u/Evening-Treat-1874

I have 1,000 hours in social science with awards (psychology) as well as 500 hours clinical research in oncology/emergency medicine. I will be doing full time neuroscience research starting in August and until matriculation. I am wondering if this will be enough to apply next year? I don’t know if the 1,500 hours will “count” enough. I would have like 1,700 hours basic science by the time of application + 2,000-2,300 hrs pending before matriculation.

Disadvantaged student / MD-PhD re-applicant needing post-bacc research, applied to a lot of programs. Wondering with the current politics, what the best options are? Like are diversity based programs looked at in a certain way now (either good or bad)? Would I be better off going to a diversity focused post-bacc program at a prestigious institution vs a non-diversity focused program at a state school vs the NIH IRTA, etc.? Just wondering if any of these programs really have a practical benefit over one another, or if I should just choose based off of other factors like interest/location.

Disadvantaged student/re-applicant needing post-bacc research, applied to a lot of programs. Wondering with the current politics, what the best options are? Like are diversity based programs looked at in a certain way now (either good or bad)? Would I be better off going to a diversity focused post-bacc program at a prestigious institution vs a non-diversity focused program at a state school vs the NIH IRTA? Just wondering if any of these programs really have a practical benefit over one another if I mostly just need research experience, or if I should just choose based off of other factors like interest/location.