Is one internship enough?

[paul2752]

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I have interview for unpaid internship next month, and I hope I REALLY get it.

But is one internship enough? Do premeds usually only do one intenrship?

 

[JustaDO]

Unless you are interning for the White House, more then likely, no admission committee cares.

Also a unpaid internship is effectively volunteering, aka everyone does it.

 

[AnonPanda1]

It's more about the quality of your internship rather than length but there is a minimum length I would consider before considering an internship as quality enough. I would put that at around 100 hours. However, you also have to consider your peers. The best of us have hundreds of hours per activity for quite a few activities. Unfortunately, this favors those of high SES. This game is rigged but got to play to win.

 

[paul2752]

Oh I should have phrased the title better into "How many hours of internship would be competitive enough?" I am a foreign student so I have this pressure that I have to do extra to be competitive enough.

I guess chemical engineereing CO-op won't be that much helpful, at least for med school?

 

[AnonPanda1]

Buy the MSAR. Figure out which schools you can apply to (accepts foreign students). Fill your standard checklist stuff. Shadowing, clinical experience and volunteering. Destroy the MCAT. 3.8+ GPA. Then, on top of all this, do what you love to make yourself interesting.

I would consider anything under 50 hours trivial. At a 100 hours, there's some sort of psychological effect that makes it 10x better than 95 hours.