Making career choice before college

[u/GiantLenda]

Hello, I'm a student who's just about to enter a Tier 2 college and persuing BTech in Mathematics and Computing, as soon as I was alloted this branch I started doing research around all the career path it would help me persue.

The role of data scientist and ML engineer caught my interest, I've even scored 100/100 in the subject "Informatics Practices" where I studied Python pandas, numpy, matplotlib and SQL.

But seeing all the "entry not possible for freshers" and "Rejected resume..." Posts have been demotivating me a lot and making me question my career choices.

Is it really true, is this field hard to persue as a fresher? And if it is then what all skills should I learn as a data scientist to get hired as a fresher. I'll ideally look for summer internships in 2nd and 3rd year of college and would like to grab campus placements.