Study and make good grades. Your admission to medical school starts with the grades you make as an undergrad. Acceptance rates into medical school are traditionally low, so your grades need to remain near perfect if you expect to be considered. According to medicalschoolsinusa.com, the 2008 admission statistics for the University Of Pittsburgh School Of Medicine were an absymal 12 percent; only 453 were accepted out of 5413 people who applied.
Take a semester of biology, physics, organic chemistry and inorganic chemistry. You must take those four classes. Everything else is optional.
Volunteer in hospitals, clinics and anything health-related. Medical schools like to see volunteer work, especially when it is health-related. Many colleges offer students volunteer work for on-campus hospitals and clinics.
Take an MCAT review class. The Medical School Admissions Test or MCAT is essentially your ticket into medical school, or the exam that will send you elsewhere in life. As of January 2011, the MCAT is separated into four parts: physical sciences, verbal reasoning, writing, and biological sciences. The highest MCAT score you can achieve is a 45. According to the Association of American Medical Colleges, the majority of people scored 27 on the 2010 test. Anyone who scored higher than 40 was in the top 99.9 percentile.