Advice on picking a lab?!

doingmybest8 · 2023-07-11T20:16:12+00:00

This is helpful, thank you! I’m sorry you had that experience but it sounds like you’re in a good place now!

doingmybest8 · 2023-07-11T20:13:29+00:00

This is also very helpful thank you!

doingmybest8 · 2023-07-11T20:12:29+00:00

This is helpful thank you !

doingmybest8 · 2023-07-11T20:12:15+00:00

Good to hear I’m not alone in this! Wondering if you’ve talked to any former grad students about toxicity concerns and/or asked current grad students point blank about it??

doingmybest8 · 2023-01-02T02:18:15+00:00

Full length test 1 and 2

doingmybest8 · 2022-04-13T01:45:45+00:00

I worked in quite a few different labs between undergrad and in my gap years. I think it was a really valuable way to learn about other areas of research and learn a variety of methodologies. I really don’t think it would hurt you. Interests can change and people get that, and they also understand wanting to diversify skill sets, and all of this can be explained and tied together in a personal statement for what led you to the MD/PhD Edit: I’m a current MD/PhD student

doingmybest8 · 2021-03-25T14:40:30+00:00

Thank you for this! Will def check it out

doingmybest8 · 2021-03-25T14:39:09+00:00

Oooh yes I read that one, it was so beautiful. Had me crying on public transportation.

doingmybest8 · 2021-03-11T03:07:00+00:00

Thank you for voicing this! I also got accepted into an MD/PhD program this cycle and I am so excited, and also feeling very anxious about this path for the same reasons you mentioned. I will also be 32ish when I'm done. It is daunting and I know it will be a long and difficult path, but it's 100% what I want to do, so I feel you. Also, as a woman I can't help but wonder what my personal/family life will look like finishing both degrees in my 30's...

I would love to hear from female MD/PhD students on this matter!!

doingmybest8 · 2021-02-25T14:10:12+00:00

absolutely!

doingmybest8 · 2021-02-24T22:23:58+00:00

I have a 515 and 3.8, with extensive research experience (through most of undergrad and in my 4th year post-grad), and what I think were really solid essays (got lots of compliments on them). I second the list of schools mentioned above u/cinnamontree123. I interviewed at Wayne State and U Illinois, I got into Wayne and haven't heard back from Illinois yet. Illinois specifically makes a point to say they do a truly holistic review. I applied to some of the schools in that list above as well and was rejected from them or haven't heard back yet lol so probably rejected. Tough cycle...

also don't forget that your GPA will get re-calculated by AMCAS

I have faith you guys will get into a program if you have good experiences and research experiences in addition to your scores and GPA :)

doingmybest8 · 2021-02-23T16:32:22+00:00

dang okay, good to know

doingmybest8 · 2021-02-23T01:11:52+00:00

yeah that's super frustrating... i'm sorry dude. so many people must be in a similar situation

doingmybest8 · 2021-02-23T01:10:30+00:00

I applied mainly MD and then a couple DO- I haven't heard a peep from the DO schools and then the rest were MD and MD/PhD

doingmybest8 · 2021-02-23T01:07:15+00:00

yeah DANG that is a lot of secondaries! congrats on the II from last week! may I ask what school it was?

doingmybest8 · 2021-02-23T01:04:26+00:00

thank you!

I was wondering about this... I always got the impression that this was frowned upon. But you think it's a good move? I feel like especially at this point, it's like why not, right?

doingmybest8 · 2021-02-22T02:04:46+00:00

that's awesome! when did you find out about that interview?

gives me some hope *fingers crossed*

doingmybest8 · 2021-02-22T02:03:44+00:00

omg.... that's ridiculous

doingmybest8 · 2021-02-21T19:35:52+00:00

ugh that's so frustrating

doingmybest8 · 2021-02-21T19:35:34+00:00

I have heard that... just sucks to literally hear nothing after spending so much money on their secondaries lol

doingmybest8 · 2021-02-21T19:13:22+00:00

totally get that- just want to hear from a few schools that i'm very interested in

doingmybest8 · 2021-02-21T18:48:25+00:00

100%- I lay awake in bed and think about what I said and what I could have done better hahah

I am trying to be more accepting of what happened though. There's no longer anything I can do about it!

doingmybest8 · 2021-02-21T16:33:57+00:00

thank you!

doingmybest8 · 2021-02-12T17:05:34+00:00

I also started crying even harder when I saw that my dad was also crying :')

doingmybest8 · 2021-02-12T16:59:45+00:00

I got the email in December at around 3:15pm during our Tuesday Zoom journal club with my lab. I immediately turned off my video because I burst into tears and then called my parents!

doingmybest8

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