I’m not in college yet but this has been stressing me out a lot recently so I figured this was the best place to go:

Ok... so I’m about to be a junior in high school which means I have to start thinking about college. I’ve always done theatre and for the longest time I thought I was going to go to school for that. My parents have always been so supportive, they’ve paid for expensive summer drama classes for me, taken me to tour colleges with good theatre programs, and they take so much time out of their day driving me to and from rehearsal. The problem is though, I don’t know if I want to do that anymore. I have three main concerns about majoring in theatre in college: 1) I won’t be able to get a well paying job afterwards, 2) the theatre industry is so competitive and it’s unrealistic for me to think I can actually make it and 3) I’m simply not as passionate about it as I was before. I can’t see this being my career anymore. I’ve actually been super interested in majoring in business or economics but I’m scared that if I tell my parents, they’ll think I’m wasting my talent and I don’t want to disappoint them after everything they’ve done for me. Plus, there’s still a part of me that isn’t totally ready to give up majoring in theatre yet. Also, I don’t know if I even have the grades to get into a good school. I’ve always depended on my talent to get me into college but now I might not being doing that anymore. My grades aren’t AWFUL, don’t get me wrong, but I ended the year with two Cs, a B, and the rest were As. I just don’t know if that’s enough. Maybe I just don’t know enough about the “real world” yet but I go to an intense college prep school and it’s always been ingrained in me that the people who make it the farthest in life are the people who go to colleges with the lowest acceptance rates. So yeah, I’m kind of stuck. What do you guys think I should do?