With record demand and nearly 20% more applicants, medical school admission is highly competitive while also more focused on diversity. During the pandemic, issues regarding access, health disparity, and destitute poverty heightened. For dedicated students with a strong moral fabric, medical school admission is difficult but not impossible.

When you know your path, you need a strategy and a guide to assist in reaching your goal. GPA, prerequisites, MCAT, CASPer, eLORs, resume, clinical experience, research, leadership, interviews, and life stories are but a few considerations. If you have a keen interest in human anatomy and physiology, disease diagnostics, genetics, immunology, and cellular function, medical school is the right place.

This one-of-a-kind book offers you information and resources covering the 155 accredited U.S. medical schools. This handy guide is organized, thorough, and easy to follow, providing complete information on the schools to which you may apply. Medical schools are organized by various criteria. A companion book, Medical School: Preparation, Application, Admission, goes along with this book that contains information describing the planning, testing, organization, and admissions process, which is also extremely useful. This book focuses on medical school profiles and college requirements.

Medicine is satisfying, rewarding, and a labor of love. Imagine a medical career where you use your intelligence, compassion, and creativity to serve and support patients. If passionately committed, medical school is the right choice, especially for disciplined science-focused students with talent, resilience, and character. When you know this is your path, you just need the right tools.

All communities need doctors. Yet, in many areas, there are grave shortages. Globally, healthcare is unavailable to the citizenry, and some medical schools provide opportunities for students to fill that need. Thus, you have the opportunity to gain experiences that will awaken you to dire circumstances in the United States and across the world.

In addition to primary care, medicine offers a wide range of medical specialties like anesthesiology, dermatology, emergency medicine, oncology, orthopedics, pathology, radiology, surgery, and urology, where intelligence, communication, and character are essential. With innovations in tissue science, disease prevention, and robotic surgery, medicine offers numerous options and a lifetime of intrigue.