<p>You don’t need to have this discussion with your mother at all. You aren’t even in college yet, correct? The decision to apply to med school or not is years away, and the determination of whether you would even come close to qualifying for admission to medical school is also far away. It seems like you are a STEM-oriented kid, so you will probably taking classes your first year or two of college that would prepare you for med school, for any of the other options you named, and for other careers you haven’t even considered yet. By the time your career plans have gelled, you’ll be much more mature than you are now, and a discussion with your mother about your future will seem far less daunting.</p>