If I were in your shoes I ' d go out of my way to try and get into the BSMD hybrid programs that save you a little time and money and a huge amount of stress . The application process is just absurd , and getting to skip all of that , knowing you have a place already guaranteed if you maintain your grades , must be an incredible relief . Also , skipping a year or two when you have 37 years of residency waiting for you after your doctorate is also cool . mdbsmdprogramslistVT does not have such a program . As the others have said , if you choose VT , just take whatever interests you and is loosely related to medicine , then make sure to take the med school requirements . In 2018 VT will start offering a Bachelors of Public Health , but until then the HNFE department is the closest to undergrad health sciences . The college of science has some cool stuff too , like neuroscience , systems biology , and computational modeling . You can ' t go wrong with traditional biology or biochemistry . Any engineering will look good too , especially biomedical . But major is totally irrelevant if you don ' t have a good GPA and you won ' t if you don ' t like what you ' re studying . Don ' t force yourself into some major that sounds impressive because you think it ' ll get you into med school . In my undergrad class , a girl from Fashion and Apparel got into med school , a few psychology students too .