No, because I think admissions committees are adults with lots of experience with adolescents who realize that they don’t have their entire lives planned out at 17 and change their interests fairly often. Simply put - nobody is expecting you to have a calcified plan for your future.
However, as others have already done, I would discourage you from writing a supplemental essay for that purpose. I think, as others have already suggested, that you can weave your interests together in your main essay. Make it about being really interested in helping people and giving back to local communities, while being clear that you aren’t entirely sure how you want to do that yet.
I think this is a common misconception, but a misconception nonetheless. At universities where you are applying to the university as a whole, and not a specific school, being undecided neither helps nor hurts. However, selecting a specific major also neither helps nor hurts. There’s nothing binding you to that major - admissions officers realize that a student could pick something attractive and rare-ish like Russian literature or geography only to change it to biology the minute they hit the door.
Furthermore, medical student hopefuls can major in anything as long as they complete the prerequisites, and many med student hopefuls major in something other than biology. One of my favorite students who is now at a prestigious med school majored in urban studies (and then spent two years doing Teach for America before going to med school). So no, it doesn’t raise a red flag if you want to major in something that is not biology, since number one biology isn’t the only major related to medicine, and number two doctors-to-be change their minds all the time, and number three your major choice doesn’t affect your med school admissions.
3) Putting aside the whole college admissions spiel, do you think it would be strange for me to major in something medically related, while fulfilling the pre-med requirements, all while minoring in something seemingly unrelated (education, or something related to the charter school)?
Well, first, as I said, what does “medically related” mean? People often think chemistry and biology are the no-brainer choices for med school hopefuls because of the science involved, but many majors can be related to medicine and health. I knew a few pre-meds who were economics majors because they realized that many doctors run their own practices and they wanted to be economically savvy and understand the economics of healthcare before going to med school. Psychology is a very popular pre-med major, one because it tends to be easier than biology (and I was a psych major myself) and two because understanding people and how they think and behave is a cornerstone of health and medicine. For example, prescribing a twice daily pill that needs to be refrigerated might not be the best course of action if your patient is homeless and has no access to refrigeration or a stable schedule. (Sociology and anthropology are interesting and relevant majors for the same reason.) Even philosophy can be quite relevant, particularly when you start talking about medical ethics.
And that all said - no, I don’t think it would be strange at all. Lots of pre-meds major in something that ‘seems’ unrelated. A minor in education would, for the reasons I specified, potentially be very related.
My PhD is in public health and my research interests were in social factors that influenced health and in patient-provider communication and relationship, so I tend to be attuned to these kinds of links 