My advice to you is to take advantage of some very good cards in your hand. . .
first, at your age, believe it or not, you have a free pass to talk to ANYONE about their work, their job, their career path. Almost everyone will sit down and talk with you about their work. So take advantage of it. Make calls and meet people in jobs that sound interesting to you.
second, read the Wall Street Journal regularly, to get a sense of the many, many, many kinds of jobs that exist. Many young people have no notion of what's possible.
third, don't go to college without having at least two reasonably clear ideas of what you want to do. . . and they should be realistic, not "I'm going to become the Director of the New York Museum of Art." There are only so many truly stupendous jobs. And realistically, money and realistic opportunity matters greatly. I've seen too many liberal arts graduates get a 4-year degree and STILL not know what they're going to do. . . even while drowning in student debt.
Finally, student debt is a serious and real concern in 2021. . . not so much in 1971. I've got a 17 year-old son and we're even considering sending him to Europe for undergrad.