<p>agree with the previous poster; if you love Duke then go there. And I wouldn’t be surprised if 2 years from now you have a career direction that is completely different from what you’ve listed. Many HS students don’t have a very clear idea of the broad range of jobs that are out there or of what people in a given field actually do; the ones you’ve listed are visible to you now, but if you start working with the career center starting frosh year in college (attend workshops, career fairs, etc) you’ll find there’s lots more out there; and furthermore for the areas you’ve listed already there are tons of jobs that you probably aren’t aware of in the field. To take film as an example, look at the credits on any movie as they roll by for 5 minutes and think that each of those people has a full career doing that job. Not only that, plenty of people work in the industry that don’t ever get their name in the credits. The point is there’s more jobs in the film industry than the ones a film degree is aimed at preparing you for. And when someone lists “law” as a career interest, have they narrowed it down any more than that? There are lawyers that handle civil or criminal cases, that work in firms of all sizes from 1-man-shop to mega-firm with hundreds of partners, that work as in-house counsel for corporations, that are in courtrooms regularly or never in their career. Just saying “law” is a career interest doesn’t mean much, and those that assume they’ll go to law school and figure it out then may be in for a rude surprise.</p>