What do professors look for in a student applying to a lab?
I'm not sure if this is the right place to ask this, but as people who have gone through this process, I'm looking for some advice 😔😔
I'm going into my first year in the fall and I know I want to pursue biomedical research career-wise. I want to reach out to professors at the start of the year and apply; I know I'd be committed to any lab I could get accepted to for at least 14 months.
That said, I have zero experience.
I ran a computer science club in HS, and have done volunteering here and there, but that's about it. As of now, if I wrote a resume, it'd be terrible.
But, I'm just not sure what skills I should learn over the summer or what I should even say reaching out. For anyone who has achieved this early on in university, how did you do it?
Edit: I'm going into my undergrad not grad (I'm 17!). I know it can be hard as a first year undergrad, but the uni I'm going to is pretty expansive and well known for biology, so I have some hope :')