<p>@yodifafi: You have to understand that nearly nothing you do in high school will have any impact whatsoever on your admission to medical school, the curriculum you take while you’re there or your career once you graduate. On top of that, nearly nothing you do during your undergraduate years will affect your curriculum at medical school or your career afterwards.</p>
<p>Obviously, your performance in high school will affect your undergraduate admissions and your undergraduate performance will affect your medical school admissions. That is what you should be focused on right now but there are enough other threads on CC to explain all that. In short, there are some strategies to be utilized to make yourself attractive to different schools but almost all of them are focused on combining both excellent academic performance and a smart choice of extra-curriculars, i.e. research, internships, significant volunteer experience etc… But, again, none of that (except maybe research, but even that is a stretch) will affect your career after medical school. Your specialty or sub-specialty will be based on how you match into residency programs, and in most cases that will be affected solely on your activities during medical school. NOTHING that you do in school while in high school or undergrad will have any impact on you becoming a pediatric neurologist, only what you do in medical school and residency.</p>