<p>Music majors do tend to be much brighter than the average student. Success in music correlates very highly with IQ. Having worked with thousands of high school students over the years in both musical and academic endeavours, the statistics do not surprise me. The musicians that I have known that have chosen to go into medicine are usually intellectually gifted and have good time management skills and plenty of drive. I do not think that it is the study of music that gets them into medicine (although this might be a small part of it). Rather, students who are successful in music and who choose to apply to medicine are very likely to be good at sciences.</p>