@CValle - Your daughter sounds much like my kid did at 14 and later. He was certainly bound to become a Physics major - especially Astrophysics (I was already trying to figure out how I was going to afford Rice). But he was an incredible programmer and I also thought I’d see him as a CS major (my grad degree was in CS). If I had been a betting person, I’d have laid down money that one of those two areas would be what he’d choose. Imagine our shock when, later in High School, he declared he wanted to go to Film School. He had found his passion!
But my wife and I supported him in that. (It wasn’t really that much of a shock; he had been making little films at 10 years old and the “little films” got more and more ambitious.) He started a film club in high school and brought in not just filmmakers, but actors, technical types, and people who just wanted to be on set and help. We could see how devoted he was to this.
To our huge delight, he chose an incredible honors program in a school that gave him an almost total tuition merit scholarship. He worked with a VERY driven, VERY talented set of people. In college, he gravitated to the computer aspects (visual effects) and became even more passionately involved. He graduated without student loan debt and it took a little over a year before his successes started coming in regularly. He is now very successful, in demand in the industry, and having the time of his life. He is probably making more per year than I was in a CS career after 40 years. You have probably seen his work.
Just sayin’ it does not have to be an either/or situation. I guess I’m coming down with the “follow your passion (WITH PASSION)” side of the argument.