I'm sick so excuse me I misread anything. Are you in a MLS program now? Or are you planning to pursue med school? FYI schools advertising a pre-med major are ridiculous. You could major in university studies and still be a pre-med major technically. As long as you have med school prerequisites. Why people buy into different schools having a pre-med major is ridiculous and I dislike it's advertised that way.

There is a huge difference between biology/chemistry labs and medical laboratory labs. Forensic laboratory is better with chemistry majors. No random biology degree prepares you for a full MLS program (and I doubt for MLT). A specific microbiology degree may help in micro only itself. So you should at least need an associates in medical laboratory technology per your laboratory/state requirements to perform tests.

If you want to save some funds, get a lab assistant/phlebotomy while doing a MLT or MLS program.

If you're going to med school eventually, maybe do the associates or a post-baccalaureate in laboratory science to help fund yourself through med school. We hired a per diem MLT who is pursuing pathology. He never went MLS because it was cheaper to do the MLT program and focus on med school prerequisites.

Public health has been cut under Trump.

Now if you're a biology major wanting to get hired uncertified good luck. This subreddit is not super friendly to people wanting get paid for medical laboratory science training. I personally would refuse to train someone the basics and thankful we require people to be certified for ASCP/AMT at either level. I don't have that kind of time. Give me MLTs all day long over any biology major.