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OK, I’ll just add one thing to illustrate my thinking. Just one option of a myriad of options:

AFS offers a semester/year abroad going to high school and living with a family in Ghana. Lots and lots of devout Christians in southern Ghana (I know, I’ve been there) so you’d have company. I personally know a young woman (a devout Christian, home-schooled girl, btw, who was in ballet with my daughter) who did go to Ghana with AFS. You wouldn’t learn anything about the world of Wall Street there, but you’d get quite an education about a very different economic situation, and learn more than you can imagine how the world of international finance impacts people in every corner of the earth. It just might be eye-opening. And shape your understanding so that you can better use finance to benefit humanity rather than exacerbate greed (you do want that, don’t you?)