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Try an engineering major. I swear you’ll think med school is a cake walk after.
Concentrate on making the very best grades you can and learn all you can on your biology, chemistry, and physics courses. See your pre-med adviser for counsel on how to select your courses.
At the very least, you should include the following courses in your curriculum:
A year of general biology (the course that bio majors take)
A year of general chemistry (the course that chem majors take)
A year of organic chemistry
A year of general physics (the course that physics majors take)
Mathematics through pre-calculus and preferably calculus, unless you covered this in high school and earned excellent grades.
To find out the requirements for admission to the medical school of your choice, write the admissions office of the school or ask your college counselor
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Talk to an advisor about which classes you should be taking, go to your university’s career center and do some volunteer work in your field, and get outstanding grades in each of the classes you are taking.
The medical field, like education, is one of the greatest and most noble of all the professions. Show to everyone, including the medical school, that you care about your profession and the people you will be helping.
First thing that is worth noting, there is no such thing as being a pre-med major. There are only science majors such as biology and chemistry who consider themselves to be pre-med.
The way to get started is first to talk to your pre professional office. They will give you a packet that has information in it on what courses you should take to consider yourself pre med and also what majors fit in the with pre med requirements best.
The last thing you can do to prep for med school is to look at the MCAT which you will be taking probably in your senior year. It is a standardized test that will test you in all the courses you took as an udergraduate that made up your pre med requirement.
There is no point in trying to learn the material that you will be learning in med school now. The most important thing you can learn as an undergrad is good study skills. Those skills will carry you wherever you go after your first four years whether it is med school or not.
Good Luck.
Majoring in premed doesn’t make you any more likely to get into med school. The most important thing is to get incredible grades in your classes. Getting into med school is extremely difficult, so I would advise that you can worry directly about preparing for med school once you actually come to that bridge. For now, just work on getting your GPA as perfect as possible, and some medical internships or volunteering work would also look nice on your application. This might be just a rumor, but I’ve heard that med schools look especially hard at your undergrad grades in organic chemistry, as the volume and pace of material in that class is more like what you’ll see in med school than any other undergrad class.