<li><p>So, will that look bad if i use the whole summer to study for mcat, and not do anything else?</p></li>
<li><p>how much physician shadowing experience is sufficient? So far, i only had full time shadowing for one month the summer after my freshman year, and i am planning to work as an EMT-B next summer. Is my clinical experience sufficient? should i shadow the physician more? I try to avoid it, because the experience of shadowing that physician was not very enjoyable for other reasons. Maybe I can look into other physicians? </p></li>
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<p>Thanks a lot!</p>
<p>1.) Yes, and it’s also unnecessary.</p>
<p>I don’t know if it’ll look “bad” (I’m sure there are some people who have done it and been accepted) but it’s definitely not the smartest thing to do. Face it, even if you can get by without a job, and won’t have anything else going on, it’s damn near impossible to really spend 8 hours a day or more studying for the MCAT for more than a month, you’ll just get burned out. 3-4 hours a day for 6-9 weeks is plenty, and that should leave plenty of time to do something else - part time job/research, volunteering/shadowing, SOMETHING that can improve your application over just not doing anything.</p>