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<p>Okay, let’s think about this a little more just from a logistical point of view.</p>
<p>For any of these options, you’re likely looking at a bachelor’s degree first, which is about 4 years. During this time, you would be expected to complete the medical school prerequisites, take the MCAT, and have med school related extracurriculars (clinical/hospital experience) to make yourself a competitive application. You would also be expected to take the LSAT for law school, and it would probably be a good idea for you to get more familiarity with the legal field to make sure this is something you actually want to do. To get a PhD, you’d need to take the GRE and get a good amount of research experience to be considered a competitive applicant, which is especially important if you’re trying to get funding.</p>
<p>Law school is three years with very little funding available, so you would likely go into significant debt for this degree.</p>
<p>Med school is four years also with very little funding available and significant debt, after which you would likely have to complete a residency with can be 3-5 years (or more) depending on your specialty.</p>
<p>Getting a PhD can be upwards of 5 years, depending on your program and how quickly you can get your dissertation done. I’m not familiar with communication sciences, so I don’t know how readily available funding is in that field, but it’s possible that you could attend a funded PhD program.</p>
<p>So you’re looking at about 19+ years of further education/training for all three of those degrees to do… what exactly? After the first degree I would imagine they’re really going to be questioning what you really want to do, and that will likely be something you’re going to have to argue during the admissions process. Med schools, after all, want to train doctors, not future lawyers. </p>
<p>It’s nice to have ambitions and goals, but be realistic about it. Unless you’re independently wealthy, being a professional student really isn’t an option for most people, even if you don’t care about money. What I would recommend is to just keep all of these options in the back of your head and worry about undergrad first. Take some time to explore different interests. Volunteer in a hospital/clinical setting, try to do some research in a field that interests you, try to get a job in a legal office or get some exposure to what law is really like (informational interviews with lawyers may be an option, if you’re not able to work with any directly). Find more about law school, med school, and grad school. Talk to your professors about what grad school was like and what a career in research is life. Talk to people who have PhDs who work outside of academia. Explore you’re options and see what you would like to do after college and then pursue that path. Figure out what you want to do and then figure out what degree would help get you there. Trying to do everything (especially in the very beginning), usually turns into you not being very good at any of them.</p>