OP you know an awful lot about medical admissions. Where are you acceptance letters??? Listen, you cannot "fake" your way into medical school. Only pre-meds that haven't applied talk that nonsense. You cannot fake 5 excellent LORs, a 5/5 committee letter ranking, multiple publications, 3.7+ GPA, above average MCAT, years of community service, years of clinical experience. The list goes on. There is no way in hell you can "fake" your way into medical school. You have to have the numbers and experiences to get in.
That being said, you can cheat you way in like the OP said but the risks are so high that its not worth it. Medical school doesn't explicitly screen for cheaters etc. but the process makes it more difficult for these people to make it through.
As I said in my earlier post, there is a difference between playing the game (sucking up at office hours, looking at old exams in office hours or friends, getting a student solutions manual etc.) versus blatant academic dishonesty.
Finally, physics is a great prereq.
@listener23, man you ain't been through the process what do you know about it? You'll be surprised how relevant it is to medicine. I have been shadowing cardiologists and doing research and the most important skills I have used are physics (simple fluid dynamics) and sound. Bro, I sit and listen to medical students get pimped on their rotations on the damn Bernoulli equations, V1A1=V2A2 (the principle that when the area the the fluid flows in gets smaller it has to speed up), doppler effect etc. You don't have to be Einstein but you need to understand these principles. When I was younger, I didn't think physics was relevant but it is.
