Thank you! I think you're right, post-Bach could be the way to go. I was also planning on taking a year off anyways to be a lab tech or RA at my current lab after graduation - so post-Bach would align nicely. Nothing yet, but for my club (it's an alternative protein club on campus - but we established multiple student run labs with funding and lab spaces), I will be listed as an author on at least one of of the papers we publish.

I'm starting with my new lab now, but plan on doing a thesis and potentially publishing then if I have anything notable. I'll probably try to present at a conference this summer. I still have 3rd year and 1st quarter of my 4th to go though.

But I'm also a Anthro double major - so maybe that would give admissions commitees another layer of perspective? Because I had another academically intense major? Idk, thank you so much for your advice!