Taking a Summer Course at a University Close to Home

4beardolls
Tue, 21 Apr 2015 16:20:54 +0000

I would like to send big THANK YOU’s to: @plumazul, @WayOutWestMom, @iwannabe_Brown, and @GA2012MOM. I started this thread in Jan asking about DS taking a calculus class close to home in the summer. You encouraged him to try finding summer internship instead.

Fast forward to April. DS searched and found a paid summer research internship at a hospital in our city. He applied, interviewed, and received the offer for the position.

I can’t thank you enough. Originally, DS was so set on taking a math class in the summer in order to lessen his course load next year. Now he is enrolled in the calculus class in the fall, secured the awesome summer research, I get to have him at home for the summer, and he gets to save his summer stipend for school next year!

I do have a follow up question for future reference. @GA2012MOM suggested REU’s, SPUR, and NIH up thread. When DS started looking, it was quite late in the game for those competitive programs. So he looked at the hospital in town instead. My question is that, in terms of summer research internships, is prestige of program important for medical school application? In other words, how would his local hospital paid research internship compared to the REU, SPUR, NIH, types of internship? DS is a freshman so he will be looking at this situation again next year.