<p>For the purposes of med school admissions, you really have to be good at everything. That’s just the nature of admissions when you have some med schools receiving 15,000 applications for 120 spots. You need to take science courses and excel. Yet, med schools still want to see you take social sciences and humanities courses and excel. You have to show responsibility by holding down a job and still show altruism through volunteer work. You have to show ability in the sciences via lab research but still be interesting enough to play intramural sports or a musical instrument. You have to write well and interview well. Being a jack of all trades and doing everything well is pretty much requisite for med school. You don’t have the excuse of saying, “well I wasn’t an art history major and that’s why I didn’t do well in that class.”</p>