<p>What majors and suggestions help to get into top medical school? any link or statistics are appreciated.</p>
<p>aproud, there is no such thing as a top major for medical school. </p>
<p>two things to consider:</p>
<p>1) your daughter must take premed classes that cover a broad range of sciences, and she must do well in them.
2) medical schools look at gpa heavily in their assessment, and so finding a major that your daughter does well in is the best advice - because if she hates chemistry, it isn’t worth being a chemistry major if she likes creative writing instead.</p>
<p>two more facts:</p>
<p>3) schools like diversity of interest, and more so than anything passionate exploration of an academic subject matter.
4) research experience, clinical experience and leadership experience help round out an application and they are of great importance, not as much as academics, but they are looked over by the med school admissions folks.</p>
<p>you will not find many ‘reliable’ links or statistics because it is really an individualized path to medical school. though some majors could be statistically linked to medical school there is no real set formula your daughter can follow to give her the best chance. she has to do well academically, rock the MCATs and find her passions in undergrad to stand the best chance.</p>
<p>In a sentence, it simply does NOT matter. Go to the Pre-Med forum on CC. There is an amazing wealth of information there.</p>
<p>xSteven put it well:
- take the required premed classes
- take a major you like
An additional hint from a MS prof., learn to write. Most medical students are deficient. Admission committees will be looking at this in the future. The core should serve your child well in this regard.</p>
<p>be very wary of the “statistics” out there…the statistics will show you that humanities majors who apply to med school tend to have higher GPA and MCAT scores but there is a HUGE selection bias here since bio majors are alot more likely to apply to med school just for the hell of it than premeds who are humanities majors who need to have planned on med school early on and are probably a more self-selecting group.</p>
<p>technically your daughter’s major doesn’t matter but keep in mind that not all As and not all 4.0s are created equal…doing well at a difficult school and/or in a difficult major will look alot more impressive than doing well in an easy school and/or in a fluffy major. </p>
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<p>with all due respect to the med students who dedicate a good amount of time to those forums (like BDM and BRM etc) the pre-med forum on CC is pretty useless and whatever good information that might be in there is heavily diluted by alot of useless “which college should i go to for premed” threads.</p>