Highschool to Medical School
It is important to take the classes to best prepare you for your core pre-medical classes. Taking Chemistry, Physics, pre-Calculus, and Anatomy & Physiology will make your journey through college more familiar and thus less arduous. Your core pre-medical classes in college carry the most weight for medical schools. It is crucial to do well in them. When you get to college, they’ll assume you already have a firm foundation in these subjects. If you do, you might find yourself capable of spending your extra time in college doing extracurricular activities to build your resume and make you a more balanced person. For example, I was the president of the Ski & Ride Club, one the biggest clubs at my college and one of the reasons I was accepted at a medical school in Colorado.
Early preparation in highschool will only help you through the critical phase of undergraduate studies.
Developing good study habits is another major asset to doing well in a pre-medical program. You’ll probably have to reshape these habits once you’re in college, but it will be much easier to work from a tablet that has already been drawn on. High school is a good time to practice your writing skills. You will need those forever, and you won’t learn much more on grammar or how to write once you’re in college (unless you major in Humanities, which is actually not a bad idea). Pick the right college.
Check out what colleges are well-known for their pre-medical programs and choose one. Ask the colleges what percentage of their pre-medical students gets into medical school. Most importantly, pick a college you love, because you will feel healthiest and least stressed at a college you love. The healthier you are, the more you can take on, and the more you take on, the better medical school applicant you will be.
Study for your SATs. Very few medical schools look at your SAT scores, but some do, and if some do, then you need to care about that. (Some say that how you score on your SATs predicts how well you’ll do on the MCAT, but once medical schools have your MCAT score, that’s usually all they really care about. Personally, my SAT and MCAT scores were nothing alike.)
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