usefulness of socialscience/ humanities research when applying?

[OrangeOrangutan]

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Hi I'm a sociology major, with research experience dealing with sociolgy, history, humanities , and politcs. It really ended up reading lots of books and writing papers.

Im curious, is it possible to show this sort of research to be useful for those top research schools? I don't have any lab science research.

How would my experience be useful for medical schools? or shuld i just simply avoid those research schools.

 

[Disinence2]

Hi I'm a sociology major, with research experience dealing with sociolgy, history, humanities , and politcs. It really ended up reading lots of books and writing papers.

Im curious, is it possible to show this sort of research to be useful for those top research schools? I don't have any lab science research.

How would my experience be useful for medical schools? or shuld i just simply avoid those research schools.

Humanities research?

If you did it make sure you get credit and can try to find some way to make it relevant. Write a solid explanation about how it helped you think critically, blah blah blah and you can prolly salvage it, but it will certainly be looked at very differently than someone who did some sort of biology bench work or medical research.

 

[Avoidthetiger]

History major here. I always talked about how undergrad is a important time to become a well-rounded individual and explore other interests before focusing on med school. I also wanted to understand the history behind current happenings today.

Of course, being the silly one I am, I forgot to include my senior thesis on some of my applications regarding "media presentation of the [not always US enemy]" over the last 100-years. Wish I had. Honestly, it just shows I gained critical thinking skills,and can participate in research.

I think the experience is useful to all med schools apps and you can talk about it as a research experience. Research is research when it comes to being a young undergrad applying to med school. They also don't just want "biology premed" droids.

 

[Lil Mick]

I'm MD/PhD and very little of my research was in biology during undergrad. Although it is a different kind of research experience than tinkering in a lab, it's valid, and it will be noticed by admissions committees (especially if it results in a presentation at a conference or a paper). Sociology is expecially relevent to medicine, as non-science research goes (probably would major in that and math if I could redo undergrad)...