I completely agree.
Our daughter applied to med school at the age of 23. Most of her med school classmates were very proficient in other languages and we’re using them to treat patients.
At the age of 24, my daughter and her classmates had social events at a local bar across the street from the medical school with her classmates and instructors.
Our daughter and her classmates went to med school during Covid. It wasn’t an urgent care clinic. So in the morning, they did vitals, and the afternoon they were tagging toes to put patients in body bags, in refrigerated trucks.
Daughter is mature for her age, but even she and her older classmates/physicians, could not handle that. They had to present the loss to family members, who couldn’t even be in the room when their family members passed away.
During one of her medical interviews, they asked her how she presented death results in the clinics where she interned.
Her med school classmates had experiences from all over the country and have competed for grades and clinical positions at very competitive universities.
The med schools want “prepared” mature people who can handle the most difficult diseases, GSW’s, lots of blood, bile, urine, vomit and fecal matter. They want students who are well-regarded by nursing staffs. They want students who know how to handle bed pans, adult diapers, dementia, homeless shelter patients and gangrenous smells. Your age, no matter how mature you think you may be, does not bode well for any advantage, and lack of a high school experience will impact you at a university.
There is always someone who is academically stronger, who has taken more calculus and biologically-based science classes. They will outperform you in undergrad because they’ve built experiences over the years in how to study for different professors. They’ve taken courses in the humanities that help them with science coursework.
Your current SAT and GPA is not as strong as what some seniors achieve in high school.
I don’t understand what your rush is unless you feel pressured by your parents.
What if you don’t get into MED school? Will you switch over to law school? (I was PreLaw and there was a lot of reading. Thankfully I had a strong humanities background in high school and in college, so I could read fast and comprehend/ interpret Latin as well as what I was reading during the first round.)