@JustOneDad @sally305 Thanks for the replies. Don’t play organized team sports; I genuinely like my extracurriculars and truly do them “for fun” instead of just for college. Piano and viola especially, those are things I’ve continued with over the years because I find them fun (not really into the competitions for that). It just so happens that the activities I’ve become involved in happen to be on the “college prep” side of things.
Management consulting is a field that I find interesting and exciting. Are many high school juniors attracted to the field? No, probably not. But the assumption that it’s only for “making a lot of money” is a bit unfair.