Yes but no. It's right that anybody can choose what they want. You could be a write what you love, draw what you love, sing what you love, dance what you love and imagine what you love.
But there are things that prevents us to have free will. For example, you wanted to graduate in an exclusive high end university but you lack financially. It would likely cannot become true and it means you cannot graduate in such a university.
However, people have grown wise and found other ways on how they can achieve their desires. In this case, there are programs that lets a student have free access to education by means of scholarship grants and admissions.
In some cases, which is pretty realistic, many of students stops in schooling, tries to look for a job and continue their studies after they successfully earned money for study. People are skilled and can become skilled in different ways.