Keep doing that as it’ll be the most important thing along with excellent grades. Contact with many different animals is a requirement for vet school.
Can you switch to biochemistry? Biostatistics? (Biostatistics in particular has superb ROI).
Biology is a major with one of the lowest ROIs (lower than English, for instance). A reason is that actual work in biology requires an advanced degree, so that with a BA/BS in biology you can only get very few biology-related jobs typically poorly paid. Then, adding to the problem is that everybody and their brother thinks they want to be a doctor; while there’s no requirement to do so, many major in biology, and very few get into med school. As a result, there’s an oversupply of Biology majors out there which the market can’t absorb.
Biochemistry or chemistry majors are fewer so even though there aren’t many jobs either there are fewer applicants. Biostatistics and bioinformatics are two growing fields. You can also see whether your small college offers a minor in nonfiction writing - being able to write good science articles can be a distinguishing quality.
Most of all try very hard to get high grades in everything.
I doubt your parents will be able to drive you back and forth - this isn’t high school, work goes on till 10pm and there’s a reason why the library’s open till midnight. You will have study groups in the evenings, you could have evening class… (Make SURE to schedule those, don’t ask them or tell them - the concept of a college student being picked up on campus after class is quite crazy so I’m guessing they’d try to bar you from attending evening study groups and they are really important. ) Also important : office hours, tutoring (that’s how you go from B to A), professional clubs, activities where you can demonstrate leadership - those will matter as much as classes, if not more, for your life after college.
Email the office of international study and ask them whether they’re part of NSE or ant domestic exchanges with Catholic colleges.
Another option is Catholic colleges with big scholarships. Retake the SAT and try to score 1400+ as this is often the threshold for the biggest scholarships and pure really close. Apply widely, to your state flagship + Catholic universities. Common App allows you to apply to 20 with many Catholic colleges free to apply. Your goal would be to snatch a scholarship. Talk to your priest and see whether he’d be able to help you in justifying attending a Catholic college that’s different from your dad’s Alma Mater. It may be good for your Catholic school/parish if they can claim one of their students got into a famous Catholic university.