Research question

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I know that research looks good on an application, but does the research have to be core science related? I'm a psychology major and I have opportunities to be involed in psychology research, and I'm wondering if that would look just as good as doing research in biology.

 

[SugarNaCl]

I know that research looks good on an application, but does the research have to be core science related? I'm a psychology major and I have opportunities to be involed in psychology research, and I'm wondering if that would look just as good as doing research in biology.

While psychology research is important, I think unfortunately that, though it would look good as a supp. activity, it wouldn't look as good as biology (particularly biomedical) research, or research in chemistry. It seems schools want you to have that firm grasp on science in particular. Of course in patient relations, psychology may be important and it may help over someone that has no research at all. Psychology research is completely different from biomed. research in function and format (unless biopsych, which is a recognized biology field.)

If you can get into a bio lab, I'd try for that. Many dental schools emphasize research too, and students come as cheaper help than hiring a full time outside employee. The type of research in most dental schools is primarily dental materials or biomedical in nature. Experience with in these areas, and knowledge of techniques etc that may benefit the school would probably look better.

I was told by adcoms that my 5 years of biomedical research (2 in graduate school and the rest on clinical trials, other in vivo and in vitro studies at a cancer hospital) before I decided on dentistry helped my application BIG TIME. That stated, if your stats are high, you may not NEED research at all. Good luck.

 

[laundry]

As long as it was not for a class (Independent study is ok), put it in your application. It is not the given subject that you study, but the exposure to scientific research that counts. 👍

Care to share more about your project?

To NaCl: I agree that while harcore "benchtop/pipetter" research is prefered, stating that the two are completly different is a bit too much, considering that there are indeed fully functional scientific studies in psychology. After all, there is a grey area between psychology and behaviour...

BTW, nice to be back ))