<p>Med school admissions are formulaic in the extreme apart from relevant work experience and the interview/reccomendations. A philosphy major and a physics major with the same GPA and MCAT scores enter the process on the same playing field. If the philosophy major spent a year working in the Sudan at a field hospital on a maternal health grant, the philosphy major is in a stronger position than the physics major (all things being equal) despite the heavily annotated course list the physics major presents. Med schools like to see evidence that prospective student knows what medicine is about.... and all the high level physics courses in the world don't demonstrate that, given that the amount of math and physics a med student needs could be capably taught at virtually any college in the world.</p>
<p>But hey, knock yourselves out.</p>