<p>I think with EIGHT AP tests that merit scholarships are worth looking into. Very few college applicants will have anything remotely near to being competitive with you.</p>
<p>You have been listening to a lot of advice, but have you yet actually compared the advice with the real world? Have you gone out and researched the people who have your “dream job”, the people who are doing the sort of work you are hoping to do one day, and found out how they got there? What degrees do they have?</p>
<p>As I tell most people who are your age, I think you are too young to be worrying about having a “fallback” option. Instead, I think you should be pursuing your dreams 100%. Others will be pursuing their dreams 100% while you are splitting your time between your dreams and your “fallback”. You will be competing with these people, and they will have an advantage over you because they were improving their acting skills in the time when you were pursuing your “fallback” option.</p>
<p>It is very common today in the 21st century for people to switch careers MANY times. It’s okay to try a career and later discover it didn’t work out. You still have lots of options. Many people go and get retrained when they decide to switch careers. For example there is absolutely NO requirement that folks study the same subject in grad school that they did at undergrad. For example, I have a BA in theatre, then went on to law school and earned a JD, and am now a lawyer. But I am thinking about yet ANOTHER career change . . .</p>