@Ramya78 I really can’t answer your question because that’s not where my experience is from. I can only go off of what the high school near me offers which is medical terminology, a and p, nutrition and a class that teaches with shadowing a bunch of different HC fields. These are duel enrollment with the cc and would transfer to all our public colleges. They’re not enough for a premed level science in college. What is good about them is they’re a free/cheap way to see what your son wants out of a career. He may very well hate it and go in another direction which is a great way to figure that out early.
There’s so many HC fields that aren’t on most kids radar like respiratory therapy, physician assistant, nurse anesthetist, occupational or speech therapy, cat scan tech, nuclear medicine, etc. The list is so long, all these fields are a 2-6 year process to completion and pay a solid middle class wage. You don’t need a T20 college to become any of these professionals let alone an MD. One of my husbands ER docs started out as a respiratory therapist, got his bachelors at Rowan University (was Rowan College at the time) and got into UMDNJ.