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<p>At the Colleges That Change Lives roadshow, the presenters ask the adults to raise their hands if they are now working at what they said they wanted to do when they were high school students. Out of a few hundred adults, there will be less than 10 hands raised. 
I’ve now gone to three of these over 4-5 years, and it’s always the same response.</p>
<p>OP, one thing that I would encourage your son to do when he starts selecting college classes: enroll in classes with the highly-rated professors, the ones where people rave about their lectures and how much they learned in the class. Even if it’s in a subject that’s not at all on your kid’s radar. Enthusiasm can be contagious.</p>