Never doubled up in lab

[Zakzak]

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Is it bad if I never doubled up in lab, but manage to get all premed requirements done?

 

[ChymeofPassion]

No

 

[Lucca]

Doubling up in labs is perhaps the stupidest thing a Premed student could do. Nothing to gain from it and a huge pain. You did the better thing.

 

[Endoxifen]

What does this even mean?

 

[BeddingfieldMD]

I've never heard that this is an "expectation" of medical applicants. Admissions officers are plowing through dozens--if not hundreds--of applications every day. I doubt they regularly take the time to make sure applicants have "doubled up" on labs during at least one semester.

 

[Lawpy]

Another fear, myth or worry that has no factual basis

Do you know why these fears, myths, worries etc. originate in the first place? They all seem to assume that adcoms and schools are some scary, authoritarian entity that will look at each and every trivial (even nonsense) aspect in the application to find any and all reasons to reject them. That sounds like a complete waste of time if thousands of applications have to be reviewed.

 

[McRibs]

To clarify, doubling up in labs means taking two different labs in the same semester, correct?

 

[EliottReid]

To clarify, doubling up in labs means taking two different labs in the same semester, correct?

I believe so.

I don't know why it would be a bad thing to not do it.

 

[Goro]

The process is anxiety producing. So I can see where one person's mere musings immediately get heard as "this is real".

Do you know why these fears, myths, worries etc. originate in the first place? They all seem to assume that adcoms and schools are some scary, authoritarian entity that will look at each and every trivial (even nonsense) aspect in the application to find any and all reasons to reject them. That sounds like a complete waste of time if thousands of applications have to be reviewed.

 

[Zakzak]

My premed advisor told me it would look bad if I don't.

 

[Saifa]

My premed advisor told me it would look bad if I don't.

What a classic. Be wary about whatever this person tells you for the rest of your academic career + chill out a bit.

 

[boburnham]

Wait... is it the norm if you're in two sciences to only take one of the labs?

I do both labs and while it is extremely time consuming, it hasn't been too difficult to manage

 

[nejikon]

I did this and it wasn't that bad, just manage your time well.


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