What degree do I need to get in college to get into a competitive med school?

What degree do I need to get in college to get into a competitive med school? Should I be pursuing a Bachelors, Masters, PhD etc. to get into a competitive med school with a good reputation. Is it realistic to try to pursue anything above a bachelors within 4 years?

Medical schools require a bachelor’s degree for admission.

Medical school admission is about your accomplishments, not how many advanced degrees you’ve earned.

Here’s Harvard’s Class Profile: https://hms.harvard.edu/departments/medical-education/hms-student-profiles

All you need is a bachelor’s degree and to complete the course requirements needed for medical school. A good amount of people who go to medical school have a degree in the sciences so biology, chemistry, etc. You can major in anything and go to medical school (business, history, physics, etc). What matters is your GPA and performance within your degree. Its important to maintain a 3.75+ to be a competitive applicant. Also your MCAT scores, personal achievements, essays, letters of rec, etc. will all come into play. There is a lot more to a person than a “degree”.

You need a bachelor’s degree and complete the premed prereqs.

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ALL US med schools are competitive and have good reputations.

OP - also get membership to the Medical School Admissions Requirements Website and study all the stats that are on there. It’ll help you understand what you will need to be competitive - you will be surprised by some of the ranges of MCAT and GPA scores for some of the schools. Good to base your decisions on sound data.

@ChewingGum

Yes, you can look at the range of admitted student stats, but aware that those who are in bottom quartile are usually special cases-- legacies, children of donors, UiM, former active duty military, true non-traditionals, career changers, individuals with exceptional personal achievements (think Olympic athlete, professional athlete/opera singer, founder of an international healthcare NGO, multiple first authored papers in Nature, etc.)