“I bring this up as I think many High School students think that you can just magically choose to be a neurosurgeon or any other competitive specialty.”
I don’t know if they think you can magically be one, but that’s how teenagers think. And this OP actually has thought about CS projects interfering with science labs, which is pretty good foresight. Anyway we can be more supportive, cc is not known as a supportive site for kids, so they go elsewhere, because they won’t be judged like they’re being here.