<p>Oh, and did I mention test-taking is REALLY important…just kidding, sort of. Med school is one longgrind of standardized tests, can anyone say Type K questions?
I know a couple of people who are community members of our local med school’s admission committee, and they do a difficult and thankless job for which they get no remuneration (just meals while reading apps and doing interviews). Most of their applicants are highly qualified, and they are very conscious of trying to predict who is going to be successful in med school, in some ways, unfortunately, that is more important than who would make a good doctor. From their perspective, the spots are in too short a supply to use on someone who really, really wants to be a doc, but hasn’t demonstrated that they will succeed academically.
Remember that almost everyone who enters medical school graduates. It is front end gated.</p>