Now for the obvious that I don't believe has been noted. Mid med school service select applicants are only considered ... once they've been admitted to an acceptable med school. Last year there were 9 and 1 dental school assigned. In other words, med school admission is necessary and USNA assignment is sufficient.
True. You have to get yourself accepted to a medical school. And just getting good grades is not good enough. You have to do well on the MCAT (Medical College Admission Test), you have to have extracurricular activities
, and shadowing a doctor or some kind of medical experience is also something they like to see.
However, attending the United States Naval Academy is a big plus in the medical school admission process. You would not need as high of a GPA or as high of an MCAT score than your civilian school counterpart competing for the same medical school slot. So, in
that regard, attending the Naval Academy is an advantage.
Also, I believe this has changed in the past year or so, but traditionally all med school applicants had to be chem majors or double majors. Perhaps others can edify and/or correct the issue of major.
The academy is not concerned with your major. Non-chemistry majors have been accepted into medical school in the past from the academy. As long as a midshipman can get in the required courses it really doesn't matter what his major is. He's going to have to take chemistry - but EVERYBODY takes chemistry, even the English majors. You'll need Physics but, again, EVERYBODY takes that. You also have to take Organic Chemistry and Biology. Those are the ones that may not be in your major if you are non-chemistry major. But that is very doable if you validated a few things, which most of those considering Medical Corps have done.
It does make it easier if for a chemistry major, though.
If it's not been made sufficiently clear, while obviously not impossible, it is unlikely.
The reason it becomes "unlikely" is because the Naval Academy has a way of making 2.5 GPA students out of 3.5 GPA students. If you are one of the ones who does not buckle under the pressures of the rigorous academy curriculum - then it becomes
very doable.
The problem is that after the
first semester of Plebe chemistry, most of those who
might have been thinking about going Med Corps are usually eliminated.