have been taking all the relevant classes so far, since there is a lot of overlap with my major. I do plan on taking the MCAT in January 2019.
Essentially, I'm trying to decide at this point whether or not to give up, since I know it's impossible to get into medical school with no extracurriculars. My university hasn't been particularly helpful with my situation, either. Any suggestions? I would appreciate anything at this point, really.