Correction. $3300 is not much of a delta to you; it may be to the OP. OP’s daughter also does not seems to know much about journalism and I do not think connections in that field matter at all-a body of published work does, and that can be accomplished anywhere, including high school. It is a brutally competitive field which the student may decide not to pursue in the end, as many kids change majors.
For perspective, there are high school students pursuing journalism who have been published repeatedly in this country’s largest newspapers.A college journalist won a Pulizer Prize. Not all journalism majors are this accomplished, obviously, but the talent level is high and it is a competitive field.