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^^some premeds are confident they can get a near-perfect GPA, even at MIT.
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Yeah, well, it's a bad assumption for a naive prefrosh.
There are vast opportunities for premed students at MIT, and most premeds (whether the "stereotypical" or "non-stereotypical" type, to use my earlier phrases) get in somewhere.
Some premed students let their medical school ambitions eclipse all the rest of what MIT has to offer, or make themselves unpleasant to others in their ambitions (I have seen a premed trying to scare classmates before a test, presumably in the hope that they would do worse relative to her as a result). But there is not a need to do this, and quite a lot of premeds do not! You CAN have it both ways, it just requires a more careful balancing act. That was all that I was really trying to get at in the other thread!
Some of the interesting medicine-related opportunities for premeds include:
- Research in top life science labs
- Research or volunteer work at one of the many fine local hospitals
- MedLinks (being a first-aid-type person for your living group, trained by MIT Medical)
- MIT EMS (MIT's student ambulance/EMT service, which trains and certifies student EMTs during IAP)
- Opportunity to take classes at the Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences & Technology, which offers many graduate degrees in the medical sciences, including an MD