2012 Advice for the Highschool Student

I have a secrete that no Advisor for any college will ever tell you

Whats important to admission to medical school:
1. Any US university and university level work ( not CC or tech college)
2. Any major you do well in with the prereqs 1 yr of each: Bio, Chem, Ochem, Physics and Math
3. GPA better than 3.4
4. MCAT of 30 or better
5. Volunteering ( while in college)
6. Patient contact experience
7. Shadow a Doctor

What you do during Highschool is important for:
1.Foundation
2.Getting into a college

Understand, when you apply to Medical school what you did during highschool is not important
any volunteering or patient experience will not matter that much because you not over 18 and past highschool stage. More responsibility is given to the older college students and that is the experience the Medical Schools want to see.

Also to emphasize this:
Any University of course an Ivy college wins some minor points but the GPA is the one most important thing and the College GPA used for medical schools will be All grades earned during college years ( includes ones earned during highschool), all college grades on the transcripts are averaged together.
It will be important to take a class once and get a C or better because if you repeat the 1st and 2nd grades are averaged together for a new GPA by AMCAS,

"The American Medical College Application Service® (AMCAS®) Web site. AMCAS is a non-profit, centralized application processing service that is only available to applicants to the first-year entering classes at participating U.S. medical schools. Most medical schools use AMCAS as the primary application method. Advanced standing and transfer applicants should contact the medical schools directly for assistance.

Regardless of the number of medical schools to which you apply, you submit just one online application to AMCAS. AMCAS does not render any admission decisions and does not advise applicants where to apply." https://www.aamc.org/students/applying/amcas/


Good Luck!