Getting ready for medical school admission requires a great deal of discipline and ambition. You will be preparing for this move for several years- at least you will if you actually plan to cut through the competition and get a seat in the school. Medical school is one of the toughest types of schools to get into. Although the schooling is very expensive and often you won't recoup all the expenses you incur for decades after you become a practitioner, the fact is that that isn't even the difficult part! One thing about becoming a doctor that all medical student applicants come to realize is that you don't just decide one day you want to be a doctor on a whim and half hazard move through the process as you would with many college classes to get your degrees in other fields. You have to have a very passionate need and want to become a doctor at the deepest levels or you won't make it through the acceptance hoops you will be hopping through for years!
Students that are passionate about becoming doctors often will enter the field for finantial goals but the ones that tend to make it all the way to becoming a doctor will generally have many other reasons such as a passion for healing, passion for medicine, and a passion for helping people. You will need to be extremely intelligent to get through the MCAT tests, application process, Interviews, and especially the medical school itself. MCAT registration is just one piece of the puzzle but it is a very important piece. You will need to pass the MCAT test with a very high score before you even apply for medical school or you may be wasting your time. You will need to have a high discipline for compiling and researching which school you want to join, what their requirements are, and what you will need to know to pass THEIR MCAT test.
MCAT registration should only be attempted when you're absolutely ready to PASS the test. You will need to study very hard, discipline yourself every day for several months, possibly years to acquire the knowledge and skill sets necessary to pass the exam. The exam is going to test your strengths and weaknesses and assess if you're ready for medical school, if you could even get through the process, and to see if you have enough of a background in sciences, chemistry, biology, and other required knowledge to enter the school curriculum. Medical school is a first step to becoming a doctor in one sense but realistically it's just one of the most important first steps.
There are MANY steps before this to get to this hurdle in the first place. If you can make it into and medical school then you've done an amazing thing, something that many people will fail at. The MCAT should be your entire life while you're preparing for it. You will need to limit or remove any social life you have/had during the time you're studying for it and will do well to learn all about what the test will be about. To even get to a point where you can take the test you have to compete for a space in the testing centers, which in and of itself can be very difficult so get your MCAT registration in early. Some people wait as long as a year to get in AFTER they register!
Hwang Keum-OK writes about getting into medical school at: http://www.gettingintomedicalschool.net
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