How to get an internship at a lab?

realteal17
Thu, 30 Apr 2015 02:55:03 +0000

Hey everyone!

I’m finishing up my sophomore year in high school, and I got rejected from all of the summer programs I applied to however, I am really interested in doing a summer internship at a Stanford lab (Stanford is the closest university to me). I emailed around 40 professors, and got only negative replies (from around 7 or 8). How can I improve my chances of having someone accept me when I email them again (Stanford’s directions says it is ok to email them again once :))? I’m interested in working in cancer biology, and I’d like to study apoptosis and how we could possibly trigger it in cancer cells. Is it too vague? What should I do? I don’t really have much work experience but everyone has to start somewhere and I reaaalllly need to get an internship this summer. Any tips? Thank you so much!