Octobug22- medical school follows college and you don’t need the most elite college, you just need to do very well. Plus- you are just beginning HS. A lot happens in the next three years until you figure out colleges to apply to. Then there’s the eye opening college experience. It is fine to think you want to be a physician now but that is one possible future. Several years ago another woman undergrad chemistry classmate and I wondered if we should have gone the other’s route- she did the chem PhD and I the MD. So many paths.
Everyone is multifaceted. HS has rigid requirements that guarantee you will get a variety of subjects, actually colleges also have breadth requirements as well. Premed is an intention, not even a college major. Your HS experience will prepare you for any major at many colleges. Your college major can be anything if you plan on medical school- you just need to take the requisite courses, do well and the other things. Likewise you can major in anything in college for law school.
Plan the most rigorous versions of HS classes available to you. Be sure to have four years worth (middle school counts) of a single foreign language. The math, language arts, social studies for college admissions is likely required by your HS. Adding in music, sports, art to round out your education is good. Plus, top students tend to need more to do than the minimum. Plan on no study halls to max out your classes. Take some for the fun of it, regardless of them being “useful” for college. Live your life for the present, not just the future.
PS- I stated I was only going to take the required two years of HS science when I was a freshman- was a college chemistry major. Don’t worry about your current passions. They may/may not change.