Pre-Med Student- study abroad junior year?

mom2collegekids
Tue, 21 Aug 2012 18:25:28 +0000

I don’t think doing a semester abroad Fall of junior year would be detrimental at all.

He can start volunteering/shadowing NOW…he doesn’t need to wait til junior year.

Or, if you’re that concerned, then have him do a summer abroad between soph and jr year.

Katlia…there are still a large number of kids applying to med schools their senior year. The avg age really just reflects that there are a good number who apply much older than 24/25, which balances out those who are applying at 21/22 (and creates the avg. Many schools have 200+ students applying to med schools as seniors.