<p>Hey everyone.
So, I am a Senior in high school, and this year is almost done. I have not received every acceptance/rejection letter from all of my colleges yet, but I have received a few. I was accepted to the premed program at Rutgers University, and I am going to major in Chemistry. I began my journey in high school as a lost teenager with no goals and nothing to work towards which resulted in horrible grades. I finally got my act together, and I began to take more rigorous courses and do better in them, and I did better on my ACT/SAT than anyone around me would have thought I'd do. After this horrible yet helpful experience in high school, it has opened my eyes and made me realize that college will NOT be a repeat of my high school journey. I'm sure you can tell, but I want to be a doctor, and for that, I must go to medical school. I'm almost positive that I want to be an anesthesiologist, but the idea of being a family physician is in the back of my head as well. I still have time to figure that part out, but I do want some more information about internships, volunteering, research jobs/volunteering, shadowing, etc. now because I want to know what must be done to have a better chance to get into medical school. I understand that the medical schools I want to go to, Dartmouth for family medicine or UCSF for anesthesiology, are extremely hard to get into; all medical schools have low acceptances. I am still going to aim for those schools though. Can someone please explain to me what internships would look good for medical schools, how I would go about getting them, and what internships would be the best for those two career paths. Could you do the same with volunteering, research, shadowing, and anything else that you could think of that will help me? What clubs could I join? I heard about a premed fraternity; does that look good? I think it'd be fun, but I do not want to waste my time on something that is not going to help me out in the long run. I want to do something that is fun but will also be beneficial to me. How does one become president of a club? What does being president of a club entail? What about summer internships? I do not care if they are paid or not. Medical school is a dream I have, and I am willing to do just about anything to make that dream become a reality. Once again, I understand that medical school is a long and hard journey, you do not need to explain that to me. I have my mind set on it, and I am going to accomplish it, so please just help me out by answering my questions instead of telling me that medical school is hard to get into and takes a lot of work. Thank you guys so much for reading this novel of a post and responding!</p>