[Carol]

We try and track our students, and over the past 10 years about 85% of our students go to college with plans to major in a STEM area - mainly engineering, but not all by far. In reality, a lot of these change their majors after a year or two for various reasons. In my experience almost half of all college students end up graduating in a field other than what they had planned with they started. (Okay, my experience in college was a long, long time ago)

One story from our team. We had a student on the team several years ago who had always wanted to study meteorology. He applied early decision to the meteorology department at Penn State and was accepted. In his first conference with his adviser, he was told the main reason he was accepted early was because of his FIRST experience. Colleges want you even for non-engineering majors. Go for what you enjoy.