You need to major in something that will also bring in a livable wage just in case you don’t get into med school. It happens more often than not. Your GPA, MCAT, experience and volunteering could be perfect and you still may not get in. There is limited space in the med schools everywhere.
There are hundreds of thousands of med school aspirants who didn’t get in and ended up with a biology degree. The BLS lists the kinds of jobs that degree will employ: Field of degree: Biology : Occupational Outlook Handbook: : U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
Agree with everyone that you need to keep costs on the “down low”.
We’ve just been through this entire process and our daughter just graduated. Her entering class was 130 students (that’s from thousands of perfect applicants).
Your costs will be well over $250K- to $300K + dollars, easily.
Edited to add: the majority of med schools wont provide scholarship dollars. My daughter’s roommates were on LOANS, LOANS, and more LOANS. They didn’t want to be on loans but didn’t have a choice because neither they, nor their parents had the savings.
We were fortunate that we had saved money, and, our daughter attended undergrad instate, so we didn’t spend a “lot” of money on her expenses.