Question: does it look better or worse if you have family members who are drs?

[Corali]

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A lot of my apps have asked about parents' professions, and I'm wondering if having no doctors in the family looks better or worse for adcoms. On the one hand, having parents who are doctors definitely can provide an unfair advantage when it comes to getting shadowing/clinical experience, but on the other, having doctor parents could demonstrate that an applicant has a very good understanding of what it means to be a physician and everything that goes along with that...

I don't know, I'm just curious. I'm not super worried about this affecting my chances of getting an acceptance haha

 

[gyngyn]

Both...or either. Sometimes neither.
It 's not who your parents are, but rather who you are (because of or in spite of them).

 

[Engrailed]

A lot of my apps have asked about parents' professions, and I'm wondering if having no doctors in the family looks better or worse for adcoms. On the one hand, having parents who are doctors definitely can provide an unfair advantage when it comes to getting shadowing/clinical experience, but on the other, having doctor parents could demonstrate that an applicant has a very good understanding of what it means to be a physician and everything that goes along with that...

I don't know, I'm just curious. I'm not super worried about this affecting my chances of getting an acceptance haha

if you have close family members in medicine, it probably means you know the ins and outs of the profession more than other people, so kudos to you haha. I have no one in my immediate or extended family on either side that have gone into medicine so I've just tried to get as much exposure to it as I can by working in hospitals etc...
but either way, dont worry about how it will affect your application.
There's nothing you can do about it. It is what it is

 

[Goro]

Plus side: you have insider knowledge of Medicine:
Minus side: You might be one of those people being forced into this profession unwillingly.

 

[Kardio]

A lot of my apps have asked about parents' professions, and I'm wondering if having no doctors in the family looks better or worse for adcoms. On the one hand, having parents who are doctors definitely can provide an unfair advantage when it comes to getting shadowing/clinical experience, but on the other, having doctor parents could demonstrate that an applicant has a very good understanding of what it means to be a physician and everything that goes along with that...

I don't know, I'm just curious. I'm not super worried about this affecting my chances of getting an acceptance haha

I don’t believe it will directly effect you one way or the other in the admissions process (unless, of course, your parents are faculty).

What will probably indirectly effect you is your answer to “why medicine?”