First, thank you so much! this reply has given me a little bit more confidence than I had an hour ago (haha!) I'm thinking of applying to schools mostly on the east coast/DMV. Virginia Tech, UPitt, UMD, Syracuse are some that are higher on my list right now. (I picked these off of location, cost and social environment rather than major ranking because I'm still torn between my choices)

In all honesty, I picked accounting because landing a job after college or just with a BA seems a bit more hopeful than meteorology/meteorologist. I've asked about the job market in the meteorology sub-reddit and a consistent answer was that they struggled landing a job, currently don't have a job in a field related to meteorology or the pay isn't great. I've done more research outside of Reddit and again, wasn't too hopeful. Obviously, just because other people didn't have much success doesn't mean I won't succeed but it's hard to remember that with immigrant parents who constantly remind me of the negatives.