Should I put high school research/lab tech experience on AMCAS?

[AxiomaticTruth]

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[red doctober]

Basically I was a lab tech working in Massachusetts General Hospital during the summer right before senior year through connections for a neurobiochemistry lab on neurodegenerative diseases, which interested me in biochemistry and made me select biochem as my major today. I obviously didn't publish anything then, but my responsibilities were generally lab tech stuff (SDS-PAGE, western/immunoblotting, cell cultivating, etc). This was full time over the summer; I did not get paid (internship). Should I include that in AMCAS? I got space for it, and it is pretty significant in making me interested in science and medicine in general. Though I do know that short-term stuff from high school are generaly not looked well upon by you guys so....

If you have space for it, yeah put it on there. It's not going to be a make-or-break factor, however, if you put it on there, be prepared to talk knowledgeably about the project in case you get asked at an interview.

 

[scarlett14]

yea definitely put it if it had an influence over your choices today!

im putting a lab experience I had after junior/senior year of high school because it was relevant to the research i ended up doing once i got to college.

 

[PhysMatMan]

I'm really wondering about this too. Would Harvard require a LOR from the supervisor if it's not given its own section and just mentioned in passing?