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[skierbum]

Check out the summer science camp at Hillsdale College in mi. (google it) I went for the last two years (I'm graduating this year) and I found the molecular bio camp really cool. Plus, I was able to test for a college credit-looks good for college apps. I met people there from all over the US. If you can convince your parents to spring for airfare, it is only $100 for the entire week (inc room and board) and a foundation pays for the rest. Good luck with that-I loved it and I still keep in touch with the people I met last year.

 

[FutureCTDoc]

Call up SUNY SB, Columbia, Cornell, MSSM, Touro-COM, SUNY Downstate, Sophie Davis, Hunter, CCNY and NYU ask about doing research. Choose an area of interest i.e. applied, clinical or basic science and then find a particular subject i.e. mycobacterium tuberculosis or cell mediated immunity. Then search for a Principal investigator at one of these institutions i.e. HIV at MSSM, Derm at NYU, Retina at Columbia-Harkness, OMT at Touro, Clinical at Downstate. I'd go on google and look at what these institutions are researching.

 

[seelee]

If you have an opportunity to do something like this, and you want to spend your summer doing research, then awesome. But just so you are fully aware, it won't make too much difference as far as a medschool application is concerned.

Anything you do during high school is pretty much overlooked. You could do all the research you want, and the guy who partied over the summer and does research in college, will be at the exact same level as you.

It is perfectly ok to enjoy yourself now.